Tamron Hall says she walked away from $2M NBC deal – Business News
Tamron Hall says she turned down a $2 million-a-year offer from NBC after studying she was being pushed apart on the “Today” show to make room for Megyn Kelly.
“A text message came from my then-agent and he said, ‘They’re making a big change. You’re no longer in. Here’s what they’re offering,’” Hall stated during an look on Scott Evans’ “House Guest” sequence.
“And he proceeded to bullet point in a text all these things that they were offering to keep me.”
Tamron Hall attends an occasion in New York earlier this month. Hall mirrored on her abrupt 2017 departure from NBC’s “Today” after she was changed within the community’s morning lineup. GC Images
Hall, 55, stated she was on her method to MSNBC and getting ready to go dwell when she obtained the message informing her of the shakeup at NBC, the place she was additionally working for “Dateline” and MSNBC Live.
“I sit in a chair and I go, I’m almost, like, blacking out because your whole life is flashing before you,” Hall recalled. “I gotta text my mama. That’s the first person I text. I text my mom and I said, ‘It’s done.’ ”
Sharing that NBC had supplied her a contract price $2 million yearly to stay with the community, Hall recounted, “I wrote my agent back and I said, ‘I’ll pass.’”
When Evans reacted with disbelief, Hall replied, “All money’s not good money. It’s not.”
Hall additionally revealed the advice her mom, Mary Newton, gave her after the ordeal.
“She said to me, ‘I am so proud of you because do you know how many times we’ve had to get off the sidewalk for someone else to walk?’” Hall stated.
Megyn Kelly seems on NBC’s “Today” in 2018. Kelly joined NBC’s “Today” in 2017 following a controversial shakeup that led to Tamron Hall’s departure. Getty Images
“I thought about all the other young black women in journalism, and I said, ‘If they see me lose, they may think they can’t win.’ And that day is why I turned it down.”
“I’m not trying to sound like I’m a sacrifice or anything … and I understood that that did not define me,” she added.
Hall was pushed out of the 9 a.m. hour of “Today” in 2017 after NBC recruited Kelly for a main daytime position following her departure from Fox News. Kelly in the end took over the slot beforehand occupied by Hall and Al Roker on “Today’s Take.”
Tamron Hall is seen on NBC’s “Today” in 2014 — previous to leaving the community after being displaced by Megyn Kelly in a main lineup shakeup. ©NBC/Courtesy Everett Collection
The shakeup triggered backlash from the National Association of Black Journalists, which accused NBC of “whitewashing” after changing Hall and Roker’s hour with Kelly’s program.
NBC responded by defending its range document and later agreed to fulfill with NABJ representatives.
Kelly’s tenure on this system lasted only one 12 months. Her daytime show was canceled in 2018.
Hall went on to launch her syndicated daytime discuss show, “Tamron Hall,” in 2019. The show was renewed for an eighth season earlier this 12 months.
The Post has sought remark from Hall and NBC.
