Then Sam surprised her on an NBC morning news show in San Diego with a wardrobe upgrade.

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She started out on the Today morning news show in the 1960s, and became the first woman to anchor a network evening news programme in 1976.

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In an interview on my TV One Cable Network Sunday morning news show, "Washington Watch, " I talked with the top enlisted officer serving in Afghanistan, Command Sgt.

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If you somehow missed his media blitz on your preferred morning news show over the last year, Blagojevich was arrested in December 2008 on federal charges that he was allegedly attempting to sell the Senate seat vacated when Barack Obama was elected president.

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Over the next half-decade Seacrest added a countdown show, a morning radio show, a daytime talk show, a celebrity news show and a plum spot on every red carpet in town--which earned him a scene-stealing cameo in 2007's summer box office hit, Knocked Up.

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The morning show on state-owned Nile News TV interviewed Majdi Yasin of the Egyptian Association for Human Rights, who condemned the state of emergency as a "tool used by the old regime reflecting a weak ruler and government".

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When she took the anchor job she transformed from perky morning show host to the elite club of trusted evening news anchors.

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