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NBC has announced that Brian Williams will co-host, along with Bob Costas, Friday night’s Winter Olympics opening ceremony, giving Williams what could be his toughest challenge since replacing Tom Brokaw as anchor on the NBC Nightly News, the Chicago Tribune writes. Katie Couric has co-hosted the last three games, but NBC has said that she’ll be skipping this year’s event because live anchoring of the Today show from Rome, Florence, and Milan this week has kept her from attending rehearsals.
However, as it has been widely rumored that Couric is considering leaving NBC for CBS in a few months, it is possible that NBC is giving Williams the exposure instead. Another possibility, according to the article, is that Couric didn’t particularly want to do the parade, due to the negative publicity the Today crew received because of its failure to acknowledge, during the Macy’s Parade on Thanksgiving, the injury of several spectators.
Volvo will become the first automaker to offer HD Radio as standard equipment in all but one of its 2009 models. The running change becomes effective next month on the 2009 Volvo model lineup.
“Our drivers expect the highest quality…
The current issue of Cottage Living will be its last. Time Inc., in the midst of a major restructuring, is closing the books on the title.
The magazine had a solid start four years ago and managed to boost circulation…
Macy’s is hoping to drum up excitement about its famous annual Thanksgiving Day Parade by handing out flip books featuring familiar parade scenes, including Santa’s arrival at the parade during the grand finale.
The flip books were created by Flippies,…
Project Runway is still deadlocked in legal tangles that could keep the show off the air indefinitely.
The program, originally on Bravo, was slated to move to Lifetime in January for its sixth season, but Bravo parent company NBCU is suing producer…
Some 20% of top brand marketers continue to send additional emails to consumers, even after they confirm requests from those consumers to “unsubscribe” from an email marketing list, according to a research study from Return Path, MarketingCharts writes.
Though the study,…
An overwhelming majority of mothers in America (90%) saw the economy getting weaker even before the collapse on Wall Street, and more of them now (40%) feel stressed about their current family life than feel good about the way things…
