‘Dateline NBC’ Expands To Telemundo With Julio Vaqueiro Set As Host

Dateline is expanding and premiering episodes in Spanish on Telemundo on Saturday, February 15 at 7 p.m. ET.

Noticias Telemundo anchor Julio Vaqueiro is set to host the special encores of Dateline, which is the first time the newsmagazine has their episodes fully translated into another language.

“We are very excited about this new collaboration with our colleagues at NBC News and look forward to bringing Dateline’s award-winning storytelling and in-depth investigations to our Spanish-language audience,” Vaqueiro said.

The first Dateline episode on Telemundo is titled “Un Largo Camino,” or A Long Road in English. The episode follows a determined investigator and prosecutor in Orange County who worked to solve a 20-year-old murder case, even though those involved in the gruesome crime thought they had buried the secrets of the past.

“As we strive to make Dateline available across as many platforms as possible via TV, syndication, podcasts and our streaming channel Dateline 24/7, we are thrilled to work with Telemundo and Julio to show new audiences that great storytelling transcends all languages,” Dateline Senior Executive Producer Liz Cole said.

Dateline is a newsmagazine show that premiered in 1992 and is currently hosted by NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt. The show focuses on true crime stories and is known for a special series of reports like “To Catch a Predator,” “Wild Wild Web,” and “To Catch a Con Man.”

During the 2023-2024 Season, Dateline ranked as the #1 most-watched newsmagazine and true-crime franchise across all of TV, with over 128.1 million total viewers, according to Nielsen.