NBC | SportsNewser Game On! NBCU to Smother Super Bowl By Chris Ariens on Jan. 25, 2012 - 12:05 PM It’s more than just a game… it’s an opportunity to absolutely blanket TV viewers with the spoils of your consolidated company. Call it Super Bowl everywhere. NBC TV may have the rights to Super Bowl XLVI, but if ...
NBC A Party Tonight, Before the Today Celebration By Chris Ariens on Jan. 12, 2012 - 9:26 PM The party’s still going at the Edison Ballroom in Times Square as the “Today” show celebrates its 60th anniversary. The morning milestone began with a welcome from “Today” frontman Matt Lauer before s ...
NBC ‘Weekend Today’ Team Goes Into the Wild By Merrill Knox on Jul. 22, 2011 - 4:16 PM The “Weekend Today” team packed their bags and headed west last week, spending a night at a survival camp in the desert for a segment that will air this weekend. Lester Holt, Amy Robach and Jenna Wolfe left their creat ...
NBC Meredith Vieira’s ‘Today’ Show Sendoff By Chris Ariens on Jun. 8, 2011 - 9:00 AM Meredith Vieira’s final “Today” show was filled with laughs, tears, surprises — and a lot of music. Bruno Mars‘ “Just the Way You Are” was a sort of theme song for the two hours. Vieira al ...
SportsNewser Jenn Sterger Lands Ringside Reporter Gig For Fuel TV By Marcus Vanderberg on May. 3, 2011 - 9:10 PM Former New York Jets sideline reporter Jenn Sterger will serve as a ringside reporter for Fuel TV’s upcoming Hometown Throwdown. Sterger interviewed amateur fighters during the pair of one-hour specials taped early last mont ...
NBC Who Wants A ‘Zucker Punch’? By Molly Stark Dean on Dec. 13, 2010 - 2:46 PM The “Today” show holiday party at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers brought in some holiday cheer and celebration for 15 years as the #1 morning program. The party started at 11:30amET (for those who got up for work at a ...
NBC NBC News Responds to New Matt Lauer Affair Allegations By Chris Ariens on May. 19, 2010 - 2:35 PM Matt Lauer has already shot down the rumors, his co-anchor Meredith Vieira calls them “a bunch of lies,” and Lauer’s weatherman-pal Al Roker says “everything is fine” with Lauer and his wife Annette R ...
Events Hoda and Kathie Lee to Host Annual NLGJA Benefit By Chris Ariens on Mar. 23, 2010 - 11:07 AM The Today show’s Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford will host the 15th Annual NLGJA Headlines & Headliners benefit this Thursday night in New York. Some of the other TV types in attendance: From Fox News Jamie Colby, Kimbe ...
TV Biz TVNewser Challenge ’08: A Look Back By SteveK on Dec. 31, 2008 - 11:09 AM Last year at this time we brought you the 2008 TVNewser Challenge — eight questions about what will happen in the coming year. With more than 25,000 total votes cast, the results were set. In a year of some sketchy predictin ...
NBC Wolfe Takes a Page Out of an NBC Tradition By SteveK on Dec. 13, 2008 - 3:46 PM We had been hearing rumblings about the segment months ago, and on Thursday, the Today show aired Jenna Wolfe’s day as an NBC page. Some former pages featured in the segment included Willard Scott, Today show director Joe Mi ...