Overview
- Hall recently recounted that NBC moved her off the 9 a.m. Today hour in 2017 to make way for Megyn Kelly and that her agent texted her the lineup change and a retention offer.
- She says NBC proposed $2 million a year for a diminished role, and she replied to her agent, “I’ll pass.”
- Hall explains she turned it down to set an example for young Black women in journalism, echoing her mother’s advice to hold her ground.
- The replacement drew a rebuke from the National Association of Black Journalists, which accused NBC of reducing on-air diversity.
- Kelly’s daytime show was canceled in 2018 after backlash to her comments about blackface, while Hall launched her syndicated talk show in 2019, won two Daytime Emmys, and secured an eighth-season renewal in March.