Report: Kathie Lee Gifford Joining

Report: Kathie Lee Gifford Joining "Today" Show As Host

Huffington Post   |   March 6, 2008 11:41 AM


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NBC is set to announce that Kathie Lee Gifford is joining "Today" as the host of the fourth hour, reports FTVLive:

"Several high ranking NBC insiders tell FTVLive that the Peacock is about to name Kathie Lee Gifford as a new host of the Today Show.

"'Gifford will work on the 4th hour of Today,' said our NBC source.

"If you are going to hire Gifford it makes sense to put her on the 4th hour of Today. Gifford is definitely going to 'skew older females' when it comes to ratings. The four hour is geared toward the stay at home women.

"Gifford rose to fame in 1988 when 'Live with Regis and Kathie Lee' went national. She spent years hosting the morning talk show and talking about her kids, Cody and Cassidy. Since Cody is now 18 years old, we're guessing we won't hear as much about him on Today (Thank God!)."

Hard to believe but it's been nearly eight years since KLG lost her bully pulpit ("Live!); her last day was July 28, '00, and during that last frenetic farewell broadcast, Reeg said: This "was the most relentless, exhausting farewell in the history of TV." She also told him she wanted to return some day (she did a few years later, for a reunion). "I hope there will be an opportunity to come back" as co-host, she said. "To think I couldn't come back would break my heart more than leaving."

Newsday's Verne Gay echoes the rumor, "An NBC source tells me - let me add, a RELIABLE and smart NBC source - that the report is true, and that Gifford is set to join."

A spokesman for "Today" neither confirmed nor denied the report, tellin TVNewser, "We think Kathie Lee Gifford is a tremendous talent, but we have nothing to announce."

More details to come as they are known...


 
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- michie62 I'm a Fan of michie62 5 fans permalink
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At least I know how to use my remote and it won't be turned to any hour of the Today show. Boring, boring and now it will be very annoying. Thanks, I will stick with MSNBC.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:22 PM on 03/12/2008
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Yuch!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:12 PM on 03/10/2008

There goes the Today Show!!

well at least her kids are all grown up now so we won't have to be subjected to the kiddie parades anymore LOL

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:35 PM on 03/09/2008

My elderly mother-in-law who used to be a fan of Kathie Lee finally got sick and tired of her crying and whining when she was on Regis. Let's hope she doesn't pull the same behavior on the Today show. Wasn't that a news show at one time?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:37 PM on 03/09/2008
- impatient I'm a Fan of impatient 10 fans permalink

I totally forgot how right wing she was! I remember watching her gush over "our president" bush and feeling completely violently angry! Wanting to cause her pain. She was so damned condescending and smug and constantly talking about the houses and the Trumps and all the rest, and her slavish devotion to Bush......

Oh, Ick! She's gotten far enough out of our memories just in time to start the election season and the republican crap all over again.....­.

Does NBC have no compasasion at all?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:29 PM on 03/08/2008
- NotGuilty I'm a Fan of NotGuilty 8 fans permalink
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Even less than Kathy and her Central American sweatshops.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:26 PM on 03/09/2008

All I can say, is that's sad. Another reason I have quit watching such trival and shallow news shows.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:11 PM on 03/08/2008
- dora rice I'm a Fan of dora rice 12 fans permalink
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Oh Kathy. !!!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:28 PM on 03/07/2008
- Faxus I'm a Fan of Faxus 13 fans permalink
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What good are the morning shows without controversial hosts? I miss Gifford and look forward to seeing and hearing her again. You all know she'll stir things up, just like Rosie.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:00 AM on 03/11/2008
- FLJoie I'm a Fan of FLJoie 11 fans permalink
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You know, I typed in a very well-thought comment about the current cast of characters on Today, and somehow the window deleted them. Perhaps just as well. Keep Lester & Ann - turn the show back to some form of intelligent design in a condensed form we can respect. Dave Garroway must be twisting in his grave. Kathy Lee? I don't thin' so, Lucy

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:38 PM on 03/07/2008
- Rachel36 I'm a Fan of Rachel36 5 fans permalink

OH GOD! John Denver couldn't have said it better. The Today Show 's spittle of prestige has all but evaporated. Women are more interested in the other women speaking the truth about the real, daily struggels we face; not someone whose face looks like it needs a crane and a crank to suspend it's youth. We want real discussions tinged with some integrity. I am better off with The View.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:55 PM on 03/07/2008
- seenitall I'm a Fan of seenitall 9 fans permalink
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oh god.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:05 PM on 03/07/2008
- Meah I'm a Fan of Meah 52 fans permalink
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Four hours of the Today Show? Apparently they don't know that three hours is too much. Get some writers and figure out a new format for a completely different show!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:32 AM on 03/07/2008
- FLJoie I'm a Fan of FLJoie 11 fans permalink
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"Today" used to have a good reputation in my mind. Now it is a 4-hour bunch of nonsense / ad for NYC. They seem to have amnesia that a huge percentage of their viewers are NOT from there, nor would want to be. The screaming from the crowds annoys me immensely - which I wrote once to them after a segment when Matt could not hear his cohorts due to the screaming in his location, wherever it may have been at the time.
I had hoped that Matt would have a more professional role after Katie left as she garnered so much of the last year there in the campaign to keep her, vs. have her leave for CBS - another Rocket Scientist move. I LOVE ANN CURRY'S persona - so caring and wise - or is it just in contrast to how many bimbo performers there now are? She actually seems human and empathetic. VS. Pathetic - example: recently they gave too many minutes of fame to the flying without a parchute guy - yet I was watching. EVERYONE TRIED TO TALK TO HIM ALL THE WAY TO THE GROUND WHEN THEY COULD HAVE JUST SHUT UP AND LET US WATCH!!! What if he had been distracted by their all trying to get their 15 seconds of fame on tape?
Lester is a comfortable portion of the show and I look forward to his segments. David Gregory needs to stay off camera. Blah, Blah, Blah - It's difficult to take the morning shows anymore. Dave Garroway must be revolving in his grave over the turns this has taken. KATHY LEE GIFFORD FOR GAWD'S SAKE? Poor Frank.....­.......

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:36 PM on 03/07/2008
- Meah I'm a Fan of Meah 52 fans permalink
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It is interesting that there is an assumption that women who are home and older would be interested at all in watching Kathie Lee Gifford. Nothing could be farther than the truth for me. I think that this is another move to assuage the right, at a time when people want to eschew the right. I suppose it would be a break for the women who are watching TV evangelism to turn to Kathie for a while just for a little break. I think NBC is being foolish in thinking that the women in my category are interested in their programming at all. I am busy watching CSPAN, folks. God almighty, when are these people in Television going to stop being intimidated by the right. We are being pulled down to a level that is fueled by ignorance! Kathie Lee stepped out in a fit of jealous rage because Regis was getting more attention than her! Pathetic!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:12 AM on 03/07/2008
- CammyV I'm a Fan of CammyV 6 fans permalink
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Just another reason to avoid the Today show, of which I was a fan of for upteen years, until Ms Viera joined the crew.
Thank goodness for MSNBC and Morning Mika...I mean Joe.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:56 AM on 03/07/2008
- biglover I'm a Fan of biglover 42 fans permalink

I think then 3 hour version of Today with meredith viera is far better than it was with Katie Couric.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:25 PM on 03/07/2008

Cody likes pudding, next week we will buy Cody a big boys bed, Cody's name rhymes with almost nothing, Cody forms sentences, Cody fell off his big wheels and got a Cody sized booboo, Cody loves Reeeg, Cody licks the cat, Cody bit the dog, Cody likes superman under-roos. Cody likes to beat the kids that are slackers at our very own sweat shop!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:44 AM on 03/07/2008
- Theda I'm a Fan of Theda 17 fans permalink
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Cody MUST be about 16 or 17 now, right?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:41 PM on 03/07/2008

Is the today show that desperate to bring back the queen of mean, she is a mess and self centered ego maniac, well i don't get nbc anyway so let her bring the show to it's knees, she's a nut job! I didn't like her on Regis as she was the perfect mother, perfect weight, perfect wife, perfect host, perfect sweat shop task master, perfect younger wife to an older man, just plum perfect. But let someone question her about anything and out pops the horns and green pea soup all over the place very messy, are they prepared for the extra clean up if someone pisses her off? Yikes that's truly scraping the bottom of the barrel. Hi I'm Kathie Lee watch my head spin around. Cody pees in the toilet now aiming at Franks cherrios! Cody can tie his own shoes, Cody likes soup, Cody spelled his name in his alphabet cereal, Cody runs the sweat shops with an iron fist.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:31 AM on 03/07/2008
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