Chuck Todd launches post-NBC ‘Chuck Toddcast’

Former NBC and MSNBC political director and host Chuck Todd dropped the primary episode of his now-independent podcast April 2, 2025.

Earlier than departing NBC Information, Todd and the community launched “The Chuck Toddcast” in 2016, and it grew to become very fashionable due to cross-promotion on NBC and MSNBC. 

When Todd exited NBC earlier in 2025, a part of his exit deal included retaining rights to the title “The Chuck Toddcast.” After leaving, he introduced the podcast would go on hiatus till April 2025.

Outdated key artwork and emblem from the NBC Information days of ‘The Chuck Toddcast.’

With its return, “Chuck Toddcast” acquired a daring replace to its design, together with a brand new emblem with a chunky, italic font that emphasizes the host’s title by using bigger letters. Like many political packages, the present is utilizing a pink, white and blue coloration scheme, typically with the left half of the display in blue and the appropriate in pink overlaid on a tightly-cropped view of the U.S. Capitol dome.

The podcast is being closely marketed as “unscripted” and freed from “spin” and is the muse of what Todd hopes to develop into a bigger podcasting community.

Along with a title card with the emblem, there’s additionally an identical body with the emblem positioned within the higher left, presumably to make it harder to finish up lined by different broadcasters’ decrease thirds and bugs if clips are proven on tv or different mediums. 

The host segments of the video model look like shot with a lower-quality digicam, with Todd sitting in entrance of a TV display exhibiting a blue and pink (though the pink skews extra orange) view of the Capitol dome. 

Throughout his host segments, that are a decent one-shot, Todd’s head and physique strikes round, typically throwing off the framing. The tightness of the shot additionally feels a bit uncomfortable, nevertheless it not less than doesn’t undergo from the notorious off-kilter framing of video conferencing calls. Todd seems to be utilizing wi-fi ear buds to ship audio throughout these segments.

Within the premiere, a sit-down interview with Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) reveals the duo seated in entrance of a fireside with white mantle decked out with Pennsylvania school pennants. This phase makes use of a two-camera setup — the two-shot and a one-shot on Fetterman — in what seems to be a better high quality together with not less than some lighting gear. The image appears higher than the host segments however nonetheless has some particular indicators that it’s being executed and not using a full TV setup.

It seems that “Toddcast” was in a position to carry over the podcast profile pages on some platforms, although the 700-plus NBC-era episodes are not listed usually. Relying on the place you get your podcasts, some platforms have additionally carried over scores and choose different info from the outdated model.

On YouTube, nevertheless, the podcast’s web page at youtube.com/@thechucktoddcast seems to have been newly created. As of 9 a.m. japanese April 3, 2025, it additionally sported a complete of 195 subscribers, in line with its profile. Whilst a brand new episode was streaming, the rely remained at solely 9 viewers or much less throughout a lot of the run.

The archived April 2 version, in the meantime, had recorded solely 596 views as of this writing, in line with the general public YouTube counts.

It’s not clear how correct or up-to-date these figures are. Though there are sometimes points with compiling stats similar to these, YouTube sometimes is ready to be pretty correct within the counts it shows.

These numbers recommend that many viewers are nonetheless opting to make use of different, audio-only platforms to entry the podcast. It’s possible that these counts will develop as extra viewers uncover its availability on YouTube. Not all podcasting platforms present subscriber counts or begins to public.

The podcast’s web site, thechucktoddcast.com, additionally went dwell forward of the relaunch and is powered by GoDaddy AI-powered Airo web site constructing device.

Earlier than launching his unbiased media enterprise, Todd moderator of “Meet the Press” on NBC and host of MSNBC’s “MTP Daily” and NBC Information Now’s “MTP Now.”