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Article: NBC, ABC OFFERING OVERNIGHT NEWS.(Living)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- November 5, 1991
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Byline: Los Angeles Times
One commodity that a faltering economy cannot shrink is the number of hours in the day, which may go far in explaining why both NBC and ABC are choosing the middle of a recession to join CBS and CNN in offering overnight news shows.
Beginning Monday night, 145 of NBC's 209 affiliates will air as little as 90 minutes or as much as 4 1/2 hours of "NBC Nightside," a new overnight newsmagazine that the network will deliver by satellite from Charlotte, N.C., every night of the week.
The same network that in 1983 killed off its 17-month-old "NBC News Overnight" program, anchored by Lloyd Dobyns and Linda Ellerbee, has ...