Editing NBC News (section)

===''NBC Nightly News'' era===
[[File:Nightlynewslogo2019.png|thumb|NBC Nightly News logo in 2019]]
NBC's ratings lead began to slip toward the end of the 1960s and fell sharply when Chet Huntley retired in 1970; he died of [[cancer]] four years later, in 1974. The loss of Huntley and RCA's reluctance to fund NBC News at a similar level as CBS's funding of its news division left NBC News in the doldrums. NBC's primary news show gained its present title, ''[[NBC Nightly News]]'', on August 3, 1970.

[[File:NBC News 1986.svg|thumb|This is a previous 2D version of the 1986 NBC News logo, which was used from 1986 to 2023, using the NBC Futura Medium typeface.]]
The network tried a platoon of anchors (Brinkley, McGee, and [[John Chancellor]]) during the early months of ''Nightly News''. Despite the efforts of the network's eventual lead anchor, the articulate, even-toned Chancellor, and an occasional first-place finish in the [[Nielsen ratings|Nielsens]], ''Nightly News'' in the 1970s was primarily a strong second.<ref name="Matusow"/> By the end of the decade, NBC had to contend not only with a powerful CBS but also a surging [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], led by [[Roone Arledge]]. [[Tom Brokaw]] became sole anchor in 1983, after co-anchoring with [[Roger Mudd]] for a year, and began leading NBC's efforts. In 1986 and 1987, NBC won the top spot in the [[Nielsen ratings|Nielsens]] for the first time in years,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/29/arts/abc-surpasses-cbs-in-evening-news-ratings.html?pagewanted=print|title=ABC Surpasses CBS in Evening News Ratings|work=The New York Times|date=November 29, 1989|first=Jeremy|last=Gerard|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827130510/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/29/arts/abc-surpasses-cbs-in-evening-news-ratings.html?pagewanted=print|archive-date=August 27, 2017}}</ref> only to fall back when Nielsen's rating methodology changed. In late 1996, ''Nightly News'' again moved into first place,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1997/03/12/STYLE6031.dtl&type=printable|title=CBS tops Nielsens 2nd week in row|work=SFGate.com|publisher=San Francisco Examiner|date=March 12, 1997}}</ref> a spot it has held onto in most of the succeeding years. [[Brian Williams]] assumed primary anchor duties when Brokaw retired in December 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wistv.com/story/2639853/tom-brokaw-retires-makes-way-for-brian-williams-on-nbc-nightly-news |title=Tom Brokaw retires, makes way for Brian Williams on "NBC Nightly News" - wistv.com - Columbia, South Carolina |publisher=wistv.com |date=December 2, 2004 |access-date=August 5, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150620233407/http://www.wistv.com/story/2639853/tom-brokaw-retires-makes-way-for-brian-williams-on-nbc-nightly-news |archive-date=June 20, 2015  }}</ref> In February 2015, NBC suspended Williams for six months for telling an inaccurate story about his experience in the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite news|url = http://press.nbcnews.com/2015/02/10/a-note-from-deborah-turness/|title = A Note from Deborah Turness|date =February 10, 2015 |work = NBC News |access-date =February 11, 2015}}</ref> He was replaced by [[Lester Holt]] on an interim basis. On June 18, 2015, it was announced that Holt would become the permanent anchor and Williams would be moved to MSNBC as an anchor of breaking news and special reports beginning in August.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lester-holt-named-anchor-nbc-nightly-news-n377831 |title=Lester Holt Named Anchor of 'NBC Nightly News' |date=June 18, 2015 |publisher=NBC News |access-date=August 5, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150726022602/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lester-holt-named-anchor-nbc-nightly-news-n377831 |archive-date=July 26, 2015  }}</ref>
[[File:NBC Nightly News Set.jpg|left|thumb|NBC Nightly News Set in 2008]]

In 1993, ''[[Dateline NBC]]'' broadcast an investigative report about the safety of [[General Motors]] (GM) trucks. GM discovered the "actual footage" utilized in the broadcast had been rigged by including explosive incendiaries attached to the gas tanks and improper sealants for those tanks. GM subsequently filed an anti-defamation lawsuit against NBC, which publicly admitted the results of the tests were rigged and settled the lawsuit with GM on the very same day.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kf0zqDyLgBkC&pg=PA191|title=Speaking Respect, Respecting Speech|author=Richard L. Abel|publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]]|date=May 6, 1998|page=191|isbn=9780226000565|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624065118/https://books.google.com/books?id=kf0zqDyLgBkC&pg=PA191|archive-date=June 24, 2016}}</ref>

In November 1995, NBC News signed an agreement with German public broadcaster [[ZDF]] to share newsgathering resources. The agreement enabled NBC News to move its Frankfurt bureau to ZDF's headquarters in Mainz.<ref>{{cite web |title=Television Business International |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Television-Business-International/Television-Business-International-1995-12.pdf |page=15 |date=December 1995}}</ref>

On October 22, 2007, ''Nightly News'' moved into its new high-definition studio, Studio 3C, at [[NBC Studios (New York)|NBC Studios]] in 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. The network's 24-hour cable network, [[MSNBC]], also joined the network in New York on that day. The new studios/headquarters for NBC News and MSNBC are now located in one area.{{citation needed|date=October 2012}}