Where in the World is Matt Lauer? | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-16

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Today_(American_TV_program)


00:01:18 1 History
00:01:26 1.1 Founding
00:02:29 1.2 Broadcast schedule
00:03:43 1.3 Weekday showtimes and local cut-ins
00:05:17 1.4 Satellite radio simulcast
00:06:21 2 Studio
00:06:29 2.1 RCA Exhibition Hall (original studio)
00:07:16 2.2 Studio 3K, Florida Showcase, Studio 8G &amp; Studio 3B
00:08:40 2.3 Studio 1A
00:13:09 3 On-air staff
00:13:18 3.1 Weekdays
00:13:26 3.1.1 Main show
00:14:00 3.1.2 Third hour
00:14:16 3.1.3 Fourth hour
00:14:31 3.2 Weekends
00:14:45 3.3 Former staff
00:15:34 3.3.1 Anchors
00:16:23 3.3.2 News anchors
00:18:21 3.3.3 Weather anchors
00:21:05 3.3.4 Regular panelists
00:21:53 3.3.5 iToday/i Girls
00:23:16 3.3.6 J. Fred Muggs
00:23:40 4 Transitions
00:23:48 4.1 Pauley to Norville
00:25:58 4.2 Norville to Couric
00:27:29 4.3 Couric to Vieira
00:29:12 4.4 Vieira to Curry
00:29:57 4.5 Curry to Guthrie
00:31:46 4.6 Lauer to Kotb
00:32:54 5 Controversies
00:33:03 5.1 Gumbel's memo
00:33:45 5.2 Selective editing of George Zimmerman 9-1-1 call
00:36:06 5.3 9/11 Moment of Silence omission
00:36:53 5.4 Matt Lauer termination
00:38:05 5.5 Megyn Kelly blackface controversy
00:40:05 6 Expansion
00:40:13 6.1 Current
00:40:21 6.1.1 iEarly Today/i
00:41:33 6.1.2 iWeekend Today/i
00:43:18 6.1.3 iThird Hour Today/i
00:44:53 6.1.4 iToday with Hoda and Jenna/i
00:45:10 6.2 Former
00:45:17 6.2.1 iLater Today/i
00:45:51 6.2.2 iToday's Take/i
00:49:03 6.2.3 iMegyn Kelly Today/i
00:49:37 6.2.4 iToday with Kathie Lee and Hoda/i
00:50:48 7 Music
00:55:14 8 Ratings
00:57:28 9 International broadcasts
00:59:39 10 See also



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SUMMARY
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Today, also called The Today Show, is an American news and talk morning television show that airs on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and after 67 years of broadcasting it is the fifth-longest-running American television series.
Originally a weekday two-hour program from 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m., it expanded to Sundays in 1987 and Saturdays in 1992. The weekday broadcast expanded to three hours in 2000, and to four hours in 2007 (though over time, the third and fourth hours became distinct entities). Today's dominance was virtually unchallenged by the other networks until the late 1980s, when it was overtaken by ABC's Good Morning America. Today retook the Nielsen ratings lead the week of December 11, 1995, and held onto that position for 852 consecutive weeks until the week of April 9, 2012, when Good Morning America topped it again. Today maintained its No. 2 status behind GMA from the summer of 2012 until it regained the lead in the aftermath of anchor Matt Lauer's departure in November 2017. In 2002, Today was ranked No. 17 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.The entertainment magazine Variety reported the 2016 advertising revenue during the first two hours of the show was $508.8 million.