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''Weekend Today'' is the unofficial title of the Saturday and Sunday editions of ''Today'', an American morning news and talk program that airs daily on NBC. Weekend editions of ''Today'' began with the launch of the Sunday edition of the program on September 20, 1987. The Saturday edition of the program airs in alignment with the weekday editions of ''Today'' from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. ET, although some affiliates chose to tape-delay the program, though some Central Time Zone affiliates may choose to air it live at 6:00 a.m. Central Time. The Saturday edition airs on some NBC stations in earlier timeslots than the weekday editions; stations in the western half of the country choose to air it at 5:00 or 6:00 a.m. local time. The Sunday edition, meanwhile, airs from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. ET. Most NBC affiliates choose to air two separate hour-long blocks of their local morning newscasts around the Sunday edition, and in some markets, the Saturday edition, with the first hour of the local newscast airing before and the second hour airing after the program. Some affiliates preempt part of the broadcast or preempt the entire program outright. ==History== The Sunday edition of ''Today'' (titled ''Sunday Today'') premiered on September 20, 1987, and was originally hosted by Maria Shriver and Boyd Matson, with Garrick Utley as news anchor. The program was broadcast from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m., followed by ''Meet the Press''. It was the second morning news program to run weekend editions, CBS previously attempted a six-day-a-week morning news program under the "Morning" banner in 1979, the only surviving remnant of which is the newsmagazine ''CBS News Sunday Morning''. Garrick Utley replaced Boyd Matson as co-anchor on March 20, 1988. Shriver, weather anchor Al Roker and sports anchor Bill Macatee continued with the program. In 1989, production of ''Sunday Today'' moved to Washington, D.C. to allow Utley to also serve as moderator of ''Meet the Press''. On November 12, 1989, a special edition of ''Sunday Today'' featured Utley in Berlin covering the fall of the Berlin Wall earlier that week, with Shriver hosting from Burbank, California and Roker in New York City. At the end of the broadcast, Utley mentioned that Shriver was leaving the show to go on maternity leave. NBC News national correspondent (and eventual co-anchor of the weekday edition of ''Today'') Katie Couric became substitute anchor during Shriver's absence. Maria Shriver returned from maternity leave on April 8, 1990, to ''Sunday Today'' and announced that she would be leaving the show after that day's broadcast. Couric was named interim co-anchor until Mary Alice Williams became the new co-anchor later that month. Production of the Sunday program returned to New York City when Utley left ''Meet the Press'' in 1991. On August 1, 1992, the Saturday edition made its debut with the reduction of NBC's children's programming block on Saturday mornings to the three-hour ''TNBC'' block, expanding the broadcast schedule of the ''Today'' franchise to seven days a week. The weekend editions were initially titled ''Saturday Today'' or ''Sunday Today'', as applicable, in order to distinguish them from the weekday program. Since the late 1990s, all editions of the program have officially been titled ''Today'', although ''Weekend Today'' is still sometimes used for promotional purposes. Amy Robach was news anchor during much of the Brown and Holt era (2003-2007). From 1988, (when Garrick Utley became co-anchor) & 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, until 2012 (When Jenna Wolfe became news anchor) ''Weekend Today'' did not have a News Anchor. Various NBC News, CNBC and MSNBC correspondents fill that position, every week a different person. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Weekend Today」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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