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
Katie is a friend of many years, and a gifted broadcaster. While I am losing her as an NBC News colleague, I am gaining an able new competitor. I want to welcome Katie to the evening shift and I look forward to competing with my friend as we all continue to cover the stories that matter, all over the world, each night, for years to come.
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.
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.
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?
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.
We feel so good about the quality about what's going, on and off the ice. We felt it was a good way for people to give it another try.
Bob and Elizabeth are very familiar competitors. I'm looking forward to many years of friendship while we chase each other around the globe.
because I knew this would be the shelter of last resort in this city. I thought it would be a fascinating angle to see how this many people came together.
As I said, you can set your watch by that place.
She is that committed to the team and the conference, which speaks volumes of her.
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.
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.