User:Mrwhickham/Noah Kotch

Noah Kotch is the Emmy Award winning senior producer who oversees the 7 o'clock hour of the Today Show on NBC, with additional oversight of content in other hours of the program. He is the main gatekeeper to the top-rated news broadcast and is considered difficult to reach. Callers to the Today Show receptionists are not transferred to his office unless they know his assistant's name.

Kotch came under criticism in January 2011 for his decision to replace an annual segment on winners of the Newbery and Caldecott children's book awards with an interview with Snooki.

Kotch joined NBC News after many years at ABC News where he served as Peter Jennings' head writer, and also as a senior producer at Good Morning America and Nightline. He graduated from Yale where he majored in Latin and Ancient Greek and was editor in chief of the Yale Daily News. Kotch grew up in North Carolina, where at age 18 he was profiled as a hotheaded newspaper editor at Chapel Hill High School who butted heads with his principal and added a column on Beverly Hills, 90210 to his publication.