Lester Crystal

Lester Crystal

American news producer
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Lester Martin Crystal (September 13, 1934 – June 24, 2020) was an Emmy Award-winning American television news executive best known for being the founding executive producer of the nation’s first hour-long nightly newscast, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (now called the PBS NewsHour), and also for being president of NBC News. He joined The NewsHour as executive producer in 1983 and was appointed president of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions in 2005, a position he held until his retirement in 2010. Prior to PBS, Crystal had a 20-year career at NBC, where he was president of NBC News from 1977–79, executive producer of NBC Nightly News from 1973–76, European field producer (based in London) of NBC Nightly News from 1970-1973 and producer of The Huntley-Brinkley Report from 1968-1970.

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Lester Crystal was born on Thursday, 13 September 1934 in Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.. They were best known as a journalist. They died on Wednesday, 24 June 2020 in New York City, New York at the age of 85. Their zodiac star sign were Virgo.
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13 September 1934
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Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.
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24 June 2020
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New York City, New York
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Television news producer, executive
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