Lester Holt Net Worth, Lester Holt House, Lester Holt Wife

Lester Holt Net Worth, Lester Holt House, Lester Holt Wife Lester Holt Net Worth:

He is an American NBC news Journalist, and his most of the income comes from his profession. Lester Holt net worth is approximately $12 million. He has been in the news broadcasting industry for a long time.

In the 1980s, he has also made a few action movies, but nowadays he only focuses on news anchoring. He started his career in 1981, as a news reporter for an established Tv news agency. He also received many awards in the field of Journalism.

Full Name

Lester Holt

Birth Date

8 March 1959

Nationality

American

Parents

Lester Holt Sr. (Father); June Holt (Mother)

Height

1.87 m

Net Worth

$12 Million

Source of Income

Tv Personality

Education

Cordova High School

Children

2

Religion

Catholic

Wife

Carol Hagen

Early Life and Education:

Lester Holt full name is Lester Don Holt Jr, and he was born on March 8, 1959, in Marin County, California. Holt is the son of Lester Don Holt, Sr, and June (DeRozario). The maternal grandparents of Lester were Jamaican, and his maternal grandfather was of half English or half Indian descent.

In 1977, Lester Holt graduated from the Cordova High School which situated in Rancho Cordova, California and attended the California Sta te University, Sacramento, and majored in government, but he never graduated. Lester Holt told the American Profile news magazine in 2012. “My first on-air job was actually as the disc jockey at a Country and the Western station.

Furthermore, he said, the only time I could land a full-time gig was if I was keen to report the news.� Holt would maintain the job with the radio station through his college years.

Career:

CBS News: Lester Holt spent 19 years with the CBS news starting in 1981 when he was appointed as a reporter for the WCBS-TV in New York City.

KNXT News: In 1982, Lester Holt became the reporter and the weekend anchor on KNXT in Los Angeles.

WCBS-TV: In the next year, he returned to the WCBS-TV as a reporter and a weekend anchor.

WBBM-TV: Lester moved to WBBM-TV in Chicago in 1986. He was the anchor of the evening news, and he spent 14 years there. Lester Holt not just worked at the anchor desk, but he also reported extensively from the troubled spots around the globe including Northern Ireland, Iraq, El Salvador, Haiti, and Somalia.

MSNBC News: In 2000 Lester Holt joined MSNBC. He assumed full-time duties at the NBC News in 2003, and there he became an alternate anchor for the NBC Nightly News and Today. Holt became a full-time co-anchor of the Weekend Today because of an untimely death of the previous co-anchor named as David Bloom. In 2005, he also anchored a two-hour daily news bulletin on MSNBC channel.

On 9 May 2007, Lester Holt named as the anchor of the weekend edition of the NBC Nightly News. Lester is also a present host for the NBC’s Dateline. In adding up to his primary responsibilities at the NBC News, he hosted the special for The History Channel regarding the 9/11 conspiracy theories.

Holt served as sports desk reporter for the NBC Sports coverage of the Summer Olympics 2008. In 2008, he wrote a documentary about the actual crystal skulls on Sci-Fi Channel.

Interview with Dr. Holly Bamford: In 2013, Lester Holt interviewing Dr. Holly Bamford of the National Ocean Service or National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Co-Host Brian Williams Knee Surgery: From (August 6, 2013 – September 2, 2013) Brian Williams was on a medical leave to undergo his right knee replacement surgery. The Weekend anchor Lester Holt was the temporary anchor in his absence.

As a result of the controversy after Brian Williams admitted that he had exaggerated a story regarding the Iraq War, Williams announced on 7 February 2015, that he would take a short leave of absence from anchoring the Nightly News and that Lester Holt would cover up in his absence.

Brian was suspended after three days, without pay for six months, with Lester filling in as the weekday anchor during that period of time.

Lester Holt Permanent NBC Nightly News Anchor: On 17 June 17, 2015, the NBC decided to keep Lester Holt as its permanent NBC Nightly News anchor, while reassigning Brian to the MSNBC news at the end of his suspension.

The Debate of the Democratic Presidential Candidates:

In January 2016, Lester moderated a Democratic presidential candidates’ debate alongside the panel of the NBC political reporters and as well as the first presidential debate on 26 September 2016.

The Presidential candidate Donald Trump said that this was “a very iniquitous system” because “Lester Holt is a Democrat” and Holt is a registered Republican.

After the debate, Donald Trump said that Lester did an excellent job. Other Journalists also noted that Holt did a fantastic job.

Lester Holt’s career is pretty impressive, and due to his incredible anch oring, his annual salary is $4.5 million. Some say Lester Holt net worth is $10 million which is an incorrect figure. According to the online sources, Lester Holt net worth is $12 million.

Other Work:

Lester Holt has made the cameo appearances in the films The Fugitive 1993, U.S. Marshals 1998, and Primal Fear 1996. He appeared on the television shows like the episode “Red, White, or Blue” the series of Due South, “A New Hope” of Warehouse 13 and the “Fate” of Early Edition.

Lester also did a voice-over in the episode of “Sandwich Day,” announcing that Jack Donaghy would be the new cabinet member in Bush administration. Holt announced 2006, 2007 and 2008 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show for the USA Network and he also featured in the Making Music magazine.

Achievements:

In 1990 Lester earned Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for his work on the CBS’s 48 Hours: No Place Like Home. In 2012 Holt received Honorary Doctorate from the Pepperdine University. In 2015 he received Honorary Doctorate from the California

State

University,

Sacramento.

Again on October 28, 2015, he Inducted into the California Hall of Fame. In 2016 Lester Holt became the Alan B. DuMont Broadcaster of the Year from the Montclair State University.

Personal Life:

Lester Holt lives in Manhattan with his wife named as Carol Hagen. They have two sons together, and their names are Stefan and Cameron. Stefan Holt graduated in 2009 from the Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, and he was the morning news anchor at the NBC-owned WMAQ-TV in Chicago. In 2016,

Stefan joined WNBC, and he moved to the same floor as his father’s Nightly News and sooner succeeded veteran Chuck Scarborough as the station’s 11 pm anchor.

In his free time, Lester Holt plays the bass guitar, which he talked about in the September/October 2009 issue of the Making Music magazine. On 6 September 2017, The Today Show noted that Lester Holt became a grandfather to a boy, from his son Stefan.

Lester Holt source of income is Journalism. He earns monthly $330,000, and his daily income is $11,000. Media reported that Lester Holt net worth is $11 million but the current Lester Holt net worth is $12 million Read More lester holt net-worth/