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The program ran for 15 minutes at its inception but expanded to 30 minutes on September 9, , exactly a week after the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite did so. It was developed and produced initially by Reuven Frank. Frank left the program in to produce documentaries Eliot Frankel replaced him but returned to the program the following year when it expanded to 30 minutes.

By , NBC executives had grown dissatisfied with Swayze in his role anchoring the network's evening news program, which fell behind its main competition, CBS's Douglas Edwards with the News , in Producer Reuven Frank , who had advocated pairing Huntley and Brinkley for the convention coverage, thought using two anchors on a regular news program "was one of the dumber ideas I had ever heard.

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Huntley handled the bulk of the news most nights, with Brinkley specializing in Washington-area topics such as the White House , U. Congress , and the Pentagon. When one was on vacation the other would typically handle the full broadcast alone, leaving viewers with a familiar anchor instead of a little-known substitute such as a field reporter.

The closing credits music for the broadcast was the second movement scherzo of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony , from the studio recording with Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Initially, the program lost audience from Swayze's program, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower let it be known that he was displeased by the switch.

Critics considered Huntley to possess one of the best broadcast voices ever heard, and Brinkley's dry, often witty, newswriting presented viewers a contrast to the often sober output from CBS News. The program received a Peabody Award in for "Outstanding Achievement in News," the awards committee noting that the anchors had "developed a mature and intelligent treatment of the news that has become a welcome and refreshing institution for millions of viewers.

It received eight Emmy Awards in its year run. Huntley and Brinkley conveyed a strong chemistry, and a survey for NBC later found that viewers liked that the anchors talked to each other. Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. Whatever I'm doing, I stop to watch these guys.