The Today Show

Today (commonly referred to as The Today Show) is a morning news and talk show airing on the NBC television network in the United States.

Weekend Today

The Sunday edition of NBC News' Today premiered on September 20, 1987. Five years later, on August 1, 1992, the Saturday edition made its debut, expanding the broadcast schedule of the Today franchise to seven days a week. The program is broadcast from Studio 1A in Rockefeller Plaza in New York.

Related Topics:
NBC News - September 20 - 1987 - August 1 - 1992 - Studio 1A

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The weekend broadcasts continue the Today tradition of covering breaking news, interviewing newsmakers, reporting on a variety of popular-culture and human-interest stories, covering health and finance issues and presenting the latest weather reports. In addition, the show offers visitors to New York City a chance to observe firsthand the workings of a live television broadcast with its windowed studio on Rockefeller Plaza. Interaction with the crowd outside the studio is a major part of the program.

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Weekend editions are tailored to the priorities and interests of weekend viewers?offering special series such as "Saturday Today on the Plaza," featuring live performances by the biggest names in music and Broadway outside the studio throughout the summer.

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Jeff Dix is the executive producer of Weekend Today.

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Weekend Today is currently hosted by Lester Holt and Campbell Brown with weather reports from Janice Huff on Saturdays and Sean McLaughlin on Sundays. MSNBC's Natalie Morales and Amy Robach report the daily news headlines from the newsdesk.

Related Topics:
Lester Holt - Campbell Brown - Janice Huff - Sean McLaughlin - MSNBC - Natalie Morales - Amy Robach

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The program is watched by more viewers than ABC's Good Morning America Weekend and CBS's Saturday Early Show.

Related Topics:
ABC - CBS

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