 Tamron Hall Exits NBC and MSNBC 
 
 The 'Today' anchor most recently co-hosted the 9 a.m. hour with Al Roker. NBC said her last appearance on NBC and... (Associated Press) 
 
 NEW YORK (AP) — NBC said Wednesday that news anchor Tamron Hall is leaving the network, the first casualty of its decision to sign Megyn Kelly away from Fox News Channel. Hall is leaving the network after finding out that the team on the 9 a.m. hour of the morning show was being replaced by Megyn Kelly. The network said it tried to convince Hall to stay beyond the end of her contract this month, but she declined. Through an NBC statement, she said: "The last 10 years have been beyond anything I could have imagined, and I'm grateful. "I’m also very excited about the next chapter. To all my great colleagues, I will miss you and I will be rooting for you.” 
 
 The news is no surprise given that Today, where Hall served as a co-anchor of the 9 a.m. hour with Al Roker, is about to undergo a major upheaval to make room for Megyn Kelly. Last week, news broke that Kelly would likely take over one hour of Today's four-hour programming block, either moving current hosts Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb up an hour to 9 a.m., or taking the spot most recently occupied by Hall and Roker. Bush exited NBC News altogether in the fall after the Washington Post leaked a video in which he engaged in a lewd conversation with now-President Donald Trump back in 2005. She joined MSNBC in 2007 after working for a decade in local news in Chicago.
– Today anchor Tamron Hall is quitting NBC and MSNBC amid the upheaval caused by the hiring of Megyn Kelly. Hall co-hosted Today's 9am hour with Al Roker, a slot that's now expected to be given to the former Fox News star. "Tamron is an exceptional journalist, we valued and enjoyed her work at Today and MSNBC and hoped that she would decide to stay," NBC News said in a statement, per the Hollywood Reporter. Hall, who joined MSNBC in 2007 and still hosted an hour of news programming there each morning, had her last day at both networks on Tuesday. "The last 10 years have been beyond anything I could have imagined, and I'm grateful," Hall said in a statement. "I’m also very excited about the next chapter." According to the AP, NBC is considering either giving Today's 9am hour to Kelly or shifting Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb to 9am and giving Kelly their 10am slot. The Reporter notes that Hall's Today exit follows those of Natalie Morales, Willie Geist, and Billy Bush, who was fired in October after tape of a lewd conversation with Donald Trump in 2005 surfaced. (Fox has revealed Kelly's replacement.)