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Some good news for NBC.

They’ve got some time in terms of announcing a permanent host for Meet the Press.

Tom Brokaw, former anchor of “NBC Nightly News,” would fill the role as moderator for Meet the Press for the rest of this election year, reports the New York Times.

“I volunteered,” Tom Brokaw, told the NY Times.

“It was really not a hard call for me to make,” Brokaw said.

He had already planned to be heavily involved in NBC’s political coverage, he said, and was up to date on the program, having held regular conversations with Tim Russert.

“We would talk almost every Sunday after the show,” Brokaw said. “I’d say, that worked or that didn’t. We’d talk about guests. We had just been saying that using surrogates for the candidates really did work.”