Shriver to Stay at NBC

NEW YORK â€”  NBC News, which lost Connie Chung to CBS News last week, said Thursday that it won’t be losing Maria Shriver. She signed a new four-year contract and was named to co-anchor a prime-time news series that the network is developing.

In addition to the spot on “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow�--which Chung would have co-anchored had she stayed at NBC--Shriver will continue to co-anchor “Sunday Today� with Garrick Utley and will anchor the Saturday “NBC Nightly News.�

Shriver, who has been with NBC News since 1986, also will occasionaly fill in for Tom Brokaw on the weeknight “Nightly News� and will be a substitute anchor on “Today� and “NBC News at Sunrise.�

Shriver’s co-anchor on the new NBC magazine series will be former CNN anchor Mary Alice Williams. When the series airs this fall, it will be the first time a two-woman team has anchored a network news series since Linda Ellerbee and Andrea Mitchell teamed up on NBC’s short-lived “Summer Sunday� in 1986.