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  Dave Garroway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Garroway soon was joined by news editor Jim Fleming and announcer Jack Lescoulie as television's first loose "family" of the airwaves when the show debuted on Monday, January 14, 1952.
Because of Garroway's dedication to the cause of mental health, his second wife Sarah helped establish the Dave Garroway Laboratory for the Study of Depression at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dave Garroway Laboratory for the Study of Depression
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 Dave Garroway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dave Garroway was the original host of NBC's Today Show from 1952 to 1961.
Garroway began his broadcasting career in 1939 as a disk jockey at WMAQ in Chicago, Illinois.
Dave Garroway was found dead of a gunshot wound at his Philadelphia area home on July 21, 1982.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Dave Garroway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dave Garroway (July 13, 1913 – July 21, 1982) was the original host of NBC's (Click link for more info and facts about Today Show) Today Show from 1952 to 1961.
Garroway began his broadcasting career in 1939 as a disk jockey at (Click link for more info and facts about WMAQ) WMAQ in (Largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan) Chicago, (A Midwest state in north-central United States) Illinois.
Dave Garroway was found dead of a gunshot wound at his (The largest city in Pennsylvania; located in the southeastern part of the state on the Delaware river; site of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed; site of the University of Pennsylvania) Philadelphia area home on July 21, 1982.
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 Garroway At Large   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Garroway at Large was the definitive program series emanating from the Chicago School of Television during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Garroway at Large was revived but working under the production pressures of New York, the show lost much of the charm of the Chicago version and left the air after one season.
Dave Garroway died on 21 July 1982 at the age of 69.
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 Dave Garroway: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dave Garroway (July 13, EHandler: no quick summary.
Dave Garroway was found dead of a gunshot wound at his Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania quick summary:
Dave Garroway had one son, EHandler: no quick summary.
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 The Chicago School (Time Magazine)
Dave Garroway, an NBC-Chicago cameraman and members of the 'Garroway at Large' cast.
Big, 37-year-old Dave Garroway, an amateur mechanic, gem cutter, tile-setter, photographer, bird fancier, cabinetmaker and bibliophile, says his scriptless show is planned by "four guys sitting around a table." The other three, all under 35, are Writer Charlie Andrews, an ex-hobo; Producer Ted Mills, an expatriate New Yorker; and Director Bill Hobin, an ex-drummer.
Dave Garroway, one of the first of Chicago's TV successes, may be one of the first to leave.
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 South Providence RI - Politics, War, TV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Garroway was a seemingly easygoing, nerdy kind of guy, who had presided over 'Garroway at Large' on radio, and, later, TV, before hosting Today.
Garroway demonstrated the first solar-powered radio I had ever seen - hot stuff for 1953, or whenever it was.
I don't know why Garroway left; I rarely saw the show after its first 2 or 3 years; but in its early days it was one of the most interesting things ever to appear on TV.
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 TV News in the Fifties - Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow
Dave Garroway (1952-1961), John Chancellor (1961-1962), Hugh Downs (1962-1971), Barbara Walters (1963-1976), Frank McGee (1971-1974), Jim Hartz (1974-1976), Tom Brokaw (1976-1981), Jane Pauley (1976-1989), Bryant Gumbel (1982-1997), Katie Couric (1991-), Matt Lauer (1997-)
The original team was host Dave Garroway, sports by Jack Lescoulie and Jim Fleming read the news until 1953 when he was replaced by Frank Blair.
Dave Garroway committed suicide in 1982, Frank McGee died of cancer in 1974, John Chancellor in 1996 of cancer, and Sylvester L. Weaver in 2002.
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 Penn Behavioral Health at Pennsylvania Hospital: Research
The Dave Garroway Laboratory for the Study of Depression was founded in honor of Dave Garroway, the first host of the Today show.
Garroway worked to expand public awareness of mental illness and foster greater acceptance of psychiatric treatment.
The Dave Garroway Laboratory conducts longitudinal studies of depression and suicide.
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 J. Fred Muggs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
March 14, 1952, French Cameroon) is a chimpanzee who was the mascot for NBC's Today Show from 1953 to 1957.
As of January 23, 2004, the fifty-two-year-old Muggs and his "live-in girlfriend" Phoebe B. Beebe (who also made appearance on the Garroway show) are still alive in Citrus Park, Florida in the care of Gerald Preis.
It was said that he was added to the cast in order to appeal to children, but the undeniable effect was to convert Today almost overnight from an iffy proposition into a network institution.
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 Dave garroway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Dave Garroway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dave Garroway was found dead of a wound at his Philadelphia area home on July 21 1982.
Dave Brubeck has taken some standard Christmas Songs and made them into masterpieces like only he could do.
The textures that are famous to all of his work abound on this disc.
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 Dave Garroway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dave Garroway was the original host of NBC's TodayShow from 1952 to 1961.
His programs were called the ll:60 Club,the Dave Garroway Show, and Reserved for Garroway.
Dave Garroway was found dead of a gunshot wound at his Philadelphia areahome on July 21, 1982.
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 Keystone College Observatory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It was constructed originally for Beloit College, WI, in 1882 by the firm of Alvan Clark and Sons of Cambridgeport, MA, makers of the finest refracting lenses ever ground in the United States.
The instrument was acquired in 1967 by Dave Garroway, a television pioneer of the 1950s best known for hosting the "Today" show on NBC.
Garroway, assured that Keystone would make the telescope available to students of all ages and to the general public, rejected all other bids and chose Keystone as the new home for his 'baby'.
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 The Today Show : Part Two: Today Show in the Sixties
Dave Garroway left in 1961, replaced briefly by John Chancellor and then by Hugh Downs, who remained at the helm from 1962 until 1971.
After Garroway left Today, he suffered the ultimate insult - he was sued by J. Fred Muggs (or more accurately by his handlers) who complained that Garroway had ruined Muggs' career by claiming he was bitten by the big ape.
Garroway countered that, in fact, Muggs had lashed out at a number of people at NBC and he had been bitten himself on the face, while they were live on the air.
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 Dave Garroway Index Page
Dave Garroway hosting the "Today" show on Monday, December 1st 1952.
Though most remember Dave Garroway as the first host of the "Today" show, his network television career began in 1949 his Chicago-based "Garroway at Large" helped define the video medium.
The best of "Garroway at Large"---video downloads from one of the most creative television variety shows of all times, including the first television performance of "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" by Richard Rodgers and the remarkably creative "Boom Ballet".
www.richsamuels.com /nbcmm/garroway   (168 words)

  
 NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Today's Honorary Subscriber is the TV talk show host Dave Garroway (1913-1982), who is probably best remembered as the first host of NBC's early morning Today Show, which he headlined from 1952 to 1961.
In 1941, NBC offered Garroway the opportunity to go to Europe as a war correspondent, but he opted to become an ensign in the Navy instead and spent the war running a yeoman school in Pearl Harbor.
This program, "Garroway at Large," pioneered techniques especially devised for the TV camera, bringing the viewer backstage, over cables and around studio props, all the while mixing live entertainment with informal humor.
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 This Day in History
Garroway at Large was one of the two most important series to be made in Chicago, along with Kukla, Fran & Ollie, during the city's brief period in the late 1940s as an important production center for network programs.
Dave Garroway started out as a page at NBC and worked his way up to the position of radio announcer for various NBC programs.
Garroway also hosted his own radio talk show with music, which aired under various names from 1946 to 1955.
www.historychannel.com /tdih/tdih.jsp?category=entertainment&month=10272956&day=10272981   (388 words)

  
 Research papers and research papers on (Mass) Media & Broadcasting - 048-022
A 5 page paper that examines the increasingly detrimental impact and influence that violent television programming is proving to exert on the children of America and discusses ways in which this trend of violence might be halted or reversed.
One, Garroway at Large, was broadcast out of Chicago.
Garroway then became the first host of the Today show, from New York.
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 VOANews.com - History of TV Weather Forecasting (According to Willard)
"Dave Garroway would stand in front of this humongous map and was on the telephone," he says.
Draw it in a little closer to the coast, Dave!' Dave would say, 'Allright, ol' friend.' And he would draw it in.
In the next era of weather forecasts, Willard Scott says the TV networks first took serious meteorologists from behind the scenes and put them in front of the camera but later chose to introduce a bit of "glamour:" "The local TV people in the beginning were professional meteorologists.
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 St. Louis Walk of Fame - Dave Garroway
His popular jazz radio show led to "Garroway at Large," perhaps the most innovative early television variety show.
Recognizing the appeal of his unconventional and relaxed manner, NBC chose him in 1952 as the first host of "Today," the original national morning show.
Visit MSNBC for a look at the transcript of the first "Today" show with Dave Garroway.
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 07/07/01: Television Is Crap!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dave Garroway was this little round headed, middle-age putz with horned rim glasses, who, against all odds, became one of the brightest stars of the fledgling television medium.
Many was the time I ate my cornflakes while watching the clocks behind Dave, which, at age five, I found more interesting than Dave.
There was Eastern time, and Central time, and Pacific time...even Dave's neatly folded handkerchief, which poked out his blazer's breast pocket, was more interesting than Dave.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Today Show
For many years it was a two-hour program from seven to nine ET, until NBC expanded it to three hours (7-10 A.M. Eastern Time/Pacific Time; 6-9 A.M. Central Time/Mountain Time) on October 2, 2000.
Today was the first of its genre when it first signed on with host Dave Garroway.
The show successfully blends national news headlines, in-depth interviews with newsmakers, lifestyle features, other light news and gimmicks (including the presence of the chimpanzee J.
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 J. Fred Muggs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the early 1950's, NBC was planning a network TV show hosted by Dave Garroway.
The show would be a radical departure from the TV industry's accepted programming; a news, features, special events program that would run in the early morning.
Garroway's charm, easy conversational style and and a chimpanzee side-kick named J. Fred Muggs quickly became NBC's answer to wake up even the grouchiest of viewers to the concept of morning television.
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 'Today' has its golden anniversary - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
But sadly absent from the scene as "Today" turns 50 is the man who, with Weaver, did the most to put the show on its prosperous path: Dave Garroway, the show's first host.
Garroway, who committed suicide 20 years ago, left "Today" in 1961.
Garroway, at least, wasn't hurt by disapproving reviewers.
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 clc.htm
Dave Garroway was the first host of the show.
He was able to bring the news of the world to his audiences both on the east and west coast.
Together Garroway and J. Fred Muggs projected a style that was low-key, off-handed, with an emphasis on entertainment.
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 Dave Garroway as featured in Look Magazine
Right: Dave Garroway, a pleasant young man with a sharp mind, loafs beside a stage prop lamp post in NBC's Chicago studio working out a new TV idea
A droll young Chicago disk jockey named Dave Garroway is helping television grow up.
Right: Neighbor's cat looks forward to morning snack with Garroway who is a good cook and gourmet.
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 Francis, Arlene   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This daytime talk "magazine" of the air was designed to provide intelligent conversation and up-to-date information for a largely female audience, though men were in the audience as well.
From 1954 to 1957, Arlene Francis was, along with Arthur Godfrey, Murrow, Dave Garroway, and Jack Paar, one of the founders of television talk.
I do not think it is a woman's position to dominate." Yet when NBC came to Francis toward the end of Dave Garroway's long reign to ask her to co-host Today with Hugh Downs, she refused.
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