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Morning Wake-Up Program - The
first early morning program 3 TO GET READY (a.k.a. "TTGR") made its debut as
a (live) local weekday show on November 27, 1950 at WPTZ in Philadelphia.
The program featured a young Ernie Kovacs who played records, read weather
reports and ad-libbed his way through the program using all sorts of props
thrown to him by off-camera crew members (prop budget $15). The program ran
from 7:00-9:00 A.M.
The major networks soon followed with TODAY/NBC/1952+; THE
MORNING SHOW/CBS/1954-57; THE CBS MORNING NEWS/CBS/1963+; and GOOD MORNING,
AMERICA/ABC/1975+.
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