THE NBC NEWS "TODAY" SHOW'S 60TH ANNIVERSARY............

The "Today" Show, the first early morning news / information / entertainment / program on American television when created by NBC-TV programmer Pat Weaver, in January 1952, with original host Dave Garroway, celebrates its 60th Anniversary on the air this morning, with a two hour Family Reunion broadcast at 7 a.m. Current Today Show hosts, Matt Lauer, Ann Curry, weatherman Al Roker, newsreader Natalie Gonzales, will be joined by former hosts and on-air personalities, from Hugh Downs, Barbara Walters, John Hartz, Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley, Bryant Gumbel, Katie Couric, Deborah Norville, Meredith Vierra, to Willard Scott, Florence Henderson, Lee Meriwhether, and Estelle Parsons, in a two hour sharing looking back on the Today Show experience, over the past six decades. At its inception Today was trailblazing and groundbreaking television programming, as only test paqtterns were broadcast in the morning hours. Sixty years later all news oriented broadcast and cable networks have a similar morning program, nationally and internationally. Just this week CBS Television unveiled the newwest in a long string of morning shows since the mid 1950's to compete with NBC's Today Show. As the first and still number one rated program by which Americans begin their day. with news, information, and entertainment, at the top of the morning, a very Happy 60th Anniversary to the program famous for the words, " But first, This is Today on NBC"............Fr. Troy