Lester Holt Leaving as Anchor of NBC Nightly News
Holt spent a decade behind the desk.
Lester Holt will leave as anchor of NBC Nightly News at the beginning of the summer.
Holt spent a decade behind the desk.
“After 10 years, 17 if you include my years on the weekends, the time has come for me to step away from my role as anchor of ‘Nightly News.’ It has truly been the honor of a lifetime to work with each of you every day, keeping journalism as our true north and our viewers at the center of everything we do,” Holt told staffers in a memo, according to Variety. “But before we play the walk off music, I have another announcement. I’m excited to report I will be continuing as anchor of ‘Dateline NBC,’ but for the first time in a full time capacity whereby I will be expanding my footprint on the broadcast and crafting ‘Dateline ‘hours on subjects I care deeply about. I am thrilled to be able to work more closely with my enormously talented friends at Dateline as the broadcast continues to grow and attract new viewers in new places.”
From NBC News:
Holt was named anchor of “Nightly News” in June 2015 after steering weekend editions of the news broadcast for eight years and co-anchoring “Weekend TODAY” for 12 years. He has served as principal anchor of “Dateline” since September 2011.
“A smile comes to my face when I think that with Nightly News, and Dateline, I have now anchored two of the most successful and iconic television news programs in broadcast history,” Holt wrote in a note Monday to “Nightly” and “Dateline” staffers. “As a 20-year-old radio reporter on the police beat chasing breaking news around San Francisco, I could never have imagined my career path would unfold in the way it has. What an amazing ride.”
NBC News has lost quite a few staple anchors lately. Chuck Todd left Meet the Press in January. Andrea Mitchell will leave MSNBC soon. Hoda Kotb exited Today.
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Toodles.
Take some of your fellow travelers with you, and will the last one to leave please turn off the lights?
Thank you, and Godspeed on your self-inflicted demise.
He’s just moving full-time to dateline.
Holt was never a journalist, he was a propagandist, a lower form of life.
Glad someone else is watching Pravda so the rest of us don’t have to.
NBC caused riots with deceptive editing of the Rodney King video. 4 days of widespread rioting; looting; assault; protests; vandalism; shootouts. $1 billion in damages. 53 dead.
Words do not exist to express my disgust with these cretins.
Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell are pathetic and sad. See ya!
In 1980, all three evening news broadcasts had ratings shares in the mid-teens. For NBC Nightly News, their 13.8-share produced almost 54M nightly viewers. Last week, NBC Nightly news was in 2nd place with 6.72M total viewers and just over 1M ‘in the Demo.’ Broadcast news isn’t dead yet…but, the family is definitely gathering in the waiting room and the priest has been called.
Transforming into the Nonexistent Broadcasting Company. Hurrah!
Oh, Noes!!!
Main Stream Propaganda appears to not be a growth industry. I suspect there are a lot of people at the top who want to cut the dead weight, but no one within their system wants to be seen as the first. The sudden disappearance of Joy Reid tells me there is a hole in the dyke (intentional) and the floods will be starting soon. We really need a pool on when Madcaw will be put out to pasture, and The View sent to the slaughterhouse. It is amazing how Mad TV called them out for what they truly were almost 15 years ago.
The less I see of Lester is more I appreciate en bee see..
Hey, hey,
Ho, ho
Affirmative action’s the way to go
Hey, hey
Ho, ho
. . .
Another empty chair at the Washington Correspondents Dinner table.
They can always prop up an empty suit in that chair. No one will be able to tell the difference.
That’s what they did with Biden.
It looks like NBC might be getting out of the news business. With a blithering idiot like Margeret Brennan in the wings, they have seen their future and it is bleak.
He was at Channel 5 (NBC) news in Chicago before he went national.
I’m sorry but who?
Bye, Felicia
So Dateline will become a personnel sounding board rather than doing stories on things the public are interested in?
It used to be the news media went to where the story was. Now it is “we are going to create the stories and tell you what is important.”
Another cut in the thousands of cuts for the legacy media.