A Message From Brian Williams By MSNBC

Last thing before we go tonight is the old song. Says, we got a thing going on. Think about it. We’ve been meeting this way at this same time. This same place for an awful long while five years give or take next year, is my 40th year in the business. The Earth was still Cooling. In fact, when I started as a reporter, and so that got me to thinking and that led me to write something that we made public earlier tonight. And in case you missed it, or demanded a dramatic reading.

Here it is. And it reads like this following much reflection. And after 28 years with the company. I have decided to leave NBC upon the completion of my current contract in December. I have been truly blessed. I have been allowed to spend almost half my life with one company and BC is a part of me, and always will be 28 years. 38 countries, eight Olympic game, seven presidential elections, half a dozen.

Residents few Wars and one SNL good friends were in great Supply at NBC. I was fortunate that everyone. I worked with made me better at my job. I have had the best colleagues imaginable. That includes great bosses. I was on the air for the launch of MSNBC. My return years later was my choice, as was launching the 11th hour that I’m as proud of as the decade. I spent anchoring nightly.

News. I wanted it to be called the 11th Hour at with, as it was late in the 2016 campaign back then and I wanted it to are at 11 p.m. Eastern time. I asked all those of you who are a part of our loyal viewing audience to remain loyal, the 11th Hour will remain in good hands produced by the best team in Cable News. Special. Thanks are due to our guests on the eleventh hour the journalists who made our broadcast.

It was they are our stars and in this era stars have pulitzer’s, this is the end of a chapter and the beginning of another, there are many things I want to do. And I’ll pop up again, somewhere for the next few months. I’ll be with my family. The people, I love most the people who enabled my career to happen. I will reflect on the kindness people have shown me and I will pay it forward. So that’s all of it and we get to meet here in this way for

A few more weeks and the good news is you get to keep watching. As I said, the 11th hour is way bigger than any one man or woman. The truth is. Our secret has always been. It’s always about our guests, that will never change. So we’ll be talking and come to think of it. I’ll see you back here as early as tomorrow night.