WNBC-TV Live at Five 1980s logo.

Live at Five is WNBC-TV's 5 PM weekday newscast broadcasting from NBC Studio 6B at 30 Rockefeller Center. A mix of news, features and interviews. The Live at Five concept was first introduced in 1979 by WNBC News Director Ron Kershaw and Bob Davis. Their first anchors were Pia Lindstrom and Melba Toliver. Jack Cafferty joined the anchor chair a few months later. WNBC-TV Live at Five 1980s logo. ... WNBC-TV Live at Five 1980s logo. ... WNBC-TV, NBC4 is the flagship TV station of the NBC television network, with studios located in Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. ... Live at Five (or Live at 5) is a name used by several television stations in the United States and Canada to refer to their local newscasts or talk shows that air at 5:00 PM. The name was coined by WNBC-TV in New York City in 1980 for... WNBC-TV, NBC4 is the flagship TV station of the NBC television network, with studios located in Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Lower Plaza at Rockefeller Center. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... Jack Cafferty on WNBC-TVs Live at Five in the 1980s. ...

Live at Five was born of necessity. The 5 PM broadcast was part of a two-hour early news block called NewsCenter 4 which combined features and hard news, and attempted to compete with its competitors' old movies and syndicated programing. When ratings crumbled in 1980, WNBC decided to pour resources into its 6 PM newscast, which would feature its best reporters, while the 5 PM newscast would be more of an interview and lifestyle show with news headlines at the top of the show. WNBC-TVs Chuck Scarborough behind the news desk in 1974. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

In October 1980, Sue Simmons joined the WNBC and Live at Five team from Washington's WRC-TV. She has had several co-anchors, or as Sue called them "anchor husbands", including Jack Cafferty, Tony Guida, Matt Lauer and Jim Rosenfeld. For most of the 1980s, legendary NBC annoucer Don Pardo did the talent introductions and other voice overs, usually live in the studio. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Sue Simmons on NewsChannel 4 at 11. ... Nickname: the District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Official website: http://www. ... WRC-TV, NBC4 is an NBC owned and operated broadcast television station in Washington, DC. Owned by NBC Universal, the station broadcasts its analog signal on channel 4 and its digital television signal on channel 48. ... Jack Cafferty on WNBC-TVs Live at Five in the 1980s. ... Tony Guida (born 1942) has been a New York-based local and national television and radio personality for over 30 years. ... Matt Lauer on WNBCs Live at Five in 1994. ... Jim Rosenfield on WCBS-TVs News 2 at 5 2005. ... Don Pardo (Dominick George Pardo, born February 22, 1918 in Westfield, Massachusetts) is a legendary radio and television announcer. ... A voice-over is a narration that is played on top of a video segment, usually with the audio for that segment muted or lowered. ...

In the 1980s, the show was the talk of the town with guests ranging from Jimmy Carter to Orson Welles to Little Richard. The show's impressive guest lineup was fodder for a running joke on Late Night with David Letterman, which taped across the hall in Studio 6A at 30 Rockefeller Center, where Letterman complained that Live at Five got better guests than he did. Today, the show still maintains an impressive guest lineup, with everyone from Broadway stars to NFL football stars to politicians coming to Studio 6B to be interviewed. For the submarine, see USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23). ... Orson Welles on the set of Citizen Kane. ... Little Richard on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, (issue RS 58, May 28, 1970) Little Richard (born Richard Wayne Penniman, December 5, 1932 in Macon, Georgia) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist, and an early African-American pioneer of rock and roll. ... Late Night with David Letterman was a nightly hour-long comedy talk show on NBC hosted by David Letterman. ... Lower Plaza at Rockefeller Center. ... David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American late night talk show host, comedian, and television producer. ... Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... NFL logo For other uses of the abbreviation NFL, see NFL (disambiguation). ...

Live at Five was originally cancelled in November 1991. Its replacement was "News 4 New York at 5", anchored by Simmons and Chuck Scarborough. This format didn't stay long, however - Simmons was paired with Matt Lauer for a new iteration of Live at Five, originating from NBC's Today Show Window on the World studios. Shortly afterwards, Live at Five was moved back to 30 Rock and adopted a more news-based format, which it has retained ever since. Today the show is called NewsChannel 4 Live at Five. NewsChannel 4 is the brand identifier that several local television stations in the United States have used at different points in time. ...

Perri Peltz on WNBC-TV's Live at Five in 2005.

In 2005, Jim Rosenfeld jumped ship to return to WCBS-TV. His replacement is Perri Peltz, who worked for WNBC in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Interestingly though, the 5 PM edition of WABC-TV's Eyewitness News has two female anchors Diana Williams and Sade Baderinwa. Perri Peltz on WNBC-TVs Live at Five in 2005. ... Perri Peltz on WNBC-TVs Live at Five in 2005. ... Perri Peltz on WNBC-TVs Live at Five in 2005. ... WNBC-TV, NBC4 is the flagship TV station of the NBC television network, with studios located in Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. ... Live at Five (or Live at 5) is a name used by several television stations in the United States and Canada to refer to their local newscasts or talk shows that air at 5:00 PM. The name was coined by WNBC-TV in New York City in 1980 for... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jim Rosenfield on WCBS-TVs News 2 at 5 2005. ... WCBS-TV, CBS2 located in New York City, is the flagship TV station of the CBS television network. ... Perri Peltz on WNBC-TVs Live at Five in 2005. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, the last decade of the 20th Century. ... WABC-TV, ABC7 is the New York City, USA television station that is owned and operated by ABC, as well as the networks flagship. ... Eyewitness News is a local television newscast format, widely used in different markets across the United States. ... WABC-TVs Diana Williams on WPVI-TVs Action News joint coverage of a New Jersey Governor debate in 2005. ... Sade Baderinwa of WABC-TV on Eyewitness News in 2005. ...

Several stations throughout the United States attempted to copy the Live at Five format or just rebranded their newscast "Live at Five" or some variant thereof. However no station reached the success, quality of guests, or national prominence that WNBC, the originator of the concept, did. Live at Five (or Live at 5) is a name used by several television stations in the United States and Canada to refer to their local newscasts or talk shows that air at 5:00 PM. The name was coined by WNBC-TV in New York City in 1980 for...

External links

• WNBC: Perri Peltz Returns To WNBC As Co-Anchor, Live At Five