{"id":41896,"date":"2021-05-16T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/january-6-1952-first-ever-today-promo-live-with-fred-allen-2\/"},"modified":"2021-05-16T06:38:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T10:38:14","slug":"january-6-1952-first-ever-today-promo-live-with-fred-allen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=41896","title":{"rendered":"January 6, 1952&#8230;First Ever &#8220;TODAY&#8221; Promo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First Ever &#8220;TODAY&#8221; Promo, Live With Fred Allen &amp; Dave Garroway<\/p>\n<p>[evp_embed_video url=&#8221;http:\/\/CDN.eyesofageneration.com\/Content\/Viewseum\/Sound Off &#8211; MSTR.mp4&#8243; preload=&#8221;none&#8221; template=&#8221;mediaelement&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for a new era of television, the full staff of the new &#8220;TODAY&#8221; show began reporting to work at 4 AM, Monday January 2, 1952, to get them acclimated to their new early morning schedules, two weeks prior to the January 14th debut. This sketch\/promo aired at the end of that first early rising week, on Friday night, the 6th.<\/p>\n<p>This is also a rare look at &#8220;Sound Off&#8221;, a show that had rotating hosts that included not only radio star Fred Allen, seen here, but Bob Hope and Jerry Lester as well. The show only aired for a few months, and this is one of the last episodes. The announcer is Dick Stark.<\/p>\n<p>I think this show came from NBC&#8217;s Uptown studios at 106 Street. Notice in the front of the gag, CBS gets dished and the &#8220;NBC Man&#8221; is called Mr. Weaver, a poke at NBC program head Pat Weaver, who of course was the creator of &#8220;Today&#8221;, &#8220;Tonight&#8221; and much more. -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eyesofageneration\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/1194013360636211\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/january-6-1952-first-ever-today-promo-live-with-fred-allen.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/1194013360636211\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Ever &#8220;TODAY&#8221; Promo, Live With Fred Allen &amp; Dave Garroway [evp_embed_video url=&#8221;http:\/\/CDN.eyesofageneration.com\/Content\/Viewseum\/Sound Off &#8211; MSTR.mp4&#8243; preload=&#8221;none&#8221; template=&#8221;mediaelement&#8221;] In preparation for a new era of television, the full staff of the new &#8220;TODAY&#8221; show began reporting to work at 4 AM, Monday January 2, 1952, to get them acclimated to their new early morning schedules, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":41897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[721,783,720,782,725],"class_list":["post-41896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-announcer","tag-cbs","tag-host","tag-nbc","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62307,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41896\/revisions\/62307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}