Today (NBC program)

Today, usually referred to as The Today Show to avoid ambiguity, is an American morning news and talk show airing weekday mornings on the NBC television network. Premiering on January 14, 1952, it was the first of its genre, spawning similar morning news and entertainment television programs across the country and around the world. The show is also the third-longest running American television series, behind Meet The Press, which also airs on NBC. It will be extended one hour, because NBC has canceled the soap opera Passions . Today has been the highest-rated morning news and talk show in the United States since the week of December 11, 1995.