With Costas scheduled to return for Monday night's broadcast, perhaps the idle speculation will turn to whether or not it was timed for Mr. Fallon's first Tonight Show.
David ________________________________ From: David Lynch <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2014 10:57 PM Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Hey, wait, who's this on my Olympics? What's he doing here? On 16 February 2014 19:03, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 3:38 PM, David Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > >On 15 February 2014 21:28, M-D November <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>I suspect they went with Lauer initially because they knew he'd deliver, but >>they didn't want to keep using him or pull additional personnel from Today so >>as to avoid burning those anchors out and/or affecting the production >>scheudle on any pretaped segments for week 2. >>> >> >>I have heard suggestions that Lauer being first up may have been Jim Bell's >>way of giving him the opportunity to look like a team player and counteract >>the damage done to his reputation by his rumored role in the debacle that was >>Ann Curry's exit. > > >But I think it is less interesting why they went with Lauer first (after all, >the Host of Today is a pretty obvious choice for this job) than why they did >not go the Co-Host of Today later. Seacrest actually would be another obvious >choice, if he were available. Assuming they did want to change any of the >other locked in Olympic assignments that the people would have prepped for >over the last weeks and months, they basically had the choice between the >former and current co-host of Today, and went with the former. I think it is more interesting that they immediately went to a high-profile person from the news department for the prime time show instead of bringing in Al Michaels (who's doing the studio segments in daytime and is associated with one of the USA's most memorable moments in any winter Olympics) and finding whoever happened to be free on any given day to take over his spot on NBCSN. It was already obvious to me that someone at NBC preferred Meredith to Savannah when she did the opening ceremonies despite every other one I can recall being hosted by Bob Costas and whoever the current female co-anchor of Today happened to be at that time. However, I wonder if, after Lauer's apparent inability to keep the schedule up for more than three days, they decided to go with someone who can afford to disappear from their other duties without causing major disruption. -- David J. Lynch [email protected] -- -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
