Thomas John Brokaw (born February 6, 1940 in Webster, South Dakota) is a popular American television journalist, Previously working on regularly scheduled news documentaries for the NBC television network, and is the former NBC News anchorman and managing editor of the program "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw". His last broadcast as anchorman was on December 1, 2004, succeeded by Brian Williams in a carefully planned transition. Wikipedia
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The sole anchor of the NBC Nightly News since 1983, Tom Brokaw, who grew up in South Dakota, has in many ways, set the pace for broadcast journalism. www.columbusspeech.org/tom_brokaw.html
Brokaw's first TV job came in 1960, doing weathercasts in Sioux City, where he was quickly promoted to news reader and station identifications. www.nndb.com/people/309/000022243/