I don't remember it happening too often in the Brokaw era, but i do remember Brian Williams doing that at least once. Maybe it was during the Boston manhunt.
On Monday, October 5, 2020 at 6:59:56 PM UTC-4 Jim Ellwanger wrote: > > > > On Oct 5, 2020, at 3:46 PM, Stan S <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I can’t remember seeing this in the past but it has to have happened > previously. > > > > A few minutes into the first story during NBC Nightly News tonight, > Lester Holt said, “we have some new information on this story and we’ll > pause to let stations join us.” Then they played the NBC News Special > Report billboard. > > > > Obviously this was for NBC stations that don’t play Nightly News at > 6:30pm ET. I suppose there’s not a second feed where they wouldn’t have to > play “Special Report” for stations already in a news report. > > > > Thoughts? > > Yes, it's definitely happened before (in similar fashion across all the > networks), probably going back as far as the early days of network radio. > There's also the case on the other end where the anchor explains that some > stations are leaving the special report, but they'll be continuing for > others (because it's time for the late local news in one time zone, for > example). > > Affiliates monitor NBC's main Eastern feed for special reports, so that's > where they're going to run the special report graphics (and that's where > affiliates are going to switch for the special report broadcast). I'm not > sure how they'd coordinate things in a way where "NBC Nightly News" viewers > wouldn't have to see the special report intro... and they'd be seeing > Lester Holt sit silent for a few seconds and then having to re-introduce > himself anyway. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/72efe67c-3949-4abe-92a3-e37b41716734n%40googlegroups.com.
