Chuck Todd told viewers Sunday he is leaving the moderator’s chair on the 75-year-old program in September.
Welker will be the second female moderator in the long history of “Meet the Press.”was the first to have the job when the program launched in 1947 and held the position until 1953.
Welker is a home-grown on-air talent, hired in 2010 after she put in several years as a local anchor at NBC’s Philadelphia TV station, and the network did not want to risk losing her. The replacement of Todd has been under discussion at NBC for years. Todd himself acknowledged that the job of hosting a broadcast institution was not permanent.
FILE - This May 14, 2018 file photo shows Chuck Todd at the 2018 NBCUniversal Upfront in New York. Chuck Todd said Sunday, June 4, 2023 he'll be leaving after a tumultuous near-decade of moderating the NBC political panel show “Meet the Press,” to be replaced in the coming months by Kristen Welker. As “Meet the Press” moderator, Todd was often criticized on social media by liberal critics for not being tough enough in his line of questioning on the program.
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