Dateline NBC
originally aired on NBC
Dateline is a weekly American television news magazine reality legal show that is broadcast on NBC. The program airs Fridays at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time (9:00 Eastern for special two-hour editions) The program debuted on March 31, 1992, initially airing only on Tuesdays, with Stone Phillips and Jane Pauley serving as its co-anchors. Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric joined the program when the previously separate newsmagazine Now with Now with Tom Browaw was converted into Dateline Wednesday. In its prime, from 1995 to 1999, Dateline provided significant breaking news coverage.