Today show EP Jim Bell talked with TVWeek’s Michele Greppi about the success of the show; winning with a greater number of viewers and by wider margins. “We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves, but I think the show is as cohesive and in as good a place as it has ever been. Ever,” repeated Bell.
Greppi writes, “When reminded that ‘ever’ includes the years when Jeff Zucker, now the president and CEO of NBC Universal, was executive producer of Today and the show was early in its 638-week streak as the No. 1 morning news show, Mr. Bell chuckled and said, ‘Ever. You can tell him I said it.'”
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