ET on Saturdays (after Friday Night Videos), and looped until the next morning, with NBC News at Sunrise following it out on weekdays.
Nightside also aired on Saturdays and Sundays during the overnight slot, whereas ABC and CBS's shows did not.
Some of Nightside's many anchors went on to national success, including Antonio Mora and Campbell Brown.
Former NBC News president Steve Capus once served as a senior producer for the program.
Despite financial profitability of the show and decent ratings, it was canceled by the network in 1998 and aired its last telecast on September 20 of that year, with NBC filling the overnight timeslot beginning two days later with NBC All Night, a block consisting of repeats of the network's late night and daytime talk shows.