culture and human-interest stories, covering health and financial issues and presenting the day's national weather forecasts. As with the weekday edition, the program offers visitors to New York City the chance to observe the workings of a live television broadcast firsthand with its windowed studio at Rockefeller Plaza. Interaction with the crowd outside the studio is a major part of the program. Weekend editions are tailored to the priorities and interests of weekend viewers – offering special series such as Saturday Today on the Plaza, featuring live performances by well-known and up-and-coming music acts and numbers from Broadway theatre productions outside the studio throughout the summer. The Sunday edition also features brief political discussions with Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd, who also gives a preview of that day's edition of the political discussion show (which follows Sunday Today, depending on local scheduling of newscasts, local political affairs programs or brokered programming that may air between both programs). Since the adoption of the Sunday Today format in 2016, the Sunday edition does not feature a national weather segment; instead the weather reports during that broadcast are presented as live or recorded cut-ins produced by the corresponding local NBC station. Just like their weekday counterparts, the weekend broadcasts provide local stations the option to offer brief news and weather segments following the national weather segments (on the Saturday edition) and in designated five-minute slots at the end of each half-hour. (NBC stations that do not produce weekend morning newscasts may opt to either run a taped weather insert, or run the national forecast slide and filler content that occupies the respective local segment slots on the network feed.) On-air staff Saturday Today is anchored by Peter Alexander and Kristen Welker alongside co-host Joe Fryer (features anchor) from Washington D.C., and Sunday Today is anchored by Willie Geist from New York City. Alexander was named co-host on October 27, 2018. Welker was named co-host on January 11, 2020. Somara Theodore delivers the forecast on the Saturday edition. Dylan Dreyer delivered the forecast on the Saturday edition until 2022. (As mentioned, there are no national weather segments on Sundays.) Occasionally, Hallie Jackson, Morgan Radford, and Joe Fryer fill-in for Welker and Alexander. Hallie Jackson fills-in for Geist. NBC meteorologist Bill Karins fills-in for Theodore. Joelle Garguilo is a correspondent for Weekend Today. Former anchors Sunday Today Boyd Matson – co-anchor (1987–1988) Maria Shriver