Mr. Wallace came on during the third hour of the program to say that the hosts had too often clipped the quote and played it in isolation.
On Friday the second hour of the program included a profile and interview with Aretha Franklin, who took a reporter along as she went shoe shopping and rehearsed a duet with Tony Bennett.
During Monday's edition of "Today," Hoda Kotb reported that her co-host on the fourth hour of the program was "remarkably strong" when she visited with her Sunday after Frank Gifford's death was announced.
Beginning on January 7, all CBS stations must broadcast the entire first hour of the show, which CBS executives believe will make the program more competitive.
"As you can see, Billy Bush is not joining us today, as you're probably aware," said Roker at the start of the third hour of the morning news program, which Bush normally co-hosts.
The reboot will kick off at 6 AM that day with MTV Hour One, a rebroadcast of the channel's first hour of programming, which aired 35 years to the date.
Original Caption: Kathie Lee Gifford, co-host of the fourth hour of the NBC "Today" television program, reacts to a comment about the length of time she spends in the hair and make-up room daily, as she celebrates her first anniversary on the show, in New York Tuesday, April 7 , 2009
That year she also appeared regularly as a panelist on MSNBC's presidential campaign show, Race for the White House, whose audio was simulcast on Air America as the first hour of her nightly radio program; Maddow's radio show ended with the demise of Air America in 2010.
Kotb will join Savannah Guthrie to lead the first two hours of the program, making history as the first female co-anchors for that segment. .
Last month, the company announced a revamping plan aimed at eliminating $750 million in costs, responding to commercial pressures with such efforts as narrowing its programming in the first hour of prime time and closing the center housing the MSNBC news channel in New Jersey to consolidate operations in New York.
