{"id":289402,"date":"2020-03-13T07:34:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T13:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1130750"},"modified":"2020-03-13T07:34:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T13:34:44","slug":"today-launches-virtual-shout-outs-for-those-impacted-by-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/today-launches-virtual-shout-outs-for-those-impacted-by-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Today Launches Virtual Shout-Outs for Those Impacted by Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020213\/rs_600x600-200313062747-600-hoda-emd-031220.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"47.465404224326\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"36.809905316824\">\n<p><em>Today<\/em> is helping fans send a little love to those impacted by the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/hoda_kotb\">Hoda Kotb<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/savannah_guthrie\">Savannah Guthrie<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>Craig Melvin<\/strong> announced a new initiative called &#8220;#WithYouToday on Friday&#8217;s episode of the morning show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe you have a friend or a relative who is sick or self-quarantined and you can&#8217;t travel\u2014you want to go to a birthday party or a wedding. Well, we want to help you get a message out,&#8221; Kotb explained. &#8220;So, send us your pictures, send us your videos, maybe a little bit about that person and let us give the shout-out. We&#8217;d love to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old anchor, who helped come up with the idea, then explained that participants should also include the hashtag #WithYouToday &#8220;because we are with you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1130275\/today-show-suspends-live-audiences-due-to-coronavirus-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News announced<\/a> the decision to suspend live audiences for <em>Today<\/em> and <em>Today with Hoda &amp; Jenna &amp; Friends<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The&nbsp;safety&nbsp;of&nbsp;our&nbsp;guests&nbsp;and employees is&nbsp;our&nbsp;top priority,&#8221; a statement from the company said. &#8220;As a precautionary measure, starting tomorrow, Thursday, March 12, we have decided to suspend live audiences for <em>Today<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Today&nbsp;with Hoda &amp; Jenna &amp; Friends<\/em>.&nbsp;Per guidance from New York City&nbsp;officials,&nbsp;the&nbsp;company is hoping to do its part to help to decrease the rate of transmission in our communities. Out shows will continue filming on their regular schedule, and currently, there will be no impact on air dates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><em>Today<\/em> isn&#8217;t the only show to suspend live audiences. <em>Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen<\/em>, <em>Good Morning America<\/em>, <em>The View,<\/em> <em>Live With Kelly and Ryan<\/em>, <em>Wheel of Fortune<\/em> and <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> all have, as well. <em>The<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/em> and <em>Late Night With Seth Meyers<\/em> have also suspended production, and <em>The Wendy Williams Show<\/em> has put production on hold.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video to learn more about the #WithYouToday initiative.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"socialcontent-twitter-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-type=\"async\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"36.014619883041\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"3.8245614035088\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hodakotb?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@hodakotb<\/a> has an idea to help you get a message out. Send us your pictures and videos using <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WithYouTODAY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WithYouTODAY<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RurQY7bhA4\">pic.twitter.com\/RurQY7bhA4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TODAY (@TODAYshow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TODAYshow\/status\/1238435619967324161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p>(E! and NBC News are both part of NBCUniversal).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! 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Hoda Kotb, Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin announced a new initiative called &#8220;#WithYouToday on Friday&#8217;s episode of the morning show. &#8220;Maybe you have a friend or a relative who is sick or self-quarantined and you can&#8217;t travel\u2014you want to go to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-26 23:59:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}