Bill Moyers joins NBC news. (becomes senior analyst with 'NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw') (Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, February, 1995

Bill Moyers will cut back on the number of public television programs he produces to join NBC News as a senior analyst and commentator for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. In a teleconference with reporters last week, Moyers insisted that PBS's current financial and political woes have "nothing to do" with the decision to cut back.

He said that he and NBC News President Andrew Lack started talking about his joining the network shortly after Lack arrived in spring 1993, "when it looked like the Democrats would be in power for the rest of our normal lives," said Moyers. But Moyers's heart-bypass surgery last May and a commitment to finish up a PBS special on violence delayed a deal with NBC until now, he said. Most of Moyers's PBS projects are...

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