Gadi Schwartz’s NBC News Now Show Will Be A Rarity: A National Nightly News Show Based In Los Angeles
deadline.comWhen NBC News officially debuts Stay Tuned Now on its streaming platform tonight, it’ll be the rare national primetime news show based in Los Angeles which, because of distance and time zones, still is treated as the hinterlands from the D.C.
and NYC media sphere. Anchor Gadi Schwartz said, “For a long time, 8 o’clock rolled around and everyone’s like, ‘Oh well, we’re all done, and forgot that it is only 5 o’clock on the West Coast.’ This is a chance to reinvigorate the day’s news, and then expand the coverage with a perspective from the west looking east.” Schwartz will be doing the NBC News Now show from the network’s broadcast studios in Universal City.
The newscast is part of an expansion of Stay Tuned, the Snapchat show he’s hosted for nearly six years along with Savannah Sellers.
The show will reflect Los Angeles’ cultural impact and the region’s dominance in tech. As an example, Schwartz pointed to a recent piece on the LAPD’s efforts to use a robot dog.
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