NBC News Overnight (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! NBC News Overnight was a television news program on the NBC television network airing weekday mornings from 1:30 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. from July 5, 1982 to December 3, 1983 for 367 telecasts. This was some years before practically all commercial TV stations instituted 24-hour programming, the overnight hours of which have been filled largely with infomercials. NBC News Overnight was the brainchild of NBC News president Reuven Frank, who conceived the show as inexpensive overnight programming after Late Night with David Letterman. Linda Ellerbee and Lloyd Dobyns originally anchored the broadcast. Bill Schechner replaced Dobyns in January 1983. Herb Dudnick was the program's first executive producer and was succeeded by Deborah B. Johnson.