When Television Was Young: The Inside Story With Memories by Legends of the Small Screen

Author:Ed McMahon & David Fisher [McMahon, Ed & Fisher, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: book, ebook
ISBN: 9781401603274
Amazon: 1401603270
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2007-09-11T05:00:00+00:00

OK, I’ll be going back to my chapter now.

Eventually they picked Dave Garroway, an eccentric, laid-back, creative host of a Chicago talk-variety show, Garroway at Large. It was the same kind of show I was doing in Philly—a little of this and a little of that, as long as it didn’t cost anything. I used to close my late show, McMahon & Company, by having a lovely girl blow out a candle, and the station would go dark. Garroway had a tag gag, something funny he did at the end of every show. For example, he would say, “This show came to you from Chicago, the friendliest city in the world.” He would then turn around and walk away, and there would be a knife in his back.

Garroway’s conversational, informal style was different from the typical serious, formal manner. He said that he was successful because he didn’t try to talk to an audience, but rather he looked into the camera and spoke to one person. I never forgot that, and I have tried to do the same thing.

Outside of Chicago, Garroway was unknown, so very few viewers were going to turn on Today to see him. Weaver planned Today to be the longest show the networks had ever done: three hours long every day, but only two hours would be broadcast into each time zone. A lot of material from the first hour would be repeated for new viewers in the third hour.

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