Television’s longest running program has gotten a face lift.

CNNMoney first reported that NBC’s political director Chuck Todd is the new moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press” beginning September 7.

Todd will replace former moderator David Gregory, who was rumored to depart the network for months. A published report in last month’s New York Post stated that an unnamed source at NBC suggested that Gregory could be replaced soon after the November midterm elections.

Gregory had been the moderator of “Meet The Press” for six years and the successor to Tim Russert, who died in 2008 while prepping for the Sunday morning program.

Gregory took to Twitter this afternoon to confirm his departure. He tweeted:“I leave NBC as I came—humbled and grateful,” he wrote. “I love journalism and serving as moderator of MTP was the highest honor there is.”

MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell will fill in this weekend as the show’s moderator. No word as to who will fill in for the rest of the month.

Chuck Todd steps in as the twelfth moderator for the television program that began as a radio show in 1945. The show became a TV program in 1947.