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• Matt Lauer tells Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show': 'It's been an interesting year'

  Lauer, still very much in damage control after the Ann Curry ouster fiasco and the continued downward pressure on numbers, turned up at "The Tonight Show" Thursday to promote Psy performance Friday morning on "Today" and perhaps more importantly, to address   Read more »

• 'Top of the Morning' eyes Ann Curry 'Today' show ouster

  Stelter -- which was posted on the paper's website Thursday -- also indicated that talks with CNN's Anderson Cooper to replace Matt Lauer were substantive, and had progressed to the point where it was suggested he join in 2014, overlapping the last year of   Read more »

• 'Good Day New York' beats 'Today' in ratings for second straight month

  if "Today" can't pull out a victory on its home turf, then problems are serious.Meanwhile, I wrote a TV Zone post about Matt Lauer's recent efforts to spin his travails at "Today" the other day, and mentioned that Howard Kurtz's recent scoop for the Daily   Read more »

• Matt Lauer: 'Today' show will top ratings again

  Lauer told advertisers Thursday that he wants to get the "Today" show back to being the most watched and least talked about morning show on television, and that he expects to do it.The beleaguered morning show host made his pitch at an unfortunately-timed   Read more »

Around the web

• Matt Lauer & Savannah Guthrie Discuss the "Today Show"

  Bay Area Proud is NBC Bay Area's community outreach and volunteering initiative. We hope you'll join us at our events, where our on-air talent often roll up their sleeves and help out on projects. Read more Sign up to receive news and updates that matter t 5/21/13 from NBC Bay Area Read more »

• Kathie Lee Gifford -- If Matt Lauer Leaves 'Today' ... We'll Revolt!

  Leaves 'Today' ... We'll Revolt! Exclusive Kathie Lee Gifford says there will be a "revolt" at NBC if the powers that be allow Matt Lauer to leave the " Today " show, telling TMZ ... she'll do whatever it takes to keep him around. Kathie Lee was leaving Rockefeller 5/21/13 from TMZ Read more »

• Matt Lauer Welcomes The Cicada Brood Of 1996

  a few different broods of cicada, and this one last emerged in 1996. NBC’s “Today” helpfully shared a video of co-anchor Matt Lauer–then at WNBC New York–anchoring a newscast on the cicada, and featuring a report from correspondent Pat Battle. Revamp your   from mediabistro.com Read more »

• ‘Top of the Morning,’ by Brian Stelter

  to erode at “Today,” executives decided early in 2012 that Ann Curry’s performance was part of the problem, that she and Matt Lauer did not exude good chemistry — those executives were right! — and that it was time to move Curry out of the seat occupied over   from The New York Times Read more »

• Adam Sandler’s sage advice to Jay Leno: ‘Go to Fox!’ — VIDEO

  if he might consider it seriously come 2014. Read more: Seth Meyers to replace Jimmy Fallon on ‘Late Night’ Jay Leno to CBS: Give Craig Ferguson a house band, you ‘cheap bastards’ — VIDEO Matt Lauer to Jay Leno: ‘I am not a guy who complains’ — VIDEO   from Entertainment Weekly Read more »