''Today in New York'' (displayed on-air as "''Today in NY''") is a local morning news and entertainment television program airing on

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, an NBC owned-and-operated

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. The program is broadcast each weekday morning from 4:00 to 7 a.m.

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, immediately preceding NBC's '' Today''. 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 5:30 to 8:00 a.m. and one one-hour block from 9:30 to 10:30 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

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, but also includes sports summaries, and

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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

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s traditionally sign off with the sentence "The ''Today'' Show is next. That's what happening today in New York."

Broadcast history

Prior to becoming a full-fledged program, ''Today in New York'' existed as a brief summary of news headlines,

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, and

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s, airing on WNBC-TV immediately preceding ''Today'' and usually running between five and 15 minutes in length. Beginning in 1983, with the launch of '' NBC News at Sunrise'', ''Today in New York'' became a half-hour pre-taped interview show which ran at 6:00 a.m., prior to ''Sunrise'' at 6:30. In 1987 ''Today in New York'' returned to a news update format, and aired at 6:45 a.m. following the network business news show ''Before Hours''. When ''Before Hours'' was canceled by NBC in 1988, ''Today in New York'' was expanded to 30 minutes. Gradual expansions of the show's runtime followed: to one hour (6 to 7 a.m.) in 1990; to 90 minutes (starting at 5:30 a.m.) in 1994; to two hours (starting at 5:00 a.m.) by 1999; and to two-and-a-half hours (starting at 4:30 a.m.) in 2010. The program expanded to its current three-hour runtime (starting at 4:00 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

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from 1992 to 1994 and Mary Civiello in 1997. Maurice DuBois followed as a co-anchor until he left for WCBS-TV 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'',5 p.m. News Returns to WNBC, as New York Live Moves to 3 p.m.
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in 2003. After Morrison's departure in June 2008, Michael Gargiulo became co-anchor of the program.

Current

''Today in New York''

* Michael Gargiulo – co-anchor * Maria LaRosa – meteorologist *

– co-anchor *

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– traffic reporter

''Weekend Today in New York''

* Pat Battle – co-anchor * Raphael Miranda – meteorologist; also MegaPhone interactive trivia host

Former personalities

* Lynda Baquero – weekend anchor (still at

) *

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- weekend anchor (now at

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) * Fran Charles – weekday sports anchor (now at MLB Network) * Maurice DuBois – weekday anchor (now at WCBS-TV) * Tony Guida – former weekday anchor (now at WCBS-AM) * Carolyn Gusoff – weekend anchor; then Sunday anchor; and back as weekend anchor (now at WCBS-TV and WLNY) * Jane Hanson – original weekday anchor * Janice Huff – weekend meteorologist (still at

as Chief Meteorologist) *

– former weekday anchor (later anchored WNBC's '' Live at Five'' and for

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at '' Today'') * Otis Livingston – weekday sports director (now at WCBS-TV and WLNY-TV) * Kaitlin Monte – MegaPhone interactive trivia host (later with KRIV in

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) * Rob Morrison – weekend anchor (1999 to 2004) and then weekday anchor (2004 to 2008) *

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– weekend meteorologist (now at News 12 New Jersey in New Jersey) * Perri Peltz – weekend anchor *

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– weekend anchor * David Ushery – weekend anchor (still at

) * Joe Witte – former meteorologist (now a researcher at the Goddard Spaceflight Center) * Katherine Creag – field reporter, (died 2021)

References

External links

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