
The Dateline Showcast-essentially the audio of a Dateline episode in podcast format-launched in May 2019 and has racked up more than 189 million downloads, with more than 20 individual episodes each reaching one million downloads. We’re really good at telling people what we’re offering and then delivering on it.”Īnd even as it approaches its thirtieth anniversary, Dateline’s still learning new tricks, like the show’s recent expansion into podcasting. See hourly chart positions and more than 30 days of history. If we’re doing an investigative piece, we get to the bottom of something. Do you host a podcast Track your ranks and reviews from Spotify, Apple Podcasts and more. If we say we’re doing a murder mystery, it’s got murder and it’s a mystery. “I think Dateline is dependable,” Corvo told me. The storytelling is great, but the viewers that come back week after week know that they can trust we’re delivering something that is accurate and true.”ĭateline stories are also, as Corvo puts it, never a “bait-and-switch” with splashy promos promising thrills and chills that fail to materialize in the show itself.

So I think for the audience, that adds to the credibility our program has. And they bring that same journalistic rigor to an investigative story the same way they will to one of our murder mysteries. “Everyone who works on our show, they all started as journalists covering a wide range of topics-the correspondents, the producers, everyone. “There’s a lot of great journalism,” Cole told me. NBC News produces 100 new hours of Dateline each year.

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NBC's "Dateline" correspondents, with host Lester Holt NBC Over time, Dateline fans have become attached to Mankiewicz and his fellow crime storytellers, as NBC had made the series ubiquitous. “All of us have been quietly working so hard for the past several months through this tough time to bring you fascinating new stories and cases.” The past hosts of the show were Stone Phillips, Jane Pauley, and Ann Curry. “I am so excited to share all my new reports on Dateline for the fall and beyond,” says Dateline correspondent Andrea Canning. Dateline drew an average total audience of 3.198 million viewers, ahead of 20/20’s 2.195 million.Ĭorvo and Cole believe the key to Dateline’s enduring power is its reliable formula of strong reporting, great storytelling, and never straying from what viewers expect of a “ Dateline story.” The new season of Dateline comes on the heels of another first-place finish on Friday nights-winning the 2019-2020 season, and most recently finishing the third quarter ahead of its chief rival on Friday nights: ABC’s long-running 20/20.

Listen to the interview here: Substack Episode 1: Keith Morrison, 'Dateline NBC' I also asked him about his signature style-so distinctive he’s been parodied on Saturday Night Live-and he tells the story of a man in San Francisco who walked up to him and shouted “stop talking like that!” In an extended podcast conversation, Keith Morrison talked about working remotely-and what he misses most: the relationships he’s formed over the years with Dateline crews in cities across the country. Melvin is married to ESPN’s Lindsay Czarniak and has one son, Delano, born in March of 2014.What helped to fill the gaps left by working remotely, Corvo says, is the close bond that Dateline’s team has-most of the correspondents, producers and editors having worked together for years. Before working at WRC, Melvin earned acclaim as an evening news anchor at WIS in Columbia, South Carolina where he was named “Best Anchor” by the South Carolina Broadcaster’s Association and awarded two Emmy Awards.

Prior to joining NBC News and MSNBC in July 2011, Melvin was a weekend anchor for WRC, NBC’s owned-and-operated station in Washington, DC. Since joining NBC News and MSNBC, Melvin has also conducted several news-maker and celebrity interviews including Feidin Santana, eyewitness to the 2015 Walter Scott shooting, and Nicki Minaj’s pre-Super Bowl halftime performance interview. Melvin has covered a wide-range of breaking news events, including the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, the Asiana Airlines 214 crash in July 2013, the George Zimmerman trial, the aftermath of the deadly tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, the Sandy Hook school shooting, and a series of reports on the future of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Melvin serves as a correspondent and fill-in anchor across NBC News and MSNBC properties. Craig Melvin serves as a principal anchor for the syndicated run of “Dateline” and is a national correspondent for “TODAY”, previously anchoring “MSNBC Live” on Saturdays and Sundays on MSNBC.
