Today
Now is. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the very first of its genre television that is American and in the Earth, and it could be your fifth-longest running television series. Originally a two-hour program on weekdays, it enlarged from 1992 to Sundays from Saturdays and 1987. The weekday broadcast enlarged to four hours at 2007, and to 3 hours at 2000.
Now's expectancy was virtually unchallenged by another networks until the late 1980s, when ABC's Good Morning America overtook it. Now re took that the Nielsen ratings lead the week of December 11, 1995, and held on that position for 852 consecutive weeks before week of April 9, 2012, when it was defeated by Good Morning America yet again. In 2002, Now was rated #17 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.