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Lester Don Holt Jr. (born March 8, 1959) [3] is an American news anchor for the weekday edition of NBC Nightly News, NBC Nightly News Kids Edition, and Dateline NBC. On June 18, 2015, Holt was made the permanent anchor of NBC Nightly News following the demotion of Brian Williams .
The program is broadcast live over most NBC stations from 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time seven days a week; the "Western Edition" of the program occasionally features breaking news and/or updated information on news stories covered during the original telecast for Pacific Time Zone viewers, and some stations in that time zone carry it live ...
Lester Holt was named the broadcast's interim anchor, and in June of that year, would become the permanent anchor for the NBC Nightly News; Holt is the first African-American to be named as the sole weeknight anchor of a major network news broadcast. [12]
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News anchor Lester Holt’s wife, Carol Hagen, has been his rock for more than four decades. Holt and Hagen met at the age of 21 when she was a flight attendant and he was a radio reporter. Two ...
Veteran news anchor Lester Holt had a total eclipse of the heart on Monday while doing live coverage of the solar eclipse. The 65-year-old NBC Nightly News anchor was interviewing an unnamed man ...
Lester Holt left the program in 2015 following his promotion to lead anchor of NBC Nightly News. (Holt had been anchoring both the weekend editions of Today and Nightly News prior to his reassignment.) In March 2020, the Saturday edition abruptly relocated production to NBC News' Washington, D.C. bureau, originating from the Meet the Press ...
Dateline is historically notable for its longevity on the network, compared to the fifteen newsmagazines (often cloning the formulas of 20/20 and 60 Minutes) NBC tried from the mid-70s until its debut which each debuted and ended ignominiously, often in the same year, or even the month they premiered, and were barely promoted, much less needed, during NBC's ratings domination entertainment ...