Brian Williams
Brian Williams
Brian Douglas Williamsis an American journalist, currently serving as chief breaking-news anchor and primetime election anchor for MSNBC. Williams is best known for his ten years as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, the evening news program of the NBC television network. Six months after Williams joined the program in December 2004, NBC News was awarded the Peabody Award for its coverage of the Hurricane Katrina story, with the award committee stating that Williams and the NBC staff...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth5 May 1959
CityRidgewood, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Look on the left. There's something that looks like a bulldozer.
Many of our viewers tell me they often miss the broadcast because they're not at home or tending to their busy lives and families. This new service reflects the fact that the pace of our lives has changed.
She is that committed to the team and the conference, which speaks volumes of her.
If cell phones are the new outlet for news, we're there. If it's computer screens, we're there, ... I know there are changing habits, but they'll come around to us.
You have to talk to the guys upstairs. I don't know what direction they are going in or what they have planned. I'm open for suggestions.
Why can't some of the ... helicopters that we have heard flying overhead for days and days and days simply lower pallets of water, meals-ready-to-eat, medical supplies right into downtown New Orleans? Where is the aid?
It's tough when you have eight players from one group gone like that. We're working through it the best we can, but it's tough. We won't really get an accurate look at where we stand until we have everybody out there in the fall.
Even when I don't have travel plans, I pack my wife and kids in the car and we head over to Westchester County Airport, ... It's a family place.
Everyone is always trying to write our lead for us in our business. Let me try, ... It's a great day for NBC News. It's a great day for the network evening news business. It's a place where, after all, about 30 million people come every night. And it's a place where nine months ago, for a horrible set of reasons, everyone was reminded why they come there every night.
It looks like right now that we'll have everybody back in the fall. I'm almost 100 percent sure that Greg will be back. He's on target now and is working hard.
It's an accepted TV news style that can fall into a pattern. I'd like to avoid it. ... We've all done shots like that. (But) it's still the best way to tell another human being, 'This is what 80 miles an hour feels like.'
It saves us a lot of money, it's a good business decision. We can better control things from here. I don't think you'll notice any real difference.
Because we are no different from any animal, any insect or germule. We are not special, Cal. You, me, we all came from nothing, and that's exactly where we're all going one day, maybe soon, whether we like it or not.
We are the people who won the Second World War and saved the world. We went to the moon. We gave the world the cell phone and Bruce Springsteen. There's no telling what we can accomplish.