97-460: Hoda Kotb ( / ˈ h oʊ d ə ˈ k ɒ t b iː / HOH -də KOT -bee ; born August 9, 1964) is an American broadcast journalist, television personality, and author. She is a main co-anchor of the NBC News morning show Today and co-host of its entertainment-focused fourth hour . Kotb formerly served as a correspondent for the television news magazine program Dateline NBC . Kotb
194-554: A 25% stake in Euronews , a European news organization competing against the likes of BBC News and ITV News The transaction was completed at the end of May 2017; Deborah Turness , former President of NBC News, was appointed to run "NBC News International," to perform NBC's role in the partnership, in which each network would contribute reporting to the other. In April 2020, NBCUniversal sold its stake in Euronews to focus all resources on
291-543: A ballad dedicated to cancer survivors. Kotb officially joined NBC News in April 1998 as a correspondent for Dateline NBC and all NBC News platforms. She was the first host of Today 's first fourth-hour weekday morning broadcast at 10:00 a.m. in September 2007 and was joined by Kathie Lee Gifford as a co-host in April 2008. Gifford was later succeeded by Jenna Bush Hager in April 2019, following Gifford's departure from
388-684: A copy of the tape to The Washington Post Reporter David Fahrenthold , who contacted NBC for comment, notified the Trump campaign that he had the video, obtained confirmation of its authenticity, and released a story and the tape itself, scooping NBC. Alerted that the Post might release the story immediately, NBC News released its own story shortly after the Post story was published. On November 29, 2017, NBC News announced that Matt Lauer 's employment had been terminated after an unidentified female NBC employee reported that Lauer had sexually harassed her during
485-462: A correspondent and contributor for The Today Show . As time progressed, Hager's profile increased on Today, including filling in as the orange room anchor during the 7AM-9AM hours and substituting for Kathie Lee Gifford or Hoda Kotb during the fourth hour. In 2018, she interviewed Michelle Obama in a discussion about her life in the White House , the challenges of raising her daughters in
582-421: A dinner she had with King Charles, then Prince Charles , the night before Queen Elizabeth II died. In February 2023, she announced her third book, Love Comes First, and sources reported "Jenna's top Picks" and other endorsement deals. In February 2021, The Washington Post reported that Chelsea Clinton , Bush Hager, Dominique Dawes , and Briana Scurry were part of an investment group, investing in
679-568: A few hours a day on OSN News in MENA Region. In the 2000s MSNBC was shown on sister network CNBC Europe , both in scheduled slots and during breaking news , although rebroadcasts of MSNBC have stopped. However, Meet the Press is still shown on the channel, while NBC News NOW rebroadcasts Meet the Press , Today and NBC Nightly News . In the Philippines , NBC Nightly News and Today
776-490: A follow-up in October 2020 titled This Just Speaks to Me , which expands on her daily reflections and includes additional personal anecdotes and quotes. Kotb has also released her own children's books. The first one, her fourth book overall, I've Loved You Since Forever , was released in 2018, and was adapted into a lullaby by Kelly Clarkson . Her second children's book, her fifth book overall, You Are My Happy , which celebrates
873-400: A full-time 24-hour radio news network, replacing CNN Radio (that itself replaced both NBC Radio and Mutual in 1999). The original NBC News Radio service was eventually discontinued on December 14, 2014. That coincided with the launch of the new, white-label Westwood One News service. It used content from WarnerMedia 's CNN but was discontinued in 2019. In addition to NBC News Radio,
970-612: A life-changing event in each subject's life and then revisiting each of those six people a decade later. In 2016, Kotb released her third book, Where They Belong: The Best Decisions People Almost Never Made , which features a selection of various stories of inspiring people who "found themselves" in completely unexpected moments or unforeseen circumstances. In October 2019, Kotb released her sixth book, I Really Needed This Today , which includes personal notes about her experiences and relationships, an assortment of quotes, and 365 sayings that she hopes inspires and uplifts readers. She released
1067-433: A network bumper slide and Chet Huntley , Bill Ryan and Frank McGee informing the viewers what was going on as it happened; but since a camera was not in service, the reports were audio-only. However, NBC did not begin broadcasting over the air until 1:57 p.m. ET. About 40 minutes later, after word came that JFK was pronounced dead, NBC suspended regular programming and carried 71 hours of uninterrupted news coverage of
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#17328689486911164-522: A private ceremony, on May 10, 2008, at her parents' Prairie Chapel Ranch , near Crawford, Texas . Henry and Jenna Hager have three children, daughters Margaret Laura "Mila", and Poppy Louise, and son Henry Harold "Hal". Unlike most of her relatives (but like her twin sister, Barbara), Hager is not a member of the Republican Party . While registering to vote in New York, she mistakenly registered with
1261-488: A prominent U.S. senator to observe later, "When I think of Little Rock, I think of John Chancellor." Other reporters who covered the movement for the network included Sander Vanocur, Herbert Kaplow, Charles Quinn, and Richard Valeriani, who was hit with an ax handle at a demonstration in Marion, Alabama in 1965. While Walter Cronkite's enthusiasm for the space race eventually won the anchorman viewers for CBS and NBC News, with
1358-420: A relationship with New York financier Joel Schiffman in 2013. On February 21, 2017, Kotb announced on Today that she had adopted a baby girl named Haley Joy Kotb. On April 16, 2019, Kotb came on Today via phone to announce she had adopted a second baby girl named Hope Catherine Kotb. On November 25, 2019, Kotb announced live on Today that she was engaged to Schiffman. On January 31, 2022, Kotb announced during
1455-399: A reluctance by RCA to fund NBC News at a similar level as CBS was funding its news division, left NBC News in the doldrums. NBC's primary news show gained its present title, NBC Nightly News , on August 3, 1970. The network tried a platoon of anchors (Brinkley, McGee, and John Chancellor ) during the early months of Nightly News . Despite the efforts of the network's eventual lead anchor,
1552-438: A second book, in conjunction with her mother, designed to encourage children to read. The book, entitled Read All About It! , was published on April 22, 2008, also by HarperCollins. On November 26, 2012, Hager was named editor-at-large of Southern Living magazine. Since 2009, Jenna Bush has worked at NBC News , as a correspondent, and at Today , as both a contributor and an anchor. In August 2009, NBC hired Hager as
1649-516: A service, including one-minute and two-minute hourly newscasts along with other audio content, such as features on money, health, politics and sports, heard on over 1,000 radio stations. WOR in New York City serves as NBC News Radio's flagship . iHeartMedia has ended the NBC News Radio brand in 2024, reverting back to its 24/7 News channel/platform. The current NBC News Radio digital station
1746-797: A speech to the Republican Convention on August 31, 2004. She made headlines, when she was found sticking her tongue out to media photographers at a campaign stop in St. Louis . Jenna and Barbara took turns traveling to swing states , with their father, and they also gave a seven page interview and photo shoot in Vogue . Jenna, later, confirmed that Barbara and Jenna also developed a friendship with John Kerry 's daughters, Alexandra and Vanessa , who campaigned on behalf of their father. Before leaving Washington, D.C. , in summer 2006, Hager worked at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School for
1843-582: A television personality on NBC , being featured, most prominently, as a member of The Today Show as a correspondent, contributor and co-host. Jenna Welch Bush was born on November 25, 1981, at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas , and she was named after her maternal grandmother, Jenna Hawkins Welch. While living in Dallas, she and her sister, Barbara, attended Preston Hollow Elementary School and then, The Hockaday School . In 1994, after her father
1940-511: A year and a half, as a teacher's aide. She took a leave of absence from the charter school position to work at a shelter, as part of an internship for UNICEF 's Educational Policy Department in Latin America , specifically Panama . After her internship for UNICEF, Hager returned to her position at the charter school in Washington, D.C. She has done work as a part-time reading coordinator at
2037-479: Is NBC's first step into the all-news radio format since the closure of its ephemeral NBC News & Information Service (NIS) was heard on radio stations across the U.S. from 1975 to 1977. The service was not profitable for NBC and was discontinued after two years. The original major NBC Radio Network was purchased by Westwood One a decade later, in 1987, as General Electric , which had acquired NBC's parent company RCA , divested most properties not pertaining to
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#17328689486912134-729: Is an American news personality, author, and journalist. She is the co-host of Today with Hoda & Jenna , the fourth hour of NBC 's morning news program, Today . Hager and her fraternal twin sister, Barbara , are the daughters of the 43rd U.S. President, George W. Bush , and former First Lady Laura Bush . Hager is also a granddaughter of the 41st U.S. President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush , great-granddaughter of former U.S. Senator Prescott Bush , niece of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and first cousin of former Land Commissioner of Texas, George P. Bush . After her father's presidency, Hager became an author, an editor-at-large for Southern Living magazine, and
2231-542: Is previously both shown on 9TV (formerly Talk TV and Solar News Channel ; now as RPTV ), while Early Today was officially dropped from the network in December 2013, but they replaced by the repeats of Inside Edition , while Today dropped it in September 2014 to make room for the weekend children's programming and NBC Nightly News was the last to dropped it in March 2015, due to the firing of Brian Williams as anchor and
2328-603: The New Yorker Magazine instead. A story on the subject of Weinstein's alleged behavior also appeared several days earlier in The New York Times . Following criticism for missing a major story it had initiated, NBC News defended the decision, saying that at the time Farrow was at NBC, the early reporting still had important missing necessary elements. Farrow later disputed this characterization, saying that he had multiple named accusers willing to come forward and that
2425-479: The 2003 invasion of Iraq . He was replaced by Lester Holt on an interim basis. On June 18, 2015, it was announced that Holt would become the permanent anchor and Williams would be moved to MSNBC as an anchor of breaking news and special reports beginning in August. In 1993, Dateline NBC broadcast an investigative report about the safety of General Motors (GM) trucks. GM discovered the "actual footage" utilized in
2522-750: The Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award in 2008. In 2010, 2011, and 2012, during which Kotb was a part of the Today morning host lineup, Today won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Morning Program . In 2015, she won a Webby Award for Online Film & Video – Public Service & Activism for her music video, "Truly Brave", which she created in collaboration with Sara Bareilles and Cyndi Lauper to raise awareness for pediatric cancer . That same year, she received an additional Gracie Award for Outstanding Host in News/Non-fiction in 2015. In 2016, Kotb
2619-579: The Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia . He worked as a U.S. Department of Commerce aide, for Carlos Gutierrez , and as a White House aide, for Karl Rove . He is the son of former Virginia Republican Party Chairman John H. Hager , who previously served as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and as the U.S. Department of Education Assistant Secretary, under George W. Bush . The wedding took place during
2716-517: The Montgomery bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama , airing reports from Frank McGee, then News Director of NBC's Montgomery affiliate WSFA-TV , who would later join the network. A year later, John Chancellor's coverage of the admission of black students to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was the first occasion when the key news story came from television rather than print and prompted
2813-534: The Republican National Convention live and direct from Philadelphia . The station used a series of relays from Philadelphia to New York and on to upper New York State , for rebroadcast on W2XB in Schenectady (now WRGB ), making this among the first "network" programs of NBC Television. Due to wartime and technical restrictions, there were no live telecasts of the 1944 conventions, although films of
2910-801: The Washington Spirit professional soccer club in the National Women's Soccer League . Bush met Henry Chase Hager during the 2004 presidential campaign. They became engaged in August 2007. Before proposing, Hager asked President Bush for permission to marry his daughter. Their relationship became public, when the two appeared together at a White House dinner for The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall (now King Charles III and Queen Camilla), in November 2005. Henry Hager attended St. Christopher's School , in Richmond, Virginia , and he holds an MBA from
3007-435: The fourth hour of Today ( Hoda & Jenna ) that she and Schiffman had ended their engagement and would focus on co-parenting as friends. In March 2007, Kotb underwent a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery for breast cancer and has since become an advocate for breast cancer awareness. Kotb allowed Today cameras to follow her throughout her cancer battle. She was declared cancer-free and continued to document and use
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3104-527: The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and that the harassment continued after they returned to New York. NBC News management said it had been aware that The New York Times and Variety had been conducting independent investigations of Lauer's behavior, but that management had been unaware of previous allegations against Lauer. Linda Vester, a former NBC News correspondent, disputed the claims that management knew nothing, saying that "everybody knew" that Lauer
3201-530: The Earth and Moon to show orbital trackage, and stages on which animated figures created by puppeteer Bil Baird were used to depict movements of astronauts before on-board spacecraft television cameras were feasible. (Studio 8H had been home to the NBC Symphony Orchestra and is now the home of Saturday Night Live . ) NBC's coverage of the first Moon landing in 1969 earned the network an Emmy Award . In
3298-583: The NBC television network, thus ending its direct participation in the radio business. NBC Radio Network's news operation was merged into the Mutual Broadcasting System , then into Westwood One's then-corporate sibling CBS Radio , and eventually assimilated into the syndicator itself. For years, Westwood One has carried on syndicating several NBC-branded shows to affiliate radio stations, including audio versions of current-affairs NBC TV shows such as Meet
3395-454: The Philippine airwaves, both NBC Nightly News and Today returned in November 2020 as the launch programs of TAP TV ( NBC Nightly News was later moved to its sister network TAP Edge from January to October 2021, until they returned it to the said network in October 2021). TAP TV may also occasionally aired special coverage from NBC News, including the U.S. Elections every 2 years and
3492-670: The Press are all broadcast on the Seven Network during the early morning hours from 3-5 a.m., just before Seven's own morning show Sunrise . In Hong Kong , NBC Nightly News is live digital television broadcast transmission (or delayed ) on TVB Pearl daily from 7:00 AM until 8:00 AM Hong Kong Time (6:00 PM until 7:00 PM New York City Time ). In the United Kingdom , the ITV network used to air segments from NBC Nightly News on their ITV News at 5:30 morning newscast before it
3589-410: The Press , a practice that continues to date. As for hard news programming, Westwood One used to provide an homonymous NBC News Radio service, which was initially limited to a feed of one-hour reports updated from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. ET offered to subscriber local stations. Dial Global –which has branded itself Westwood One since 2013– announced on March 5, 2012, its aim to expand NBC News Radio to
3686-518: The Press and Dateline encores on early Monday mornings. NBC News got the first American news interviews from two Russian presidents ( Vladimir Putin , Mikhail Gorbachev ), and Brokaw was the only American television news correspondent to witness the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. MSNBC is not shown outside the Americas on a channel in its own right. However, both NBC News and MSNBC are shown for
3783-697: The Press anchor Chuck Todd and various MSNBC anchors including Rachel Maddow , Mika Brzezinski , Joe Scarborough and Nicolle Wallace NBC announced on 26 March that McDaniel will not be hired by the network. Thirteen people have served as president of NBC News during its history: William R. McAndrew (managed since 1951, named president, 1965–1968), Reuven Frank (1968–1973, 1981–1985), Richard Wald (1973–1977), Lester Crystal (1977–1979), William J. Small (1979–1981), Lawrence Grossman (1985–1988), Michael Gartner (1988–1993), Andrew Lack (1993–2001), Neal Shapiro (2001–2005), and Steve Capus (2005 – March 5, 2013). In August 2013, Deborah Turness assumed
3880-767: The SEED Public Charter School in Baltimore , Maryland , and she has contributed a monthly news story about education for the Today show. In 2007, Hager began marketing a book proposal, with the assistance of Robert B. Barnett, a Washington attorney. The title of the book is Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope , and it chronicles her experiences working with UNICEF sponsored charities in Latin America , including visits to drought-stricken Paraguay in 2006, while working as an intern for United Nations Children's Fund . HarperCollins announced, in March 2007, it would publish
3977-545: The U.S. Presidential Inauguration every 4 years, as well as breaking news during regular broadcasts of Today . NBC Nightly News , along with the full program lineup of NBC, was carried by affiliate VSB-TV in Bermuda until 2014. The Seven Network in Australia has close ties with NBC and has used a majority of the network's imaging and slogans since the 1970s. Seven News has featured The Mission as its news theme since
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4074-496: The United States in 2000 : "Oh, I just wish you wouldn't run. It's going to change our life." Her father told them that he and her mother needed to live their lives. In the winter of 2003, she and Barbara opted to become involved in the 2004 campaign . In response to this decision, she made media appearances, during the summer of 2004, prior to the election. She and her sister made several joint public appearances, including giving
4171-495: The air 24/7. At the time, a few NBC affiliates had begun using CNN 's Headline News service to provide overnight programming, and NBC decided to offer the network's own overnight news service. CBS and ABC also began their own overnight news programming, as well. In addition, the facility produced a 24-hour news service aimed to Latin American viewers called "Canal de Noticias, NBC. The serviced closed in 1997 and five years later,
4268-477: The articulate, even-toned Chancellor, and an occasional first-place finish in the Nielsens , Nightly News in the 1970s was primarily a strong second. By the end of the decade, NBC had to contend not only with a powerful CBS but also a surging ABC , led by Roone Arledge . Tom Brokaw became sole anchor in 1983, after co-anchoring with Roger Mudd for a year, and began leading NBC's efforts. In 1986 and 1987, NBC won
4365-480: The assassination and the funeral of the president—including the only live broadcast of the fatal shooting of Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald , by Jack Ruby as Oswald was being led in handcuffs by law-enforcement officials through the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters. NBC's ratings lead began to slip toward the end of the 1960s and fell sharply when Chet Huntley retired in 1970; he died of cancer four years later, in 1974. The loss of Huntley, along with
4462-562: The audio portions of NBC News cable networks MSNBC and CNBC are available as Internet radio stations through the TuneIn podcasting service as well as the SiriusXM satellite radio platform. In 1982, NBC News began production on NBC News Overnight with anchors Linda Ellerbee , Lloyd Dobyns , and Bill Schechner. It usually aired at 1:35 a.m. E.T., following The Tonight Show and Late Night with David Letterman . NBC News Overnight
4559-406: The book, and it was released September 28, 2007, with an initial printing of 500,000 copies. Her share of the profits will go to UNICEF, while the remainder will go to the woman whose life is the basis of the book, assisting in the young woman's continuing education. During the book tour, Hager appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show . During the interview, Hager telephoned her parents. Hager wrote
4656-589: The broadcast had been rigged by the inclusion of explosive incendiaries attached to the gas tanks and the use of improper sealants for those tanks. GM subsequently filed an anti-defamation lawsuit against NBC, which publicly admitted the results of the tests were rigged and settled the lawsuit with GM on the very same day. On October 22, 2007, Nightly News moved into its new high definition studios, at Studio 3C at NBC Studios in 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. The network's 24-hour cable network, MSNBC , joined
4753-444: The clock in 15-minute cycles with the latest news, sports and other features. It uses the slogan "The news you want, when you want it." It also supplies hourly newscasts to subscribing radio stations. While it was not owned by NBCUniversal itself, NBC News Radio features reports from NBC News correspondents , presented by anchors who are iHeartMedia employees. It is also provided to NBC's 24/7 News Source radio station affiliates as
4850-410: The door for yooooouuuu ... ' Oh, Lord. 'This is Mohamed. He's from Cairo. He's studying engineering ... and he has a Mercedes.' Really? He also has on a long white man dress. Okay, call it a dishdash . She graduated from Fort Hunt High School in 1982. She was elected homecoming queen and selected to speak at her graduating class's baccalaureate service . In her college years at Virginia Tech , Kotb
4947-584: The election team's decision desk group was given its first permanent space at 30 Rockefeller, replacing the News Sales Archives that had occupied the space previously. The NBC News Division was the first news team to possess the tape of Donald Trump recorded by Access Hollywood , after a producer of the NBC show had made the News Division aware of it; the News Division internally debated publishing it for three days, and then an unidentified source gave
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#17328689486915044-467: The ensuing days. NBC News President Noah Oppenheim suggested an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by Harvey Weinstein after NBC contributor Ronan Farrow pitched a general idea to report on sexual harassment in Hollywood. After a 10-month investigation by Farrow and NBC Producer Rich McHugh, NBC chose not to publish it. The story, with very few changes, was published a few weeks later in
5141-560: The events were reportedly shown over WNBT the next day. About this time, there were irregularly scheduled, quasi-network newscasts originating from NBC's WNBT in New York City, ( WNBC ), and reportedly fed to WPTZ (now KYW-TV ) in Philadelphia and WRGB in Schenectady, NY. Such as, Esso sponsored news features a well as The War As It Happens in the final days of World War II, another irregularly scheduled NBC television newsreel program which
5238-589: The first female anchor duo to lead the show. On September 26, 2024, Kotb announced that she was stepping down as co-anchor of Today in early 2025; she indicated she would continue with NBC in an unspecified role. Her last day will be January 10, 2025. In October 2010, Kotb released a New York Times bestselling autobiography, Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee. On January 15, 2013, she released her second book, Ten Years Later: Six People Who Faced Adversity and Transformed Their Lives , in which she chronicles six stories by identifying
5335-539: The flagship evening newscast NBC Nightly News , the world's first of its genre morning television program, Today , and the longest-running television series in American history, Meet the Press , the Sunday morning program of newsmakers interviews. NBC News also offers 70 years of rare historic footage from the NBCUniversal Archives online. The first regularly scheduled American television newscast in history
5432-477: The graphics and technology of later years, it nonetheless contained many of the elements of modern newscasts. NBC hired its own film crews and in the program's early years, it dominated CBS's competing program, which did not hire its own film crews until 1953. (by contrast, CBS spent lavishly on Edward R. Murrow 's weekly series, See It Now ). In 1950, David Brinkley began serving as the program's Washington correspondent, but attracted little attention outside
5529-480: The head cover on. I still remember going, 'Oh, my God. Like that could have been me.' You don't realize the gift your parents give you when you leave. Kotb similarly indirectly spoke about her family's Muslim background in her autobiography when she described attempts at match-making by her relatives in Egypt: During my visit, I'd be sitting on the couch and there'd come a knock-knock at the door. 'Hoda, someone's at
5626-449: The influential moderator Tim Russert of Meet the Press in June 2008, Tom Brokaw took over as an interim host; and on December 14, 2008, David Gregory became the new moderator of the show until August 14, 2014, when NBC announced that NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd would take over as the 12th moderator of Meet the Press starting September 7, 2014. David Gregory's last broadcast
5723-581: The late 1950s, Kintner reorganized the chain of command at the network, making Bill McAndrew president of NBC News, reporting directly to Kintner. McAndrew served in that position until his death in 1968. McAndrew was succeeded by his Executive Vice President, Producer Reuven Frank, who held the position until 1973. On November 22, 1963, NBC interrupted various programs on its affiliate stations at 1:45 p.m. to announce that President John F. Kennedy had been shot in Dallas , Texas . Eight minutes later, at 1:53:12 p.m., NBC broke into programming with
5820-663: The late 1950s, and NBC News was called television's "champion of news coverage." NBC president Robert Kintner provided the news division with ample amounts of both financial resources and air time. In 1956, the network paired anchors Chet Huntley and David Brinkley and the two became celebrities, supported by reporters including John Chancellor , Frank McGee , Edwin Newman , Sander Vanocur , Nancy Dickerson , Tom Pettit , and Ray Scherer. Created by Producer Reuven Frank , NBC's The Huntley–Brinkley Report had its debut on October 29, 1956. During much of its 14-year run, it exceeded
5917-535: The launch of NBC Sky World News , which was scheduled to launch later in 2020. However, the proposed new service was scrapped in August 2020, resulting in layoffs of 60 employees. NBC News Radio is an all-news radio service produced by iHeartMedia through its TTWN Networks subsidiary , in partnership with NBCU's news division. It has been available on iHeartRadio , iHeartMedia's online live audio and podcasting platform, on different supports ( Web and smartphone apps ) since July 2016. It can be heard around
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#17328689486916014-409: The majesty of our country in those walls, and nobody can take that from any of us. In February 2022, Hager signed a first-look deal with Universal Studio Group . On a November 2022 episode of Today with Hoda and Jenna , Hager confessed that she "never wears underwear". Later that month, she appeared on Watch What Happens Live and told host Andy Cohen that she did not wear underwear during
6111-468: The mid-1980s. Local newscasts were named Seven Nightly News from the mid-1980s until around 2000. NBC and Seven will often share news recourses between the two countries. NBC News has been known to use Seven News reporters for live reports on a developing news story in Australia. Seven News will sometimes also incorporate an NBC News report into its national bulletins. Today , Weekend Today and Meet
6208-535: The mistake unfolded." On December 13, 2012, NBC News reporter Richard Engel and his five crew members, Aziz Akyavaş, Ghazi Balkiz, John Kooistra, Ian Rivers and Ammar Cheikh Omar, were kidnapped in Syria . Having escaped after five days in captivity, Engel said he believed that a Shabiha group loyal to al-Assad was behind the abduction, and that the crew was freed by the Ahrar al-Sham group five days later. Engel's account
6305-477: The move of Lester Holt to main anchor position as well as the anticipation of rebranding of the said network to CNN Philippines in March of the same year (both Nightly News and Today were both previously aired on ETC from 2004 to 2005 and the now defunct 2nd Avenue from 2005 to 2007; Nightly News was later moved to C/S 9 (later Solar TV) from 2008 to 2011, while Today retains it separately on 2nd Avenue until 2011). After five years of not airing it in
6402-427: The network bought Telemundo. NBC Nightside lasted until 1998 and was replaced by "NBC All Night," composed of reruns of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien , and later from January 1, 2007, to September 23, 2011, Poker After Dark . NBC now airs same day repeats of the fourth hour of Today and CNBC's Mad Money on weekdays, LXTV programs on early Sunday mornings, and Meet
6499-570: The network in New York on that day as well. The new studios/headquarters for NBC News and MSNBC are now located in one area. During the Great Recession , NBC News was urged to save $ 500 million by NBC Universal. On that occasion, NBC News laid off several of its in-house reporters such as Kevin Corke , Jeannie Ohm and Don Teague. This was the largest layoff in NBC News history. After the sudden death of
6596-695: The network until paired with Chet Huntley in 1956. In 1955, the Camel News Caravan fell behind CBS ' Douglas Edwards with the News , and Swayze lost the already tepid support of NBC executives. The following year, NBC replaced the program with the Huntley-Brinkley Report . Beginning in 1951, NBC News was managed by Director of News Bill McAndrew , who reported to Vice President of News and Public Affairs J. Davidson Taylor. Television assumed an increasingly prominent role in American family life in
6693-512: The network's 24-hour general news channel, business and consumer news channels CNBC and CNBC World , the Spanish language Noticias Telemundo and United Kingdom–based Sky News . NBC News aired the first regularly scheduled news program in American broadcast television history on February 21, 1940. The group's broadcasts are produced and aired from 30 Rockefeller Plaza , NBCUniversal's headquarters in New York City . The division presides over
6790-493: The program was renamed Camel News Caravan . In 1948, NBC teamed up with Life magazine to provide election night coverage of President Harry S. Truman 's surprising victory over New York governor Thomas E. Dewey . The television audience was small, but NBC's share in New York was double that of any other outlet. The following year, the Camel News Caravan , anchored by John Cameron Swayze , debuted on NBC. Lacking
6887-750: The role as President of NBC News, becoming the first woman to head the division. In February 2017, Today Show Producer and Executive Noah Oppenheim was named President of NBC News. Rebecca Blumenstein was named President of NBC News on January 10, 2023. NBC News provides content for the Internet, as well as cable-only news networks CNBC and MSNBC . It produces a daily (formerly twice-daily show) called Stay Tuned for Snapchat 's Discover platform. It also produced programming for Quibi called The Report . The Stay Tuned team launched The Overview on Peacock in 2021. In November 2016, NBC News Group chairman Andy Lack announced NBCUniversal intended to purchase
6984-446: The show. On February 23, 2015, Kotb began hosting a live, one-hour show twice a week on Sirius XM 's Today channel, discussing casual water cooler topics. On January 2, 2018, Kotb was named co-anchor of Today with Savannah Guthrie after anchor Matt Lauer was terminated by NBC News following accusations of sexual misconduct. She and Guthrie had been interim co-anchors since Lauer's termination on November 29, 2017. They make up
7081-490: The spotlight, and her book, Becoming . They also discussed the political atmosphere and political bipartisanship, with Obama stating that, despite their political differences, Hager's father, George W. Bush , is a "beautiful, funny, kind, sweet man". In March 2019, Hager started Read with Jenna, a monthly book club on Today Show . In April 2019, Hager began co-anchoring the fourth hour of Today with Hoda Kotb , following Kathie Lee Gifford 's departure. In 2019, Hager
7178-475: The story on the show to raise awareness for breast cancer. NBC News NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC . The division operates under NBCUniversal Television and Streaming , a division of NBCUniversal , which is, in turn, a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast . The news division's various operations report to the president of NBC News, Rebecca Blumenstein . The NBCUniversal News Group also comprises MSNBC ,
7275-584: The story was killed in response to an overt threat from Weinstein to out Lauer. In March 2024, NBC News hired Ronna McDaniel , the former chairwoman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) from 2017 to 2024. The hire stirred controversy, as McDaniel had been a staunch Donald Trump loyalist during her tenure at the RNC. She made false claims of voter fraud after Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, which she sought to overturn. After she
7372-519: The things in life that bring gratitude, was released in March 2019. In 2002, Kotb was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award for her reporting. Kotb received her first Gracie Awards in 2003 and 2008. Kotb was awarded a Headliner Award in 2004 for Dateline NBC 's "Saving Dane – Adoptees Rage". In 2006, Kotb was awarded a Peabody Award for Dateline NBC 's "The Education of Ms. Groves", which earned her an additional Headliner Award in 2007, as well as
7469-437: The top spot in the Nielsens for the first time in years, only to fall back when Nielsen's ratings methodology changed. In late 1996, Nightly News again moved into first place, a spot it has held onto in most of the succeeding years. Brian Williams assumed primary anchor duties when Brokaw retired in December 2004. In February 2015, NBC suspended Williams for six months for telling an inaccurate story about his experience in
7566-698: The version ultimately published in the New Yorker had very few changes from the version that NBC News rejected. This version went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in April 2018. A former NBC News executive has said that the story on Weinstein was killed because NBC News was aware of the sexual misconduct by Lauer; in Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators , Ronan Farrow cites two sources within American Media, Inc. stating that
7663-494: The viewership levels of its CBS News competition, anchored initially by Douglas Edwards and, beginning in April 1962, by Walter Cronkite . NBC's Vice President of News and Public Affairs, J. Davidson Taylor, was a Southerner who, with Producer Reuven Frank, was determined that NBC would lead television's coverage of the civil rights movement . In 1955, NBC provided national coverage of Martin Luther King Jr. 's leadership of
7760-478: The work of correspondents such as Frank McGee, Roy Neal, Jay Barbree , and Peter Hackes , also provided ample coverage of American crewed space missions in the Project Mercury , Project Gemini , and Project Apollo programs. In an era when space missions rated continuous coverage, NBC configured its largest studio, Studio 8H , for space coverage. It utilized models and mockups of rockets and spacecraft, maps of
7857-523: Was August 10, 2014. By 2009, NBC had established leadership in network news, airing the highest-rated morning, evening, and Sunday interview news programs. Its ability to share costs with MSNBC and share in the cable network's advertising and subscriber revenue made it far more profitable than its network rivals. On March 27, 2012, NBC News broadcast an edited segment from a 911 call placed by George Zimmerman before he shot Trayvon Martin . The editing made it appear that Zimmerman volunteered that Martin
7954-497: Was a fossil energy specialist and was listed in the Who's Who of Technology . During a 92nd Street Y interview, Kotb hinted at her Muslim roots when she recounted her memories of annual summer vacations in Egypt and her veiled cousins and how her parents' migration to the United States had spared her from having to do the same: We met our cousins who looked just like us. Some of them had
8051-540: Was a member of Delta Delta Delta women's sorority, Beta Nu Chapter. In 1986, Kotb graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism . Kotb was the keynote speaker at her alma mater for the 2008 Virginia Tech graduation and in her speech, played Metallica 's " Enter Sandman " over her iPod . In 2010, Kotb was elected to a three-year term to the Virginia Tech Alumni Association Board of Directors. Kotb's first on-air job after college
8148-592: Was able to participate with Willie Geist in a special episode of How Low Will You Go , which aired on the Today Show . In 2021, Hager reacted, emotionally, to the storming of the United States Capitol , live, on air, stating: I have had the privilege of standing on those steps for several inaugurations, not just for family members but for the first black president of the United States of America. I kissed my grandfather goodbye in that rotunda. I have felt
8245-420: Was also seen in New York, Philadelphia and Schenectady on the relatively few (roughly 5000) television sets which existed at the time. After the war, NBC Television Newsreel aired filmed news highlights with narration. Later in 1948, when sponsored by Camel Cigarettes , NBC Television Newsreel was renamed Camel Newsreel Theatre and then, when John Cameron Swayze was added as an on-camera anchor in 1949,
8342-692: Was at then- CBS affiliate WXVT in Greenville, Mississippi . Kotb then moved to ABC affiliate WQAD in Moline, Illinois as a reporter from 1988 to 1989. She became a weekend anchor and reporter at CBS affiliate WINK in Fort Myers, Florida from 1989 to 1991. From 1992 to 1998, Kotb was an anchor and reporter for CBS affiliate WWL in New Orleans , Louisiana. In 2011, Martina McBride asked Kotb to be featured in her music video for " I'm Gonna Love You Through It ,"
8439-676: Was awarded with a Gracie Award for Outstanding Host in Entertainment/Information for her SiriusXM show. Kotb was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2018 . In 2019, Kotb and Gifford were awarded a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informative Talk Show Host during their time as co-hosts. Kotb was awarded the Matrix Award in October 2021. In 2005, Kotb married University of New Orleans tennis coach, Burzis Kanga. The marriage ended in divorce in 2008. Kotb began
8536-401: Was black, rather than merely responding to the dispatcher's inquiry, which would support a view that the shooting was racially motivated. A media watchdog organization accused NBC News of engaging in "an all-out falsehood." While NBC News initially declined to comment, the news agency did issue an apology to viewers. The Washington Post called the statement "skimpy on the details on just how
8633-602: Was born to Egyptian Muslim parents in Norman, Oklahoma , and grew up in Morgantown, West Virginia , and Alexandria, Virginia . She lived in New Orleans throughout the 1990s. Kotb and her family lived in Egypt for a year, as well as in Nigeria . She has a brother, Adel, and a sister, Hala. Her mother, Sameha ("Sami"), worked at the Library of Congress . Her father, Abdel Kader Kotb (1932–1985)
8730-571: Was cancelled in December 1983, but in 1991, NBC News launched another overnight news show called NBC Nightside . During its run, the show's anchors included Sara James, Bruce Hall, Antonio Mora , Tom Miller, Campbell Brown , Kim Hindrew, Tom Donavan, and Tonya Strong. It was based at NBC Network affiliate WCNC-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina . It provided an overnight news service which NBC affiliates could air until early morning programming began, in effect providing programming to help them stay on
8827-567: Was cancelled in December 2012. NBC News share facilities and crew in the UK with ITN , which is the news provider for ITV. NBC News Now is shown as a linear channel on both the Sky and Virgin Media platforms in the UK. NBC News Now has been removed from these platforms as of December 2023 but remains free to view via YouTube . Jenna Bush Hager Jenna Welch Bush Hager ( née Bush ; born November 25, 1981)
8924-584: Was charged with a misdemeanor for possession of alcohol under the age of 21 in Austin. On May 29, 2001, Jenna was charged with another misdemeanor — attempting to use a fake ID (with the name "Barbara Pierce," her paternal grandmother's maiden name) to purchase alcohol. She pleaded no contest to both charges. Jenna Bush graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in English , in 2004. Jenna and Barbara asked their father not to run for President of
9021-405: Was dangerous. According to Ronan Farrow , multiple sources have stated that NBC News was not only aware of Lauer's misconduct beforehand, but that Harvey Weinstein used this knowledge to pressure them into killing a story that would have outed his own sexual misconduct. Variety reported allegations by at least ten of Lauer's current and former colleagues. Additional accusations went public in
9118-683: Was elected Governor of Texas and the family moved to Austin, Texas , Bush was a student at St. Andrew's Episcopal School and attended Austin High School , from 1996 until her graduation, in 2000. She was a Senate page . With her father becoming President in 2001, she attended the University of Texas at Austin and took summer classes at New York University . She was a legacy member of Kappa Alpha Theta , her mother's sorority . While there, Jenna and her sister, Barbara, made national headlines, when they were both arrested for alcohol-related charges, twice, within five weeks. On April 29, 2001, Jenna
9215-422: Was hired by NBC during her interview on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker , McDaniel backtracked on her claims, saying that Biden won the 2020 election "fair and square" and condemned political violence. She said of her conduct as RNC chair, "When you’re the RNC chair, you — you kind of take one for the whole team, right? Now I get to be a little bit more myself." After two days of on-air protests by former Meet
9312-473: Was however challenged from early on. In April 2015, NBC had to revise the kidnapping account, following further investigations by The New York Times , which suggested that the NBC team "was almost certainly taken by a Sunni criminal element affiliated with the Free Syrian Army ," rather than by a loyalist Shia group. In 2013, John Lapinski was Director of Elections, replacing Sheldon Gawiser. In 2015,
9409-460: Was made by NBC News on February 21, 1940, anchored by Lowell Thomas (1892–1981), and airing weeknights at 6:45 p.m. It was simply Lowell Thomas in front of a television camera while doing his NBC network radio broadcast, the television simulcast seen only in New York. In June 1940, NBC, through its flagship station in New York City , W2XBS (renamed commercial WNBT in 1941, now WNBC ) operating on channel one, televised 30¼ hours of coverage of
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