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The loss of Huntley, along with a reluctance by RCA to fund NBC News at a similar level as CBS was funding 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. 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 ratings 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 the inclusion of explosive incendiaries attached to the gas tanks and the use of 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> On October 22, 2007, ''Nightly News'' moved into its new high definition studios, at 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]], joined the network in New York on that day as well. The new studios/headquarters for NBC News and MSNBC are now located in one area.{{citation needed|date=October 2012}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page