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Stamford, Conn. – February 14, 2014 – NBC Sports Group will hold a conference call TODAY (Fri., Feb. 14) at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT with tonight’s NBC primetime and late night host Meredith Vieira and NBC Olympics Executive Producer Jim Bell. Vieira has been in Sochi to host the Opening Ceremony and is serving as a special correspondent for NBC News and NBC Olympics.
Meredith Vieira’s bio is below. For Jim Bell’s bio, click here.
Dial 719-325-2429 to participate; conference call ID 8791973.
MEREDITH VIEIRA
Meredith Vieira, special correspondent for TODAY, will fill in for Bob Costas as host of tonight’s NBC primetime and late night coverage of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Vieira is the first woman in U.S. television history to serve as solo host of the Olympics in primetime.
On February 7, Vieira joined Matt Lauer to host the Opening Ceremony of the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, reprising her role from the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
Vieira is a special correspondent for NBC News. She contributes her signature reporting for TODAY, NBC Nightly News and other NBC News programs.
Vieira joined TODAY in September 2006 as co-anchor, and was immediately accepted into the ranks of America’s first television family. During her five years at TODAY, Vieira covered some of the biggest news stories of our time, including the 2008 presidential election, the tragic shooting at Virginia Tech, the devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Japan, and the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. She sat down with some of the most notable newsmakers of our time, including President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and First Lady Laura Bush. She also contributed toDateline NBC as well as many NBC News specials.
While at TODAY, Vieira conducted numerous exclusive news-making interviews. She spoke with former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson in her first-ever live television interview after her identity was revealed and she sat down with author J.K. Rowling in her only television interview about her final Harry Potter volume. Vieira’s memorable exclusive celebrity interviews include Janet Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Susan Boyle, Kate Gosselin and Madonna, to name a few.
At the end of 2008, Vieira founded her own TV/film/theatre production company, Meredith Vieira Productions. She served as the executive producer for a number of projects including the feature film Return, which premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, and the critically-acclaimed feature documentary The Woman Who Wasn’t There, which broke network ratings records on Investigation Discovery. Vieira also served as a producer of the national tour of the hit Off-Broadway play,Life In A Marital Institution (20 Years of Monogamy in One Terrifying Hour).
In addition to her reporting and producing roles, Vieira hosted Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, from 2002 until 2013. Prior to joining NBC News, she had been moderator of ABC’s The View since the show’s inception in 1997. Vieira started at ABC in 1993 when she joined their news division as chief correspondent of Turning Point, which debuted in March 1994. Vieira has been honored with nine Emmys, including two Daytime Emmys for best morning newscast for her work on TODAY.
Prior to her work at ABC, Vieira spent more than a decade at CBS News, where she garnered five Emmy Awards for her work as a correspondent on the news magazines 60 Minutes and West 57th. From 1989 to 1991, she was a co-editor of 60 Minutes.
Vieira also frequently anchored the CBS Morning News and was contributing national correspondent on the CBS Evening News With Dan Rather. After two successful seasons, and pregnant with her second child, Vieira left 60 Minutes.
Vieira joined CBS News as a reporter in its Chicago bureau in January 1982. Prior to that, she was a reporter for local WCBS-TV in New York for three years. She began her career as a news announcer for WORC-Radio in Worcester, Mass., in 1975.
A native of Providence, R.I., Vieira received a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University in Medford, Mass. She has three children, Ben, Gabe and Lily with her husband, Richard Cohen.
ABOUT NBC OLYMPICS
A division of the NBC Sports Group, NBC Olympics is responsible for producing, programming and promoting NBCUniversal’s Olympic coverage. It is renowned for its unsurpassed Olympic heritage, award-winning production, and ability to aggregate the largest audiences in U.S. television history.
For more information about NBC Olympics coverage and NBC Sports Group shows and properties, including press releases, photos, talent and executive bios and headshots, please visit NBCSportsGroupPressBox.com.
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