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Welcome, Tom Llamas, to TV’s Never-Ending Evening-News Battle
Tom Llamas is ready to start as only the fourth anchor of NBC Nightly News in 40 years at a fraught time for the TV-news business
He will do it even as he keeps his old job, anchoring “Top Story,” an hour-long streaming program for the broadband outlet NBC News Now that starts the minute “Nightly” ends Monday through Friday. Many of our viewers grew up watching ‘Nightly’” with anchors including Tom Brokaw or Brian Williams, says Janelle Rodriguez, executive vice president of programming for NBC News, during an interview. “There is just such a flood of info out there and on the one hand yes that’ s scattering audiences across multiple platforms, but it is all creating an even bigger need for people to have curated, thought-out contextualized well-produced journalism format that makes the best use their time,” says Rodriguez.
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