The List for Friday, September 27th 2024

Welcome to The List,

Hoda Kotb is leaving the “Today” show early next year.  She says, quote, “I had my kiddos late in life, and I was thinking that they deserve a bigger piece of my time pie.” She’ll stay with NBC in some capacity, but she didn’t elaborate.

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The “People’s Choice Country Awards” took place last night in Nashville.  Morgan Wallen won the People’s Artist of 2024 . . . and the Album of 2024 went to Luke Combs with “Fathers and Sons”.  Shaboozey won for New artist for 2024 and gave thanks to Beyonce’ for some reason…

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Jimmy Fallon is allegedly leveraging his celebrity friendships to boost ‘The Tonight Show’s’ declining ratings and revenue.  An insider says, “When Jimmy took the Tonight Show job ten years ago, he pretty much insisted on five tapings a week and promised the decision would pay for itself. For the first few years of the show, it apparently did. But 2024 is a different time and the amount of advertisers willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars for thirty seconds during Jimmy’s show have definitely shrunk.

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A new docuseries on Hulu starring Luke Bryan called “It’s All Country” will premiere on November 15th.  The show will do a deep dive with some of Country music’s biggest stars and try to uncover the secret stories of their biggest hits.

You can catch The List, weekday afternoons at 4:20 with Jonathan Knight. Only on Iowa’s BEST Country KIX 101.1