User:Mrwhickham/Noah Kotch
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Noah Kotch is the Emmy Award winning[1] senior producer who oversees the 7 o'clock hour of the Today Show on NBC, with additional oversight of content in other hours of the program.[2] He is the main gatekeeper to the top-rated news broadcast [3] and is considered difficult to reach. Callers to the Today Show receptionists are not transferred to his office unless they know his assistant's name. [4]
Kotch came under criticism in January 2011 for his decision to replace an annual segment on winners of the Newbery and Caldecott children's book awards with an interview with Snooki.[5]
Kotch joined NBC News after many years at ABC News where he served as Peter Jennings' head writer, and also as a senior producer at Good Morning America and Nightline. He graduated from Yale where he majored in Latin and Ancient Greek and was editor in chief of the Yale Daily News.[6] Kotch grew up in North Carolina, where at age 18 he was profiled as a hotheaded newspaper editor at Chapel Hill High School who butted heads with his principal and added a column on Beverly Hills, 90210 to his publication.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/daytime_37th_creative_winners.html
- ^ http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/08/kotch_joins_today_as_senior_pr.php
- ^ http://www.http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/3079108/ns/today/
- ^ http://awarenessrun.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/need-noah-kotchs-assistants-name/
- ^ http://scbwi.blogspot.com/2011/01/ala-award-winners-snubbed-by-today-show.html
- ^ http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/today-names-new-senior-producer_b20551
- ^ http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/pdf/dbc_text.pdf
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