Matt Lauer
TV Show Host — born 1957
Matt Lauer is an American Television host and reporter best known as a long-running co-host of the TV show ‘Today’.
Matt Lauer is an American former TV journalist and broadcaster whose 25-year career — abruptly ended by his November 29, 2017 NBC News firing for sexual misconduct — produced his 1997–2017 lead anchor role on NBC's Today show. He was born Matthew Todd Lauer on December 30, 1957, in New York City. His father Jay Robert Lauer was a Romanian-American bicycle-company executive at the Schwinn Bicycle Company and his mother Marilyn Hutchinson Lauer was a homemaker. The family relocated multiple times across his childhood between New York City and the Midwest.
His education at Ohio University (B.A. in Communications, 1979 — though his degree was completed via subsequent independent study and ultimately conferred in 1997 in honor of his late-1990s career achievements) launched his early-career path. His 1980s and early-1990s regional-TV-news career across multiple American TV markets — particularly Huntington, West Virginia (1980), Richmond, Virginia (1981–1984), Providence, Rhode Island (1984–1986), Boston (1986–1987), Philadelphia (1987–1989), and New York City (1989–1992) — produced his early-1990s American local-TV-news public profile.
His 1992 NBC News national-network arrival as a New York City news-anchor and his subsequent 1994 promotion to news-anchor on NBC's Today show launched his late-1990s and 2000s American national-TV-news public profile. His January 6, 1997 promotion to lead anchor on NBC's Today show — replacing Bryant Gumbel after Gumbel's 1997 departure — produced his 1997–2017 21-year lead anchor role on NBC's Today show alongside successive co-anchors Katie Couric (1997–2006), Meredith Vieira (2006–2011), Ann Curry (2011–2012), and Savannah Guthrie (2012–2017).
His 2010s public profile across the post-2008-financial-crisis American TV-morning-show landscape — including his 2013 negotiated $25 million per-year NBC News contract — produced his late-2000s and early-2010s American TV-morning-show commercial peak. His November 29, 2017 NBC News firing — in response to multiple Variety, NBC News, and New York Times-published allegations of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct against multiple female NBC News colleagues across his 1997–2017 NBC News tenure — ended his TV-news career. He has not subsequently returned to TV broadcasting.
His name Matt began as the diminutive of Matthew (from the Hebrew Mattityahu meaning "gift of God"). Matt was a popular American boys' name across the late 20th century.
About the name Matt
Gender: Male · Origin: English
Gift Of God.