Early Today is the early-morning news program on
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Dan KloefflerDan Kloeffler is an anchor on MSNBC, a cable news network. Kloeffler anchors overnight MSNBC Now news updates as well as First Look and on NBC's Early Today. He joined MSNBC from WSTM-TV in Syracuse, New York in 2007...
and
Christina BrownChristina Brown is an Emmy award winning journalist, an anchor for MSNBC and hosts NBC's "Early Today." She began working for MSNBC in June 2007, after five years with KTNV-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada and two years with KTSM-TV in El Paso, Texas. She got her start in Radio/TV while enlisted in the...
rotate as
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with Kloeffler usually anchoring Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays and Brown handling Wednesday and Thursday. It usually airs from 4:30AM-5:00AM in each time zone, although some stations air it later if their local news starts after 5:30AM, or before
Today if they do not air a local morning newscast at all.
Early orgins
It premiered in 1999 as the replacement for
NBC News at SunriseNBC News at Sunrise was an early morning news program produced by NBC News from 1983 to 1999. The program featured the top news headlines of the morning, sports and weather reports, and business segments. Many of the program's anchors also appeared on The Today Show...
. Originally produced through the former
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facilities of NBC's financial-news cable network,
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, and focusing on business and financial news (including a modified version of the
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showing stock prices and weather forecasts), the show switched focus to general news in 2004. As part of this change the show was relocated to the facilities of
MSNBCMSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States and available in both the US and Canada. Its name is a combination of "MSN" and "NBC"....
, another NBC cable network.
MSNBC's
First LookFirst Look is an early morning news program on MSNBC airing live at 5am ET/2am PT. It is hosted either by Lynn Berry, Christina Brown or Dan Kloeffler on a daily rotational basis....
, which airs a half-hour after the 4:30AM taping of
Early Today, is a redone version of the network newscast with the same anchors, weathercasters, and segments (the
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sportscast is aired unchanged on both programs). Some segments are excluded from
First Look, mainly the local weather cut-in and a local event call-out featuring a promotion for a city's NBC affiliate, while a story or two on
Early Today may not be seen on
First Look.
In September 2007, the program, like the rest of MSNBC, moved from their former
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, headquarters into the new combined home of MSNBC and
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at the
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in
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The anchor background on
Early Today is a video screen of a sunrise scene; a
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shot of
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is used for
First Look.
The name was also used for another early-morning news program produced by NBC News from 1982 to 1983, which featured the cast of NBC's
Today at the time--
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, and
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. This was replaced in 1983 by
NBC News at Sunrise.
The current version of
Early Today premiered with
Amy RobachAmy Joanne Robach is a national correspondent for NBC's Today, as well as the co-anchor of their Saturday edition.-Biography:...
as anchor.
On June 29, 2009 with the launch of MSNBC HD,
Early Today is now presented in high definition, the first early morning broadcast newscast to air in the format.
International broadcasts
MSNBC and NBC News programming is shown for several hours a day on the 24-hour news network
Orbit NewsOrbit News is network of three 24 hour satellite and cable channels offering exclusivly American news programming to viewers abroad, primarily geared towards an Arab audience...
in Europe and the Middle East. This includes
Early Today and several other shows.
Personalities
Presently Dan Kloeffler and Christina Brown rotate as anchors of the program. Brown joined the program in July 2007 as the replacement for
Milissa RehbergerMilissa Rehberger joined the 24-hour cable news channel MSNBC in December 2003 as a freelance anchor and reporter. In July 2004 she was named anchor of its primetime news updates. Most recently Rehberger spent some time anchoring NBC's Early Today and MSNBC's First Look. Currently, Rehberger is...
who returned to her position as a
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news-break anchor.
Past personalities
Anchor
- Nanette Hansen
Nanette Hansen was a journalist with CBS, NBC, and CNBC. She hosted NBC's Early Today program from 1999 to 2004. After leaving NBC, Hanson sold real estate on Long Island, NY for Corcoran Group real estate. Her Corcoran page is no longer available, indicating that she is no longer active with that...
(1999-2004)
- Natalie Morales
Natalie Leticia Morales , is a co-anchor and national correspondent for NBC's Today. Usually she replaces Meredith Vieira during the third hour of the show. Many times she fills-in for Ann Curry as news anchor....
(2004; now with Today)
- Amy Robach
Amy Joanne Robach is a national correspondent for NBC's Today, as well as the co-anchor of their Saturday edition.-Biography:...
(2004; now with Weekend TodayWeekend Today is the unofficial title of the weekend editions of Today, an American morning news and talk show which airs daily on NBC.-History:...
)
- Contessa Brewer
Contessa Brewer is an American news anchor, and currently working for MSNBC.-Biography:She graduated from Sacopee Valley High School in Hiram, Maine in 1992. She joined MSNBC in September 2003 after working for WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as a weekend anchor and general assignment reporter...
(2004-2005; now with MSNBCMSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States and available in both the US and Canada. Its name is a combination of "MSN" and "NBC"....
's MSNBC Livemsnbc Live is an American news / talk television program on MSNBC.Focusing on live news coverage, msnbc Live consists of the network's primary rolling-news programming...
)
- Kristine Johnson
Kristine Johnson is a co-anchor at WCBS-TV in New York City, New York, on the 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts with Chris Wragge....
(2005-October 20, 2006; currently main anchor at WCBS-TVWCBS-TV, channel 2, is the flagship station of the CBS television network, located in New York City and owned by CBS Corporation. The station's studios are located within the CBS Broadcast Center in midtown Manhattan and its transmitter is atop the Empire State Building...
)
- Bill Fitzgerald
Bill Fitzgerald is a television news anchor and reporter. He will begin anchoring evening newscasts for WTVR in Richmond, VA in August of 2009. He most recently was the news anchor for WNCN with co-anchor Melanie Sanders and meteorologist Wes Hohenstein weeknights at 6, 7 and 11 p.m...
(2006-2007)
- Milissa Rehberger (various quarters)
Meteorologist
- Joe Witte
Joe Witte is the morning and midday weathercaster for Newschannel 8, a local cable news network owned by Albritton Communication headquartered in Rosslyn, VA and serving the Washington, D.C area. He previously worked at Washington's ABC affiliate, WJLA, which is also owned by Albritton and...
(1999-2003)
- John Elliott
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(2004)
- Sean McLaughlin (2004-2005)
- Rosey Edeh
Rosey Edeh is a Canadian television personality, currently a correspondent for the entertainment newsmagazine series ET Canada.Edeh was born in London, England...
(2004-2005)
- Elise Finch
Elise Finch is an American news journalist and currently a weekend meteorologist for WCBS-TV in New York City. She was a meteorologist NBC's national forecasting service 'NBC Weather Plus' from December 2004 to December 2006 and also worked for MSNBC. Before that she was at KAAL in Austin,...
(2006)
- Byron Miranda (2007)
- Todd Santos (2008)
Business Anchor
- Louisa Bojesen (1999-2008)
See also
- ABC
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's America This Morning
- CBS Morning News
CBS Morning News is the half-hour daily television broadcast from CBS News that airs following Up to the Minute. It airs from 4:30 to 5 a.m. in many markets and in some markets it airs at 4:00 a.m. and features late-breaking news stories, weather forecasts, and sports scores...
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