PGage, to moi: > > This space cleared up for me a couple of weeks ago that Lauer and Guthrie > are still the hosts of Today, but, she was not in Rio because she is > pregnant and had Zikka worries. But it looks like Morales is no longer > reading the news (I have seen her called the "West Coast Anchor" for Today > (whatever that might mean), but my FB feed kept screaming over the weekend > that she bought a $6M dollar home in LA with apparently some TV tabloid > money). Does Bob's note here mean that Billy Bush is now the News Anchor > for the Today Show? That seems too sad to be true, even by the ever > lowering standards of the Today Show. Did he get the job off of the > strength of his hard nosed journalism on the Ryan Lochte interview on the > beach? > > > I couldn't watch to confirm, for reasons I have discussed mainly in the threads about my dad. Hopefully Tuesday will bring answers.
M-D November, to Tom Wolper and Kevin M: > > The 9am hour of Today is background noise for the start of my workday, so > I happened to have it on this morning. > > Official 9-10am anchors are Hall, Bush & Roker. Even though physically > the obvious swap appears to be Bush for Morales, Bush is really sitting in > what was Willie Geist's seat, so I think this is partially a move to free > Geist to concentrate on Sunday morning, and part an attempt to rein in an > unnecessary number of anchors. > > This morning may have been a slightly different format due to a) all of > the 'welcome Billy' nonsense - including Regis, for some reason and b) the > introduction of the new Today Show puppy (an as-yet-unnamed black lab who's > being trained as a service dog for wounded veterans), so there was no news > segment at the bottom of the hour. Roker's weather updates were also in > different spots on this morning's show - not yet clear if that's a new > format or, again, just a abnormality. But it seemed pretty clear that Bush > is *not* the new newsreader. > > > Regis' appearance is the obvious swing at, of course, K. Ripa. This May 17th Variety piece, which touted Bush's new position <http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/billy-bush-today-nbc-1201776758/> (link), had exec producer Noah Oppenheimer describing 9-10 as “a compelling and competitive hour focused on lifestyle and entertainment." Kevin, to PGage: > > I found myself in a laundromat on Friday morning that had multiple TVs, > each tuned to a different morning show. > > It made me sad to be an American. > > <[email protected]> >> > Especially when you can hear all of them. Still, the manager of the 'mat', if he or she needs to follow all of them, has a perfect job. NotTV, unless you count regional cable: The RailRiders clinched the season series from the IronPigs, presumably forcing the Pigs' president/GM Kurt Landes to have to appear at a game next season (ObOlympics) dressed in a replica US women's gymnastics team leotard. Pigs are still alive in the playoff chase, bar'ly. B -- -- 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/d/optout.
