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In advance of Time magazine's Person of the Year choice being revealed on Wednesday's show, NBC's Today show brought on managing editor Richard Stengel yesterday, to reveal the seven finalists, and on Tuesday's show NBC's Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira gave the results of an on-line poll of their viewer's picks and it wasn't good news for Nancy Pelosi. The Speaker of the House finished dead last among the seven candidates but Lauer pitied...  

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"Good Morning. We've been sold." That's how Meredith Vieira opened the Today show this morning with the news that General Electric had signed an agreement to sell control of NBC Universal to Comcast. NBCU head honcho Jeff Zucker will hold a town hall meeting for employees at 1pmET, answering questions about what the sale means to them. CNBC's David Faber, who's been covering the story from the start, got the first interview with the CEOs of...  

NBC "Today" show duo Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira co-hosted a book party for Al Roker last night at at Sushi Samba in the West Village, where they toasted -- and roasted -- the affable weatherman. Roker -- a fan of mystery-novel machine James Patterson -- published his first book this week, entitled "The Morning Show Murders." The plot involves the mysterious death of a TV producer, and Roker plans to write a mystery series. Read the rest of...  

Regis Philbin's pending hip replacement surgery is not slowing him down. The "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" host will sit in for Meredith Vieira, the host of the syndicated version of the game show, during a week-long guest stint from Nov. 30 - Dec. 4.  

Weathercaster Al Roker, left, and co-host Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer of NBC "Today" show, appear during a segment of the program in New York's Rockefeller Center. (AP) NEW YORK - NBC's "Today" show will broadcast from Afghanistan this week. Matt ...  

Katie Couric, Meredith Vieira, Hoda Kotb, Ann Curry, Deborah Feyerick, and Ali Velshi were among the guests at last night's Mediaite launch party at the Plaza Hotel. We whipped out the Flip and spotted Mediaite founder and former MSNBC G.M. Dan Abrams chatting with Couric. [Lower the volume before you hit play, it was loud in there]. By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C found at http://corp...  

Martha Stewart and Meredith Vieira had an apple bie baking contest on The Today Show. Meredith used her mother's handwritten recipe and Martha used her recipe which has a homemade crust (Meredith uses store bought pie crust). Matt Lauer is the judge and he gets more and more nervous as he realizes that no matter who he picks, he is going to be in big trouble. You can see Jon Bon Jovi in the background laughing, because it's a very funny clip...  

If you didn't get enough of Matt Lauer during this morning's parade, you can catch him tonight in "NBC's People of the Year" special. TVNewser caught up with Lauer -- and his "Today" show co-host Meredith Vieira -- earlier this week. "These are people we spent some time talking about during the year," he told us. "The focus of the show is 'What happened to them after the headlines?' 'How have their lives changed because of what they went...  

I was watching the Today Show ( again !) this morning, and Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira were teasing a segment with Meredith Baxter Birney, the former matriarch of Family Ties . "Meredith Baxter Birney has a SECRET," they kept saying ominously, and...(read more)  

Matt Lauer had a tough time being the ultimate taste-tester in today's apple pie bake-off between Meredith Vieira and Martha Stewart. Here's how he made the difficult choice: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Click here for recipes and more video from the bake-off.  

Nov. 18: TODAY Meredith Vieira and domestic guru Martha Stewart go head-to-head in an apple pie bake-off.Add this to your queueAdded: Wed Nov 18 18:14:05 UTC 2009Air date: Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 UTC 2009Duration: 06:47  

As part of an ongoing series called Today's Buzziest Stories of the Decade, NBC's Meredith Vieira, on Monday's Today, featured a segment with former Iraq war POW Jessica Lynch, and with it brought back some of the "Buzziest" bias of the decade as Vieira declared Lynch's story was "exaggerated to sell a war hard up for appealing heroes," and described Lynch as a "pawn of the military that was trying to sell, some said, a war to the American...  

NBC’s Meredith Vieira used a liberal talking point against the Bush administration on the Today show on Tuesday. Vieira asked  Inez Tenenbaum, the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, “Under President Bush, the Consumer Products Safety Commission was criticized for being too cozy with business- essentially, toothless. How do you assure the American public...that that’s no longer the case?” The NBC morning anchor interviewed...  

At first glance it appeared that NBC's Meredith Vieira and David Gregory, on Friday's Today show, did a decent job of recounting all of the struggles the Obama administration is dealing with from unemployment to foreign policy, but ultimately the pair concluded, in every instance, they weren't actual problems, but merely problems of "perception." First up Vieira mentioned Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner being criticized on Capitol Hill for...