Since the program’s premiere broadcast on January 14, 1952, “Today’s” hallmark has been its ability to revise an entire edition in order to bring viewers breaking news as it happens. In that fashion, “Today” delivered immediate coverage of such events as the plane crash of John F. Kennedy, Jr, the tragic high school shootings in Littleton, Colorado, the crash of TWA Flight 800, the death of Princess Diana, the Centennial Park bombing in Atlanta, the Oklahoma City bombing and trials, the death of Gianni Versace and the subsequent search for his killer, and the O.J. Simpson trial.

“Today” is co-anchored by Katie Couric and Matt Lauer. Ann Curry is the news anchor. Al Roker reports on the day’s weather and Gene Shalit contributes entertainment reviews and interviews. Willard Scott contributes with his popular centenarian birthday segments.

In June 1994, “Today” moved from its longtime home at New York’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza to a stunning, new site, NBC News’ glass-walled, ground-floor production facility at the corner of 49th Street and Rockefeller Plaza . The facility brings to mind the “Today” of the early 1950s, which also had its studio windows facing the streets of New York City. The three-story 18,000 square-foot home of “Today” attracts hundreds daily, who peer into its windows and become part of “Today’s” broadcast.

“Today” is also renowned for providing its audience with a window on the world by broadcasting from remote locations around the globe. The program has originated from Africa, China, the Soviet Union, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Australia, South America, Cuba and aboard the Orient Express. For what has become one of the program’s trademark series for the past two years, “Today” has broadcast live from remote locations around the world for the “Where in the World is Matt Lauer” annual trip. In the spring of 1998, Lauer broadcast from the Great Pyramids in Egypt, the Grand Canal in Venice, the Parthenon in Athens, the Taj Mahal in India and the Sydney Opera House in Australia. For 1999, his week-long adventure took him to Mount Everest, aboard the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt stationed in the Adriatic Sea, to the Coliseum in Rome and to the Great Wall of China.

Regular “Today” contributors include national correspondent Jamie Gangel; correspondent-at-large Joe Garagiola; entertainment correspondent Jill Rappaport; Hollywood correspondent Jim Brown; financial advisors Jean Chatzky and Suze Orman; Dr. Bob Arnot; naturalist Jim Fowler; political analyst Tim Russert; fitness trainer Kathy Kaehler; travel editor Peter Greenberg; child psychologist Sylvia Rimm; contributing correspondent Mike Leonard and food trends editor Phil Lempert.