Aaron Gilchrist Heads to NBC News Now, Jummy Olabanji Moves to the Anchor Desk on News4 Today

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Jummy Olabanji will be paired with Eun Yang on the Channel 4 Washington, D.C. (WRC-TV) "News4 Today" early morning newscast in January. She takes over for Aaron Gilchrist at the anchor desk as he was named to the streaming network service 'NBC News Now' as an anchor and correspondent. Gilchrist has been with NBC4 for 11 years along with occasionally anchoring on MSNBC. He will sign off in December to join NBC News in New York City.

Olabanji stops have included Channel 7 WJLA-TV and WNBC-TV NBC4 in New York. She has been with WRC-TV for 18 months as a reporter. As for Gilchrist, his star is ascending as he will be another NBC4 alumni to take over the anchoring reigns at the network as were Today Show hosts Craig Melvin and Savannah Guthrie. Check out more of this story at NBCWashington.com.

Let’s start all start a collection plate to get pandas to the @BronxZoo!! Congrats Aaron! https://t.co/7RRixOLXZP

— Jummy Olabanji (@JummyNBC) November 25, 2020

Update: 12/30/20

Congrats to @nbcaaron and good luck at @NBCNews ! Cheers to an incredible @nbcwashington career. @eunyangnbc @melissamollet @JummyNBC @ChuckBell4 @MoletteGreen pic.twitter.com/l4UQG2PcTh

— Arun Raman (@aruntraman) December 30, 2020