Al Roker Celebrates 45th Anniversary at NBC – See Him Through The Years (PHOTOS)
Today celebrated Al Roker‘s 45th year as a part of the NBC family on Monday (December 11), expressing heartfelt sentiments.
In the video below, co-hosts Craig Melvin, Savannah Guthrie, and Hoda Kotb celebrate the long-time anchor and tease him with archive footage of him in the field talking to penguins. Today notes that Roker “has had more than 7,000 wake-ups at 3:45 am, 27 Thanksgiving Day parades, 13 Olympics, and more!”
Roker joined NBC in 1978 at WKYC in Cleveland, then moved to WNBC-TV in New York as the weeknight weathercaster in 1983, succeeding Dr. Frank Field. He filled in for Willard Scott on Today from 1990 to 1995 and became the regular weekday weatherman in early 1996 after Willard Scott‘s retirement.
Check out the footage and look at Roker throughout the years in our gallery below.
We love you, Al! pic.twitter.com/2ZHNXNKjyX
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) December 11, 2023
1988
Roker early in his career.
1990
Roker caught picking up food near Rockefeller Center.
1996
Al Roker broadcasts live from the back of a firetruck outside NBC studios at Rockefeller Center in New York after a five-alarm fire in the early morning led to the evacuation of the television studios and offices on October 10.
1998
Roker, Katie Couric, Matt Lauer during the 1998 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
2001
The trio together again three years later.
2003
Roker is looking slim!
2007
Meredith Vieira, Al Roker, and Ann Curry mark Vieira’s one-year anniversary on Today on September 13, 2007.
2014
The 125th Tournament of Roses Parade.
2016
The NBC weatherman attends the 90th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
2019
Roker’s iconic purple frames enter the fray.
2021
The newsman doing what he does best just one year before his health scare, which saw him take a leave of absence, resulting in him missing the Thanksgiving Day Parade for the first time.
2023
Roker doing the news on the day of his return to Today, January 6, 2023. Welcome back, sir!
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