NBC NBC NBC NEWS anchor Lester Holt called his mandate a long decades poisoning the network evening aired “Honor of a Life” as he was farewell during his latest news on Friday evening.
“As an anchor, it has been an honor to lead this program and an honor to welcome to your homes,” 66-year-old Newsman said as he signed out of 30 Rock Studio one last time.
“I am very grateful for your faith.”
The veteran journalist, who will remain on the Pallua network in “Dateline”, where he has been the main anchor for 15 years, thanked the viewers, along with his family and crew, during his heartfelt sending.
“About here, the facts matter. Words matter, the journalist matters and you matter,” Holt said.
“Over the last decade, we have shared a few days and dark and disturbing nights from our country – Pandemia, mass shots, natural disasters – each trying our endurance and compassion. That is why I often like to leave you with something to smile, moments that provide us and connect us.”
Holt closed the broadcast, surrounded by tearful colleagues, saying he will lose to spend the evenings with his audience, before congratulating his successor, Tom Llamas, “great success”.
“In the meantime, please continue to take care of yourself and each other, and I will do the same,” he concluded as a video tribute celebrated the coverage and interviews of the long reporter.
Holt, who began his career in 1981 at CBS, joined NBC News in 2003, where he held various anchor and reporting during his 22 years on the network.
He was appointed anchor “Nightly News” in 2015 when his predecessor, Brian Williams, ended his 28-year-old dysfunction in the disgration after fake that he was in a hit helicopter in Iraq.
The evening news remained firmly in second place in the ABC ratings under Holt.
Holt, who announced his departure in February, recently told the varieties that his decision to leave the anchor chair once occupied by Tom Brokew stemmed from his desire to return to his reporting roots in the Newsmagazine network program.
He explained that the full -time concert will give him more freedom to “bend the muscles of various news” than his anchor role.
“I never saw myself doing this job forever,” he told the coming out of his “Night News.”
“People say it’s been a great run. Likes like, well, I’m still running.”
Llamas, 45, will take over the legendary news table starting Monday.
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