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program on

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, that aired from 1991 to 1998. The program was produced in three half-hour segments. It usually aired live seven nights a week, and was fed to NBC stations beginning at 2:00 am ET Sunday through Friday (immediately following '' Later'') and 2:30 am ET on Saturdays (after ''

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''), and looped until the next morning. (''

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'' followed ''Nightside'' on weekdays.)

History

The program premiered on November 4, 1991, and was NBC's second attempt at a late night news program after '' NBC News Overnight'', which ran for seventeen months from 1982 to 1983. ''Nightside'' differed from its two competitors –

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'', which are both based in

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– in that rather than being broadcast from the headquarters of

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itself in New York, it was instead based out of the

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facilities of NBC News Channel, the network's newsfeed service providing customized reports and video of national news to NBC's owned-and-operated stations and

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. Also unlike the other network overnight newscasts, which run only on Monday through Fridays, ''NBC Nightside'' ran in the early morning hours on all seven days of the week. Some of ''Nightside''s many anchors went on to national success including

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once served as a senior producer for the program. Despite financial profitability of the show and decent ratings, it was canceled by the network in 1998 and aired its last telecast on September 20 of that year, with NBC filling the overnight timeslot beginning two days later with ''NBC All Night'', a block consisting of repeats of the network's late night and daytime talk shows. Since then, most NBC stations run either paid programming, ''Early Today'' or local morning newscasts in the former ''NBC Nightside'' slot. The network has not had a late night newscast since ''Nightsides cancellation.

Anchors

The program's anchors included: * Campbell Brown *Tom Donovan *Bruce Hall *Sara James *Kim Hindrew *Hilary Lane *

*Tom Miller *Tonya Strong

References

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