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NBCs Dateline

Kelly A said:
Uh.. Last time I checked, he was the nightly face of the NBC News franchise. Frankly, can't believe you even posted the question.
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Really. And he's very capable, IMO. I believe he was kind of a "sleeper" choice when he took over for Brian Williams, who if you recall, liked to fudge his resume, to put it politely.
 
That is correct, he is the anchor of NBC Nightly News, but the subject is NBC Dateline. So I was getting at is...

On NBC's Dateline, what does Lester Holt do? He does not bring anything to the show.
 
1069_KIFR said:
On NBC's Dateline, what does Lester Holt do? He does not bring anything to the show.
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He is the anchor. That's how that show has always worked, regardless of who hosted it. It's not a host-oriented show.

As Scott Pelley demonstrated, it's hard to anchor nightly news and do anything else. So I doubt Holt has time for anything more than what he does for that show.
 
1069_KIFR said:
On NBC's Dateline, what does Lester Holt do? He does not bring anything to the show.
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For Dateline, Lester goes into a studio and reads the open, various segment introductions and bumps in and out of breaks. That's pretty common for a scripted news magazine show, actually.

As BigA said; Lester doesn't have much time to write and report stories for Dateline. Being anchor/writer of the NBC Nightly News is a full time gig. That, and NBC travels Lester to report from breaking news events a lot recently, so being on assignment takes up a lot of time as well. My experience has been that Lester Holt is a good guy and one of the hardest working network anchor's you'll ever find.
 
1069_KIFR said:
That is correct, he is the anchor of NBC Nightly News, but the subject is NBC Dateline. So I was getting at is...

On NBC's Dateline, what does Lester Holt do? He does not bring anything to the show.
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What did the supercilious ass with the Flintstones style name - Stone Phillips - do for the show? Nothing. He was the anchor. Only in America do we take "anchors" so seriously. in Great Britain, they use to call them "news readers."

I haven't watched Dateline in years. Unless it's changed, it's an embarrassing pile of sludge, in any case. 'True' crime stories worth about 15 minutes of air-time laughingly stretched out to an hour, using the same clips over-and-over until you want to scream. Even if you like true crime, 48 Hours does it much better.
 
TheBigA said:
He is the anchor. That's how that show has always worked, regardless of who hosted it. It's not a host-oriented show.

As Scott Pelley demonstrated, it's hard to anchor nightly news and do anything else. So I doubt Holt has time for anything more than what he does for that show.
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How about David Muir he does host the ABC World News and 20/20 though. But sometimes Muir will be a fill-in host for Good Morning America in some cases though just in case Robin Roberts, Michael Strahan or George Stephanopoulos are on assignment.

In the case of ABC's 2020 Muir is co-hosted with Elizabeth Vargas. But in some cases Vargas will go solo on 2020 when Muir is on assignment.

But then again it depends on the networks objectives for their talent though
 
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