{"id":26622,"date":"2020-08-19T10:15:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T15:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=26622"},"modified":"2020-08-19T10:52:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T15:52:54","slug":"rising-son-anchorman-stefan-holt-coming-back-home-nbc-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2020\/08\/19\/rising-son-anchorman-stefan-holt-coming-back-home-nbc-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising son: Anchorman Stefan Holt coming back home to NBC 5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Stefan Holt<\/p><\/div>\n

After four years at WNBC in New York, Stefan Holt is moving back home to Chicago and returning to WMAQ-Channel 5<\/a> as a Monday-through-Friday main news anchor, the NBC-owned station announced today.<\/p>\n

Holt, 33, the son of \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d anchor Lester Holt, previously spent five years as morning news anchor at NBC 5. Starting October 12, he will co-anchor the station's 4 and 10 p.m. newscasts.<\/p>\n

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Rob Stafford<\/p><\/div>\n

Rob Stafford, who now co-anchors with Allison Rosati at 5, 6 and 10 p.m., will continue with her at 5 and 6 p.m. and join the station's investigative reporting team. Patrick Fazio, who co-anchors with Marion Brooks at 4 p.m., will shift to the 11 a.m. newscast with Brooks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will be forever grateful for my time in New York,\" Holt said in a statement. \"Anchoring alongside some of the best in our industry and during one of the most tumultuous times in our history has been a privilege, and a highlight of my career.<\/p>\n

\u201cChicago is the city where I grew up and where my wife and I want to raise our two boys. I couldn\u2019t be more excited to return to my roots and reunite with my teammates at NBC 5.\u201d<\/p>\n

His father spent 14 years as a news anchor at CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 before moving to New York to join NBC in 2000. Since 2015 he's been anchor of \u201cNBC Nightly News.\u201d<\/p>\n

Born in Chicago during the time his father was at CBS 2, Holt graduated from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, and held internships with KABC in Los Angeles and NBC News in London before joining WPBF, the ABC affiliate in West Palm Beach, Florida, as a reporter and fill-in anchor in 2009.<\/p>\n

Two years later, the younger Holt landed at NBC 5 as a reporter and weekend morning anchor. Within months he was promoted to weekday morning anchor. In 2016 he moved to WNBC.<\/p>\n

Frank Whittaker, station manager and vice president of news at NBC 5, said of the anchor changes: \u201cThese moves allow us to welcome back a very talented anchor and boost our investigative team with a skilled investigative journalist at time when investigative journalism is needed now more than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After four years at WNBC in New York, Stefan Holt is moving back home to Chicago and returning to WMAQ-Channel 5 as a Monday-through-Friday main news anchor, the NBC-owned station announced today. Holt, 33, the son of \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d anchor Lester Holt, previously spent five years as morning news anchor at NBC 5. Starting... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26630,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26622\/revisions\/26630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}