Today (U.S. TV program)

Today, commonly referred to as The Today Show, is an American television program, are presented in the news, information and conversations (especially interviews ) in the form of a morning magazine on the NBC television network of the National Broadcasting Company. Launched on January 14, 1952 broadcast is the world's oldest and most successful morning program information. It is also the U.S. television production with the third- longest run time. So until January 1, 2008 just 20718 episodes were produced.

  • 2.1 moderators
  • 2.2 Newscaster
  • 2.3 Weather information
  • 2.4 Weekend Today

History

The inventor of The Today Show 's Pat Weaver. According to his ideas went on 14 January 1952, the show with Dave Garroway first time on the air. The mascot of the first year was the chimpanzee J. Fred Muggs. The program was a model for many American offshoot, and not least the ZDF morning show by their very soon achieved great success.

Length and charisma

In the early years it was produced and shown three periods only two periods in the EST and CST time zones each 7-9 clock (and thus 2-hour ). Soon after it was produced five weekly periods, of which 2 hours were broadcast live in the four time zones. As of 1958, the production was only two periods and time-shifted broadcast accordingly.

As of October 2, 2000, a three -hour program was consistently produced and broadcast since 10 September 2007, there are four hours a day.

Originally aired only on weekdays ( except USA -wide public holidays), it is broadcast since 1987 on Sundays (length of one hour ) and since 1992 on Saturdays ( two hours or longer).

Origin

Originally Today was produced in the RCA Exhibition Hall on 49th Street in Manhattan. Today there is the auction house Christie's.

1958 moved the show to the studio 3K opposite RCA Building until it moved into a lying on the road Studio 1962. 1965 was again a move to the RCA Building, which was due to the onset of color television broadcasting (NBC could not two news studios with expensive color cameras will do ). In the following 20 years, the mission occupied different floors of NBC's headquarters, including Studio 3K in the 1970s, 8G in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and finally Studio 3B from 1983 to 1994.

In June 1994, Today moved into the present, directly beside a main road junction Studio 1A in Rockefeller Center.

During the last major renovation and redesign of the studio in the summer of 2006, the show was recorded in an outdoor studio on Rockefeller Plaza. Since the completion of the renovation work Today is produced and broadcast in HDTV ( 1080i).

Party

Moderators

  • Dave Garroway (1952-1961)
  • John Chancellor (1961-1962)
  • Hugh Downs (1962-1971)
  • Barbara Walters (1963-1976)
  • Frank McGee (1971-1974)
  • Jim Hartz (1974-1976)
  • Tom Brokaw (1976-1981)
  • Jane Pauley (1976-1989)
  • Chris Wallace ( 1982)
  • Bryant Gumbel (1982-1997)
  • Deborah Norville (1990-1991)
  • Joe Garagiola (1990-1992)
  • Katie Couric (1991-2006)
  • Meredith Vieira (2006-2011)
  • Matt Lauer (since 1997)
  • Ann Curry ( since 2011 )

Newscaster

  • Jim Fleming (1952-1953)
  • Frank Blair (1953-1975)
  • Lew Wood (1975-1976)
  • Tony Guida (1979 )
  • 1979-1981 served the moderators Jane Pauley and Tom Brokaw as Newscaster
  • John Palmer (1982-1989)
  • Deborah Norville (1989-1990)
  • Faith Daniels (1990-1992)
  • Margaret Larson (1992-1994)
  • Matt Lauer (1994-1997)
  • Ann Curry (1997-2011)
  • Natalie Morales ( since 2011 )

Weather information

  • Bob Ryan (1978-1980)
  • Willard Scott (1980-1996)
  • Al Roker (since 1996)

Weekend Today

The weekend edition is produced by other presenters and newscasters:

  • Amy Robach
  • Lester Holt

Previous presenters were:

  • David Bloom
  • Campbell Brown
  • Soledad O'Brien
  • Maria Shriver
  • Garrick Utley
  • Boyd Matson
  • Scott Simon
  • Jodi Applegate

Theme music

Dave Garroway selected Sentimental Journey by Les Brown as the first theme song. 1962, with the acceptance of the shipment by Hugh Downs, was au Crepuscule melody of Django Reinhardt new theme music, which in 1963 replaced by Mist by Bobby Hackett and John B. Seng.

1971 Ray Ellis composed a separate instrumental cover story titled This is Today. Since Ellis had his composition very closely on Day by Day of the musical Godspell, he was sued and lost. 1978, therefore, had to be changed and the theme was based on the theme music from NBC. 1982 was a new version of the theme, which was used until 1985.

1985 John Williams wrote a series of theme songs for NBC, including two for Today. One was based on The Mission, which he had created for the show NBC Nightly News, and was used until 1993, a second was called Scherzo for Today and was used until 1990.

Since then, a fanfare music is used.

Radiations outside the U.S.

Europe

In Europe and the Middle East the show is currently being broadcast via satellite at the transmitter Orbit News. From 1989 to 1993, a broadcast took place at Sky News.

Germany

From 1993 to 1998 Today was also fed into Germany as part of NBC Europe to the cable network and transmitted via satellite. Initially this was done live ( by the time zone difference corresponding to 13 to 15 clock ), from 1995, the morning of the following day ( 7-9 clock, and accordingly as repetition with 18 hours time delay ). Among other things, by increasing the size of the program window for the later GIGA TV were also related to the broadcast of Today in Germany.

Australia

In Australia, the daily output of Today week from Tuesday to Sunday is broadcast on Seven each 4-6 clock in the morning.

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