<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 12, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Dennis Degan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">The actual first Today Show was on January 14, 1952</span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Happy Birthday! </div><br><div>Wow. That's the date I was born a few years later.</div><div><br></div><div>January 14 is also the air-date for NBC's 1960 broadcast of the Tennesee Ernie Ford show's "HMS Pinafore" which I would suspect was also recorded on Quad and edited for air. </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>Maybe David Crosthwait can tell us more... IE, Burbank or NYC, RCA Labs or Low Band Color, etc.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And here's a segment of the Today Show in the Bryant Gumbell/Willard Scott era from Quad, recorded off the line at a network affiliate, if I correctly recall the history I was told. </div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0Z8xoVZ6I">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0Z8xoVZ6I</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>