The Heart Of CBS News
The Heart Of CBS News
Left to right, Douglas Edwards, Walter Cronkite and Edward R Murrow. CBS began broadcasting news shows on Saturday nights, expanding to two nights a week in 1947. 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, network television news program to use an anchor. The week’s news stories were recapped Sunday night with Newsweek in Review. The name was later shortened to Week in Review and the show was moved to Saturday. In 1950, the name of the nightly news 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. Walter Cronkite became anchor on April 16, 1962. On September 2, 1963, CBS Evening News became network television’s first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, lengthened from its original 15 minutes, and telecast at 6:30 PM. The Huntley-Brinkley Report expanded to 30 minutes on September 9, 1963, exactly a week after CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite did so. Murrow gained fame on CBS radio with his reporting from London during World War II. After the war, he became the president of CBS News but later gave up that post to return to reporting on radio and television.
Little known fact: “Network” is not a movie. It is a documentary.
Which one is the Entertainment reporter?
dream team…
Back when news was broadcasted to inform not manufactured and slanted to entertain and compete for ratings.
I always remember Cronkite for his series “You Are There.” I never missed that show back then. Knowing it was done live always fascinated me even as a kid.
When news at least acted like it was informing adults rather than perpetually entertaining our inner child in order to sell various products and “experiences.” Murrow – who warned us about Hitler and McCarthyism – knew from the beginning that the “cool” visual medium of television tended toward infantile fulfillment rather than adult awareness. After his “See It Now” program on Senator Joseph McCarthy, he was eased out and replaced by those who invariably veered toward “infotainment” (a term coined by a college professor I had, Neil Hurley, S.J.) and conformed to corporate rather than human values. Formerly independent news divisions were taken over and engulfed by entertainment, programming, propaganda and marketing. The movies “Good Night and Good Luck” and “Network” traced this sad state of affairs and – incredibly – everything the latter predicted has come to pass.
So odd to see Walter as a sort of junior member (at the time) of this group…
I miss each of them.
So THIS is where my people come from!
You could get some fact reporting with these guys.
Back when news was news!
Murrow was, and still is, the best..