Kate Snow To Step Down As Anchor Of Sunday Edition Of ‘NBC Nightly News’

Kate Snow is stepping down as anchor of NBC Nightly News on Sundays, and will focus on the weekday NBC News Daily and her role as senior national correspondent.

Snow announced on tonight’s broadcast that she will anchor for one more Sunday next week. A successor has not been named, with rotating anchors filling in in the interim.

“I have loved being with you every Sunday night,” Snow told viewers at the end of the broadcast tonight. “It’s been a privilege.” She said that the audience for NBC News Daily was “growing fast, and I have decided after a lot of thought to focus my attention Monday through Friday on that role.”

Since 2022 she has co-anchored NBC News Daily, the daytime news program that airs on the broadcast network and streams on NBC News Now. Snow anchors alongside Zinhle Essamuah from 2-4 p.m. ET each weekday. She will continue to report for NBC Nightly News and other news division programming.

NBC News Daily topped the 25-54 demo in January and narrowed the gap in total viewers with GMA3: What You Need To Know.

Snow had anchored the Sunday broadcast since 2015, a stint that has included special editions including One Night In America: The Gun Violence Epidemic Plaguing the U.S. She also won an Emmy in 2019 for her sit down interview on Dateline with Andrea Constand, whose case let to Bill Cosby’s conviction, which was ultimately overturned. Snow also did a 2015 Dateline special, which also won DuPont and Emmy awards, with 27 accusers of Cosby. She also has done a series about transgender children and investigations about NXIVM group and Sequel Youth and Family Services, among other notable assignments.

Snow also hosts the NBC News digital series The Drink with Kate Snow, in which she talks to innovators and influencers. She created and hosted Oxygen’s Relentless with Kate Snow and anchored a weekday news program on MSNBC for two years.

The memo from Janelle Rodriguez, executive vice president of programming for NBC News, is below:

As you may have heard Kate share on tonight’s NBC Nightly News, next week will be her last anchoring the Sunday broadcast. After more than eight years at the helm of the Sunday edition, Kate has decided to focus her efforts on her five-day-a-week program, NBC News Daily, which recently took the reins as the #1 afternoon news program on television.

Kate’s dedication to Nightly and its viewers has been nothing short of inspiring. She works tirelessly and has that rare gravitas, earned throughout her distinguished career marked by dogged reporting and powerful interviews. She cares deeply about her work and the profound and positive impact it can have on the world, and that compassion extends to those of us who work with her behind the camera. She’s a loyal colleague, a mentor and a friend.

Luckily, to borrow a page from Kate and José as they close each weekend newscast – there is good news tonight. Kate will continue to be an integral part of the NBC Nightly News family. You will see and work with her frequently on Nightly pieces, in addition to TODAY, in her role as senior national correspondent, and she’ll appear across our screens anchoring two hours of NBC News Daily each weekday, as well. Kate has been a major force behind NBC News Daily’s early success, and we’re fortunate she’s now able to fully devote herself to the show.

We will find time to celebrate Kate together next week and cheer her on for her last weekend newscast. In the meantime, please join me in congratulating Kate on her remarkable tenure as anchor of Sunday’s NBC Nightly News. 

Janelle