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Savannah Guthrie’s tenure at “Today” still has a lot of tomorrow in it.
Guthrie has extended her current deal with NBC News, according to a person familiar with the matter, a move that will keep her at the desk of the network’s
flagship “Today” program at a time when the show has surged ahead of its main competitors in the ratings. The move will also serve to tamp down speculation about the journalist’s interest in remaining in her role after having suffered an immense family tragedy — the unsolved abduction of her mother, Nancy — in public.
NBC News declined to make executives available for comment. The Breaker newsletter previously reported on Guthrie’s contract extension.
The anchor’s deal was believed to expire later this year or in early 2027, and NBC News’ decision to continue its relationship with her runs counter to current TV-news trends. Indeed,top anchors such as Hoda Kotb, Neal Cavuto, Chris Wallace and others have exited places such as NBC News, Fox News and CNN as media companies scrutinize their expenses in the streaming era and while their corporate owners mull new arrangements that may leave them smaller or smushed into a larger conglomerate. Comcast, NBC’s owner, intends to spin off the company in a few months’ time, leaving it significantly smaller than it was when combined with Comcast’s large cable operation as well as with the media assets of the company now known as Versant.
Guthrie, however, enjoys tremendous standing at NBCUniversal. She is widely seen as a guiding force at “Today,” a signature program she co-anchors with Craig Melvin. While the morning-news audience is not what it once was decades ago, viewership is still seen as devoted and significant. The first two hours of “Today” — watched by around 3 million viewers each weekday — generated nearly $203.5 million in advertising in 2025, according to Guideline, a tracker of ad spending. Add the 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. hours to the mix, and NBC nabbed around $315.4 million from the weekday editions of the program.
She also plays a key role in other parts of coverage, including the network’s recent Election Night that was the most-watched among the traditional TV-news outlets. What’s more, Guthrie is the host of a new show based on the popular “Wordle” game from The New York Times slated to debut in coming months on NBC. “She’s fantastic,” says Jimmy Fallon,whose Electric Hot Dog production company is one of the backers of the program, during a recent interview with Variety.
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