David Corvo is considered to be the driving force behind it Date line, NBC’s highest-rated and longest-running primetime series, will step down as senior executive producer at the end of this year. He will remain with NBC News as a consultant on various projects and report to NBC News Editorial Director Rebecca Blumenstein.
Corvo will pass the torch to Liz Cole, president of NBC News Studios and executive producer of Date line. Corvo and Cole “worked together to make Dateline the gold standard in true crime reporting, successfully expanding it from network to broadcast and cable syndication, to the 24/7 streaming channel Dateline, and to audio, where it regularly airs atop Apple’s podcast cards,” Blumenstein said in a note to NBC employees announcing Corvo’s impending departure.
Cole began her career at NBC as a page and rose to executive producer of Date line. Cole remains president of NBC News Studios, which has produced award-winning documentaries and series under her direction The disappearance of Shere Hite, every corpse And Leguizamo makes America, as well as NBC News’ first scripted series, The thing with Pam.
Corvo is credited with the transformation Date line From a leading news magazine to a powerhouse in true crime journalism, he joined NBC News in 1995 as vice president. His management responsibilities include executive oversight of primetime newscasts at NBC and primetime program development for MSNBC and CNBC.
Prior to joining NBC, Corvo was VP of public affairs programming at CBS News, where he led the network’s primetime newsmagazine programs including 60 minutes, 48 hours And Street stories. He has also directed numerous documentary specials including Think of Pearl Harbor, the year of the generals And Watergate: The Secret History, moderated by Mike Wallace.
He was previously vice president of administration at CBS News. He was the creator of CBS This Morning and served as executive producer from 1987 to 1989. Prior to CBS News, he was vice president and executive producer at Fox Television Network, where he created and produced the news magazine. Front page and other programming. He began his journalism career in 1975 as a news writer and producer at KNXT (now KCBS) in Los Angeles. He later helped set up the station’s first investigative unit and was appointed head of the unit in 1979.
Date line is the longest-running series in NBC prime-time history and is currently in its 32nd season. The program is hosted by Lester Holt and includes correspondents Andrea Canning, Josh Mankiewicz, Keith Morrison and Dennis Murphy. According to Nielsen Media Research, the series will be the most-watched newsmagazine and true crime franchise on all of television in the third quarter of 2023, with more than 66 million total viewers. Dateline NBC It remains the #1 true crime podcast, according to Podtrac.
Source: Deadline
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