Brian Williams Biography
Brian Williams is a retired television news anchor and journalist from the United States. He began working for NBC Nightly News in 1993 as a reporter before being promoted to anchor and managing editor of the show in 2004.
Brian Williams Age
Williams is 62 years old as of 2021. He was born Brian Douglas Williams on 5 May 1959 in Ridgewood, New Jersey, United States.
Brian Williams Height
Williams stands at a height of 6 feet 2 inches (1.83 m).
Brian Williams Family
Williams grew up in a “boisterous” Catholic family with a strong Irish heritage. He is the son of Dorothy May (née Pampel) and Gordon Lewis Williams, who worked for the National Retail Merchants Association in New York as an executive vice president. His mother was a theatrical actress in her spare time. Williams is the youngest of four brothers and sisters.
Brian Williams Education
He spent nine years in Elmira, New York, before moving to Middletown Township, New Jersey, in junior high school. Williams attended Mater Dei High School in Middletown’s New Monmouth neighborhood, a Roman Catholic high school. He spent three years as a volunteer firefighter at the Middletown Township Fire Department while in high school. He was also the school newspaper’s editorial editor while in high school.
During a football game, he was involved in an accident that left him with a crooked nose. At Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, he began his career as a busboy. Williams went to Brookdale Community College after high school before going to the Catholic University of America and then George Washington University. He did not complete his education and instead interned in President Jimmy Carter’s administration. He later admitted that dropping out of college was one of his “biggest regrets.”
Brian Williams Wife
On June 7, 1986, Williams married Jane Gillan Stoddard at the First Presbyterian Church in New Canaan, Connecticut. Allison, an actress, and Doug, the late-night anchor of Geico SportsNite on SportsNet New York, are their children. Williams and his wife live in New Canaan and have a beach property in Bay Head, New Jersey, as well as a Manhattan pied-à-terre.
Brian Williams Rock Center
Williams was announced as the host of Rock Center with Brian Williams on October 4, 2011, a news magazine program that would premiere on October 31, 2011, at 10:00 p.m. Eastern, replacing the canceled drama series The Playboy Club. The program would be the first new NBC News program to premiere in primetime in two decades and would be named after the moniker of Rockefeller Center, the New York City landmark where NBC Radio City Studios are located.
Rock Center was canceled by NBC on May 10, 2013, due to low ratings and the network’s inability to find a stable time slot for the show. The most recent episode aired on June 21, 2013. The discontinuation of the show apparently made Williams feel “insulted.”
Brian Williams Iraq War Helicopter Fabrication
Williams apologized and recanted his unproven Iraq War account on February 4, 2015, which he had told on a Nightly News broadcast on January 30, 2015. Williams claimed merely that “the Chinook ahead of us was almost blown out of the sky” and made an emergency landing in his original on-air reporting of the incident for Dateline NBC on March 26, 2003. “Army Chinook helicopters [were] forced to make a desert landing after being targeted by Iraqi Fedayeen,” according to a book published by NBC in 2003. Williams did not mention that his craft had been hit in a 2007 retelling. Williams was fired from his job as Managing Editor and Anchor of the Nightly News on February 10, 2015, when NBC News found out he had exaggerated the Iraq event.
Brian Williams Salary
Williams earns an annual salary of $8 million.
Brian Williams Net Worth
Williams has an estimated net worth of $50 million.
Brian Williams NBC Nightly News
On December 2, 2004, Williams took over as anchor of NBC Nightly News. He took over for Tom Brokaw, who was retiring and had to apologise for suggesting that there are “greater concerns” than newsroom diversity. “For airing his fury and disgust at the government’s failure to act promptly to help the victims,” he was complimented for his coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Brian Williams got 12 News & Documentary Emmy Awards for “excellent” work as anchor and managing editor of the network’s national television news programs while anchoring the NBC Nightly News. Williams was suspended from the show for six months in February 2015 after lying about his experiences during the 2003 Iraq invasion. His annual compensation was $10 million at the time, and he had signed a five-year contract in December 2014.
Brian Williams MSNBC
Williams returned to the airwaves as MSNBC’s top anchor in September 2015. Pope Francis’ visit to the United States, the Umpqua Community College shooting, and terrorist attacks in Paris, San Bernardino, Brussels, and Nice are among the news events Williams has covered for MSNBC since then. In January 2016, Williams also added the role of chief elections anchor for MSNBC and subsequently debuted in the new role during coverage of the 2016 Iowa caucuses.
Williams hosted The 11th Hour with Brian Williams, a nightly news and politics wrap-up show, as part of his lead anchor duties. In February 2019, the New York Post called the show a “legit hit,” noting that it has been “beating CNN and Fox News for three months straight.” Williams oversaw the network’s coverage of the 2020 US presidential election alongside co-anchors Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid, as well as lead analyst Nicolle Wallace.
After five years as host of The 11th Hour with Brian Williams and 28 years with the networks, Williams announced on the November 9, 2021, episode of The 11th Hour with Brian Williams that he would be leaving NBC News and MSNBC at the end of his contract the following month. On December 9, 2021, he will host the show for the final time.
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