Early Today
| Early Today | |
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| Genre | Early-morning news program |
| Presented by |
Frances Rivera Ayman Mohyeldin Bill Karins (for past anchors, see section) |
| Theme music composer | JSM Music (1999–2004) Savage & Laporta (2004–2013) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 16 |
| Production | |
| Location(s) |
NBC Studios New York, New York |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | approx. 23 minutes |
| Production company(s) | NBC News Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) (1999–2009) 1080i (HDTV) (2009–present) |
| Original release | September 9, 1999 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | NBC News at Sunrise (1983–1999) |
| Followed by |
First Look Today |
| Related shows | Dateline NBC |
Early Today is an American early morning television news program that is broadcast on NBC. The program features general national and international news stories, financial and entertainment news, off-beat stories, national weather forecasts and sports highlights. As of 2016[update], it is anchored by Frances Rivera and Ayman Mohyeldin.
Early Today is the only early morning network newscast on any of the three largest U.S. television networks (NBC, ABC or CBS) that is not produced jointly with an overnight news program (NBC has not aired an overnight newscast since the 1998 cancellation of NBC Nightside, which aired alongside Early Today during the latter program's first few months). However, it uses the same production staff as MSNBC's early-morning newscast First Look.
The program is broadcast live at 4:00 a.m. Eastern Time (airing in the early timeslot to accommodate NBC stations that start their local morning newscasts at 4:30 a.m.), and is transmitted in a continuous half-hour tape delayed loop until 10:00 a.m. Eastern, when Today begins in the Pacific Time Zone. It usually airs as a lead-in to local morning newscasts on most NBC stations, although in the few markets where a morning newscast is not produced by the station, it may air in a two- to three-hour loop immediately before the start of Today. The show is updated for any breaking news occurring before 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time, after which time any live breaking news requiring network-level coverage, at the station's local discretion in each time zone or network orders for live coverage, is under the oversight of Today. Early Today and First Look are traditionally pre-empted during the Summer and Winter Olympic Games to allow the airing of overnight replays of NBC's primetime Olympic event coverage and live coverage on MSNBC, along with allowing stations to fulfill syndicated programming requirements where a distributor requires their programs to still air in some form with the open slot, albeit during the overnights.
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