the weekday edition of Today) Katie Couric became substitute anchor during Shriver's absence. Maria Shriver returned from maternity leave on April 8, 1990, to Sunday Today and announced that she would be leaving the show after that day's broadcast. Couric was named interim co-anchor until Mary Alice Williams became the new co-anchor later that month. Production of the Sunday program returned to New York City when Utley left Meet the Press in 1991. The Today franchise expanded to seven days a week with the premiere of the program's Saturday edition on August 1, 1992, coinciding with NBC's replacement of its Saturday morning children's programming block with the three-hour-long TNBC block. The weekend editions were initially titled Saturday Today or Sunday Today, as applicable, in order to distinguish them from the weekday program. Beginning in the late 1990s, all editions of the program were officially titled Today, although Weekend Today was still sometimes used for promotional purposes. The Sunday program was once again titled "Sunday Today" when Willie Geist became solo anchor in 2016. Amy Robach, Natalie Morales and Melissa Francis rotated as news anchor during much of the Brown and Holt era (2003–2007). From 1988 (when Utley became co-anchor) until 2012 (when Jenna Wolfe became the program's news anchor), Weekend Today did not have a designated news anchor. During that time, a different NBC News, CNBC, or MSNBC correspondent would fill that position each week. Lester Holt left the program in 2015 following his promotion to lead anchor of NBC Nightly News. (Holt had been anchoring both the weekend editions of Today and Nightly News prior to his reassignment.) In January 2020, the Saturday edition abruptly relocated production to NBC News' Washington, D.C. bureau, originating from the Meet the Press studio, in order to limit the risk of COVID-19 transmission to the anchors via air travel. (Saturday anchors Peter Alexander and Kristen Welker had both been based out of the division's D.C. bureau, though Alexander had been commuting to New York City to anchor that edition from the Rockefeller Center studio since being named co-anchor in 2018.) The broadcast permanently relocated to the news division's refurbished D.C. bureau facility (near Capitol Hill) in December 2020, as one of several NBC and MSNBC programs to broadcast from the building. Format The weekend broadcasts continue Todays format of covering breaking news stories, featuring interviews with newsmakers, reports on a variety of popular