On September 4, 1962 CBS became the first network to air a half hour of television news. Walter Cronkite had replaced the original anchor, Douglas Edwards, in April of that year.

A week later, The Huntley-Brinkley Report at NBC went to a half hour as well.

On May 3, 1948, Douglas Edwards began anchoring ‘CBS Television News’, a regular 15-minute nightly newscast. It aired every weeknight at 7:30 PM, and was the first regularly scheduled television news program.

In 1950, the name was changed to ‘Douglas Edwards With The News’, and the following year, it became the first news program to be broadcast on both coasts, thanks to a new coaxial cable connection, prompting Edwards to use the greeting “Good evening everyone, coast to coast”.

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