Thanks for your analysis. It would be nice to have a two year break from him.
The headline that he is fired / contract ending is wrong. What is happening simply is NBC is exercising sub-paragraph # 283,(b), LXXIV, (1) (or there abouts...) that says what happens when they choose to take him off air.
No modern talent contract requires them to give you airtime, but they have “play me or pay me” provisions. Only contract I ever knew that guaranteed airtime was Paul Harvey's.
Have a good weekend.