Who is NBC anchor Craig Melvin’s wife Lindsay Czarniak? The proud partner of the newsreader replacing Hoda Kotb on the Today show is an Emmy-winning Fox sportscaster and shares 2 children with him

Nov 18 , 2024

Meet NBC anchor Craig Melvin’s wife Lindsay Czarniak, who’s a sportscaster at Fox. Photo: @lindsaycz/Instagram

Joining Savannah Guthrie as co-host, Melvin will begin his new post in January; he and Czarniak married in 2011, share kids Delano and Sybil, and raised US$3.3 million for charity together

On November 14, NBC’s Today unveiled that veteran anchor Craig Melvin, a fixture of the morning show’s third hour, will be joining Savannah Guthrie as co-anchor for the flagship two-hour broadcast from 7am to 9am. He is replacing Hoda Kotb.

Other than co-hosting the show’s third hour, Melvin, 44, is also the host of the syndicated true crime series Dateline.

Melvin’s wife, Lindsay Czarniak, took to Instagram to pen a long and heartfelt message congratulating her husband.

Craig Melvin is joining Savannah Guthrie as co-anchor on the Today show. Photo: @craigmelvinnbc/Instagram

“I am overwhelmed by the emotions that have come along with watching this morning’s announcement of you being named the new co-host of the Today Show,” Czarniak wrote. “I’m proud because the man so many Americans ‘wake up with’ in the mornings truly is the same person we see at home. Warm, caring, curious, smart, funny, snacking on all the food being prepared.”

As Melvin steps-up for his new role, here’s what we know about his supportive wife Lindsay Czarniak, who is a broadcaster herself.

Czarniak is an Emmy Award-winning sportscaster

Lindsay Czarniak covered the Olympics for USA Network this year. Photo: @lindsaycz/Instagram

Lindsay Czarniak began her career as a sports anchor and reporter at WRC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Washington, and won an Emmy during that time. She transitioned to ESPN in 2011, and became the first woman to host the network’s coverage of the automile race Indianapolis 500 on ABC. Since 2019, Czarniak has been at Fox Sports as a prominent reporter for Fox NFL and Fox Nascar, per her Fox bio.

She caught the sports bug from her father

Lindsay Czarniak at the Indianapolis 500 this May. Photo: @lindsaycz/Instagram

Czarniak, a Pennsylvania native, grew up being a huge sports fan. She played lacrosse and field hockey at her high school and went on to major in online journalism at the James Madison University in Virginia. In a 2008 interview with Washington Flyer, she credits her father Chet Czarniak for inspiring her interest in sports reporting.

Chet, a former executive editor for online news at USA Today, had worked in the news outlet’s sports department for 17 years. “I caught the bug early after watching the things he did,” Czarniak said in the interview.