NBC, Brokaw joined until 2014
Brokaw still stepping down as anchor
NEW YORK (CNNfn) -- NBC announced Wednesday that "Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw will remain with the network's news division through 2014.
Brokaw, due to step down as anchor of NBC's "Nightly News" in December, will anchor and produce documentary programs for NBC and its sister networks, as well as serve as an analyst for breaking news.
NBC also announced the network completed its merger with Vivendi Universal Entertainment.(Full story
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Brokaw, 64, a South Dakota native who became the sole anchor of NBC's "Nightly News" September 5, 1983, has said he plans to remain active in journalism.
"It doesn't mean that I am going to go sit in the anchorman's rest home in a rocking chair and take soft food beginning January of 2005," Brokaw said during a news conference last year.
Brokaw sparked speculation in 2001 that he might step aside after he took much of that summer off. However, the September 11 attacks re-energized him and brought home the importance of his work.
"A lot of you wrote about the fact that I took off a lot of time last summer, that was in part to try to contemplate how I wanted to live the rest of my life," Brokaw told reporters last year.
Brian Williams will succeed Brokaw as "Nightly News" anchor after November's presidential election.
