Carson Daly to Join Laura Jarrett as Saturday Today Co-Anchor
Daly is scheduled to join NBC’s Saturday morning team on Nov. 7 while continuing his weekday Today and The Voice roles, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
NBC News has named Carson Daly co-anchor of Saturday Today, where he will join Laura Jarrett, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Daly is scheduled to appear with Jarrett, feature anchor Joe Fryer and meteorologist Angie Lassman on Nov. 7, expanding his work across NBC’s weekday and weekend morning programs.
Daly will continue co-hosting the weekday edition of Today and hosting and executive producing The Voice, a role he has held since that music competition premiered in 2011. NBC executive Libby Leist called Daly an integral part of the Today family for 13 years and said viewers would get to spend another day of the week with him. Daly said he was grateful and excited, joking that he had promised his children he would still make pancakes, now for Jarrett and the Saturday team.
How the Saturday Today lineup changed
Daly takes the Saturday co-anchor seat after Peter Alexander left NBC earlier this year to join MS NOW, The Hollywood Reporter reported. Jarrett, who will co-anchor with Daly, joined the Saturday program in 2023. The Los Angeles Times reported at the time that she was succeeding Kristen Welker, who was taking over as moderator of Meet the Press, and would sit alongside Alexander.
The Los Angeles Times’ 2023 account identified Fryer as the program’s feature anchor and Lassman as its meteorologist, roles they are listed as continuing in the announced lineup. It also reported that Saturday Today was moving back to NBC’s Rockefeller Center studio in New York after broadcasting from the network’s Washington headquarters in recent years.
Daly’s work across NBC
Daly first gained national attention hosting MTV’s Total Request Live, The Hollywood Reporter noted. Before joining Today in 2013 as host of its digital extension, The Orange Room, he hosted NBC’s late-night series Last Call with Carson Daly. His Saturday appointment adds a weekly broadcast to those established roles; NBC executive Libby Leist described the new pairing with Jarrett as a fresh chapter for the show.
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Sources and context
- Carson Daly Named Co-Anchor of NBC’s ‘Saturday Today’The Hollywood Reporter
- Laura Jarrett named co-anchor of NBC's 'Saturday Today'Los Angeles Times
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