Today and Good Morning America, two of the fiercest competitors on television, are sharing an Emmy.

The broadcasts tied in a new "morning programming" category at last week's Daytime Emmy Awards. Here's the list of winners.

"...As someone who has won/tied a few Sports Emmys, I can tell you that one forgets the tie and remembers the honor and a great piece of hardware," Today EP Jim Bell wrote in a memo over the weekend congratulating the staff on 600 weeks of wins. Click continued to read the full memo...

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Update: 8:44pm: "The Meredith Vieira/TODAY rumors are patently false," an anonymous tipster asserts. "NBC would be foolish to risk damaging the TODAY show by hiring an outsider who hasn't worked as a journalist in over a decade, and expand the show even further beyond its means. This scenario will not happen."

"Insiders directly connected with NBC News tell TMZ that Meredith Vieira is now first choice to replace Katie Couric if she leaves 'Today,'" TMZ alleges. Vieira is currently moderator of The View. She is also host of the weekday version of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.

She was a reporter for WCBS-TV for three years before joining CBS News in 1982 as a correspondent. In 1985 she became a principal correspondent for 'West 57th.' In 1989 she became a co-editor of 60 Minutes. She left 60 Minutes in 1991 while pregnant with her second child. Vieira joined ABC News in October 1993 as chief correspondent for ABC News' Turning Point, which premiered in March 1994. She moved to The View in 1997.

> Also: "There's also talk of expanding 'Today' to four hours." (FOUR hours?!) "If that happens, TMZ is told that Campbell Brown, once the frontrunner to replace Katie, would anchor a portion of the program." The site says "there's a 70 percent chance that Katie will jump to CBS..."

CNN held its annual NAB-RTNDA party last night, and attendees enjoyed the band "REO Speedwagon "while waving red glowsticks and drinking cocktails from glowing cups," Lost Remote's Steve Safran writes. "CNN knows target audiences. When you're trying to shmooze 30- and 40-somethings, you go for the teenager in all of us. And CNN hit the target with a band that reminded us all about awkward slow dances with Jenny Smithson in the junior high school cafeteria."

Jon Klein's NAB keynote about IPTV became a speech about "several key points journalists should follow to aggressively do their jobs in a digital era," TV Week says. "We have to impose standards before it leaves the factory that whatever gets our name on it is the best, most trustworthy content you can have," he said...

> CNN.com anchor Christina Park at a panel discussion liveblogged by Steve Safran: "Christina points out what has become apparent to the rest of us in online video - for all the worrying about news video, people mostly want to watch the waterskiing squirrel or the finger-in-the-chili stories."

> Green Day's single "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is unescapable in Las Vegas, BCBeat says.

> FTVLive complains that RTNDA "needs to come up with some fresh ideas..."

> B&C: "ABC News has purchased 100 Instinct nonlinear editing systems from Avid Technology Inc. for use throughout its news operations."

News from NAB, via Broadcasting & Cable: ABC's "Nightline senior director George Murphy will not be presenting a case study Tuesday morning on using Sony's Vegas nonlinear editing system in the broadcast environment. According to a source at ABC, the network yanked Murphy from the Las Vegas convention gig last week following B&C's inquiries about whether Murphy's public enthusiasm for Sony had turned into a financial conflict of interest...ABC's nixing of Murphy's NAB appearance may not end the story. 'It's an unfortunate situation,' says an ABC insider, 'that is being reviewed as we speak.'"