found: Washington post WWW site, viewed June 26, 2020(in obituary dated June 25, 2020: Lester M. Crystal, a past president of NBC News who left for PBS and became executive producer of the first hour-long daily news program on any U.S. television network, "The MacNeil/Lehrer Report," died June 24 in New York City. He was 85. Mr. Crystal spent 20 years behind-the-scenes at NBC and was executive producer of the half-hour "NBC Nightly News" in the 1970s before becoming president of the network's news division in 1977. He joined the publicly supported network PBS early in 1983. After MacNeil retired from the broadcast in 1995, Mr. Crystal moved to Washington and supervised production of the newly renamed "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer" at the WETA-TV studios in Arlington, Va. After 22 years as executive producer of the "NewsHour," Mr. Crystal stepped down in 2005 to become president of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, which produced special reports for the NewsHour and other PBS programs. Lester Martin Crystal was born Sept. 13, 1934, in Duluth, Minn. Mr. Crystal settled in Scarsdale, N.Y., and continued as an adviser to PBS after leaving "NewsHour")
