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By selecting Mr. Melvin, a familiar face on the show, network executives chose to go the steadiest route possible.

Craig Melvin, the veteran NBC News host, will succeed Hoda Kotb as an anchor of the network’s flagship morning show, “Today,” the company announced Thursday morning.

Mr. Melvin will start in the new role, teaming with Savannah Guthrie, on Jan. 13.

The position, one of the most prominent in television news, opened after Ms. Kotb, who has been at the network for more than two decades, announced in September that she would step down early next year. Ms. Kotb, who will remain as a contributor to the show, said at the time that she wanted to spend more time with her young children, and that it was “time to turn the page on what has been a dream book, a dream quarter-century.”

Ms. Kotb, 60, will take her final turn as co-anchor of “Today” on

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