NBC owned and affiliated stations extending their late evening newscasts time between March 16 through March 20 .
Several television stations also added temporary extended newscasts to cover the impact of the coronavirus on their local areas ; among them , NBC owned and affiliated stations were given an extra half-hour window for their late evening newscasts from March 16 through March 20 for this purpose , resulting in stations that elected to extend their 11:00 p.m. ( or 10:00 p.m. ) newscasts delaying the network 's late night lineup ( forced into reruns due to the production shutdowns ) by a half-hour .
Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on television