Nightly Business Report

Nightly Business Report is an Emmy Award winning financial news television program that is broadcast live weekday evenings on most public television stations in the United States. Frequently abbreviated to NBR, the show is produced by public television station WPBT-TV in Miami, Florida, and distributed by PBS.

The program was first broadcast was on January 22, 1979. The original co-anchors were Linda O'Bryon and Merwin Sigale, with Paul Kangas providing the daily stock market report. The show was seen only on WPBT at first, but in 1981 NBR was distributed nationally. Alumni of the program's anchor desk include the late Del Frank as well as Dean Shepherd, Jim Wicks and Cassie Seifert. The current hosts are Paul Kangas in Miami and Susie Gharib in New York. Other notable people at NBR included John Defterios (now of CNN) and Neil Cavuto (Fox News Channel).

The daily program consists of reports on the changes in the stock market, indices, and stocks of note for the day, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq, the S&P 500, and other major markets, as well as interviews with important business persons, generally CEOs of major companies as well as economists, market analysts and policy makers. Programs on market holidays depart from this format, and often deal with a single subject or theme.

The program usually concludes with a commentary from one of NBR's large stable of notables. The program frequently presents special series on business and industry topics. Technology is featured in a monthly on-air column reported by New York Bureau Chief and technology reporter Scott Gurvey. On Friday, Kangas interviews a leading market strategist in his "Market Monitor" segment. Kangas always signs off each broadcast using his trademark phrase, "I'm Paul Kangas, wishing all of you the best of good buys!"

The distinctive theme and bumper music was composed by composer Edd Kalehoff, also known for themes on other television series and game shows. The original Kalehoff theme was used from 1988 to 2002. Along with an update to the graphics and presentation, the theme was updated in 2002 and has been used since then.

In 2005, the program won its first national Emmy for its series on "China's Emergence as an International Economic Power."

E-Mail and snail mail addresses and telephone numbers for Nightly Business Report's bureaus as well as a list of stations carrying the broadcast can be found at the program's web site, http://www.pbs.org/nbr.

There was a 15 minute morning version of NBR called Morning Business Report during the mid-1990s.

American Public Television was the previous distributor of NBR from 1981 through 2005.

The program can be viewed on Australian television network SBS each Tuesday to Friday at 4pm, as part of its Worldwatch news service. In New Zealand, it can be viewed at selected regional TV channels such as Triangle Television in Auckland every Tuesday to Saturday at 5pm (6pm during daylight saving time - October to March).

Over the course of production, NBR was funded by Digital Equipment Corporation (and its successor, COMPAQ), Kidder Peabody, Franklin Templeton Investments (and its predecessor, The Franklin Group of Funds), A.G. Edwards and Sons, Inc., Mercedes-Benz and ExxonMobil.

External links

• Nightly Business Report Home Page at PBS.