NBC News Cancels Gadi Schwartz's 'Stay Tuned,' a Newscast Made in L.A.

Reruns now fill the 8 p.m. ET streaming hour that Schwartz had anchored from Universal City since March 2023.

Gadi Schwartz built a national newscast on a bit of time-zone math: by the time New York's news day ends at 8 p.m., it's only 5 o'clock in Los Angeles.

That math ran out Wednesday. NBC News Now, NBC News' free, ad-supported streaming channel, aired the last episode of "Stay Tuned," Variety reported Thursday. The network confirmed the end to Variety but put no executive forward to talk about it. Replays of other shows will fill the hour, Deadline reported, and it noted the show was one of the few network programs that came out of Los Angeles.

That was the whole idea. "For a long time, 8 o'clock rolled around and everyone's like, 'Oh well, we're all done,' and forgot that it is only 5 o'clock on the West Coast," Schwartz told Deadline on launch day in March 2023. He anchored from NBC's broadcast studios in Universal City, and NBC's own launch release said the show would go after stories happening beyond New York and Washington.

The cost lands on the people who made it. A person familiar with the decision told Deadline that the cancellation affects about a dozen positions. Roughly 50 jobs elsewhere at NBC News are open to them, some at "Dateline" and others in the specials unit, that person said.

Variety's source told it the same thing a little more hopefully: producers can apply for nearly 50 open jobs, and the network hopes many of them will. Separately, a handful of positions across the news unit are being eliminated, which that person put at under 1% of staff. Schwartz isn't going anywhere. He stays with the news division, both outlets' sources said.

The channel isn't shrinking. Variety reported that NBC News Now's viewing tripled from 2020 to 2025, and Deadline said the network has made the streamer a priority, with big growth that included Election Night. Even so, "Stay Tuned" had been the channel's only original primetime show. Deadline's source said the cut came out of a review of resources and programming.

So the slot goes to repeats. NBC News Now already reruns Tom Llamas' "Top Story" in the evening, Variety reported, and other re-aired programming is expected to fill the rest.

The show started on a phone. It grew out of a Snapchat news show Schwartz co-hosted with Savannah Sellers for nearly six years, and NBC said it averaged 38 million monthly episode views. When the TV version launched, Schwartz told Deadline its look was "an ode to California sunsets." It was the most West-facing hour NBC News put on a screen.

NBC isn't the only network cutting. Variety reported that Skydance, which now owns CNN and CBS News, has offered buyouts companywide as it tries to cut $6 billion in costs, and both CBS News and CNN have already been through layoffs.

Schwartz made a promise at launch. "If something is breaking in California or anywhere in the west, we are hopefully going to be the first to lead with it," he told Deadline. Now, at 5 p.m. Pacific, NBC News Now leads with a replay.

Source: Deadline, retrieved November 13, 2026. Other sources: Variety, Deadline (2), NBC News.