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Dateline NBC
Genre	Newsmagazine
Starring	Stone Phillips (1992–present) Ann Curry (2005–present) Jane Pauley (1992–2003)
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	60 minutes (including commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Picture format	4:3
Original run	1992 – Present
Links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Dateline NBC, or simply Dateline, is a U.S. weekly television newsmagazine broadcast by NBC similar to ABC's 20/20 or CBS's 60 Minutes. The show, which has aired since 1992, is currently hosted by Stone Phillips and Ann Curry. Curry first co-hosted on June 24, 2005. Jane Pauley previously co-hosted. Tom Brokaw, Matt Lauer, and Brian Williams are among the NBC News correspondents who occasionally file stories for the program. Contributing Anchors were Maria Shriver who left the job soon after her husband became governor of California in 2004. Katie Couric was also a contributing anchor until 2006, when she left NBC News. The program first originated from NBC Studio 3K, using the same set the NBC Nightly News was using at the time. When The Today Show moved to its current sidewalk studio, Dateline took over Studio 3B with a brand-new set. One of Dateline's most noteworthy investigations has been To Catch a Predator, a series of hidden-camera stings focused on catching "sexual predators".

Contents 1 Comparison with other news magazines 2 Dateline NBC Staff 3 International broadcasts 4 External links

Unlike the other newsmagazines, Dateline has more of a focus on human interest stories and stories of interest to women, and no emphasis on investigative journalism. Common features include Dateline: Survivor, where a person talks about their near death experience and rescue; Dateline Timeline, where a popular product, person, and music single are played and viewers are invited to guess what year it appeared in; State of the Art, explaining how something was technically accomplished in a movie; Consumer Alert, where common consumer complaints or issues, such as food safety, are investigated, and Newsmakers, light interviews of major figures in politics, entertainment, and business, as well as regular people in the news. The Saturday night edition of the program now focuses on crime stories. NBC News specials also air under the Dateline banner. These specials often have more of an investigative focus. Since 2006, however, stories featured on Dateline seem to be exclusively true crime stories, including the To Catch a Predator specials.

CO-ANCHORS & CORRESPONDENTS

• Stone Phillips
• Ann Curry
• Victoria Corderi
• Chris Hansen
• Sara James
• Hoda Kotb
• John Larson
• Josh Mankiewicz
• Keith Morrison
• Dennis Murphy

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

• David Corvo

MSNBC and NBC News programming is shown for several hours a day on the 24 hour news network Orbit News in Europe and the Middle East. This includes Dateline NBC and several other shows. It has also been screened on the Seven Network in Australia. NBC itself is widely available in Canada.

• Dateline NBC official web site
• Dateline NBC at the Internet Movie Database