Tag: Lester Holt

Records were broken, billions were made, ratings were lost, and some of the biggest seats in all of television news changed hands in 2025.

Often, the instinct is to overcorrect when a legacy figure departs. Networks get anxious. They look to inject youth, style, or some form of disruptive energy into their programming, fearing that continuity equals stagnation. NBC News didn’t go down that road.

Llamas had the unenviable task of replacing "The most trusted man in news", Lester Holt. Let's check in and see how that's going.

The decline for NBC News in total viewership is more significant than the immediate losses suffered by CBS Evening News earlier this year.

For the week that encompassed Memorial Day, each of the three major network newscasts was down compared to the previous week.

He had a long run and now gets to slow down, but not leave the game. Others will face more difficult choices with such a fragmented audience.

"Legacy isn't handed down. It's carried forward."

For one final team before he relinquishes the role, let's check in on the most trusted man in television news.

The wall-to-wall coverage from Rome blew everything else off the screen.

It will be just shy of a decade since he officially held the role after he was officially named the replacement for Williams on June 18th, 2015.