NBC News Anchor Gone - Network Announces Flagship Host Has Been Replaced

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News Network, NBC and MSNBC have made a drastic change to the lineup that ends an absolute

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So the news came on Sunday when NBC News anchor Chuck Todd of Meet the Press, who hosts their

Sunday show every Sunday for almost a decade, announced that he would be stepping aside

and that a new host, Kristen Welker, would be taking his place

Now of course, Todd says this is all of his own volition, that he wishes the show well

that you know, if it's Sunday, it's Meet the Press, you know, the whole line, everything

But it actually, there could be a bigger problem at work here, there could be more

behind the scenes play at work here, and it affects not only NBC, but MSNBC as well

Let's take a look at Chuck Todd making the announcement. Welcome back

I have a personal announcement. While today is not my final show, this is going to be my final summer here at Meet the Press

It's been an amazing, nearly decade-long run. I'm pretty, really proud of what this team and I have built over the last decade, and

frankly, the last 15 plus years that I've been here at NBC, which also includes my time

as political director. I've loved so much of this job, helping to explain America to Washington and explain

Washington to America. When I took over Meet the Press, it was a Sunday show that had a lot of people questioning

whether it could still have a place in the modern media space. Well, I think we've answered that question and then some

Now that all sounds well and good, but rumors have persisted for months, actually years

that Todd's ratings were just horrible, and that a lot of MSNBC and NBC programming, news

programming, was actually starting to tank in the ratings. A lot of this has to do with Donald Trump no longer being in office

That was their number one punching bag. It was their number one story every week

If you count how many times they still say Trump's name, desperate to get some traction

off his name, it's actually ridiculous. There could be more at work behind the scenes here

Now Todd says he's going to stay on and he's going to be part of the NBC News crew

He's going to do more long-form journalism. He's going to do special programming, be a guest on certain programs, but this does not

bode well for the future of NBC and NBC News and the Meet the Press program in general

Look, news, especially network news, has been suffering in this new age of instant on-demand

news that you get on the internet. Cable News feels that every week when it goes look at its ratings, except for Fox News

Fox News has been the only one that's been able to withstand this storm

So to me, I believe there's more to the Todd leaving story than meets the eye, and I think

we're going to find out about it in the coming days and weeks. And I think you're going to see that it's actually a whole landscape change, not just

one host change. Folks, I want to thank you again for joining us here today

Again, my name's Carmine Sabia. This is Explain America. We love you guys

God bless you. Take care, everybody