I woke rested very early this morning. It made sense to get up and get going.
The weather forcast for overnight suggested the temperature would drop to minus five last night - the Early Show (Eyewitness News) reports it is actually 11 degrees (4:30 am).
I am always amazed that television programming runs 24 hours a day. When we got our first TV in the late 1950s programming signed off at midnight with a prayer and back on in the morning when the test pattern "warmed" up the TV. It then went live with either Rev. Luther K. Youngdahl of Mount Olivet Lutheran Church in Minneapolis or Roman Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen (I don't remember where he was from) praying us into the day.
The TODAY show was the first morning news and information program. From New York it was hosted by Dave Garroway who used fewer words per minute than any TV host on television today. His classic bow tie, wry humor, guy next door persona and the addition of the chimpanze, J. Fred Muggs and the audience outside the window pulled in this kid.
The pace of the entire show was a study slow motion wrapped in "neighborly" tones. He used relatively few words per minute compared to television personalities today. The clocks on the set behind him showed the time in London, Tokyo and other exotic places around the world. I had never heard of such places! So it is no wonder that it came as a complete surprise that the time in Zumbrota, Minnesota was not the same as the time in other places in the world. And, the the world got bigger and bigger and bigger.
50 years later the TODAY show is still going strong and now "takes the viewer" around the world - no wall of clocks in the New Millennium. Just thinin'... ...
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