Steve Friedman, former exec producer of both Today and CBS’s morning show, tells Gail Shister “he’d be ‘stunned’ if Touchet’s exit is based solely on ratings…The more likely scenario, he says, is that one or more of ‘the big four’ — NBC Universal TV czar Jeff Zucker, a former Today e.p.; NBC News president Neal Shapiro; Couric; and Lauer — ‘lost confidence in his ability to do the show.'”
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