– co-anchor (1987–1990) Garrick Utley – news anchor (1987–1988), co-anchor (1988–1992) Katie Couric – co-anchor (1990) Mary Alice Williams – co-anchor (1990–1992) Al Roker – weather anchor/substitute anchor (1987–1992), co-anchor (1991–1992) Bill Macatee – sports anchor (1987–1992) Weekend Today Scott Simon (1992–1993) Jackie Nespral (1992–1995) Mike Schneider (1993–1995) Giselle Fernández (1995–1996) Jack Ford (1995–1999) Ann Curry (1996) Jodi Applegate (1996–1999) Soledad O'Brien (1999–2003) John Seigenthaler (1999–2000; 2003) David Bloom (1999; 2000–2003) Campbell Brown (2003–2007) Lester Holt (2003–2015) Amy Robach – news anchor (2003–2007), Saturday co-anchor (2007–2012) Jenna Wolfe – Sunday co-anchor (2007–2012), Saturday and/or Sunday co-anchor (2012), news anchor (2012–2014) Erica Hill (2012–2016) Sheinelle Jones – news anchor (2014–2016), co-anchor (2016–2019) Craig Melvin — co-anchor (2015–2018) Stephanie Ruhle — Saturday co-anchor (2016) Weather anchors Al Roker – Saturday weather anchor (1992–1995) Joe Witte – Sunday weather anchor (1992–1995) Janice Huff – Saturday and/or Sunday weather anchor (1995–2012) Sean McLaughlin – Sunday weather anchor (2004–2006) Chris Cimino – Saturday weather anchor (2008) Bill Karins – Saturday weather anchor (2009–2012) Stephanie Abrams – Saturday & Sunday weather anchor (2012) Dylan Dreyer – Saturday (2012–2022) & Sunday weather anchor (2012–2019) Theme music Scherzo for Today was used as the program's closing theme until 1990, and the Mission bumpers were used until 1993 (one of them could be heard as a station break lead-in on NBC's Meet The Press until 2004). The Scherzo for Today theme was iconically accompanied by Fred Facey announcing "From NBC News, this is Today..." until his death in April 2003, except for special editions requiring special introductions. Facey's work afterwards was only heard on the now-defunct MSNBC program Headliners and Legends. For a time early in the original Sunday Today run; the Scherzo for Today theme was preceded by a recap of clips of stories from the previous week set to "Freightways" by Graham De Wilde. The Mission cut used as the opening fanfare for Today has opened the program ever since, with two exceptions: in the summer of 1994, to mark the debut of Studio 1A, the John Williams-composed fanfare was replaced by another opening theme, but the Williams theme returned shortly thereafter. In 2004, the show's producers tried out yet another theme, which drew once again on the NBC chimes as its signature, but the Williams theme returned after only a few weeks. It is by far the most enduring theme in the program's history, having been