{"id":7938,"date":"2025-03-09T23:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T23:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/?p=7938"},"modified":"2025-03-09T23:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T23:06:09","slug":"nbc-anchor-lester-holt-announces-departure-from-nbc-after-msnbc-fires-joy-reid-biggest-surprise-finally-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/?p=7938","title":{"rendered":"NBC anchor Lester Holt announces departure from NBC after MSNBC fires Joy Reid, biggest surprise finally confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBC\u2019s Lester Holt is out at Nightly News, the flagship show he has hosted for nearly a decade.<\/p><div class=\"gixpa69f7005935ed9\" ><div style=\"width:100%; max-width:1200px; margin:0 auto;\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/bolt-casino.com?r=0BFDBF1283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n    <img \n      src=\"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f8693ebb-2018-480f-a2f7-0096810c07f0.jpg\" \n      alt=\"200% Deposit Bonus 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staffers Monday, ten years after he stepped in to replace longtime fixture Brian Williams on a full-time basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The veteran anchor will now only man his usual spot on Dateline,\u00a0NBC News\u2019 Executive Vice President of Programming Janelle Rodriguez said\u00a0in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">NBC \u2013 whose asset\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\">MSNBC just cancelled Joy Reid\u2019s show The ReidOut\u00a0<\/span>\u2013\u00a0have\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\">yet to announce a replacement<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018[Holt] will continue at the helm of Nightly until early summer,\u2019\u00a0Rodriguez said, revealing how the anchor will then devote\u00a0\u2018his energy to the rapidly-expanding powerhouse that is Dateline.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Holt \u2013 previously the host of the show\u2019s weekend edition \u2013 began hosting Nightly News on weekdays in June of 2015, after\u00a0a scandal surrounding reporting from the\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\">Iraq War upended Williams\u2019 career<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He has since told staffers his time on the show was an \u2018amazing ride\u2019 \u2013\u00a0 doing so in a letter sent to Nightly and Dateline staffers Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The principal anchor of \u2018Dateline\u2019 since September 2011 did not mention the show\u2019s waning ratings, which are down year-over-year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Instead, he expressed excitement about \u2018continuing as anchor of \u201cDateline NBC\u201d\u00a0for the first time \u2018in a full time capacity\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-98f8d781eeea725\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/02\/24\/16\/95535179-14430687-image-a-1_1740414851373.jpg\" alt=\"NBC's Lester Holt is out at Nightly News, the flagship show he has hosted for nearly a decade\" width=\"634\" height=\"423\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">NBC\u2019s Lester Holt is out at Nightly News, the flagship show he has hosted for nearly a decade<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-9c3b7dd244cd8cd1\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/02\/24\/17\/95536549-14430687-image-a-17_1740417350566.jpg\" alt=\"Pictured, an excerpt from the Monday memo that Holt sent to his Nightly News and Dateline staff\" width=\"634\" height=\"962\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Pictured, an excerpt from the Monday memo that Holt sent to his Nightly News and Dateline staff<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018I will be expanding my footprint on the broadcast and crafting \u2018Dateline \u2018hours on subjects I care deeply about,\u2019 the anchor added, in a memo since re-shared by the company.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle adsbygoogle-noablate\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9378724246417115\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\" data-ad-status=\"unfilled\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_1_host\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"aswift_1\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Advertisement\" 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class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Just two years ago, the magazine-style program that\u2019s regularly compared to CBS\u2019s 60 Minutes or the PBS NewsHour had an average audience of more than 4million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">NBC Nightly News \u2013 currently behind evening news frontrunner ABC World News Tonight \u2013 is averaging 6.742 million total viewers, down one percent from this time last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The statistic, moreover, was recorded following some gains from the long-running program \u2013 which over the summer was subject to some double digit dips in\u00a0total audience and in the hallowed 25-to-54-year-old demographic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Back in July, the show was down 17 percent in total audience from the quarter before and 27 percent in the demographic most valued by advertisers, but has since managed to stop the bleeding.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle 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name=\"aswift_2\" width=\"620\" height=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" data-google-container-id=\"a!7\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\" data-google-query-id=\"CPKxg7Sj-4sDFeSmUAYdKZUTdg\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/ins><\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">However, a change in format\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\">already spawned a ratings crisis over at rival CBS<\/span>\u00a0\u2013 and Holt, for many viewers at home, has become a fixture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-894d264897aeeacb\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/02\/24\/17\/95536051-14430687-image-a-18_1740417772944.jpg\" alt=\"Holt, 65, announced he is stepping down in a memo sent to staffers Monday, ten years after he stepped in to replace longtime fixture Brian Williams on a full-time basis\" width=\"634\" height=\"423\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Holt, 65, announced he is stepping down in a memo sent to staffers Monday, ten years after he stepped in to replace longtime fixture Brian Williams on a full-time basis<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-472979799f5f133b\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/02\/24\/17\/95533127-14430687-MSNBC_viewers_took_to_Bluesky_to_react_to_Joy_Reid_s_show_being_-a-1_1740417843171.jpg\" alt=\"NBC - whose asset MSNBC just cancelled Joy Reid's show The ReidOut - have yet to announce a replacement\" width=\"634\" height=\"532\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">NBC \u2013 whose asset MSNBC just cancelled Joy Reid\u2019s show The ReidOut \u2013 have yet to announce a replacement<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8b2fb1559bf12ddb\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/02\/24\/17\/95445019-14430687-CBS_News_is_in_the_midst_of_a_ratings_crisis_brought_on_by_its_n-a-2_1740417964298.jpg\" alt=\"A change in format already spawned a ratings crisis over at rival CBS. Pictured, Maurice DuBois and John Dickerson at the helm of a more magazine-style experiment since branded a failure\" width=\"634\" height=\"480\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">A change in format already spawned a ratings crisis over at rival CBS. Pictured, Maurice DuBois and John Dickerson at the helm of a more magazine-style experiment since branded a failure<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Asked about Nightly News\u2019 future during an interview with Esquire in late 2023, the anchor conceded: \u2018Yes, audiences are migrating. [But] how people consume us, that\u2019s going to continue to change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018I have no idea how in seventy-five years,\u2019 he added, after earning recognition stints on Today and MSNBC before that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018But Nightly News will exist.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Meanwhile, still sitting in the wings is Senior National Correspondent Tom Llamas, whom for years now has been speculated to be Holt\u2019s likely successor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In 2021, insiders told Page Six how Llamas was \u2018clearly being groomed for a big role\u2019, and sources told the Ankler in November how higher-ups at the network would be happy to replace Holt with Llamas due to the latter\u2019s comparatively modest salary of $2.5million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It is unclear how much Holt was paid for Nightly News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Holt\u2019s contract expires this year, and Llamas has experience as an Evening News anchor thanks to time as a weekend host for ABC\u2019s still-successful World News Tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Holt scored the job thanks experience garnered under a similar role supplementing Williams, who himself was a figure once synonymous with American news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A decade later, it seems a changing of the guard is in store, at a time where networks like CBS, MSNBC, and CNN are implementing change to address shifting consumer habits \u2013 and, perhaps, a new presidency.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\"><ins id=\"982a9496-8decf37385ac7e444b1b1eb196e29a8b-2-7160\" class=\"982a9496\" data-key=\"8decf37385ac7e444b1b1eb196e29a8b\"><ins id=\"982a9496-8decf37385ac7e444b1b1eb196e29a8b-2-7160-1\"><center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1735179492211-0\" data-google-query-id=\"COb_paqj-4sDFQKrgwcdl2AGTw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/93656639\/Tanngo\/noithatnhaxinhbacgiang.com_inArticle_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/ins><\/ins><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-5177889dff5c7a6d\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/02\/24\/17\/95537049-14430687-image-a-3_1740419347942.jpg\" alt=\"Meanwhile, still sitting in the wings is Senior National Correspondent Tom Llamas, whom for years now has been speculated to be Holt's likely successor. He also has evening news experience, once anchoring for ABC's World News Tonight\" width=\"634\" height=\"423\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Meanwhile, still sitting in the wings is Senior National Correspondent Tom Llamas, whom for years now has been speculated to be Holt\u2019s likely successor. He also has evening news experience, once anchoring for ABC\u2019s World News Tonight<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-51e537d2f3422df6\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/02\/24\/18\/95536489-14430687-In_2021_insiders_told_Page_Six_how_Hamas_was_clearly_being_groom-a-1_1740420074050.jpg\" alt=\"In 2021, insiders told Page Six how Hamas was 'clearly being groomed for a big role', and sources told the Ankler in November how higher-ups at the network would be happy to replace Holt with Llamas due to the latter's comparatively modest salary\" width=\"634\" height=\"442\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, insiders told Page Six how Hamas was \u2018clearly being groomed for a big role\u2019, and sources told the Ankler in November how higher-ups at the network would be happy to replace Holt with Llamas due to the latter\u2019s comparatively modest salary<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Everything about our country has changed, except the language used to describe it,\u2019 he wrote, after making a rare appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers after Trump\u2019s win in November.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle adsbygoogle-noablate\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9378724246417115\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\" data-ad-status=\"unfilled\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_3_host\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"aswift_3\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Advertisement\" 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class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018It was crushing to watch so many working journalists attempt to generate the words to accurately describe a visibly struggling and diminished president, seemingly unable to complete a sentence or a thought in his disastrous and final debate.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Not mentioning any names, the man who for years worked with the likes of Rachel Maddow, Joe Scarborough, and Mika Brzezinski went on to offer one last parting shot at those who refused to face the truth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Say it with me: It is perhaps the ultimate irony that the electoral collapse of the Democratic Party in 2024 was triggered in large part by the man who ran to save the country and democracy \u2013 the same man who then tried to stay too long at the fair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018There, I said it,\u2019 he added as sort of signoff. \u2018Now someone please say it into a microphone. You can do it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-88e65006de541ad1\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/02\/24\/17\/93887855-14430687-Brian_Williams_long_the_host_of_NBC_Nightly_News_before_a_scanda-a-6_1740419869946.jpg\" alt=\"Holt scored the job thanks experience garnered under a similar role supplementing Williams, who himself was a figure once synonymous with American news, before a scandal surrounding his reporting from the Iraq War upended his 11-year stint\" width=\"634\" height=\"524\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Holt scored the job thanks experience garnered under a similar role supplementing Williams, who himself was a figure once synonymous with American news, before a scandal surrounding his reporting from the Iraq War upended his 11-year stint<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">For his final sign-off, the figure once synonymous with American airwaves told colleagues that \u2018following much reflection,\u2019 he was leaving the company.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle adsbygoogle-noablate\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9378724246417115\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\" data-ad-status=\"unfilled\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_4_host\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"aswift_4\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Advertisement\" 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legendary Tom Brokaw in 2004, after he was caught lying about a wartime story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-italic\">Developing story, check back for updates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC\u2019s Lester Holt is out at Nightly News, the flagship show he has hosted for nearly a decade. 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