Matt Lauer was fired from NBC News on Wednesday after an employee filed a complaint about "inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace," the network announced.
NBC News chairman Andrew Lack said in an early morning memo to staff that the complaint was filed on Monday night.
Lack said it was the first complaint lodged against Lauer in his career at the network.
Indeed, Lack and other NBC News executives have known for weeks that damaging stories could be coming out soon.
Lauer is the latest high-profile man in media to be brought down by allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior.
Just last week, CBS News fired one of its own morning anchors, Charlie Rose, after a report in The Washington Post chronicled years of alleged sexual misconduct on his part.
And other prominent journalists, including Mark Halperin of NBC and Michael Oreskes of NPR, have been fired or suspended from their jobs. »