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It's amazing to see how far the News has come since 1952. They really look like they're building the airplane as they fly it. This is truly history and I love it.
"Good morning. The very first good morning of what I expect to be of many great mornings between you and I" Best opening line ever. Timeless
and indeed it was “the first of many”
More like the first of over 25,000 good mornings.
Wow I was curious what the first broadcast was like. What the Today show is actually about. Newspaper on the wall. The current crew on Today is interesting sometimes drama. This guy and crew deserves and award. Now the show has video clips like most news channels. He uses a phone to call and see what other news is going on so cool
What I thought was more like "OK, not even one minute in, and these professionals have made a grammatical error." But I guess you just have to enjoy the history and entertainment values nonetheless.
70 years later, this program still lives on. This is one of the longest running American television programs in history.
not one of, it’s the oldest american news program and longest running
Yes Magnum I just got posting my own comment similar to yours on their youtube channel
@Bold One I think you meant "show" Mr.Bold
@@joeelliott2810 Meet the Press, fits both criteria and is the LONGEST running TV show ever
@Bold One The Ohio Lottery’s Cash Explosion holds that claim…well, except for that one brief period when it was Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich.
Everything has to start somewhere, and this is a priceless glimpse into the dawn of morning television. What's amazing is how the format hasn't really changed that much. Technology has of course allowed a quantum leap in "how" the program is presented, but the structure was almost fully formed right from the start.
Jeff G Yes!! So well said and articulated as a youngling like myself it is pretty fascinating to see how the format has transitioned from the 50’s to now. Great comment I had to respond hehe!! Even if it is three years later!!😃😀😃
Garroway: " An informed people tend to be a more free people".
Well, we have proven that wrong
Love how the news that they showcase is just newspapers and pictures pinned on the wall, such a lovely start
It's really odd to realize this is how it started!
When I was a little girl in 1955, I would run downstairs to watch this news program, (especially when snow days would be called,and I didn't have to wait outside, down the street,, for my school bus). I was one very happy kid. Great memory!
can confirm
How you doing now granny... ??
My goodness 1952 was such a different and simple time
And racist time
@@junksocrazy Thanks for ruining everyone's time
@ray is a simp yeah I know (i read about segregation in a library)
oh yeah... simple lol
@GIL Favor And what do you mean by that I wonder. Hmm.
It's been 65 years since the beginning, one of the longest-running and the first morning program of the world. As Dave Garroway says: "That's sound like a big job, believe me it is. We've been working on this for quite a while, we're glad our feelings was made great into your home for the first day, we hope give you enough to stay with you for a long time". That is the Today's Preamble, that actually works every single day. At the beginning of the day, from the studio to your home, no matter where you go, Today will stay with you.
Dave Garroway is superb at running this busy and chaotic set. So poised and glib on the spot in what must have been a real challenge. Garroway has been obscure to me, as I became a Today viewer circa 1964, the Frank Blair, Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters era, as I would wait to head off to school. I remember him only for a commercial he did for, I recall, a drain unclogger. Wow, did that ad ever underplay his skills!
What gets me is the technology to get the news to the viewers. A room full of various reporters and technicians lording over hot machines. Makes you appreciate how it is today.
wow everything was just so different in these times
And I’m watching this, on CZcams from my iPhone in 2022! Imagine how much further we’ll be with technology in another 70 years?
To give US viewers perspective and historical insight - BBC Television Service was the only television channel in the United Kingdom in 1952. On this date Monday January 14th 1952, shown below is what was on offer from the BBC Television Service, as a comparison. Britain in 1952, where the words "breakfast television" were unheard and completely dismissed until January 1983. Even daytime programs were hard to come by in 1952, with television signing on air from 3.00pm.
Note: When there were gaps, no programs filled them, the television service just signed off air until the next scheduled program began.
3.00pm - Secret Evidence, an American crime story film. Finished at 3.30pm.
5.30pm - Children's Television, Fighting with Kit Carson (1933 movie serial). Finished at 6.00pm.
8.00pm - Newsreel, a news programme with images and reports from the UK and abroad.
8.15pm - Hit Parade, a show about the latest top tunes.
8.45pm - A Roof Over Your Head - a program about how modern buildings and new towns will affect our lives.
9.15pm - What's My Line - panel game show. (British version)
9.55pm - Speaking Personally: Viscountess Astor, talks about her life and career.
10.10pm - News (In Sound Only), a news bulletin, typically the latest radio news bulletin which aired at 9.00pm on the BBC Home Service radio station.
10.25pm - Sign Off, or as UK called it "Closedown.
So all in all, 3 hours and 25 minutes of television, on the same day in the US, where NBC launched breakfast television.
US channels since the late 1940s have nearly always had daytime television and more broadcasting hours than the UK, but it just amazes me the difference as seen in 1952, where I guess CBS and NBC would be on the air from 7.00am until at least 11.30pm, I am not sure on ABC.
Wonderful post, thank-you John! Despite the BBC initially starting their broadcasts in 1936 it's worth noting just how few people in the UK even had their own television sets at home, even by 1952...austerity measures being still very much in effect after the war. In fact because the BBC were shut down between 1939-46 they had a lot of catching up to do and I think that's reflected in the style and tone of the programmes of the time. Almost like they just picked up where they left off in the 30's haha! Pathe news reels etc. at the cinema would've been the closest thing you'd get to watching a more wide-spread broadcast back then. But of course, it goes without saying, that radio was still king over 'ere until the TV sets became more affordable & available for the masses a couple of years later! And then ITV came along.......yes, TWO channels to choose from! Sometimes I wonder whether anyone would really notice if we went back to that.......seeing as a lot of us use the internet to watch our favourite TV shows etc. on nowadays ;)
Hi, it is amazing how two countries television varied. In Ireland, they did not get a national service until 31st December 1961, Telefis Eireann, now named RTE. RTE had terrible finances along with a conservative approach to broadcasting meant that in 1969 for example RTE Television would be on the air each day just from 5.35pm until 11.30pm, and during June-Sept it was 6.00pm-11.30pm.
@@johnking5174 The BBC did have a nighttime program, Tonight, in 1957.
@@marvy3022 Yes, but no breakfast programs until January 1983. Tonight was not the same as your Tonight Show on NBC though, it was more of a current affairs, news program
I'm always so fasnated with how things beign in history on tv !
Very cool! Thank you for posting this Today Show!
I know, right? So memorable.
I wish that kids my age would think this is interesting.
I'm eleven I find this fascinating
That 1950's news ticker is just fascinating. How did they even make the clock work?
I love the 1952 technology of the communications center. My mom was 10 years old when the Today Show premiered.
I can't get over the size of that microphone Garroway has strapped to him! Look at how technology has improved since then. Now they have tiny little wireless mics that you can't even see half the time!
this is so relaxing to leave on in the background. garroway is such a fine reporter.
I was 9 months old on this broadcast. I was watching TV when I was 8, in the first grade, and I remember Dave Garroway's 2 hour show. This is the show where the MUPPETS got their start, who would often appear on the show.
I sure miss this, my Grandparents generation. This was 2 years before I was born, but we watched Today every morning from 1960 on.
Wow. What a way to look back at how morning television worked its' way up to the top. And here is Dave Garroway. And here is Dave Garroway. And here is Dave Garroway.- Keeping that sort of tradition they have, alive (I'm curious about it). Good Morning to you and many Good Mornings for 60+ years and so forth.
We got our first tv in 1956 and from then on I ate breakfast to the Today Show and dinner to the Huntley-Brinkley report.
1956 and the concept of breakfast television was alien to viewers in England. In 1956 they had 2 stations, BBC and ITV, both channels aired no breakfast, morning or lunchtime programs. Both would start their 7 hour broadcast day at 3pm or 4pm.
American television were light years ahead of us here in Britain. Looking at this presentation, the look, feel and style would be something Britain would have to wait until Jan 1983 before they saw breakfast television.
Wow! Old media is so fascinating. Another interesting tidbit is that Argentina had TV before Canada.
@@universalcerberus5863 British government controlled how many hours per day British stations could air until 1972, so breakfast television was impossible in 1950s and 1960s in Britain
Not too bad to be honest, if I wasn't used to modern TV this would be pretty enjoyable to watch
All i can say it was very good contrasted with the glitz of today.
As a British person I am astonished that breakfast television started in 1952. It took another 31 years before we in the United Kingdom got breakfast television. It seems America was way ahead with breakfast and daytime programming compared to us here in the UK. Back in 1952 even to think of television coming on the air at 7.00am each weekday would be laughed at, as most would listen to BBC radio for their morning news, weather e.t.c. In 1952 BBC Television would only come on the air from around 3.00pm.
This was just 3 weeks before Elizabeth II ascended to the throne.
I am amazed at the difference in television hours in the US in 1952 compared to the UK. Breakfast television just did not exist in 1952 in the UK. You are lucky in the US you had choice.
well given that you Brits were among the first to have actual TV in 1932, we had to be the first with something TV related.
CBS and ABC both tried for many years but failed until the late 70’s where ABC’s Good Morning America took off and it was mid-80’s where the CBS Morning Show with Harry Smith and Paula Zahn took off.
Part of that may have been the difference in government control as opposed to the relatively wide-open nature of corporate competition.
I wish people would speak like this today
Yes! Sounds like music to me ☺️
I wish I could see the ticker. But Kinoscopes always have that weird glare. Thank God for videotape.
"Informed people tend to be free people." Prophetic statement from 1952.
Graphics provided by their rival the newspapers.
and here we are over 67 years later
The microphone he's wearing must weigh a ton.
I was thinking the same thing. Incredible.
I own one of those mics (an RCA BK-4A "Starmaker"). It's about 12" long and weighs a little over one pound, which for its day was a real achievement in a self-contained microphone. The hoop looks designed to reduce strain on the wearer, but it still had to be nice to take it off after wearing it on your neck for three-plus hours. Not to mention having to mind that long mic cable that you could either trip over or, if you didn't pull it along with you, would tug at the microphone....
I don't mean to sound raunchy, but my first thought when he displayed that mic was, "Oh, a Viagra ad."
LoL ... for that time period... well... that was likely a top o' the line lavalier. 😁
I suspect Harry F. Olson designed the mic. czcams.com/video/1o9m-2xlZ4M/video.html
This is awesome to see. The things we can accomplish when we work together is amazing to say the least.
Sagorney Weaver's father created this show, as well as the tonight show.
The king of morning news + talk show. Even ahead of British TV. Revolutionary.
Way ahead of British TV. In 1952 the BBC TV Service only started at 3.00pm and was only permitted to air at maximum 5 hours a day of television.
The war, and its after effects, had everything to do with the delay of TV in Britain.
Proof that the news tickers we see on news broadcasts today are not a new idea.
I always thought that news tickers didn’t become a thing until 9/11
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Who knew?
Why do you think they’re called tickers? Hear the ticking in the background?
News tickers were real. All they had.
66 years ago today. Jan 14, 2018, happy Sunday.
68 years ago today...January 14,2020 Happy Tuesday!!
Today is 69th years.
@@supergameforever143 And Jan. 14, 2022 will be 70 years.
the today show came along way
gregory brown It sucks today
I remember the Today Show broadcasting an atom bomb test. Pretty scary stuff back then.
Love this...3 yrs before I was born. Too bad they didn't make all the show's accessible to watch.
Back when you can smoke inside and work at the same time
Yeah, this is when the cigarette companies kept the fact that if you smoke, you will die from cancer!
@@jtridexter yeah especially back then. They were more raw then, than today.
@@Matt_Matt96
It's actually worse today then back then. All cigarettes today have some much chemicals sprayed on them
Back when you could get lung cancer from cigarettes indoors even when you didn’t smoke cigarettes.
Oh to go back to simpler days 😊
This is amazing2😉😀❤ thank you Today!
It was the first daytime talk show ever. This was back before we were born. 😮
"Well, here we are. Good morning to you."
Would love to get up to that smooth, calm greeting every day. Garroway was so cool.
This guy is better than Matt Lauer
Where In The World is Matt Lauer?! Bomp! Bomp!🤖
Blab Blah that's Dave Garroway
Matt Lauer? Who's he?
RexLex1066ad He is a 61 year old Today Journalist until 2017 for committing sexual act
I was 6 & lived in kevil ky didnt get to see this 1st show..but did faithfully starting in '54-55.
This is amazing in retrospect
He was correct in his prediction re: "a new kind of television."
9:04 "Dog leads rescuers to frozen woman"😂 Nothing has changed, Same 'ol Minnesota.
A peice of American television history,and it is your show! thanks for posting this TODAY.
Thanks Today... 👏 ...loved this... hope you post more history from time to time.
For that time period, I bet that was a top of the line lavalier. 😁
"An informed people tends to be a free people."
Says a bit much about modern USA...
wow look out for those exploding sweaters simpler times back then
SuperWatson63 😂
Wow, Garroway was smooth. No cue cards, just working. That was the first show, with everyone working live, and he just took you right through it. Nice camera work as well. They were making stuff up as they went along (not the news, the process of the show) and I must say, this is professionalism. What an interesting--and surely exhausting--place to work.
The Today Show today sucks.
So dynamic!
"making stuff as they went along" is the opposite of professionalism...
Remember that when this aired the crews were used to doing hour after hour of live TV, day after day......That was the only way it was done. There were no retakes. There were no edits to "clean it up"
back then you could say as you please to a certain extent, nowadays it’s not that they need or want cue cards, it’s that if they don’t use them they’ll most likely not be on the air. It’s wack
I remember seeing this show I was 11 yrs old
I wish I was alive in the 50s. From what I see here, it looked like a great decade.
Greg Schroll ugh. Same
It was an interesting time to be a kid. But I think secretly adults were still kind of in shock from the war, whether they were overseas or at home. They drank and smoked up a storm. TV sets, radios, newspapers, even the big general-interest magazines were communally used. I remember the first time I saw someone with a pocket-sized transistor radio with an earphone. He was dancing to music we couldn't hear. Unthinkable! Blew our minds.
Every place you walked into was covered up with cigarette smoke
Yeah but people in that decade were only worrying over something silly like a "cold war"
Happy Birthday TODAY!
Ive always wondered why the american accent changed....anyone??
Gisselle Penaloza interesting...thanx
Audio recording equipment was poor and affected the way actors spoke - ie, speaking with reduced pauses between words meant you didn't hear the noise and hiss in the silence. Also there was probably too much of an association with Hollywood gangster movies, maybe? "My name is James Cagney, seeee. Wise guy."
The trained radio voice prevails in this, and it had to be of a midwestern accent- mostly acceptable in broadcasting to this day.
Bass was poor in audio transfer back then. Men were trained (first for radio) to speak in a very bright, forward manner.
the Today Show was the brainchild of NBC's Sylvester "Pat" Weaver. he was the father of actress Sigourney Weaver. I actually remember watching this first broadcast on 1-14-52.
Revolutionary.
Back when bow ties were cool and unassuming.
Crude by today's standards, but it must have been fascinating to the 1952 audience. Dave Garroway was a pioneer.
This show started one month after I was born on Dec. 14, 1951. Harry Truman was president in 1952, and in January still thinking about whether to run for reelection. But General Eisenhower would run as a Republican that year, and capture the White House for the GOP for the first time in 20 years. It was a simpler world then, and technology has changed our lives with social media and the Internet. But are we happier today?
Wow it was many great mornings
Everybody is smokin’....
Thanks for posting.
LMBO ... that hands free microphone is obscene LOL ... I bet That was so modern and high tech back then.
Dave actually DREW the weather on U. S. political map chalkboards as late at 1957!
Fascinating
Wonder what Pat Weaver would think of today's version of the concept he developed?
do you have the entire broadcast?
Thats pretty cool, he walks over to the long range radio and starts talking to london live on the air. while the ticker goes on the bottom. Pretty freaking amazing for 1952
Wow...everything in broadcast television, has a point of origin! Hard to believe that my mom was only 12yrs old when this show aired!
most moms alive now weren't even born..
Good memories
They should try it like this some time!
NBC, greatest network in the world.
woah i didn’t realize the today show was this old, it’s my favorite :D
Imagine some watched this and on this day they’re still watching the news 😯
Exploding sweaters?! 😳
Favourite bit nbc jingle
Still done today!
I cant believe you guys dont have a better film scan of this footage that you could've shared with us.
Well this is a Kinescope recording, it most likely sounded and looked more clear in real life, back in 1952.
Why didn’t you just call it Tomorrow if you were going to tell everything going on tomorrow?! Anyway, this is absolutely fascinating.
Good type around the world
Wow... I was born 46 years, 1 month, and 13 days after this was first aired.
WOWWWWW!!!!!! EPIC!!
Can't tell women they are pretty without being yelled at. Thank God some women want that still.
Does anyone know if the full 2 hours have survived on kinescope?
CHRISTOPHER DUNNE I believe it’s the first half hour and last 15 min of the first episode
do you have a whole archive you should upload the interview of Eugene Bullard. especially during black history month
0:37 That should be "Between you and ME!".....
AP Style in journalism recommends "between you and I." Weird, I know.
go open a grammar book for crying out loud
You are right. But today most people put the reference to themselves first, as "me and my friend got drunk last night." We've forgotten our grammar, and in a lot of ways our sense of courtesy.
Does anyone know what NBC in the west coast aired at breakfast time in 1952? As I know Today was not available coast to coast until 1958 when they had the full connection with cable. So did NBC in Los Angeles say have their own breakfast program? Thanks.
Notice how they also innovated the bottom on-screen ticker.
Who still watch it on 1963 ?
the legend is born
Just out of curiosity, when was the first musical performance on The Today Show?
Not sure what the first live musical performance was, but the first record played on "Today" was "Slow Poke" by Ralph Flanagan and His Orchestra, played at about 7:21 that morning as a camera on a tall platform did a slow sweep of the newsroom.
Heh, I drive up to Oak Ridge almost weekly. the museum there, is a repurposed school. And in the same area is the apartments, That people still rent despite how old and tiny they are.
Today. Creators of the rolling news ticker. Before it was grossly overused as it is today
On January 14, 2022, this broadcast will turn 70 years old.
Im watching this in 2021