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Article: Lauer: 'Today' & Tomorrow.(Matt Lauer)(Interview)
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- TelevisionWeek
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- January 1, 2007
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Byline: Michele Greppi
On Jan. 6, Matt Lauer will mark his 10-year anniversary as co-anchor of NBC's "Today" morning show.
It's a gig he took after several years of doing double-and sometimes triple-duty for WNBC-TV in New York and across the street at "Today," where he started as the news reader and substitute for predecessor Bryant Gumbel. It was a welcome break in a string of bad luck professionally and choices made for money.
Mr. Lauer, who turned 49 in December, sat down last week with TelevisionWeek National Editor Michele Greppi to talk about how close he came to bouncing his rent check, how without a well-timed break he may have ended ...