Longtime NBC host and former “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd is reportedly meeting with other media organizations and has plans to leave the network.
“Chuck Todd has been quietly meeting with media organizations in Washington about his future at NBC.” Semaphore reported Sunday.
Todd, 52, told “senior editors and leaders from other media organizations that he intends to leave NBC when his contract expires this year, and discussed potential roles outside the network in both broadcast and digital media,” the report continued.
Todd, who was the host of “Meet the Press,” NBC's flagship Sunday program, has become noticeably less visible on the network after he was replaced by Kristen Welker in 2023 after nine years at the helm.
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NBC News chief political analyst Chuck Todd is reportedly planning to leave NBC. (William P. Plowman/NBC via Getty Images)
Todd particularly criticized NBC News for hiring him previously Republican National Committee President Ronna McDaniel as an analyst in March 2024, one of several on-air personalities to publicly criticize the network's decision. He publicly questioned his bosses for hiring McDaniel and for putting Welker in the awkward position of interviewing McDaniel, a briefly paid colleague of Welker's, about her past 2020 election speech.
“Let me address the elephant in the room,” Todd told Welker in March. “I think our superiors owe you an apology for putting you in this position, because I don't know what to believe.”
Todd said he had no idea whether any answer McDaniel gave Welker was because she didn't want to “mess up” her new contract.
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Many of the network's dealings with the Republican National Committee under McDaniel's leadership were “met with gaslighting” and “character assassination” in March 2024, Todd said. (Getty Images)
Todd previously said that many of the network's dealings with the RNC under McDaniel's leadership were “met with gaslighting” and “character assassination,” and pointed to the internal turmoil caused by journalists at NBC News who felt apoplectic over McDaniel's appointment. McDaniel's contract was terminated less than a week later.
In the past, Todd hosted his own MSNBC show, “The Daily Rundown,” and also served as NBC's chief White House correspondent.
NBC News did not immediately respond to a request for comment Fox News Digital.
Fox News' David Rutz contributed to this report.
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