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Hours after NBC News officially announced that Brian Williams will not return to anchoring NBC Nightly News following his six-month suspension, Thursday’s editions of NBC Nightly News and ABC’s World News Tonight gave news briefs to this decision as well as the move by the network to promote weekend anchor Lester Holt to the permanent weekday spot.
Reporting on the deadly church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, fill-in anchor and Today co-host Savannah Guthrie informed viewers that “we have news of our own you may have heard about today” with the decision by NBC News “that starting Monday, Lester Holt will officially take over as the anchor of this broadcast.”