NBC News will stop airing its hour-long prime-time programming on the “NBC News Now” streaming service as part of a review of its resources, according to a person familiar with the matter – resulting in the end of “Stay Tuned,” a show that airs from the West Coast at 8 p.m. ET, and the elimination of a handful of positions within NBCUniversal’s news unit.
Gadi Schwartz, the NBC News correspondent who anchored “Stay Tuned,” will continue to work for the news division, this person said. Producers who worked on the program will have the opportunity to apply for nearly 50 open positions that will be available at NBC News, this person said. Many of the positions involve working on “Dateline” or in the special news department and there is hope, this person said, that many of those involved will fill those positions.
A handful of NBC News employees, believed to make up less than 1% of the entire staff, will face eliminated positions within the news unit, this person said.
NBC News confirmed that Wednesday’s broadcast of “Stay Tuned” was the last, but declined to make executives available for comment. NBC News Now is expected to fill its primetime schedule with reruns of previous streaming programs. The service already rebroadcasts Tom Llamas’ streaming show, “Top Story,” in the evenings.
NBC News isn’t the only television news division grappling with personnel issues at a delicate time for media companies. Skydance, owner of CNN and CBS News, has offered buyouts to staff across the company as part of an attempt to cut costs by $6 billion after racking up a colossal debt to combine Warner Bros. Discovery with Paramount. CBS News and CNN have seen other rounds of layoffs in recent months.
The end of “Stay Tuned” is not seen as a reduction in commitment to free, ad-supported streaming. The streaming channel, which counts Savannah Sellers, Joe Fryer, Christine Romans and Hallie Jackson among its presenters, saw its audience triple between 2020 and 2025.
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