Matt Lauer
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Lauer at the 2012 Time 100
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| Born |
Matthew Todd Lauer December 30, 1957 New York City, New York, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Ohio University |
| Occupation | Television journalist |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Employer | NBCUniversal, Comcast |
| Salary | $28,000,000 annually |
| Television |
Today co-anchor (1997–present) Today news anchor (1994–1997) |
| Spouse(s) |
Nancy Alspaugh (m. 1981; div. 1988) Annette Roque (m. 1998) |
| Children | 3 |
Matthew Todd "Matt" Lauer (born December 30, 1957) is an American television journalist and host of The Today Show. He is also a contributor for Dateline NBC. He was previously a news anchor for The Today Show in 1994 and anchor for WNBC in New York City and a local talk-show host in Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, and Richmond. He was also host of PM Magazine (or "Evening Magazine" 1980–86). In the early 1990s, Lauer hosted segments of HBO Entertainment News.
Lauer was born in New York City, the son of Marilyn Kolmer (née Gentry), a boutique owner, and Jay Robert Lauer, a bicycle-company executive. His parents divorced during his youth, and his father died in 1997. Lauer had become co-host of The Today Show, replacing longtime host Bryant Gumbel in early 1997, not long before his father's death.
Lauer's father was of Romanian-Jewish heritage, as seen on the Today Show's Finding Our Roots. Lauer said, "My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything. I do feel a desire now to find something spiritual. Getting married and wanting to have kids has something to do with that."
Lauer is a graduate of the School of Media Arts and Studies (formerly the School of Telecommunications) of Ohio University. In 1997, he received his undergraduate degree from Ohio University at the age of 39. He had dropped out of Ohio University's School of Telecommunications in the Spring of 1979. Lauer began his television career in 1979 as a producer of the 12 o'clock news for WOWK-TV in Huntington, West Virginia. By 1980, he had become an on-air reporter on the 6 and 11 o'clock newscasts. He then started to move around the country, hosting a number of weekly information and talk programs in Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, and Richmond. He was also host of PM Magazine in Providence, RI and then in 1984 at WNEW-TV in New York City until the show's cancellation in 1986. In 1986, he co-hosted WNYW-TV's Made In New York with Jill Rappaport for its fifteen-week run on the station. In 1986, he also co-hosted Fame, Fortune and Romance. He also worked for ESPN in the 1980s. In Boston, he hosted WNEV-TV's Talk of the Town in 1988.
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