The Big Three television networks — NBC, CBS and ABC — have never done anything like it before. On Friday, Sept. 5, their news anchors — Brian Williams, Katie Couric and Charles Gibson, respectively — will sit on one set for a commercial-free, prime-time simulcast entitled “Stand Up to Cancer.”
The extraordinary broadcast is for a cause that the networks believe worthy of such an unprecedented collaboration — the fight against cancer. It was announced Wednesday morning on TODAY by Williams, Couric and Gibson, who also appeared live on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and CBS’s “The Early Show.”