Happy Birthday Matt on Today Show!

Filed under: Today Show - 31 Dec 2011  | Spread the word !

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Let’s all wish a very happy birthday to Matt Lauer of the Today Show!

Matt turned 54 yesterday, with a big cake and a birthday serenade from Steven Tyler (Aerosmith frontman and American Idol judge). Savannah brought out a huge photograph of Matt as a child holding a tiny fish he caught. And they all wished a happy birthday to ex-host of the Today Show, Meredith Viera! (What are the odds that both Today Show hosts have the same birthday?!)

Matt is now a seasoned veteran on the Today Show. He replaced Bryant Gumbel in 1997 with co-host Katie Couric. (Katie went on to helm the CBS Evening News, and recently joined ABC News with a daytime talk show launching in 2012.) Meredith Viera replaced Katie as Matt’s co-host in 2006, and recently left the Today Show after five successful years. (Meredith also hosts the tv game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?) Ann Curry (longtime news reader on the Today Show) is now the third co-host to share Today Show duties with Matt Lauer.

There is nothing Matt cannot do on the Today Show. From cooking segments with celebrity chefs… to touring the Great Wall of China or Easter Island or Berlin on his annual “Where in the world is Matt Lauer?” piece… to interviewing political leaders, Hollywood stars, and local heroes… to hosting the Olympics broadcasts. Matt Lauer moves comfortably between all these different worlds. Happy birthday, Matt.

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Today Show Fun Facts

Filed under: Today Show - 06 Dec 2011  | Spread the word !

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The Today Show is one of the most beloved TV shows ever in the United States of America and gained more popularity with time. Because so many are curios to find out interesting things about the Today Show, here are some trivia related to this entertaining program.

The first thing you should know is that the Today Show exists since 1952 and it started in a street level studio. Because the windows were extremely big, people used to gather at the windows, so they can see themselves on TV. The address back then was 10 Rockefeller Plaza and later changed to 30 Rockefeller Plaza in a regular studio in the headquarters of NBC. Many years later, in 1994, the Today Show relocated for the second and last time until now to the previous glass enclosed studio dubbed 1-A. In the year that the Today Show started, there were only two hours of broadcasting for each time zone, in a total of 3 hours of broadcasting. Later, the broadcasting lasted for 5 hours, but the situation was the same, just 2 hours for every time zone. In 1958, things changed and the show was taped and since 2007 the show expanded to 4 hours daily. In the last years of the Today Show, there were a lot of anchors: Matt Lauer, An Curry, Natalie Morales, Al Rocker, Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb, Kathie Lee Gifford, Willard Scott, Lester Holt, Amy Robach, Bill Karins, Jenna Wolfe, Janice Huff. The theme for the Today Show was composed by John Williams. Former anchors that gained fame thanks to the Today Show are Dave Garroway, John Chancellor, Hugh Downs, Barbara Walters, Franks McGee, Jim Hartz, Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley, Bryant Gumbel, Doborah Norville, Katie Couric and Meredith Viera.

Although hosting teams changed, some leaving and new people joining, the Today Show never lost its charm or viewers. Even in 2011, when the TV show approaches its 60 years milestone, the audiences are high and even requests for international broadcasting continue to come. May the Today Show have a secret recipe for a great and successful entertaining program that will last forever?

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