AndrewPollard_ 6 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Next week, NBC's morning news program "Today" will celebrate 60 years on air, since its premiere on January 14, 1952. For its anniversary celebration on Friday, former main anchors (including Meredith Vieira, Katie Couric, Bryant Gumbel, Tom Brokaw, Barbara Walters, Jane Pauley, Hugh Downs, Deborah Norville and Jim Hartz) will return to the news program to help celebrate this really major milestone. And during the week, current anchors Matt Laurer and Ann Curry, weather anchor Al Roker, news anchor Natalie Morales, 9am co-host Savannah Guthrie, and fourth hour co-hosts Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb will take a look back at the show's long-lived past. This week will surely go down in the history of "Today" and the history of American television. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorningNews 1289 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 The Today show is such a mess these days. Once Brokaw and Pauley departed, the show became what it is today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daybreak 269 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Even though the Today show is number one, it isn't as good as it use to be ever since Meredith left. It is kind of bland and NBC doesn't want to lose the number 1 spot so they think Ryan Seacrest will keep the ratings up??? They should just give it to Lester and give Peter Alexander the weekend show. GMA may be number one someday if Today does that because Matt seems like he wants to do something else and sleep in. Can't wait to see the 60th anniversary show though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A3N 996 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Even though the Today show is number one, it isn't as good as it use to be ever since Meredith left. It is kind of bland and NBC doesn't want to lose the number 1 spot so they think Ryan Seacrest will keep the ratings up??? They should just give it to Lester and give Peter Alexander the weekend show. GMA may be number one someday if Today does that because Matt seems like he wants to do something else and sleep in. Can't wait to see the 60th anniversary show though. Ratings are not the only reason why NBC wants Ryan Seacrest. They want a younger demo and Ryan has that young women demographic following him. It's all about money and if Ryan can bring in a younger demo to watch him on the Today show, then the advertisers will be more pleased, not to mention that NBC would rake in more money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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