In recent months , the margin separating the two programs during a given week has narrowed considerably , so much so -- at one point this month to just 40,000 viewers -- that Jeff Zucker , a former '' Today '' producer who is now president of NBC Universal Television Group , helped broker the firing in April of the NBC program 's executive producer , Tom Touchet .
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