Meredith Debuts: Inside The Control Room

The Today Show staff gathered for champagne after Meredith Vieira‘s first broadcast, according to the show’s blog. Associate producer Ryan Osborn posted dozens of entries from 7 to 10am, and you can read them all right here.

“So wish that I had some crazy stories to tell about the control room but so far just a lot of smiles,” he wrote at 8:19am. “If there was nervous energy from before, it seems to have faded. This show just keeps rolling.” Other highlights:

> Noah Oppenheim was “the first person to spill coffee all over the electronic equipment in our new control…”

> Phil Griffin says “I couldn’t be happier. She looks great. Set looks great!…”

> “Jim Bell is like Captain Kirk in a chair in the middle” of the control room…

> The chairs in the new control room are “really comfortable…”