Carson Daly named permanent co-anchor of NBC's Saturday Today alongside Laura Jarrett

NBC has named Carson Daly the permanent co-anchor of Saturday Today, joining Laura Jarrett on the weekend morning show, the network announced on Nov. 5 during a broadcast of Today. Daly had been an interim co-anchor on the program with Jarrett since September, and he will remain part of Today's weekday broadcasts. He will make his official debut on Nov. 7 alongside Jarrett, feature anchor Joe Fryer and meteorologist Angie Lassman. Libby Leist, executive vice president of Today and Lifestyle, said in a statement that viewers would get one more day of the week with Daly, whom she described as an integral part of the Today family for 13 years.

Left-leaning NBC News leads with the permanent role and its on-air details, quoting Daly's remarks and Leist's statement, and it lists the Nov. 7 debut team. It stays focused on the scheduling change in the excerpt provided. The alternative-leaning Hollywood Reporter reports the same appointment and Leist's statement but adds that it is an expanded role, that Daly succeeds Peter Alexander, who left NBC earlier this year to join MS NOW, and that Daly remains host and executive producer of The Voice. It also traces his career from MTV's Total Request Live to The Orange Room. The right-leaning Daily Mail, citing NBC, centers on Daly as a person, noting he is 53 and joined NBC in 2002, and features his description of co-hosts as family. Its distinct element is Savannah Guthrie's on-air praise, while the excerpt does not include Leist's statement or the Alexander succession. All three agree on the core facts: the Saturday co-anchor role, Jarrett as partner and Daly's continued weekday work. Their differences lie in emphasis: NBC on the broadcast details, the Reporter on industry context, and the Mail on personal warmth.