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Dateline NBC

Network
NBC
Genre
Newsmagazine
Premiered
31 March, 1992
Dateline NBC

Dateline NBC is a weekly American television newsmagazine/reality legal show that is broadcast on NBC. It was previously the network's flagship general interest news magazine, but now focuses mainly on true crime stories with only occasional editions that focus on other topics. The program airs Fridays at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time and on most Sundays, outside the NFL season, at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Special Saturday editions also occasionally air during the fall and winter months. Two-hour feature-length editions sometimes air on any given scheduled evening, often to fill vacancies in the primetime schedule on the program's respective nights due to program cancellations. It is the favorite show of current NBC entertainment president Susan Rovner. In February 2021 the program aired its first ever docuseries, "The Widower", a 5-hour true crime saga about a man who was married 6 times, and 4 of his wives were dead.

Genre Newsmagazine
Presented by Lester Holt, (for past anchors, see section)
Composer(s) Michael Karp (1992–2006)
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 29
Executive producer(s) David Corvo, Liz Cole
Camera setup Single-camera
Running time 1 to 2 hours (including commercials)
Production company(s) Peacock Productions
Distributor NBCUniversal Television Distribution
Original network NBC, Syndication
Picture format 480i (SDTV), (1992–2008), 1080i (HDTV), (2008–present)
Related shows NBC Nightly News

About Dateline NBC

Categorized as both a newsmagazine and reality legal show, the long-running show was previously NBC's flagship news magazine. It shifted its focus to mainly true crime stories.

Achievement of Dateline NBC

At the time when the show premiered, it aired on Tuesdays with Stone Phillips and Jane Pauley serving as co-anchors.

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Latest information about Dateline NBC updated on July 28 2021.