Lester Holt Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, NBC News, Family, Wife, Kids, Young, Salary and Net Worth

Lester Holt Biography

Lester Holt born ( Lester Don Holt Jr. ) is an American journalist and news anchor for the weekday edition of NBC Nightly News and Dateline NBC. Holt was made the permanent anchor of the NBC Nightly News following the demotion of Brian Williams on 18th, June 2015.

Lester Holt Academic Qualifications

Talking about his educational background , Lester graduated from Cordova High School in Rancho Cordova in 1977 and majored in government at California State University, Sacramento, though he never graduated.

Facts About Lester Holt

Full Name : Lester Don Holt Jr.
Stage Name : Lester Holt
Gender ; Male
Citizenship : American
Birth Place : Marin County, California, United States
Birthday : 8th Mar
Age : 64 years old as of 2023
Heights : 1.87 m
Heights : 6 feet and 1 inches
Heights in cm :187 cm
Weight : 71 kg
Weight in Pound : 156 pounds
Marital Status: Married
Spouse : Carol Hagen (m. 1982)
Children : Stefan Holt, Cameron Holt)
Profession : Journalist and news anchor
Salary : $80,000 to $87000
Net Worth :$2 million

Lester Holt Age

How old is Lester Holt ? Lester Holt was born on 8 March 1959 in Marin County, California, United States. He celebrates his birthday on 8th March every year. He is 64 years old as of 2024.

Lester Holt Height

How tall is Lester Holt? Lester has a standing height of f 6 feet 3 inches or 1.87 m tall and weighs 187 lb / 85 kg.

Lester Holt Family

Talking about his family background, Holt was born to parents June ( Mother ) and Lester Don Holt Sr. ( Father ) on March 8, 1959, on Hamilton Air Force Base, Marin County, California. He is the youngest child of four and his maternal grandfather Canute DeRozario was an Anglo-Indian and was one of 14 children of an Indo-Jamaican father from Calcutta, India, and a White Jamaican mother from England.

Holt’s maternal grandmother May , as born in Jamaica but raised in Harlem, New York, where his mother was born. His dad was African American from Michigan, with roots in Tennessee.

Lester Holt Wife

Holt is happily married to his beautiful wife wife, Carol Hagen and together they are blessed with two sons named Stefan and Cameron. The two love birds tied their knots back in 1982 and the family currently resides in Manhattan.

Holt moved to the same floor as his father’s Nightly News when joining WNBC, and he eventually succeeded veteran Chuck Scarborough as anchor of the station’s 11 p.m. news broadcast. During his free time , Holt plays bass guitar and the upright bass and attends the Manhattan Church of Christ in New York.

Lester Holt Kids

Holt is happily married to his beautiful wife wife, Carol Hagen and together they are blessed with two sons named Stefan and Cameron.

Lester Holt Career

He was employed as a reporter with WCBS-TV in New York City in 1981. He joined KNXT in Los Angeles as a reporter and weekend anchor in 1982, and the following year he moved back to WCBS-TV in the same capacity. Holt relocated to WBBM-TV in Chicago in 1986 and anchored the nightly news there for 14 years.

In addition to working at the anchor desk, Holt spent a lot of time reporting from unstable regions throughout the globe, including as Iraq, Northern Ireland, Somalia, El Salvador, and Haiti.

Holt joined MSNBC in 2000 . He took on full-time responsibilities at NBC News in 2003, where he worked as a fill-in anchor for Today and NBC Nightly News. After the passing of former co-anchor David Bloom, Holt joined Weekend Today as a full-time co-anchor.

He also served as the host of a two-hour daily newscast on MSNBC until late 2005. Before taking over for Brian Williams as the regular anchor of the weekday version, Holt was named the NBC Nightly News weekend anchor on May 9, 2007, and he anchored the program for eight years.

In addition to his usual duties at NBC News, he also hosted a program about 9/11 conspiracies for The History Channel, covered the 2008 Summer Olympics for NBC Sports, and is the anchor of Dateline on ID, a version of Dateline NBC that airs on the Investigation Discovery network. He provided the narration for a Sci-Fi Channel program about authentic crystal skulls in 2008.

Lester Holt Awards and Honors

1990: Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for his work on CBS’s 48 Hours: No Place Like Home .[citation needed]
2012: Honorary Doctorate from Pepperdine University
2015: Honorary Doctorate from California State University, Sacramento
2015: Inducted into the California Hall of Fame on October 28, 2015
2016: Alan B. DuMont Broadcaster of the Year from Montclair State University
2016: NABJ Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists
2019: Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism
2020: Honorary Doctorate from Rutgers University

Lester Holt Net Worth

Have you been wondering how rich is Lester , well, according to our research, he has an estimated net worth of $2 million dollars. Though he has not disclosed to the public about his earnings, his salary from NBC Nightly News is around $80,000 to $87000.

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