Hoda Kotb, Jeff Glor and Norah O'Donnell leave their anchor desks

The TV season began this week, and with it the network's host carousel.

Hoda Kotb told NBC viewers she is leaving Today show in early 2025, meaning the network has two openings. NBC needs a co-host with Savannah Guthrie for its 7-9 a.m. signature show, as well as someone for the fourth hour. Today with Hoda & Jenna, Kotb co-hosts the 10 a.m. talk show with Jenna Bush Hager.

Kotb, who joined NBC News as a staff writer in April 1998 Dateline NBC The correspondent made her announcement Thursday morning, two days after CBS fired co-host Jeff Glor CBS Saturday Mornings and former CBS Evening News Anchor.

Speaking of which CBS Evening News: Norah O'Donnell announced in July that she was leaving her duties as presenter and editor-in-chief after five years later this year. She replaced Glor, 49, as main host in 2019 after being a co-host CBS Morning. O'Donnell, 50, will report for 60 Minutes, CBS Sunday Morning, Primetime specials and other platforms.

Speaking of which CBS Morning: CBS follows NBC and ABC in expanding its morning news franchise, adding a third hour (9-10 a.m.) on Monday for Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil and Nate Burleson. But not here.

WKRC-TV plans to remain with its local station Good morning Cincinnati 9 a.m. show with Sheila Gray, Bob Herzog and Aleah Hordges.

Glor, who joined CBS in 2007, hosted that Evening News by Scott Pelley from 2017 to 2019. He was among the “hundreds of employees” who lost their jobs on Tuesday as Paramount Global “hopes to save about $500 million in costs by cutting 15% of its assets ahead of a merger with Skydance American companies will be laid off.” Employees,” says People magazine. Also missing are veteran consumer reporter Anna Werner, environmental reporter Ben Tracy and reporter Roxana Saberi, a Chicago-based correspondent who previously worked in the London bureau.

Kotb was promoted Today Co-host when longtime host Matt Lauer was fired in 2017 for inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace. She began thinking about her future after she turned 60 on August 9th.

“I realized that at 60 it was time for me to turn the page and try something new. I remembered standing outside and looking at this beautiful group of people with these beautiful (birthday) signs and I thought, 'That's it “Top of the Wave” feels like “Top of the Wave” to me .' And I thought it couldn't get any better and I decided this was the right time for me to move on,” Kotb told viewers.

Daughters Haley (7) and Hope (5) also played a big role in her decision. “Obviously I had my kids late in life, and I thought they deserved a bigger piece of the time that I have,” she said.

Variety's Brian Steinberg writes that it's a “smart moment” for Kotb to leave as networks struggle with declining ratings and revenue.

“Broadcast morning anchors are among the highest paid in the television news business, but the economics of AM TV are not what they once were. “As viewers abandon traditional television and turn to digital platforms, be it streaming content, AM newsletters or early morning offerings aimed at niche audiences, these top salaries are likely to come under renewed scrutiny,” he says.

“All major morning programs will be forced to grapple with succession issues in the coming years, knowing full well that the flow of money that once fueled the format is dwindling. At ABC it is assumed that some contracts of GMA It is likely that hosts will apply for an extension in the next 12 to 18 months. CBS may have addressed the issue by negotiating a new contract with the company CBS Morning co-host Gayle King, but even that won’t negate the work of finding potential successors for the presenter, who is expected to turn 70 in the coming months.”