Even as NBC News takes a moment to celebrate the history of its flagship evening newscast, Lester Holt says he’s ready to keep covering the history of the modern world. “NBC Nightly News ...

WJAR-TV's first newscasts were 10 minutes long. They were expanded to 30 minutes by the 1960s. Then, for a while in 1973 our 6 p. m. news was an hour from 6 to 7 p. m. It was called the "Extra ...