How Will NBC Cover Election Night without Megyn Kelly?

NBC's plan all along was to use former Fox News host Megyn Kelly as its main host for coverage of Tuesday's midterm elections. But now the network is trying to get out of its hefty contract with Kelly, and she won't be part of election-night coverage. Read on for details on Plan B.

Via Page Six.

As NBC negotiates the fate of Megyn Kelly, the network has already started scrubbing traces of the disgraced host in the wake of her blackface backlash.

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Page Six is told that execs had long planned to feature Kelly heavily in its midterm-election coverage Tuesday night, and even sent out a press release before the scandal broke announcing that Kelly would front the broadcast alongside NBC heavyweights Lester Holt of the network’s “Nightly News,” “Today” host Savannah Guthrie and “Meet the Press” anchor Chuck Todd.

But on Monday, NBC put out a video ad spot that deep-sixed Kelly from the lineup, showing only Holt, Guthrie and Todd at the desk for its “The Vote: America’s Future” special live broadcast.

NBC News declined to comment, but a network insider told us that Kelly is “not going to be part of election-night coverage.”

Get the rest of the story at Page Six.

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