Weekend Today, Jenna Wolfe, Lester Holt: What An Awkward Ending

If you caught the ‘Today’ show Sunday morning, you saw another ‘split edition’ of the show with Jenna Wolfe in New York and Lester Holt in Columbia, South Carolina. That was a good place to be this morning with Barack Obama running away with the South Carolina election Saturday. Wolfe handled almost all other segments of the show… including a very awkward ending. ((ADD YOUR COMMENTS BELOW))

In the final segment of the show, producers tried to squeeze in a quick Q&A to promote a CNBC special (‘Touchdown: The Patriots and the Business of Winning"). The interview obviously went a little long. Wolfe and Holt were to close the show right after the interview. Wolfe promoted the special one final time and then went into a tease for tomorrow’s show.
WOLFE ON A DOUBLE BOX CLOSING THE SHOW: “Coming up tomorrow on ‘Today’, why fighting is good for your marriage. Lester.” FADE TO BLACK. Ooopps. We’ve all had it happen when time just runs out. Still, it doesn’t make it any less awkward.

Wolfe’s microphone was also left open for the banter to top the second half hour. Holt thought she had finished in New York and was turning to talk to a ‘very excited woman” in the crowd with him in South Carolina when Wolfe said “O.K. who’s more excited than she is”. It was Wolfe’s audio on top of the interview in South Carolina. It’s a small thing. But anchors have been caught so many times saying things they shouldn’t… that they should think their mic is always on! It this case, it wasn’t a horrible thing to say. The woman was not excited until after the interview. You could see her jumping and celebrating behind Holt.

And of course, Wolfe continued with her style of interpreting stories based on how they affect her life (hand gestures segment, etc)

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