Brokaw to STAY with NBC News through 2014

[Josephine96]

NBC, Brokaw joined until 2014
Brokaw still stepping down as anchor
Wednesday, May 12, 2004 Posted: 4:39 PM EDT (2039 GMT)





NEW YORK (CNNfn) -- NBC announced Wednesday that "Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw will remain with the network's news division through 2014.

Brokaw, due to step down as anchor of NBC's "Nightly News" in December, will anchor and produce documentary programs for NBC and its sister networks, as well as serve as an analyst for breaking news.

NBC also announced the network completed its merger with Vivendi Universal Entertainment.(Full story)

Brokaw, 64, a South Dakota native who became the sole anchor of NBC's "Nightly News" September 5, 1983, has said he plans to remain active in journalism.

"It doesn't mean that I am going to go sit in the anchorman's rest home in a rocking chair and take soft food beginning January of 2005," Brokaw said during a news conference last year.

Brokaw sparked speculation in 2001 that he might step aside after he took much of that summer off. However, the September 11 attacks re-energized him and brought home the importance of his work.

"A lot of you wrote about the fact that I took off a lot of time last summer, that was in part to try to contemplate how I wanted to live the rest of my life," Brokaw told reporters last year.

Brian Williams will succeed Brokaw as "Nightly News" anchor after November's presidential election.

[ColdFront77]

Any of you that surprised?

I wonder if John Seigenthaler will replace Brian Williams on the weekend "NBC Nightly News" broadcasts.

I haven't tuned in to the "News on CNBC" -- Is Williams on that broadcast until early December?

[wx247]

Tom, I don't think that Brian Williams is on that program anymore -- although it has been awhile since I watched it, too. For about two weeks Forrest Sawyer was the anchor. It might have just been a real long break, but I assumed that they were transitioning someone new into the anchor position there.

[Josephine96]

I like both Williams, and Siegenthaler. They are both good news reporters. Siegenthaler does the role of MSNBC Investigates quite perfectly.