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Tom Llamas Announced as Successor to Lester Holt on ‘NBC Nightly News’

Tom Llamas has been announced as Lester Holt's replacement on the NBC Nightly News.

(Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images)The network has announced that Tom Llamas will take over in the anchor’s chair when Holt signs off for good this summer. “Tom has the winning combination of journalistic excellence, passionate storytelling and unyielding integrity — all characteristics that have long been trademarks of ‘NBC Nightly News,’” Rodriguez said in a statement issued Wednesday afternoon. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Town & Country)“Lester Holt is a great man and one of the most trusted broadcasters of our time.

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