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Today Show History
On January 14, 1952, at 7 a.m est, Americans awoke to the evolutionary and first ever NBC-TV "Today Show".

The show, an American morning news and talk show, put us in touch with the world in which we live. From news to music, the show included national news headlines, weather, in-depth interviews with news makers, lifestyle features, other light news, local news, music of the day, and what was happening tomorrow in arts, science and sports to all fields of human endeavor.

The Today Show opened with a view of Dave Garroway, one of the early hosts, looking outside through the 'Window on the World' in New York City.

Arguably, the most popular and well-known morning news and talk show for decades, the Show's formula birthed a generation of several other shows of a similar type, including ABC's Good Morning America, and CBS' …show more content…

When the Today Show started, it was seen live in the Eastern and Central time zones, broadcasting three hours per morning but seen for only two hours in each time zone. Later, Today aired live for five hours a morning, but it was seen for only two consecutive hours in each of the four U.S. continental time zones. Since 1958, Today is tape-delayed for the different time zones. For many years it was a two-hour program from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. in all time zones, until NBC expanded it to three hours (until 10:00 a.m. in all time zones) on October 2, 2000. In some viewing areas, the third hour of Today is tape-delayed by an hour and airs at 10 a.m.

Other hosts over the years have been John Chancellor, Hugh Downs, Barbara Walters, Frank McGee, Jim Hartz, Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley, Chris Wallace, Bryant Gumbel, Linda Ellerbee, and Deborah Norville.

The Today Show, broadcast from Studio 1A in 10 Rockefeller Center, NYC, is currently hosted and introduced by Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie, with Al Roker doing national weather updates. Today added a fourth hour of programming on September 10, 2007, with Hoda Kotb and Kathi-Lee as

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