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The program debuted on March 31, 1992, initially airing only on Tuesdays, with Stone Phillips and Jane Pauley serving as its co-anchors. Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric joined the program when the previously separate newsmagazine Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric was converted into Dateline Wednesday.
- Newsmagazine
- NBC had 17 failed newsmagazines before Dateline. By the 1990s, newsmagazines had become all the rage: Viewers tuned in in droves for the real-life stories they told, and networks loved them because they cost half as much to produce as scripted shows (roughly $500,000 versus $1 million an episode).
- Dateline was a combination of two of those failed shows. When creating their new newsmagazine, NBC looked back at two of its failed half-hour shows, which had both lasted just one season apiece: Real Life with Jane Pauley, which focused on human interest stories, and Tom Brokaw’s Exposé, which was all about hard-hitting investigative journalism.
- Initially, Dateline’s format was heavily borrowed from 60 Minutes … As Mother Jones wrote of newsmagazines in general in 1993, “The correspondents, the graphics, the music, and the length of segments may differ from program to program, but the formats are remarkably similar, usually slight variations on either 60 Minutes, with its three-story-per-hour structure, or 48 Hours, with its single-theme structure.”
- But there were some key differences. Executive producer Neal Shapiro noted that there were some differences that made Dateline stand out. In 1996, he told the Chicago Tribune that Dateline is “exactly like Time and US News and Newsweek.
Dateline NBC: With Lester Holt, Keith Morrison, Andrea Canning, Josh Mankiewicz. Long-running news-magazine/investigation series.
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When it premiered in March 1992 with co-anchors Stone Phillips and Jane Pauley, the show was originally a newsmagazine; it’s since evolved to focus predominantly on real-life murder mysteries.
May 24, 2024 · Dateline - Watch episodes on NBC.com and the NBC App. Lester Holt anchors NBC's signature newsmagazine..
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When Kathleen Schroll makes a phone call, that names her killer, right before her death, it leads to the arrest of a father for murder, but after two trials and 12 years, authorities begin to wonder if he was the victim; 8.9/10. Rate.
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Nov 12, 2021 · Start date: Mar 1992 End date: ___ ____ Status: current show Network(s): NBC Run time: 60 min Episodes: 600+ eps Genre(s): News
