Early Today

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Early Today

Genre	News
Running time	30 minutes
Starring	Dan Kloeffler Bill Fitzgerald Fred Roggin (sports)
Country of origin	United States
Original channel	NBC
Original run	1999–present
No. of episodes	N/A (airs daily)
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Early Today is the early morning news program on NBC. MSNBC anchors Bill Fitzgerald and Dan Kloeffler rotate hosting the show. It usually airs from 4:30AM-5:00AM in each time zone, though some stations air it later if their news starts after 5:30AM, or before Today if they do not air a local morning newscast at all.

1 History
2 International broadcasts
3 Personalities
4 Credits
5 Logos
6 External link

[edit] History

It premiered in 1999 as the replacement for NBC News at Sunrise. Originally focusing on business and financial news, the show switched focus to general news in 2004. With this change came a relocation, as the show previously was produced through the facilities of NBC cable network CNBC, but was relocated to the facilities of MSNBC. MSNBC's First Look, which airs at the same time, shares some segments and personnel with Early Today.

The name was also used for another early morning news program produced by NBC News from 1982 to 1983, which featured the cast of NBC's The Today Show at the time--Jane Pauley, Bryant Gumbel, and Willard Scott. This was replaced in 1983 by NBC News at Sunrise.

[edit] International broadcasts

MSNBC and NBC News programming is shown for several hours a day on the 24 hour news network Orbit News in Europe and the Middle East. This includes Early Today and several other shows.

[edit] Personalities

For about the last year, Early Today has been anchored by NBC News Correspondent Kristine Johnson. On the show from Friday, October 20th, 2006, and at the end of the show, Elise Finch, the NBC Weather Plus Anchor reminded viewers that Johnson was leaving the show, that day, due to her upcoming pregnancy. Johnson said to the viewers, "The 1AM wakeup call is NOT pleasant, and I need to get some sleep for my new baby". At closing theme song, she said (As she usually does), "I'm Kristine Johnson, and this is early today, just your first stop of the day, Today, on your NBC station", and right before the show cut, she was delivered a present from the show crew. Her replacement is not locked in yet, but for now, it is alternating between MSNBC anchors Bill Fitzgerald and Dan Kloeffler.