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

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, immediately preceding NBC's ''

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''. 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 ''

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'' 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,

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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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on WNBC-TV immediately preceding ''Today'' and usually running between five and 15 minutes in length. Beginning in 1983, with the launch of ''

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'', ''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 Jane Hanson (born December 9, 1955) formerly co-hosted ''New York Live'' (formerly called ''LX New York'') on NBC-TV in New York. She joined WNBC-TV in September 1979. She hosted ''Jane Hanson's New York'' on WNBC-TV. She became host in 2003 after ...

served as the original anchor of the program. After being removed from the anchor desk of ''Live at Five'' in 1992,

Tony Guida Tony Guida (born November 5, 1941) is a New York-based local television and radio personality. He is currently a news anchor for WCBS Newsradio 880 and a business correspondent for CBS News. Life and career Guida began his career working as a re ...

briefly co-anchored the program followed by

Matt Lauer Matthew Todd Lauer (; born December 30, 1957) is an American former television news personality, best known for his work with NBC News. After serving as a local news personality in New York City on WNBC, his first national exposure was as the ne ...

from 1992 to 1994 and Mary Civiello in 1997.

Maurice DuBois Maurice DuBois (born August 20, 1965) is an American television anchorman for WCBS-TV in New York City and the CBS network. Early life and education DuBois was born on Long Island, New York, the son of immigrants to the U.S. from Dominica, an ...

followed as a co-anchor until he left for

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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.
/ref> was replaced by Darlene Rodriguez in 2003. After Morrison's departure in June 2008,

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became co-anchor of the program.

Current

''Today in New York''

– co-anchor *

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– meteorologist * Darlene Rodriguez – co-anchor * Adelle Caballero – traffic reporter

''Weekend Today in New York''

Pat Battle Pat Battle (born December 9, 1959) is an American journalist. Since 1996, she has been at WNBC-TV. Early life Patricia (nickname, "Pat") N. Battle was born December 9, 1959. Of African-American descent, she grew up in Neptune Township, New Jer ...

– co-anchor *

Raphael Miranda Raphael Miranda (born April 26, 1977) is an American meteorologist and weather producer at WNBC television in New York City. Since 2009, Miranda serves as a weatherman for '' Weekend Today in New York'', a primary fill-in meteorologist for th ...

– meteorologist; also MegaPhone interactive trivia host

Former personalities

Lynda Baquero Lynda Baquero (born January 16, 1967) is an American correspondent for the National Broadcasting Company's flagship station in New York City. Baquero handles consumer reports for WNBC through her "Better Get Baquero" segment but has also covered t ...

– weekend anchor (still at

) *

Contessa Brewer Contessa Brewer (born March 16, 1974) is an American television journalist for CNBC Business News. As a correspondent, she covers casinos and gaming. She is also a substitute anchor. She formerly hosted the MSNBC weekend program ''Caught on Cam ...

- weekend anchor (now at

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) *

Fran Charles Fran Charles (born October 19, 1968) is an American television personality for MLB Network, formerly for NFL Network. Career Charles attended John Burroughs School in Ladue, Missouri; then earned a Bachelor's degree in Communication at Stanford ...

– weekday sports anchor (now at

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) *

– weekday anchor (now at

) *

– former weekday anchor (now at

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) *

Carolyn Gusoff Carolyn Gusoff is an American television news reporter and author, working as a Long Island reporter at WCBS-TV in New York City. Prior to that, she spent three years as a reporter at Fox 5 in New York City, and before that she worked for 15 year ...

– weekend anchor; then Sunday anchor; and back as weekend anchor (now at

and

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) *

– original weekday anchor *

Janice Huff Janice Huff (born September 1, 1960) is the chief meteorologist for WNBC in New York City. Early years As she has sometimes noted on her newscast, though born in New York City, at an early age she moved to her grandparents house in Columbia, South ...

– weekend meteorologist (still at

as Chief Meteorologist) *

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

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at ''

'') *

Otis Livingston Otis Livingston is a weekday sports anchor at WCBS-TV in New York City and is a sideline reporter on CBS Sports. He has won numerous Emmy Awards. Biography Livingston has been with WCBS since 2010. In New York, he also worked with WNBC-TV. He rep ...

– weekday sports director (now at

and

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) *

Kaitlin Monte Kaitlin Monte is an American Journalism, journalist who last worked for Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox-owned KRIV (TV), KRIV in Houston, Houston, TX. Monte joined KRIV in 2016 as a reporter and fill-in anchor. Her television career began in New Y ...

– 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) *

SallyAnn Mosey SallyAnn Mosey is a reporter, fill in anchor, and weekend meteorologist for News 12 New Jersey. She was a meteorologist for the FOX owned-and-operated television station WTXF-TV in Philadelphia. Mosey served as meteorologist on the station's popular ...

– weekend meteorologist (now at

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in New Jersey) *

Perri Peltz Perri Peltz is an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist and public health advocate. Most recently, Perri created the documentary news series ''Axios'' on HBO with Matthew O’Neill. Perri & Matthew also co-directed and produced the 2019 ...

– weekend anchor *

Felicia Taylor Felicia Rodrica Sturt Taylor (born August 28, 1964) is a retired American anchor-correspondent who worked for CNN International's ''World Business Today'', and contributed to the Business Updates unit for CNN. She was the co-host of Retirement Liv ...

– weekend anchor *

David Ushery David Ushery (born June 5, 1967) is an African-American television news anchor at WNBC News 4 New York, NBC’s flagship owned and operated station. An integral member of the NBC 4 New York News team, Ushery has covered many of the largest and m ...

– weekend anchor (still at

) *

Joe Witte Joe Witte (born 1943) is currently an Outreach Specialist for Aquent, a contractor of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA. He adapts science content for use by 2,000 television meteorologists around the country. Joe Witte started his career as a gla ...

– former meteorologist (now a researcher at the

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) *

Katherine Creag Katherine Creag Gafner (December 26, 1973 – February 10, 2021) was a Filipino-American television journalist. She worked for WNBC for a decade prior to her death. Before that, she worked for NY1, WTVH, and WNYW. She won several awards for her ...

– field reporter, (died 2021)

References

External links

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