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Jim Hartz, who hosted the Today show with Barbara Walters in the mid-1970s, died April 17 in Fairfax County, Va. He was 82 and passed from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to his wife, Alexandra Dickson Hartz. Hartz was in mid-career when he joined Today, deploying a low-key style that was the low-key…

“We’re trading places,” Today‘s Savannah Guthrie, working from home this morning after testing positive for Covid, told her fellow co-anchor Hoda Kotb this morning. “I’m working from home, you’re back in the studio.” Kotb, who missed work last Thursday and Friday after testing positive, was back at NBC’s Studio 1A…

Today co-anchor Hoda Kotb, who has tested positive for Covid and missed this morning’s show, says she’s “feeling good” while isolating at home. Kotb’s absence was explained this morning by Today news anchor Craig Melvin. “We should mention here before we get to the news that the reason Hoda is off is, like many…

Today show cohost and weatherman Al Roker plans to be back on the NBC morning show next Monday, he told viewers today while also sharing news that his prognosis after last week’s prostate surgery is “excellent.” The 66-year-old Roker underwent the five-hour surgery Nov. 9 to remove his prostate and surrounding tissue…

Today Show cohost Al Roker has updated his medical condition. Earlier this week, he underwent surgery for prostate cancer. He is now home and sharing a message of thanks to his medical team, his coworkers, and his fans on social media. "So appreciate all the thoughts and wishes from our viewers and the wonderful care…

NBC’s Today unveiled a new NBCUniversal PSA campaign The More You Know that features Kelly Clarkson, Andy Cohen, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, Savannah Guthrie and others on how to reduce the risk and spread of COVID-19. The dozen-plus spots will roll out over the next few weeks. The new English- and…

NBC’s Today Show celebrated 25 years of transparency — of the window variety — with a happy video tribute to its trademark see-through studio this morning (watch it below). And no doubt about it: Rockefeller Center’s Studio 1A has been home to, as Today‘s website puts it, “a quarter century of cheering crowds…

Stephen Colbert’s Late Show sent Triumph the Insult Comic Dog to Texas, to interview incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz and the Dem candidate who wants his seat, Beto O’Rourke. First, Triumph talked to early-voting Beto fans, a “terrifying swarm of degenerate leftists with one thing in common: they all share the same Netflix…

UPDATED with video: "I want to begin with two words: 'I'm sorry',” NBC News morning show host Megyn Kelly said at the top of her show the morning after she got torched for defending blackface for Halloween on her hour of Today. "Yesterday we had a discussion here about political correctness and Halloween costumes. And…

Rose McGowan took a victory lap on Megyn Kelly’s hour of Today show, the day Harvey Weinstein turned himself in and was booked on rape charges in Manhattan. After getting a standing ovation from Kelly’s studio crowd, McGowan, who was one of Weinstein’s earliest, best known accusers, described her morning as “surreal&#8221…

Today show’s Royal Wedding Week edged out ABC’s Good Morning America in total viewers and topped the news demo derby with biggest edge since broadcasting from Winter Olympics 12 weeks ago. Today’s total viewer win was its first over GMA, and its largest advantage over CTM, since that second week of the Pyeongchang…

UPDATED, 7:28 PM: The woman who sued Shaun White for sexual harassment in 2016 issued a statement through her lawyer today. Read it in full below. PREVIOUSLY, 8:33 AM: NBC’s Today show tiptoed through talk with gold-medal winner Shaun White about resurfaced sexual harassment allegations made against him by his former…