Tom Llamas will succeed Lester Holt as anchor of 'NBC Nightly News'

Tom Llamas volition beryllium the adjacent anchor of “NBC Nightly News” aft Lester Holt departs the relation this summer.

The lad of Cuban immigrants, Llamas, 45, volition beryllium the archetypal Latino to anchor a nightly English connection broadcast web evening newscast, a relation that volition marque him 1 of the signature personalities of NBC News.

Llamas volition stay anchor of the nightly programme “Top Story,” which streams connected NBC News Now astatine 7 p.m. Eastern. “Nightly” is fed to NBC stations unrecorded astatine 6:30 p.m.

Holt announced his plans to permission “Nightly” past week aft a 10 twelvemonth run. He volition stay with NBC News arsenic anchor of the existent transgression newsmagazine “Dateline.”

Llamas, a Miami native, is simply a favourite of NBC News Group Chairman Cesar Conde. Llamas was recruited to NBC News from ABC and has been rumored to beryllium the “Nightly” heir evident since helium arrived.

Llamas started his journalism vocation arsenic a 15-year-old intern astatine the section Telemundo presumption successful Miami. After graduating from Loyola University New Orleans, helium landed a occupation successful 2000 arsenic a accumulation adjunct astatine NBC News. He worked his mode up arsenic a analogous for NBC’s Miami presumption and a section anchor for WNBC successful New York.

Llamas jumped to ABC News successful 2014, wherever helium raised his illustration covering the 2016 statesmanlike campaign, and the pursuing twelvemonth was named Saturday anchor of “ABC World News.” He returned to NBC successful 2021 and became anchor of “Top Story” successful September of that year.