NBC and MSNBC legend Andrea Mitchell will leave her eponymous show sometime after it opens next year, she said Tuesday. She will move to a role focused on reporting – without a daily show.

The presenter announced her decision on Tuesday Andrea Mitchell reportsa day before her 78th birthday. The move marks the end of the 16-year-old MSNBC show, the longest-running daytime program on MSNBC and one that helped make Mitchell a star during her nearly 50-year career at the Peacock Networks.

“After chairing every day for 16 years, I want to have more time to do what I love most: connecting, listening and reporting on the ground, especially whoever is elected next week will take on the fundamental task of dealing with two Wars abroad and the political divisions here at home,” Mitchell said Tuesday.

Mitchell will remain with NBC as chief Washington correspondent and chief foreign affairs correspondent. In a rare joint statement from four NBC News Group leaders, the Quadrant praised Mitchell as “one of the country's leading and most trusted experts on foreign and domestic policy.”

“Their in-depth sourcing and ability to land interviews with the biggest newsmakers is unmatched,” wrote Rashida Jones of MSNBC, Rebecca Blumenstein of NBC News, Janelle Rodriguez, vice president of programming at NBC News, and TodayLibby Leist in a memo to employees. “Her contributions to NBC News over the past 46 years have been invaluable to the network and we are thrilled that she will remain an integral part of the News Group for years to come.”