Today in New York (displayed on-air as "Today in NY") is a local morning news and entertainment television program airing on WNBC (channel 4), an NBC owned-and-operated television station in New York City, New York that is owned by the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations division of NBCUniversal. The program is broadcast each weekday morning from 4:00 to 7 a.m. Eastern Time. Weekend editions of the program (branded as Weekend Today in New York) also air on Saturdays in two one-hour blocks from 6 to 7 a.m. and 9 to 10 a.m.; and on Sundays in one two-hour block from 6 to 8:00Â a.m. and one one-hour block from 9:30 to 10:30Â a.m. (with Weekend Today airing in between the two Saturday blocks and Sunday Today with Willie Geist airing in between the two Sunday blocks).
The program maintains a general format of news stories, traffic reports and weather forecasts, but also includes sports summaries, and entertainment and feature segments. The local news cut-ins broadcast during Today (at approximately :26 and :56 minutes past the hour) are also branded as Today in New York. During the weekday edition, the anchors traditionally sign off with the sentence "The Today Show is next. That's what happening today in New York."
Broadcast history
Today in New York was launched in 1988. For the first decade or so, the broadcast was anchored from the station's newsroom. The theme music was also different from that used on the station's other newscasts such as Live at Five and News 4 New York.
Until the 1990s, the weekday broadcast lasted one-hour long, airing from 6 to 7 a.m. It was then expanded to 65 minutes, starting at 5:55Â a.m. It was subsequently expanded to 90 minutes (starting at 5:30Â a.m.), then 120 minutes (starting at 5:00Â a.m.) and finally in 2010 to start at 4:30Â a.m. 7 years later, they expanded again to 3 hours (starting at 4:00Â a.m.) on July 31, 2017.
Notable personalities
Jane Hanson served as the original anchor of the program. After being removed from the anchor desk of Live at Five in 1992, Tony Guida briefly co-anchored the program followed by Matt Lauer from 1992 to 1994 and Mary Civiello in 1997. Maurice DuBois followed as a co-anchor until he left for CBS owned-and-operated station WCBS-TV (channel 2) in 2004; he was replaced by Rob Morrison.
Hanson, who remained with the station until November 2006 and later returned to WNBC as host of New York Live, was replaced by Darlene Rodriguez in 2003. After Morrison's departure in June 2008, Michael Gargiulo became co-anchor of the program.
Current
Today in New York
- Darlene Rodriguez â€" co-anchor
- Michael Gargiulo â€" co-anchor
- Chris Cimino â€" meteorologist
- Lauren Scala â€" traffic reporter
Weekend Today in New York
- Pat Battle â€" co-anchor
- Gus Rosendale - co-anchor
- Raphael Miranda â€" meteorologist; also MegaPhone interactive trivia host
Reporter
- Katherine Creag â€" field reporter
Former personalities
- Jane Hanson â€" original weekday anchor
- Tony Guida â€" former weekday anchor (now at WCBS-AM)
- Matt Lauer â€" former weekday anchor (now on NBC's Today)
- Joe Witte â€" former meteorologist (now a researcher at the Goddard Spaceflight Center)
- Fran Charles â€" weekday sports anchor (now at MLB Network)
- Otis Livingston â€" weekday sports director (now at WCBS-TV and WLNY-TV)
- Maurice DuBois â€" weekday anchor (now at WCBS-TV)
- Rob Morrison â€" weekend anchor (1999 to 2004) and then weekday anchor (2004 to 2008)
- Perri Peltz â€" weekend anchor
- Felicia Taylor â€" weekend anchor
- Lynda Baquero â€" weekend anchor (still at WNBC)
- David Ushery â€" weekend anchor (still at WNBC)
- Carolyn Gusoff â€" weekend anchor; then Sunday anchor; and back as weekend anchor (now at WCBS-TV and WLNY)
- Erika Tarantal â€" weekend anchor (now at WCVB in Boston)
- Janice Huff â€" weekend meteorologist (still at WNBC as Chief Meteorologist)
- SallyAnn Mosey â€" weekend meteorologist (now at News 12 New Jersey in New Jersey)
- Jonas Schwartz â€" weekend sports anchor (now at SNY)
- Kaitlin Monte â€" MegaPhone interactive trivia host (now at WPIX)
- Contessa Brewer - weekend anchor (now at CBS News)
See also
- Today in L.A. â€" a similar morning news and entertainment program on sister station KNBC in Los Angeles, California.
- NBC News
References
External links
- Official website
- Today in New York on IMDb
