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====''Today's Take''==== {{Infobox television | name = Today's Take | alt_name = The Take | image = | caption = | genre = [[Talk Show]] | presenter = {{Plainlist| *[[Al Roker]] *[[Ann Curry]] *[[Natalie Morales (journalist)|Natalie Morales]] *[[Willie Geist]] *[[Tamron Hall]] *[[Ellie Kemper]] *[[Billy Bush]] *[[Dylan Dreyer]] *[[Sheinelle Jones]] }} | location = [[Rockefeller Plaza]], [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]] | camera = [[Multiple-camera setup|Multi-camera]] | runtime = 44โ52 minutes | first_aired = {{start date|2000|10|02}} | last_aired = {{end date|2017|9|22}} | related = ''[[Megyn Kelly Today]]'' }} '''''Today's Take''''' (sometimes called ''The Take'') was the third-hour segment of ''Today''. This "show-within-a-show" had its own anchors (although featuring on-air staff that appears during the first two hours of the program), opening [[title sequence]] and theme music. On October 2, 2000, NBC expanded ''Today'' to three hours, with the addition of an hour from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. For its first twelve years, the format of the third hour was originally structured similarly to ''Today''{{'}}s first two hours, using the same anchors as that portion of the broadcast; separate anchors began to be used for the third hour over time, with only the news anchor (Ann Curry until 2011, then Natalie Morales) and the weather anchor (Al Roker) being shared with the main 7:00 a.m. โ 9:00 a.m. block โ this was particularly the case during instances where Matt Lauer or his co-host (Katie Couric, then Meredith Vieira from 2006 to 2011, Ann Curry from 2011 to 2012, and finally Savannah Guthrie during the final months of the original format) could not be present for the entire hour due to reporting assignments or personal commitments. Vieira, outside of breaking news situations, was specifically disallowed by contract from any duties in the third hour due to her hosting commitments to the syndicated version of ''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (American game show)|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire]]'' by [[DisneyโABC Domestic Television]]. The network revamped the format of the third hour on November 12, 2012, and gave it the in-program title ''Today's Take''. Roker was joined during the revamped third hour by Natalie Morales and Willie Geist (who had recently joined ''Today'' after ending his run as the original anchor of MSNBC's ''[[Way Too Early with Kasie Hunt|Way Too Early]]''); MSNBC anchor and ''Today'' correspondent [[Tamron Hall]] was added as a co-host for that hour of the program on February 24, 2014, and [[Ellie Kemper]] joined the program on June 29, 2015, as a temporary co-host (until July 17, 2015).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.yahoo.com/tv/today-has-a-lot-of-hosts-matt-lauer-savannah-122435491680.html |title='Today' Announces Ellie Kemper as New Co-Host |date=June 25, 2015 |publisher=Yahoo! |access-date=July 5, 2015}}</ref> With the change, traditional news segments at the beginning of the hour were abandoned in favor of a topical "host chat" format similar to the opening segment of the succeeding fourth hour of the program (with the only difference being that top general news events are discussed somewhat more often, in addition to featuring topical discussions on offbeat and pop culture-related stories and periodic clips from television programs aired the previous night and [[viral video]]). Instead, the news segment (titled ''News with Natalie'', anchored by Morales, and alternately titled ''Today's News'' on days when Morales was off) was featured prior to the local update cutaways near the end of the first half-hour; national weather segments are also retained following the host chat segments in both half-hours. Beginning in May 2015, the ''News with Natalie''/''Today's News'' segment moved to 9:30 a.m. and the national weather segment to follow and the host chat at 9:30 a.m. was discontinued. On August 22, 2016, both Morales and Geist left ''Today's Take'' and former ''[[Access Hollywood]]'' host [[Billy Bush]] officially joined the set. Bush was later suspended and eventually fired from the segment as well as the program following [[Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape]] during U.S. Republican and presidential candidate [[Donald Trump]]'s campaign in October 2016. On February 1, 2017, Hall left ''Today's Take''. Weekend co-anchor Sheinelle Jones and weekend meteorologist Dylan Dreyer filled in as co-hosts alongside Roker until a new morning lineup began in the fall.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tamron-hall-exits-nbc-msnbc-971053| title=Tamron Hall Exits NBC and MSNBC| work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]| date=February 1, 2017| access-date=February 1, 2017}}</ref> ''Today's Take'' aired its final episode on September 22, 2017, and ''Megyn Kelly Today'' replaced it on September 25, 2017.
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