The D-Team

The Today Show has been morning background noise for years now. I generally only pay any attention to the opening stories, up to the first commercial break; this is the equivalent of stuff that would be "above the fold" on the front page of the newspaper. After that, I'm down the hall on the computer and only keeping half an ear open for potential blogfodder.

Saturdays, the local network affiliate shows a thirty-minute rump cut of Weekend Today stuffed in between the cartoons on one of their subchannels, I guess due to some sort of contractual obligation.

This weekend, being Easter/Passover weekend, you could tell they were digging deep into their bench... if not actually calling people up from AAA ...to man the desk, because there were a couple talking heads at the table there that I absolutely did not recognize. If you're a junior woodchuck newsreader, that's gotta be an awkward introduction to The Bigs.

(Normally the Saturday show is hosted out of their DC studio by Kristen Welker and Peter Alexander; the other six days of the week it's out of the well-known Studio 1A looking out on Rockefeller Plaza.)