Rumors that Lauer was instrumental in the departure of Ann Curry led to a decrease in viewership. The program featured the top news headlines of the morning, sports and weather reports, and business segments. As the news is full of highlights and footage of international happenings, domestic news, money tips advice, and even entertainment news, and weather and sports reports are given! As a result, some NBC affiliates that did not choose to fill the time period formerly occupied by the Mad Money replays with syndicated programs or infomercial following the change now air Early Today in the form of two separate editions or as a 90-minute to 2½-hour loop – in which case, the program competes against ABC's World News Now and the CBS Overnight News, effectively resulting in Early Today acting as NBC's de facto overnight network newscast, especially west of the boundary of the Central Time Zone. Gumbel left "Today "not long after an internal memo circulated in which Gumbel grumbled about how Today was being managed. Early Today premiered on September 9, 1999[1] as a replacement for NBC News at Sunrise, which NBC decided to cancel in April 1999 as part of a major shakeup of the network's daytime and early morning schedules (these changes included the launch of another Today-branded program, the short-lived talk show Later Today, as well as the cancellation of the long-running soap opera Another World). Early Today So threatened by Walters, McGee also insisted on asking guests the first three questions of an interview, before Walters could join in. Until a revamp of the set used for both programs in 2011, the anchor background on Early Today was a video screen of a sunrise scene; a skycam shot of Manhattan was used for First Look. 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. Brokaw left to when asked to anchor the " Nightly News." Sunrise aired its final broadcast on Labor Day, 1999, which was anchored by former MSNBC and Weekend Today correspondent Gulstan Dart (now with Sacramento NBC affiliate KCRA-TV). Just like late night talk show titans Leno and Conan and Letterman all duke it out (or Conan and Colbert and Stewart if anyone saw the Writer's Strike episodes), even the early morning talk show hosts have drama. Brokaw left to when asked to anchor the "Nightly News.".

Ann Curry succeeded Vieira as co-host, after taking Lauer's place as the news anchor in 1997. Chancellor left "Today" 14 months after he started. Some of these hosts used to appear only on the weekend shows before becoming faces we saw every weekday morning. The program features general national and international news stories, financial and entertainment news, off-beat stories, national weather forecasts and sports highlights.

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