Super Bowl Update

In today's edition of Headlines, I told you that NBC was moving Today executive producer Jim Bell to NBC Sports to oversee the company's Olympic coverage.

Now we know who will replace him at the network's struggling morning show - Today's senior broadcast producer, Don Nash - and that Nash will report to Rock Center executive producer Alexandra Wallace, who has been appointed Executive in Charge of the show.

“Don Nash deserves to be at the helm of Today. He is a beloved member of the Today family who brings vision, commitment and a deep familiarity to all aspects of the broadcast,” said NBC News president Steve Capus. “The formidable individual talents of Alex, Don and the Today leadership are now combined and I’m confident our team is well positioned for success.”

We'll see.

NBC News President Steve Capus announced Thursday that Erica Hill will be joining Weekend Today as co-anchor. The weekend anchor team of Lester Holt, Hill, Jenna Wolfe, and Dylan Dreyer officially debuts Saturday.

Hill, who briefly served as co-anchor of CBS This Morning, was replaced there earlier this year by Norah O'Donnell.  CBS reportedly tried to find a suitable niche for Hill but couldn't.

NBC had no such problem, Capus explained.
 

“Erica’s extraordinary track record as a journalist has proven that she can cover everything from hard news to pop culture with ease and professionalism,” he said.

Hill has been also been named an NBC News national correspondent. She will report on all platforms of NBC News including Today, NBC Nightly News and MSNBC. Hill will co-anchor both Saturday and Sunday editions of Weekend Today alongside Lester Holt. Holt has served as co-anchor of Weekend Today since 2003 and is the longest-running anchor of the broadcast.

Jenna Wolfe has been named news anchor of Weekend Today and will expand her role to both Saturday and Sunday editions. Wolfe has been with the morning broadcast since 2007. In addition, Wolfe will continue as Today correspondent, reporting feature stories for both the weekday and weekend broadcasts.

Meteorologist Dylan Dreyer was named weather anchor of Weekend Today upon joining NBC News in September. Dreyer will remain in that role, also providing weekend weather reports on MSNBC.

Prior to joining NBC News, Hill served as co-host of CBS News' CBS This Morning in 2012 and The Early Show in 2011. She was news anchor of The Early Show in 2010, while also co-hosting The Early Show Saturday from 2008 to 2010. Hill joined The Early Show Saturday while working at CNN, where she served as anchor and correspondent for CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 from 2008 to 2010.

Hill also spent seven years at CNN, joining the network at its Atlanta headquarters in 2003. She served in various roles at CNN and HLN. From 2006 to 2008, she was the anchor of HLN's Prime News with Erica Hill, a live two-hour news and interview program. She co-anchored Prime News Tonight from 2005 to 2006, and served as national correspondent for CNN Newsource in Washington in 2004.

If you typed in MSNBC.com on your computer or mobile device this evening, you've probably noticed that something is different.

MSNBC.com, you see, no longer exists - at least as it was.  (More on that in a moment.)  Check your browser:  You'll notice that in the address bar that it reads "NBCNews.com" instead.

The move comes just a few weeks after speculation arose that NBC News might finally get its own website, and is the result of NBCUniversal acquiring the half of the joint venture between itself and Microsoft that Microsoft owned.  Financial details of that acquisition haven't been divulged.

For now, not a whole lot - other than the name, anyway - will change, because the 16-year-old venture will take at least a couple of years to unwind.

And eventually MSNBC.com will return as a site dedicated specifically to the MSNBC cable news network.  For the time being, though, it'll redirect to NBCNews.com.