NBC Nightside

NBC Nightside (also known as NBC News Nightside) is an American overnight television news program on NBC, that aired from 1991 to 1998. The program was produced in three half-hour segments. It usually aired live seven nights a week from 1:00 to 2:30 a.m. Eastern Time, which was then rebroadcast on a looped feed until 4:30 or 5 a.m. local time, depending on the individual affiliate. After 15 years of it's cancellation, NBC announced the return of NBC Nightside to air during the overnight hours as an option if their affiliates doesn't have any late night programming after Carson Daly's Last Call.

History
The program premiered on November 4, 1991, and was NBC's second attempt at a late night news program after NBC News Overnight, which ran for seventeen months from 1982 to 1983.

Nightside differed from its two competitors – CBS's Up to the Minute and ABC's World News Now, which are both based in New York City – in that rather than being broadcast from the headquarters of its news division, it was instead based out of the Charlotte, North Carolina facilities of NBC NewsChannel, a network newsfeed service providing customized reports and video of national news to NBC owned-and-operated stations and affiliates, and which was based in studios connected to those of Charlotte's NBC affiliate WCNC-TV (channel 36). Also unlike the other network overnight newscasts, which run only on Monday through Fridays, NBC Nightside ran in the early morning hours seven days a week.

Some of Nightside‍ '​s many anchors went on to national success including Antonio Mora and Campbell Brown. Former NBC News president Steve Capus once served as a senior producer for the program.

Despite financial profitability of the show and decent ratings, it was canceled by the network in 1998 and aired its last telecast on September 20 of that year, with NBC filling the overnight timeslot beginning two days later with NBC All Night, a block consisting of repeats of the network's late night talk shows.

Revival
In 2013, NBC made the announcement that NBC Nightside would make it's return to compete with CBS Up to the Minute (Now CBS Overnight News) and ABC World News Now. Former NBC News at Sunrise anchor Gulstan Dart anchors the current version of NBC Nightside.