"Today" is still under the news division, yes. And those of us who lived in the New York market in the early-mid 90's remember Matt Lauer as WNBC's journeyman anchor, starting with the 6-7am "Today in NY" shift, moving over to read the news on the "Today" set, then running back up to the 6th floor for "Live at Five".
On Monday, February 3, 2014 1:41:24 AM UTC-5, PGage wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 10:13 PM, David Bruggeman > <bru...@yahoo.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> The President sat down with Scott Pelley last year, Katie Couric in 2010, >> and with Matt Lauer in 2009 and 2012. >> >> So CBS went with their evening news anchors, FOX and NBC opted not to. >> Perhaps FOX isn't the only network not particularly interested in boosting >> their news division with the Presidential interview? >> >> Don't we get the pleasure - again - of avoiding part 2 of this genital >> measuring contest tomorrow night? >> > > Except - even though Lauer was not an evening news anchor, he is the > anchor of a news show (I assume Today still is run by the News Division at > NBC? As I recall Good Morning America is not, but I think Today is). The > argument as I understand it is that the opinion shows at FN are not really > to be considered part of the news operation. Having O’Reilly do the > interview is more like if NBC had asked Conan to do it. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
