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
I'm definitely excited to be here. I'm looking forward to contributing to the great defense here.This is a playoff team on the rise, and I want to help take it a step further.
If there is one thing L.L. Bean is known for it's its 100 percent guarantee. If (the fans) were not satisfied, we gave them a ticket to another game.
That's a lot like saying the Empire State Building is the tallest building in New York, ... It's true but for all of the wrong reasons.
Chris and Kurt are a remarkably good fit with our shop.
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.'
The bottom line is she cheated. She's a drug cheat and rightfully so she's been tossed.
Covering the war in Iraq, and the dangers faced by U.S. and Iraqi forces, brings with it its own unique hazards. There is no way to cover the story in Iraq without exposure to danger.
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 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.
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.
At a very basic level, I would like to know who my competitors will be, and I'm girding for a healthy collegial competition,
This is an enormous honor, and a huge recognition of the coverage of a news story that has become a major commitment of this news division.
This is an answer to all the well-meaning viewers who have stopped me in airports to say, 'I try to watch as often as I can, but I travel or I have young kids, ... When the evening has calmed down, at 10 o'clock Eastern, 7 Pacific, you can watch it on a schedule that suits you.