Catherine Craig NBC News Obituary: A mainstream TV commentator with NBC New York, Katherine Creag, has kicked the bucket abruptly, the station declared. Ms Creag, who was among the moderators on NBC’s “New York Today” morning show, was said to have kicked the bucket surprisingly on Wednesday night. The 47 year-old’s passing “was unforeseen”, NBC New York said, and “she had not been sick and was functioning as of late as Wednesday morning”.

“Creag was the main face numerous New Yorkers woke up to consistently,” said NBC New York, where she has filled in as a columnist since 2011. New York Today”, the morning show she invested energy covering, airs from 4.30 am until 7am and again at 11 am each day — making Ms Creag mainstream among New Yorkers.

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The channel VP of information, Amy Morris, said in an email to staff that “Kat was one of our foundations” for 10 years. Continually willing to help in any circumstance, regardless of whether it was a partner out of luck or a move that should have been covered. She was smart, interesting and tenacious.”

“What’s more, even on the hardest days she was a brilliant light, snappy with a benevolent word and a grin,” Ms Morris added. She was depicted as having had “unlimited energy, in any event, when answering to work while it was as yet dim”, and upheld different foundations. Ms Creag, a local of Manilla, Philippines, is made due by a child, two girls and her significant other of 14 years, Bill Gafner.