NBC News Daily
is an American
daytime
news
program that premiered on
NBC
on September 12, 2022, and is programmed as a part of
NBC News
' streaming service,
NBC News Now
. The hour-long block is carried live in each time zone and is anchored by a rotation of various anchors, with
Kate Snow
, Zinhle Essamuah,
Vicky Nguyen
and
Morgan Radford
as the main team most days.
Scheduling and anchors
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Radford and Vicky Nguyen anchor the first two hours from 12:00 Noon?2:00 p.m.
ET
, with Snow and Essamuah anchoring between 2:00 p.m.?4:00 p.m. Eastern.
[1]
NBC stations carry one hour of coverage between those times (usually their 12:00 Noon or 1:00 p.m. local time hour), though some stations carry the earliest 12:00 Noon ET block at 11:00 a.m. in the
Central Time Zone
directly out of
Today
,
with Hoda & Jenna
(or some Eastern stations which carry local or syndicated programming and tape delay that program an hour), freeing up their entire early afternoon for
local news
and
syndicated programming
.
NBC News Daily
was announced on August 3, 2022. The program replaced NBC's long-running soap opera
Days of Our Lives
on the network's daytime lineup after it moved exclusively to
NBCUniversal
's streaming service
Peacock
the same day. The program offers "up-to-the-minute national?and international news", and provides the option for NBC affiliates to add
local news
inserts. It is also simulcast on NBC News' streaming channel
NBC News Now
.
[2]
[3]
NBC News Daily
competes primarily with
ABC
's
GMA3: What You Need to Know
(which is produced by the staff of the ABC News streaming channel
ABC News Live
).
[4]
As it is carried by NBC News Now through its streaming presences, it airs without pre-emption online when
NBC Sports
carries live golf and tennis coverage on weekdays, though
breaking news
coverage coordinated by the staffs of either
Today
or
NBC Nightly News
or the breaking news desk of NBC News takes precedence.
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