I had lunch Saturday with my pal, radio host Paul Harris…a great time, and I always learn things from this man. One of the less important ones is that Paul tipped me off to this video — footage from the first Today Show with Dave Garroway. It was an interesting program…NBC's attempt to start its network broadcast day early and to craft a program in a unique way.
Usually, people watch a show from start to finish…or at least, the producers want them to. But because of Today's position, it was going to be a show that a lot of folks would watch as they ate breakfast and got ready to go to work or leave the house. That meant they would join Today in progress and leave it when it came time to go catch a bus or a subway or whatever. As you can see, they weren't sure at first how to craft the show for that purpose and the presentation of news was rather crude. Still, it caught on.
So set the WABAC Machine for January 14, 1952, Sherman…