It’s official… Craig Melvin is changing the departing Hoda Kotb as the brand new anchor of NBC Right now and can co-host the morning present alongside Savannah Guthrie.
The announcement was made on the Thursday morning (November 14) broadcast, the place it was confirmed Kotb’s remaining episode will air on January 10, 2025. Melvin, who at the moment hosts the third hour of Right now alongside Al Roker, Sheinelle Jones, and Dylan Dreyer, will then transfer into Kotb’s place beginning on Monday, January 13.
Guthrie made the announcement, saying of Melvin, “[He’s] gifted, great, hard-working, and essentially the most worthy of this.” She added, “Let me simply say, the bigger workers discovered this morning, and folks broke into applause.”
“We’re past thrilled to have Craig step into the co-anchor chair,” Libby Leist, senior vice chairman of Right now stated in a press release to workers on Thursday morning. “He’s been an integral and beloved a part of our household. From breaking information protection within the discipline, to presidential interviews, to a number of Olympics and Tremendous Bowls, Craig’s proven he has the expertise and the vary to cowl all that we do right here at TODAY. And he does it with out ever dropping that Southern allure.”
We now have thrilling information this morning! @CraigMelvin will be part of Savannah Guthrie as TODAY co-anchor in January 2025. pic.twitter.com/ysEQsLdwU2
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) November 14, 2024
“I’m past excited and grateful,” Melvin stated on Thursday’s present. “I wish to thank NBC and the oldsters right here who deemed me worthy. I’ve loved a lifetime of blessings and that is the newest in a protracted line of blessings.”
Melvin first joined the NBC household as a highschool pupil, working for the NBC affiliate WIS-TV in Columbia, South Carolina. After faculty, he returned to WIS in July 2001 as a information photographer and producer, earlier than changing into a reporter for the station’s morning information group.
He left WIS in July 2009 and moved to the NBC-owned WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., the place he anchored the weekend night newscasts. He then landed at MSNBC in July 2011, the place he served as a daytime anchor, whereas additionally contributing to NBC Information as a reporter.
In 2018, Melvin offered NBC’s protection of the Winter Olympics and was additionally promoted to weekday information anchor on Right now, the place he shaped the forged of hosts heading Right now Third Hour.
Kotb has served as a Right now co-host since 2018. She introduced her exit in September, revealing she can be stepping away from the present to spend extra time along with her two younger daughters.
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