He also sent longtime captain Brent Sutter and Brad Lauer to the Chicago Blackhawks for Steve Thomas and Adam Creighton.

The remaining hours of programming, set aside for the ceremonies by the network, were filled with a special two-hour edition of Dateline, hosted by Matt Lauer, that included film clips, interviews with some of the nominees and commentary from comedienne Kathy Griffin and the panelists from Football Night in America.

Morales occasionally fills in at the anchor desk, while Holt, Geist, Meet the Press moderator David Gregory and CNBC host Carl Quintanilla frequently substitute for Lauer.

She remained at Today for fifteen years with co-host Matt Lauer and NBC News until May 31, 2006, when she announced that she would be going to CBS to anchor the CBS Evening News, becoming the first solo female anchor of the " big three " weekday nightly news broadcasts.

The cover was released on May 9th on the Today Show with Matt Lauer where Congressman Schock encouraged people to form healthy eating and fitness habits, and join the Men's Health " Fit for Life Summer Challenge ," to shed pounds.

Vieira hosted the show with Matt Lauer from September 13, 2006, through June 8, 2011, also becoming a contributing anchor for Dateline NBC.

Her last appearance as regular co-host was on June 8 ; she returned to the show for the Halloween broadcast on October 31, 2011, and again as special co-host with Matt Lauer in London, United Kingdom for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.

Both Vieira and co-host Matt Lauer were criticized for their NBC coverage of the opening ceremony for the 2012 London Summer Olympics Games.

Jermaine Jackson took The Today Shows Matt Lauer on a tour of the main house, and he was interviewed on the grounds of the house by Larry King for his show.

The show was promoted heavily during NBC's coverage of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and garnered above average ratings for the network, but the show received a negative response from TV critics, who considered it to be little more than a gimmick and a shill for other NBC and DreamWorks properties ( two early episodes extensively featured The Today Shows Matt Lauer and another featured Donkey-voiced by Eddie Murphy-from the DreamWorks movie Shrek and Shrek 2 ).

Lauer began his television career in 1979 as a producer of the 12 o ' clock news for WOWK-TV in Huntington, West Virginia.

Lauer filled in as the newsreader on The Today Show for Margaret Larson when needed from 1992 to 1993.

During NBC's broadcast of the opening ceremony, Bob Costas remarked to Matt Lauer, co-host of Today, as the two hosted it about Brueggergosman's performance of the Olympic Hymn: " That's a hymn for you, right there ," and laughed.

In 1991, he was traded to the Chicago Blackhawks with Brad Lauer for Adam Creighton and Steve Thomas.

Lauer served with the New South Wales Police Force for forty-one years altogether, as a General Duty uniform officer, Traffic Patrol cyclist, and in a wide range of criminal investigation duties.

Janice Lauer proposes the following techniques for invention: 1. applicable to a wide variety of writing situations so that they will transcend a particular topic and can be internalized by the student 2. flexible in their direction allowing a thinker to return to a previous step or skip to an inviting one as the evolving idea suggest 3. highly generative by involving the writer in various operations-such as visualizing, classifying, defining, rearranging, and dividing-that are known to stimulate insights ( Glenn and Goldthwaite 155 ).

This format didn't stay long, however-Simmons was paired with Matt Lauer for a new iteration of Live at Five, originating from NBC's Today Show Window on the World studios.

The casting for Andy Lauer was almost sudden, himself having an interest of working with The Asylum.

Hanson has served as a fill-in newsreader on The Today Show for John Palmer, Deborah Norville, Faith Daniels, Margaret Larson, Matt Lauer, and Ann Curry from 1988 to 2003.

The OpenEmbedded Project ( OE for short, but mostly called OE-dev, following the name of the mailing list ) was created by Chris Larson, Michael Lauer, and Holger Schurig, merging the achievements of OpenZaurus with contributions from projects like Familiar Linux and OpenSIMpad into a common codebase.

Scott also hosted the NBC telecast of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade from 1987 until 1997 when he was replaced by Matt Lauer the following year.

In recent years, NBC's coverage has been hosted by Today anchors Matt Lauer, Couric, Meredith Vieira ; Ann Curry ; and this year Savannah Guthrie ; with announcements provided by Don Pardo, followed by Linda Lopez, the telecast's only female announcer, who served during the decade wherein Willard Scott was parade host ; and, since circa 1994, by Joel Godard of Late Night with Conan O ' Brien fame.

At the concert he paired with host Matt Lauer, and entertainers including Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Kanye West, Mike Myers, and John Goodman.

John R. (" Jack ") Lauer served as state representative from 1973 to 1978, and Robert F. (" Bob ") Olson served as state representative from 1986 to 1994.

She has had several co-anchors, or as Sue called them " anchor husbands ", including Jack Cafferty, Tony Guida, Matt Lauer, Dean Shepherd and Jim Rosenfield.

She worked with several co-anchors, including Jack Cafferty, Tony Guida, Matt Lauer, Dean Shepherd, Jim Rosenfield, Perri Peltz, and David Ushery.

Along with that of co-host Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer, Costa's commentary of the 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremonies has come under fierce criticism, with Costas being described as making " a series of jingoistic remarks, including a joke about Idi Amin when Uganda's team appeared " and the combined commentary as being " ignorant " and " banal ".

Lauer had become co-host of The Today Show replacing longtime host Bryant Gumbel in early 1997, not long before his father's death.

In 1999, both Lauer and his co-host Katie Couric initially resisted participation in Today's proposed series about their family roots.

Brown himself recommended that The Today Show co-host Matt Lauer visit the memorial, and Lauer subsequently filmed a segment in the Royal Arch room ( it aired September 14, 2009, the day before Brown's book was released ).

* " This Man Turned Blue ( video )", NBC Today Show, Matt Lauer interview, aired January 7, 2008.

In an interview given to The Today Show in May of 2012, Brown said security was the reason why he and his family left Houston's service with Brown stating he loved Houston's family and told Matt Lauer that he had spent " 14 beautiful years " with Houston as his wife.

Buffett didn't comment immediately after the incident, but discussed it with Matt Lauer on The Today Show three days later.

She later went on NBC's Today Show with host Matt Lauer and admitted that the security system had indeed failed.

She discussed her 2008 memoir Wishful Drinking and various topics in it with Matt Lauer on NBC's Today on December 10, 2008 and also revealed that she wishes she had turned down the role of Princess Leia.

On January 27, 1998, Hillary Clinton appeared on NBC's The Today Show, in an interview with Matt Lauer.

In 2006, she temporarily co-hosted — with Matt Lauer — Today, the NBC morning news and talk show.

On December 2, 2009, she came out as a lesbian during an interview with Matt Lauer on Today, and on the Frank DeCaro Show on Sirius-XM OutQ 102.

He also hosted Lifestyles spinoff Fame, Fortune & Romance, along with future " Today Show " host Matt Lauer.

NBC announced that there will be a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 85th Anniversary Primetime Special hosted by The Today Show ’ s Matt Lauer, November 24th at 10: 00 p. m.

Matthew Todd " Matt " Lauer ( born December 30, 1957 ) is an American television journalist best known as the host of NBC's The Today Show since 1996.

Lauer is of Romanian-Jewish descent on his father's side, as seen on the Today Show's Finding Our Roots.

Lauer moved to WNBC-TV in 1992 where he became co-anchor, alongside Jane Hanson, of the early weekday news show Today in New York.

" My heart just sank because I looked at the wing tip and I saw that it was shorn off ,” he told Today host Matt Lauer.