Editing Today (American TV program) (section)

====''Weekend Today''====
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''Today'' first expanded to weekends on September 20, 1987, with the debut of the Sunday edition. Five years later on August 1, 1992, the Saturday edition made its debut, expanding the program to seven days a week. The Sunday broadcast was originally 90 minutes in length, until the third half-hour being dropped with the expansion of ''[[Meet the Press]]'' to an hour-long broadcast in 1992; it now airs for one hour, while the Saturday broadcast airs for 90 minutes.

The weekend broadcasts continue the ''Today'' format of covering breaking news, interviews with newsmakers, reports on a variety of popular-culture and human-interest stories, covering health and finance issues, and national weather reports. NBC feeds the Saturday edition from 7:00&nbsp;a.m. to 9:00&nbsp;a.m. (although it is often shortened to air the network's kids' block in full when there is an early start to sports) and the Sunday edition from 8:00&nbsp;a.m. to 9:00&nbsp;a.m. (both in the Eastern Time Zone), although many of the network's affiliates air local newscasts in those time slots and carry the network broadcast earlier or later in the morning; many NBC affiliates also bookend the Sunday edition with local morning newscasts that immediately precede and follow the program. NBC's [[WNBC|New York City]], [[WMAQ-TV|Chicago]], [[KNTV|San Francisco]] and [[KNBC|Los Angeles]] owned-and-operated stations air ''Weekend Today'' simultaneously (but not live) at 9:00 a.m Eastern, 8:00&nbsp;a.m. Central and 6:00&nbsp;a.m. Pacific Time.

Weekend editions are tailored to the priorities and interests of weekend viewers – offering special series such as "''Saturday Today'' on the Plaza", featuring live performances by major music acts and [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] theatrical productions outside the studio throughout the summer.

During [[NBC Olympic broadcasts]], the weekday anchors and staff present the majority of the program on both Saturday and Sunday throughout the two weeks to maintain promotional momentum, with limited contributions from the weekend team from New York.