''Morning Joe First Look'' (formerly ''First Look'') was an American

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airing on

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. It was broadcast live on weekday mornings at 5 a.m.

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, and competed with CNN's ''

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'' and

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' '' Fox & Friends First''. The program was last anchored by Yasmin Vossoughian.

Format

''Morning Joe First Look'' consisted of many of the same segments and is produced by the same staff as

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's early morning news program ''

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''; some segments, such as a local weather cut-in and some feature stories, are either excluded or changed for the MSNBC broadcast, along with the anchor background (an early morning

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shot of

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on ''First Look'', and

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scenes for ''Early Today'') and graphical styling. There was a segment that is exclusive to the MSNBC newscast, a segment aired before the entertainment news summary at the end of the program, featuring excerpts from the monologue of the previous night/weeknight's episode of either ''

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'' or ''

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'', followed by the guest list of the upcoming episode. A replay of ''First Look'' aired at 5:30 a.m. ET before July 27, 2009, when ''

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'' premiered. MSNBC placed the program on a short-term hiatus to test a 5 a.m. replay of both ''

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'' and ''

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'' at various times from February to April 2009; ''First Look'' was restored onto the schedule after that. Between November 2005, when CNN cancelled '' Daybreak'' and January 2011, when CNN began simulcasting

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's ''World Business Today'' and ''World One'', ''Early Today'' and ''

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'' (which formerly followed the program at 5:30 a.m. ET) were the only American morning cable news programs with a pre-6 a.m. ET start time. First Look originally ended on July 22, 2016, after that, ''Way Too Early'' expanding to one hour, During the 2016 Summer Olympics on August 15, 2016, the program returned with the new title ''

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First Look'' with the latter show's logo blended into a new logo for ''First Look'', but retained the same format, while some ''Way Too Early'' early features were blended into what is now the second half-hour of ''First Look''; the latter program was discontinued. On September 10, 2020, MSNBC announced ''Morning Joe First Look'' would be replaced with a revival of ''Way Too Early'' starting on September 21.

On-air staff

As ''Morning Joe First Look'' was broadcast from the same studio at

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as NBC's early morning news program ''Early Today'', the same personalities are seen on both programs. Yasmin Vossoughian presently serves as the main anchor of the program. Louis Burgdorf began to serve as a co-anchor with the ''Morning Joe'' brand extension, and does most of his duties from the NBC News control room. NBC meteorologist

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provides the national and regional weather forecast segments.

Former on-air staff

;Anchors * Natalie Morales (2004; now with

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) *

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(2004; now with

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) *

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(2004–2005) *

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(2005–2006; currently main anchor at

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in New York City) * Bill Fitzgerald (2006–2007) *

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(various quarters) *

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(2007–2009) * Christina Brown (2007–2010) * Lynn Berry (2010–2012) *

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(2012–2013; now with

) * Veronica de La Cruz (2011–2014); now at

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(2014–2015, 2016; currently co-anchor ''

)'' *

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(2014–2016; ''

'' on

// ''First Look'' - on

); now at

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) * Alex Witt (2016-2017) *

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(2016) *

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(2017–2020; currently weekend anchor on MSNBC) ;Meteorologists * Sean McLaughlin (2004–2005; now at

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in Phoenix) *

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(2004–2005; now appears on '' The Morning Show'' in Canada) * Byron Miranda (2007); now at

(2006, 2007–2020)

International broadcasts

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Region.

References

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