Today Show

Production
Today opening title, as of September 8, 2009
Genre	News program, Live Action
Created by	Sylvester L. Weaver Jr.
Presented by	Matt Lauer (1997–present) Merh Vieira (2006-present) Ann Curry (1997–present) Al Roker (1996–present) Natalie Morales (2006–present) Kathie Lee Gifford (2008–present) Hoda Kotb (2007–present) Other Willard Scott (1980–present) Gene Shalit (1973–present)
Narrated by	Dick Dudley (former) Fred Facey (former) Les Marshak (current)
Theme music composer	John Williams
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	17,050 (as of August 7, 2009)
Executive producer(s)	Jim Bell
Location(s)	Studio 1A, Rockefeller Center
Running time	240 minutes (4 hours)
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Picture format	480i (SDTV), 1080i (HDTV)
Original run	January 14, 1952 – present
External links
Official website

Description

U.S. morning television shows
Networks
ABC	Good Morning America
CBS	The Early Show
NBC	Today
RTV	Daytime
Cable
BBC	World News Today
C-SPAN	Washington Journal
CNBC	Squawk Box
Squawk on the Street
CNN	American Morning
ESPN2	Mike and Mike
FNC	Fox & Friends
America`s Newsroom
FBN	Fox Business Morning
Imus in the Morning
The Opening Bell
HLN	Morning Express
MSNBC	Morning Joe
Morning Meeting
TWC	Wake Up With Al
Your Weather Today
Spanish Networks
Uni	¡Despierta América!
Tel	Cada Día
Syndication
	The Daily Buzz
Live with Regis and Kelly
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Description

The Today outdoor studio as seen at the Torino Winter Olympic Games in 2006. Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters, on a promotional cover for Today in August 1967 Today (also referred to as The Today Show), is an American morning news and talk show airing every morning on NBC. Debuting on January 14, 1952, it was the first of its genre, spawning similar morning news and entertainment television programs across the United States and around the world. The show is also the third-longest running American television series. Originally a two-hour program on weekdays, it expanded to Sundays (currently one hour) in 1987 and Saturdays (two hours) in 1992. The weekday broadcast expanded to three hours in 2000, and a fourth hour launched in 2007. Today`s dominance was virtually unchallenged by the other networks until the late 1980s, when it was overtaken by ABC`s Good Morning America. Today retook the Nielsen Ratings lead the week of December 11, 1995, and has held onto that position every week since.