NBC News Ends Stay Tuned and Shifts Primetime Streaming

NBC News has stopped producing Stay Tuned, the west coast-based program that aired at 8 p.m. on its free streaming service, NBC News Now. The show’s November 11 episode was its last. The move is part of a review of the news division’s resources and programming, and the service is expected to use repeats in the primetime slot.

Anchor Gadi Schwartz will stay with NBC News. About a dozen positions tied to the program are affected, while a handful of jobs elsewhere in the news unit are being eliminated. The affected staff can apply for nearly 50 openings in the division, including jobs with Dateline and the news specials team. The network hopes many will move into those roles.

Stay Tuned began in 2023 and was the service’s only original primetime program. NBC News says it remains committed to free, ad-supported streaming, where viewership grew threefold from 2020 to 2025. During Election Night primetime coverage, the service’s audience among viewers ages 25 to 54 exceeded CBS News’ audience in that age group, the network said.

NBC News Now already airs repeats of Tom Llamas’ Top Story in the evening. The company did not make executives available to comment on the change.