Rock Center with Brian Williams was an American weekly television newsmagazine that was broadcast on NBC from October 31, 2011 to June 21, 2013 and hosted by former NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams. It aired on Mondays until January 30, 2012, and then began airing Wednesdays starting February 8, 2012. It was produced in the Rockefeller Center's "Studio 3B", the same space as NBC Nightly News, and formerly that of the Today Show. Named after the location of the NBC News headquarters in the GE Building at 30 Rockefeller Center, the program was the first new NBC News program to launch in primetime on NBC since Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric debuted in 1993. Rock Center was designed to be more serious than NBC's existing prime time newsmagazine, Dateline NBC, which had increasingly delved into human interest and true crime stories, and had switched from a multiple-story format into a single story format. On May 10, 2012, NBC announced that Rock Center had been removed from the schedule for the remainder of the May 2012 sweeps period due to low ratings. Three days later, on May 13, 2012, NBC announced that Rock Center would be renewed for a second season during its 2012–13 upfront presentation. The series was also shown on MSNBC. On May 10, 2013, the series was canceled after two seasons. The last program aired on June 21, 2013. Correspondents Harry Smith Kate Snow Ted Koppel as special correspondent Chelsea Clinton as special correspondent Bob Costas – NBC Sports anchor; Host, Football Night in America Meredith Vieira – NBC News Special Correspondent Richard Engel – NBC News chief foreign correspondent Nancy Snyderman – NBC News chief medical editor Matt Lauer – Co-Anchor of Today Ann Curry – NBC News National & International Correspondent Natalie Morales – news anchor of Today Notable segments The program received considerable attention for its November 14, 2011 broadcast, in which Bob Costas interviewed former Penn State Nittany Lions football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. Sandusky proclaimed his innocence in light of recent child sex abuse charges against him, despite acknowledging inappropriate contact with the victims, and denied the alleged cover-up by his former employers. Sandusky would insist that he is not a pedophile. It was Sandusky's first public interview since the abrupt firing of head coach Joe Paterno the week before, whom Sandusky had served as defensive coordinator under for decades