Brian Williams is preparing to sign off NBC for good.
The longtime newsman announced that he is resigning his position as an MSNBC anchor and host of “The 11th Hour.”
Williams, 62, a Ridgewood native who grew up in Middletown, has spent 28 years at NBC.
The “11th Hour” host was a mainstay at MSNBC before becoming the managing editor and anchor of “NBC Nightly News” for more than a decade until a 2015 scandal unseated him from that position.
“Good friends were in great supply at NBC,” Williams said in a message to his NBC colleagues Tuesday, as reported by NBC News. “I was fortunate that everyone I worked with made me better at my job.”
He noted that over his career at NBC, his work had taken him to “38 countries, 8 Olympic games, 7 Presidential elections, half a dozen Presidents, a few wars, and one SNL.”
Williams hosted “The 11th Hour” for more than six years. The show took its name from its 11 p.m. time slot and its debut in the “11th hour” (weeks) before the 2016 presidential election.
Rashida Jones, president of MSNBC, said Williams would be leaving NBC at the end his contract in December to “spend time with his family.”
Williams said he believed he would “pop up again somewhere,” but did not offer specifics.
He had hosted “NBC Nightly News” starting in 2004, replacing Tom Brokaw, but became the subject of an investigation after his credibility came into question in 2015.
In a segment on “Nightly News,” Williams had “misremembered” a story from his time reporting on the Iraq War in 2003, saying he was a passenger in a helicopter that was shot down and took fire from a rocket-propelled grenade. In reality, he was in a following helicopter. Williams said he had conflated his memories of his experience and another helicopter.
After Williams was suspended by NBC for six months for telling a false story, he was fired from “Nightly News.” Lester Holt became the new anchor.
Williams returned to MSNBC where he eventually took the helm of “The 11th Hour,” which was initially billed as an 11 p.m. weekday “pop-up broadcast” that would last through the 2016 presidential election. But the show, which bested CNN in its first week, had staying power for Williams.
The anchor said the news program would continue on MSNBC after his departure.
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