Thursday, March 28, 2024

‘Today’ Anchor Craig Melvin Taken Off Saturdays ‘To Elevate Him On Weekdays’

*Craig Melvin has announced that he’s stepping down as co-anchor of Saturday Today, but he’ll continue as Today national correspondent and MSNBC anchor, TVNewser reports.

According to the outlet, there was buzz at the network that he will join Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb as an anchor on the weekday broadcast, insiders told Page Six.

Sources exclusively added that NBC News national correspondent Peter Alexander will be announced as Melvin’s Saturday replacement in the coming weeks.

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A source shared, “The reason Craig Melvin was taken off Saturdays is to elevate him on weekdays.”

The source added that “Craig will eventually be [a weekday] anchor . . . You don’t leave an anchor job to be a reporter.”

Melvin said on-air Saturday of his exit: “For the better part of the past year, I have been pulling triple duty here at NBC News.”

The source said, “He already plays a big role [on ‘Today’] Monday to Friday. The network is really high on him right now: He’s smart, charming, handsome and, perhaps most importantly, a family man.”

But another insider claims Melvin’s role during the week at “Today” will remain the same.

Said the source, “Craig has been working six days a week for about a year, between the ‘Today’ show Monday to Friday and on the weekends . . . So he stepped back from Saturday. He’s going to continue doing the weekday ‘Today’ show as well as his MSNBC show, and he’s not being ‘groomed’ for anything else.”

Melvin made headlines in June when he interviewed former President Bill Clinton and asked if he ever apologized Monica Lewinsky. Clinton noted that he did not owe her an apology, adding, “Someone should ask you these questions.”

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