{"id":135852,"date":"2018-01-02T14:35:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T20:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=135852"},"modified":"2018-01-02T15:01:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T21:01:49","slug":"hoda-kotb-named-today-show-co-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=135852","title":{"rendered":"Hoda Kotb named Today Show Co-Host"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-135855\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kotbehoda2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kotbehoda2.jpg 225w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kotbehoda2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kotbehoda2-175x175.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 NBC News opened the new year by appointing Hoda Kotb (HOH&#8217;-dah KAHT&#8217;-bee) as co-anchor of the &#8220;Today&#8221; show&#8217;s first two hours with Savannah Guthrie, replacing Matt Lauer following his firing on sexual misconduct charges in late November.<\/p>\n<p>Kotb will continue to co-host the show&#8217;s fourth hour with Kathie Lee Gifford.<\/p>\n<p>She has subbed for Lauer beginning on the day he was fired. Despite the turmoil, &#8220;Today&#8221; won four straight weeks in the ratings over ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Good Morning America,&#8221; after it has spent much of the past few years in second place.<\/p>\n<p>Her appointment bucks the trend of morning news shows to have male and female co-hosts. But with sexual misconduct charges are a regular occurrence, the timing could be right for NBC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 NBC News opened the new year by appointing Hoda Kotb (HOH&#8217;-dah KAHT&#8217;-bee) as co-anchor of the &#8220;Today&#8221; show&#8217;s first two hours with Savannah Guthrie, replacing Matt Lauer following his firing on sexual misconduct charges in late November. Kotb will continue to co-host the show&#8217;s fourth hour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135856,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135852\/revisions\/135856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}