Katie Couric is in preliminary talks to head back to NBC’s Today — at least on a temporary basis. Couric is a contender to sit in and co-host the No. 2 morning show while Savannah Guthrie is on maternity leave, sources say.
NBC is announcing a deal with the satellite radio service that will bring all four hours of its franchise morning news show to radio.
NEW YORK (AP) — Booze may be an oft-mentioned topic when Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb are hosting the fourth hour of the “Today” show, but one alcoholic beverage […]
Today averaged 6.22 million viewers for the first full week of competition in Sochi, with ABC’s Good Morning America at 6.01 million, Nielsen said Tuesday. NBC has a lot riding on the competition. With the network owning the Olympic broadcasting rights, Today transported its team led by Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie to Sochi and brought in a parade of Olympic athletes for interviews each morning.
ESPN’s First Take producer Jamie Horowitz is one of the candidates vying for the vacant role of senior vice president and executive producer of NBC’s Today.
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The NBC morning news program, which has been second to ABC’s Good Morning America for 16 months, will open its offensive with a major promotional campaign.
NBC’s morning offering edges out Good Morning America among the 25-54 crowd.
NBC’s morning show brought back Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley for a one-day nostalgia turn as co-hosts today along with current host Matt Lauer. NBC hoped the trio’s easy camaraderie enticed viewers. After a well-publicized tumble last year, the show runs second in the ratings to ABC’s Good Morning America. Pauley, who does occasional reports for the show, left as host in 1989 while Gumbel gave way to Lauer in 1997.
Former NBC morning show anchors Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley will reunite with Matt Lauer on Dec. 30.
The joke referenced the news that the sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s funeral allegedly used fake signs.
Courted by ABC’s The View, the new deal keeps Kotb together with Kathie Lee Gifford on the wine-soaked fourth hour of the Today show.
In a broad deal, NBCU set to chronicleone of the earliest commercial attempts to take private passengers into space using NBC, Syfy, CNBC and other networks. During a three-hour live event set to be televised next August on NBC’s Today, hosts Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie will join viewers in monitoring Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson and his adult children, Holly and Sam, as they travel aboard SpaceShipTwo from Virgin Galactic’s terminal at Spaceport America in New Mexico into space.
NBCU executives work to grow the Today show bench as ABC’s Good Morning America makes ad-revenue gains. And the debate over who might replace Matt Lauer, said to earn nearly $25 million annually on a deal that extends to early 2015, is as delicate as it will be public.
NEW YORK (AP) – The “Today” show is remembering its biggest fan. Its hosts paid tribute Monday to the late “superfan” Linny Boyette, who for nearly 20 years was on […]
NBC outlined changes for its morning program, Today, which has lost about a quarter of its audience and is stuck in second place behind ABC’s Good Morning America.
The new app for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Kindle Fire, as well as Android and Windows Phone 8 devices, allows users to access their Today videos, stories and photos in a new integrated, multimedia experience.
Joe Michaels, who has been the morning show’s director for 18 years, was given a new job last week that portends more change to come. Michaels will be the senior director, responsible for the installation of a new Today set and graphics style, among other initiatives. NBC has yet to name a new director
Watching his profanity-laced flub for the first time was “gut-wrenching,” fired local anchor A.J. Clemente told Today Wednesday. Just 15 seconds into his very first broadcast as the new weekend news anchor for NBC affiliate KFYR in North Dakota on Sunday, he dropped an F-bomb and an S-bomb on air. “I didn’t even know I said it on camera until my news director walked in on the third break,” Clemente told Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie.
NBC News Chairwoman Patricia Fili-Krushel is trying to line up a replacement for embattled Today show host Matt Lauer in case Lauer exits before his $25 million contract ends next year — or the show falls even further behind arch rival ABC’s Good Morning America.
NBC News executive Alex Wallace, who oversees the troubled morning show, made the comment Wednesday in response to reports that the network had approached CNN’s Anderson Cooper about the Today job.
Anderson Cooper For Matt Lauer?
Embattled Today anchor Matt Lauer, already the focus of blistering criticism for the ouster of co-anchor Ann Curry and the ratings slide at NBC’s morning show, has long been rumored to be on the chopping block — despite his $25 million contract and recent efforts aimed at rehabilitating his image. Here’s the latest wrinkle: NBC toppers recently reached out to CNN’s Anderson Cooper to replace Lauer on the show before the end of the year.
The beleaguered morning show host made his pitch at an unfortunately-timed NBC News sales event. Today is at low ebb in the ratings and a flurry of media reports has been speculating that Lauer is more of a sinker than a sail.
The last year for Matt Lauer, the once-popular host of the network’s Today show, is a lesson on how a combination of missteps can precipitate a star’s fall. Lauer’s Q Score — a measure of likability, treated as gospel by the TV industry — has fallen by more than half since he was paired with Ann Curry in June 2011. It was a 19 that September; by this January it was a 9. For the first time his counterpart on ABC’s Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos, has a higher score.
Patricia Fili-Krushel, the new chairman of the NBCUniversal News Group, acknowledges the network mishandled the Today show’s Vieira-Curry-Guthrie transition. But she added that even without that fiasco the show had become too complacent and protective of its No. 1 perch. “When you are No. 1, it’s easy to stop taking chances. I think we just stopped innovating.”
Lauer’s Role At ‘Today’ Up For Discussion
A former NBC executive says that as the former No. 1 morning show slips into third place in New York, replacing Matt Lauer is now seriously on the table.
ABC’s Good Morning America has now led NBC’s Today for the last 27 weeks in a row, all 21 weeks in the 2012-13 season, and 16 of the 21 weeks in the key 25-54 demographics that news-oriented advertisers want.
ABC’s Good Morning America has won its first television sweeps month in nearly 20 years, reflecting its newfound status as America’s No. 1 morning show. Nielsen ratings released today showed that GMA averaged 5.31 million viewers in November, 466,000 more than NBC’s Today show.
Comments about his on-air flubs at the Thanksgiving Day parade follow criticism about the removal of Ann Curry from Today. “They have an opinion and two thumbs, and that gives them the right to do whatever they want,” he said.
Good Morning America is beginning the new television season as the No. 1 morning show in America, topping the Today show. Nielsen ratings for September, released today, confirm the television sea change that started in the spring and swept through in the summer: NBC’s Today, the No. 1 morning show for 16 years in a row, is now No. 2 to ABC’s GMA.
