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The Robert MacNeil Report
Extracted from the Wikipedia article PBS News Hour.
The Robert MacNeil Report and The MacNeil/Lehrer Report (1975–1983)
In 1973, Robert MacNeil (a former NBC News correspondent and then-moderator of PBS's Washington Week in Review) and Jim Lehrer teamed up to cover the United States Senate's Watergate hearings for PBS. They earned an Emmy Award for their unprecedented gavel-to-gavel coverage.