Art Holliday is leaving St. Louis NBC affiliate KSDK after 46 years.

Holliday started there in 1979 and, in that time, has worked as a sportscaster, general assignment reporter, anchor, and news director.

He was named named interim news director in 2020 and one year later, became the permanent news director. Before joining the station, Holliday worked in the sports department of KOCO in Oklahoma City for a little over two years.

“It’s not what I expected when I started here in ’79—that’s for sure,” Holliday told St. Louis Magazine.

In his interview with St. Louis Magazine, Holliday outlined the changes that shaped his career:

I’m sure you’ve been getting this question a lot, but what is a story or two you would point to from the past 46 years that is really emblematic of your career? That’s a complicated question, because I’ve had five different careers during that 46 years at KSDK. The first 10 years, I was doing sports. I thought that was going to be my entire career. Then, in ’89, I got called to the general manager’s office, and he said, “We’re going to make some changes on our morning show. I think you’d be a good co-anchor for Jennifer Blome.” I was completely blindsided, but he turned out to be right. He created a 22-year anchor team. After that ran its course, I became a general assignment reporter for the first time. And then I joined our brand new storytelling unit, which meant that I usually told two stories a week, mostly stories that interested me, and I had more time to report the stories and more time to tell them. The biggest surprise of all was five years ago, when our director of content, Carol Fowler, asked me if I would consider being news director, because she thought I would have credibility in our newsroom as we try to improve the culture of our newsroom. I tell young people all the time, “It’s OK to have plans, but you should probably write them in pencil and not pen.”