The original hosts, Steve Liebmann and Sue Kellaway, spent four years together before Liebmann left to the read the evening news for Network Ten in Sydney. Former 60 Minutes reporter George Negus took over the male anchoring role. After four years, Liebmann returned to the Nine Network, hosting Today with Liz Hayes and Tracy Grimshaw. However, in December 2004, 60-year-old Liebmann suffered a mild heart attack prompting him to retire from the stresses of breakfast television.In 2005, Nine News reporter Karl Stefanovic cheap web hosting, took over from Liebmann as co-host. Grimshaw then left Today at the end of 2005 to take over from Ray Martin as host of A Current Affair. While, it had been widely speculated in the Australian press that Seven Network news presenter Chris Bath would co-host Today with Stefanovic from January 2006, the position instead went to former Network Ten news presenter Jessica Rowe.

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