NBC anchorman Brian Williams's six-month suspension has ended, but he will not be back on air until mid-September.
Williams was suspended without pay on Feb. 11 after he narrated an account in which he was on a Chinook helicopter that crashed during the U.S. invasion of Iraq, an account that some soldiers revealed to be not true, according to the New York Daily News.
While he was on suspension, NBC conducted an in-house investigation regarding other stories that Williams had made up in the past, with critics even doubting that the news network would open the door again for the disgraced news anchor.
However, those doubts were immediately quenched when the network announced that Williams would be in a reduced role as a breaking news anchor on MSNBC.
Williams will not be returning to his former position as main news anchor of "NBC Nightly News," and he will be permanently replaced by fellow NBC news anchor Lester Holt, HNGN previously reported.
The anchor broke his silence for the first time since the suspension in an interview on NBC's "Today" show back in June, where he admitted to Matt Lauer that the entire ordeal had been "torture" for him but added that it was "absolutely necessary."
"I have discovered a lot of things. I have been listening to and watching what amounts to the black box recordings from my career. I've gone back through everything - basically 20 years of public utterances," he said.
