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Kerry Sanders Retiring After 32 Years at NBC

By A.J. Katz 

It’s the end of an era at NBC, as longtime correspondent Kerry Sanders is retiring from the network.

The South Florida-based journalist has reported from every U.S. state, every continent and visited 65 different countries since joining NBC News back in 1991.

“I think that I can’t believe that I had this amazing opportunity to join this family,” Sanders said Tuesday on Today, a program he has contributed to countless times over the years. “I still pinch myself to think that you all welcomed me and that I was a part of this. It’s been a dream come true.”

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Asked what he will miss the most, he responded, “ultimately, it’s the camaraderie and the family.”

In a VO tribute, Savannah Guthrie referred to Sanders as “NBC’s resident superhero, but on Earth, he was our ‘everyman’.”

Sanders’ reports have run the gamut — from lighter stories about scuba-diving, a trip to North Pole, Alaska on the Winter Solstice, to more serious ones like election coverage and legal cases like the Casey Anthony trial.

A versatile reporter, Sanders is perhaps best known for his coverage of severe weather events, telling TVNewser back in 2017 that he’s covered more than 60 hurricanes (fast forward to 2023, that number must be over 70).

“I think it’s easier to count how many hurricanes I have not covered in Florida since I began my reporting career in 1982,” he told TVNewser at the time. “I have covered hurricanes for NBC News from the Caribbean, as far south as El Salvador and Nicaragua and as far north as Montauk on Long Island,” he said, adding that Mitch (1998), Hugo (1989), and Andrew (1992) were the most historic.

Lester Holt will also honor Sanders Tuesday on NBC Nightly News.

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