Veteran NBC host and news anchor Craig Melvin has been tapped to replace Hoda Kotb as co-host of the 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. hours ...

Hager compared welcoming the new co-hosts to entering the dating pool anew after being next to Kotb for the past decade.

Jones' absence on Friday comes in the wake of several shakeups going on at Today, after Melvin, 45, was named as Savannah ...

Melvin will join Savannah Guthrie at the "Today" desk in January. Kotb announced in September that she is leaving the program ...