NBC Nightly News (titled as
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt for its weeknight broadcasts since June 22, 2015) is the flagship daily evening television news program for
NBC News, the news division of the
NBC television network in the United States. First aired on August 3, 1970, the program is currently the most watched network newscast in the United States, with an average of 9.3 million viewers, just a few thousand more than its nearest rival,
ABC's
World News Tonight.
NBC Nightly News is produced from Studio 3B at
NBC Studios at 30
Rockefeller Center in
New York City.