Savannah Guthrie Anchoring ‘Nightly News’ While Lester Holt Tends to Family Medical Emergency
“Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie will fill in for the Brian Williams-less “Nightly News” for a brief period while temporary anchor Lester Holt deals with a family medical emergency, NBC News told TheWrap Monday.
Holt has been filling in for the suspended Williams and was set to continue before an unspecified family emergency presented itself.
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With Holt in the anchor chair, Nightly News has kept its lead in total viewers over ABC’s “World News Tonight” but it fell behind in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 demo for the week of February 16th.
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Williams is currently in the beginning of a six-month, unpaid suspension for erroneously claiming to have been in an Iraqi helicopter that was shot down by RPG fire in 2003.
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Guthrie joined “Today” as co-host in 2012.
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