Today (U.S. TV program)

Today
Also known as	The Today Show
Genre	Morning news/talk
Created by	Sylvester Weaver
Directed by	Joe Michaels
Presented by	Matt Lauer Savannah Guthrie Al Roker Kathie Lee Gifford Hoda Kotb Carson Daly (See full list)
Narrated by	Fred Facey Les Marshak
Theme music composer	Les Brown (1952–1961) Django Reinhardt (1962–1963) Erroll Garner (1963–1971) Ray Ellis (1971–1985) John Williams (1985–2013) Adam Gubman (2013–)
Opening theme	2012 Today AGOpen1 The Choice (Election Open) (2013–present)
Ending theme	"Energetic Today" "Slow Today"
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	65
No. of episodes	16,185 (as of January 24, 2014)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Don Nash
Location(s)	Studio 1A, NBC Studios New York City, New York
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	88 minutes (weekdays), 84 minutes (Saturdays), 42 minutes (Sundays)
Production company(s)	NBC News Productions
Release
Original network	NBC
Picture format	480i (4:3 SDTV) (1952–2006) 1080i (16:9 HDTV) (2006–present)
Original release	January 14, 1952 (1952-01-14) – present
Chronology
Related shows	Early Today
External links
Website

Today with Kathie Lee and Hoda
Hoda Kotb (left) and Kathie Lee Gifford (right), hosts of the fourth hour
Genre	Talk show Comedy
Presented by	Kathie Lee Gifford Hoda Kotb
Production
Location(s)	NBC
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	44–52 minutes
Release
Original release	September 10, 2007 (2007-09-10) – present
External links
Website

Coordinates: 40°45′30″N 73°58′45″W / 40.7584°N 73.9791°W / 40.7584; -73.9791

Today (stylized as TODAY), also called The Today Show, is an American news and talk morning television show that airs on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and is the fifth-longest-running American television series. Originally a two-hour program on weekdays, it expanded to Sundays (a one-hour program) in 1987 and Saturdays (running for two hours) in 1992. The weekday broadcast expanded to three hours in 2000, and to four hours 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 held onto that position for 852 consecutive weeks until the week of April 9, 2012, when it was beaten by Good Morning America again. Today has maintained its No. 2 status since the summer of 2012 each year behind GMA. In 2002, Today was ranked No. 17 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.