Ned Calmer (July 16, 1907 – March 9, 1986) was a Chicago-born American journalist and writer. He was a long-time CBS News analyst and close associate of Edward R. Murrow .
136-511: The CBS Evening News is the flagship evening television news program of CBS News , the news division of the CBS television network in the United States. The CBS Evening News is a daily evening broadcast featuring news reports, feature stories and interviews by CBS News correspondents and reporters covering events around the world. The program has been broadcast since July 1, 1941, under
272-520: A technical director , floor director audio technician , and a television crew of operators running character graphics (CG), teleprompters , and professional video cameras . Most news shows are broadcast live. Radio news is transmitted through the medium of radio , meaning it is audio-only. It was a dominant form of information dissemination to households from the 1910s–1940s before home televisions became cheap and common. Radio news has persisted, often with short updates at certain intervals on
408-613: A 10-minute newscast at 10:55 pm, following The National , these were expanded to a half-hour and moved to 11:00 p.m. during the fall of 2012). Some stations carry morning newscasts (usually starting at 5:30 or 6:00 am, and ending at 9:00 am). Unlike in the United States, primetime newscasts in the 10:00 p.m. timeslot are relatively uncommon (three Global owned-and-operated stations in Manitoba and Saskatchewan – CKND-DT , CFSK-DT , and CFRE-DT – and Victoria, British Columbia independent station CHEK-DT are
544-497: A MarketWatch critic for asking tough questions. In 2011, the program was the recipient of both an Emmy for Outstanding Continuing Coverage and the Edward R. Murrow Award for Video News Series for foreign correspondent Terry McCarthy 's feature story "Afghan Bomb Squad." On May 18, 2009, the newscast's graphics were overhauled, using a blue and red color scheme with web -influenced motifs and layouts. The new graphics design featured
680-658: A broadcast on HBO for a few years despite starting as a YouTube channel, for example, eventually transferring the show to their own network called Viceland and later Vice On TV. Outside the realm of traditional news organizations with paid journalists are citizen journalists , independents who report on their own and use sites such as YouTube to display their content. Independents also heavily cover commentary on news: while most independents cannot originally report on anything other than local issues due to budgetary concerns, opinions are cheaper. As such, Internet journalism has many video broadcasts & podcasts of opinion closer to
816-485: A channel number or call letters , the newscast title is often enough for the appropriate station to receive Nielsen ratings credit. The Big Three broadcast television networks produce morning and evening national newscasts. These newscasts are focused on world news, national news, and sometimes local news items that have some national significance. ( Good Morning America First Look , Good Morning America , and ABC World News are broadcast by ABC , CBS broadcasts
952-534: A commercial break, however, the screen went black instead for six seconds before returning to Rather. He apologized twice to viewers about the incident. On May 31, 1993, CBS News correspondent Connie Chung began co-anchoring the broadcast with Rather. Chung normally co-anchored in the studio with Rather, but sometimes one of them appeared on location, while the other remained in the studio. Though Rather never said so publicly, CBS News insiders said he did not approve of her appointment. Chung's last broadcast as co-anchor
1088-446: A competitor, tended not to use live broadcast as a style, except when streaming existing television programs. Another change in news broadcasts in the 2000s, at least in the United States, was a rediscovered interest in health news and consumer news – areas of special interest to women that had traditionally been written off as too minor for the evening newscasts, but proved to be steady sources of viewer curiosity and ratings. Unlike in
1224-440: A daily flagship evening newscast Noticias Telemundo , along with weekday morning program Hoy Día (which replaced Un Nuevo Día in 2021) and weekday afternoon newsmagazine Al Rojo Vivo ; Estrella TV , which produces the weekday-only flagship news program Noticiero Estrella TV and the primetime newscast Cierre de Edición ; and Azteca América , which produces morning, early and late evening newscasts on weekdays under
1360-498: A day, often filling late afternoon, primetime, and late night hours with news-based talk programs, documentaries, and other specialty programming. More often, AM radio stations will air a 6½-minute newscast at the top of the hour, which can be either a local report, a national report from a radio network such as CBS Radio , CNN Radio , NPR , Fox News Radio , or ABC News Radio , or a mix of both local and national content, including weather and traffic reports. Some stations also air
1496-491: A financial news channel, while Sun News Network briefly operated from 2011 to 2015 as a conservative -leaning competitor to the other national news channels. There are also a handful of regional news channels, such as CP24 (which covers the Greater Toronto Area ), and Global News: BC 1 , which covers Vancouver. CityNews Channel formerly operated as a competitor to CP24, although that channel shut down after
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#17327866815641632-527: A half-hour tape delay. The CBS Evening News was first transmitted in color as a one-evening test broadcast on August 19, 1965, before permanently switching to the format on January 31, 1966. Cronkite's prime time special report, Who, What, When, Where, Why , broadcast on February 27, 1968, ended with his declaration that the United States could only hope for a stalemate in Vietnam . It is often credited with influencing Lyndon Johnson 's decision to drop out of
1768-555: A larger network affiliate or whose operations are jointly managed through a shared service or local marketing agreement . In cases where a station with an existing news department enters into a news share agreement, it will result either the two departments merging or the outright conversion of newscast production from in-house to outsourced production. Minor network affiliates involved in news share agreements will often carry far fewer hours of local newscasts than would be conceivable with an in-house news department to avoid competition with
1904-670: A late night newscast, although the network currently airs rebroadcasts of the fourth hour of Today , and sister network CNBC 's Mad Money on weeknights). Spanish-language news programs are provided by Univision , which produces early and late evening editions of its flagship evening news program Noticiero Univision seven nights a week (and was the only nightly newscast on the major Spanish networks until Telemundo resumed its weekend newscasts in October 2014), along with weekday afternoon newsmagazine Primer Impacto and weekday morning program Despierta America ; Telemundo , which has
2040-772: A limited-run prime-time interview program, In the First Person in 1950, and he was the newsman on Good Morning in 1956–1957. He was also seen at times on CBS Views the Press , See It Now , and You Are There . From 1927 Calmer worked for seven years at various European publications. Those included the Paris Tribune and the Paris Herald which were the European editions of the Chicago Tribune and
2176-515: A local cable operator and are distributed solely through cable television and IPTV system operators. Some broadcast television stations also operate cable channels (some of which are repeated through digital multicasting ) that air the station's local newscasts in the form of live simulcasts from the television station, with rebroadcasts of the newscasts airing in time periods between the live broadcasts. A term which has entered common parlance to differentiate cable news from traditional news broadcasts
2312-551: A local news operation, such as is the case with Fox News Channel and the Fox network's owned-and-operated stations and affiliates (most of which use the Fox (channel #) News brand for their newscasts), due to the network's controversially perceived conservative-leaning political content that differs from the Fox broadcast stations' independent and generally nonpartisan reporting. Most U.S. cable news networks do not air news programming 24 hours
2448-612: A look influenced by the graphics that CBS used during the 2008 presidential election coverage . On April 3, 2011, the Associated Press reported that Couric would be leaving the Evening News when her contract expired in June. Couric later confirmed her departure to People magazine, citing a desire for "a format that will allow (her) to engage in more multi-dimensional storytelling." On May 13, 2011, Couric announced that
2584-426: A map or still photograph. When Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941, WCBW (which was usually off the air on Sunday to give the engineers a day off), took to the air at 8:45 p.m. with an extensive special report. The national emergency broke down the unspoken wall between CBS radio and television. WCBW executives convinced radio announcers and experts such as George Fielding Elliot and Linton Wells to come to
2720-869: A member of the war time news team known as Murrow's Boys . Other notable members include Charles Collingwood , William L. Shirer , Richard C. Hottelet and Larry LeSueur . During his tenure at CBS Calmer also hosted the CBS World News Roundup . The radio show began on March 13, 1938, in response to growing tensions in Europe. It was originally hosted by veteran newsman Robert Trout and included short wave reports from London, Paris, Vienna, Rome and Berlin. In addition to Trout and Calmer several other notable Murrow's Boys and journalists hosted and rose to prominence through CBS World News Roundup. They include Eric Sevareid , Charles Collingwood , Howard K. Smith , Bill Lynch and Winston Burdett . Calmer had
2856-666: A more fragmented market and government reluctance to interfere as closely. Increased choice in channels led to viewers declining to watch overly serious newscasts; successful network news shows tended to be ones that either focused on entertainment or at least mixed it in, such as morning talk shows or news magazines such as Today and 60 Minutes . Audiences that prefer more serious news have migrated to news-focused stations such as CNN , Fox News , and MSNBC for American examples. These changes have been criticized as having effects on larger society. An example from television in Italy
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#17327866815642992-503: A reason to smile. On Wednesday, the network announced 'Evening News with Scott Pelley' added more than 1.25 million viewers over the past four years – a whopping 21 percent jump. The show also saw audience growth for the fifth consecutive season, the first time any network evening news broadcast has done that since 1987." At the end of the 2015–2016 television season, CBS News announced, " The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley , America's fastest growing network evening news broadcast, finished
3128-586: A regular 15-minute nightly newscast on the CBS television network, including WCBS-TV. It aired every weeknight at 7:30 p.m., and was the first regularly scheduled, network television news program featuring an anchor. (WCBW/WCBS-TV newscasts prior to this time were local television broadcasts seen only in New York City.) NBC 's offering at the time, NBC Television Newsreel , which premiered in February 1948,
3264-548: A relevant location and edited in an editing suite in a newsroom or a remote contribution edit suite in a location some distance from the newsroom. They may also be edited in mobile editing vans, or satellite vans or trucks (such as electronic news gathering vehicles), and transmitted back to the newsroom. Live coverage will be broadcast from a relevant location and sent back to the newsroom via fixed cable links, microwave radio, production truck , satellite truck , or via online streaming. Roles associated with television news include
3400-422: A result of a local press pool arrangement. Many local and national news organizations such as Dallas station WFAA-TV and CBS News provided continuous coverage of the events and aftermath for five days. The November 24, 1963, assassination of Kennedy's accused killer Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby was fed to NBC by a remote unit on loan to its Dallas affiliate WBAP-TV (now KXAS-TV ) from competitor KTVT , and
3536-430: A substantially lower weekly newscast output compared to its English-language counterparts (usually limited to half-hour broadcasts in the evening, and often airing only on weeknights). Unlike international broadcast stations which tend to brand under uniform newscast titles based solely on network affiliation, U.S. television stations tend to use varying umbrella titles for their newscasts; some title their newscasts using
3672-411: A two-minute report at the bottom of the hour. FM stations, unless they feature a talk radio format, usually only air an abbreviated weather forecast. Some also air minute-long news capsules featuring a quick review of events, and usually only in drive time periods or in critical emergencies, since FM stations usually focus more on playing music. Traffic reports also air on FM stations, depending on
3808-469: A warmer, more benevolent presence than her two competitors, something that she brought to the program nearly 16 years of goodwill from doing "Today" and becoming America's sweetheart, or else very close to it, and he claimed that this goodwill remained. Shales added that viewers "may find bad news less discomforting and sleep-depriving if Couric gives it to them". He also added that she does not try to "sugarcoat" or "prettify" grim realities. According to Shales,
3944-588: A year and a half of operation in May 2013 The U.S. CNN, Fox News, HLN, and MSNBC, as well as a number of other international news channels (such as, most commonly, Al Jazeera English and BBC World News ) are authorized for distribution by Canadian television providers by the CRTC . Local TV stations in the United States normally broadcast local news three to four times a day on average: commonly airing at 4:30, 5:00, 5:30, or 6:00 a.m.; noon; 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. in
4080-414: Is network news , in reference to the traditional television networks on which such broadcasts air. A classic example is the cable news channel MSNBC, which overlaps with (and, in the case of very significant breaking news events, pre-empts) its network counterpart NBC News ; in some cases, viewers may have trouble differentiating between the cable channel and either a counterpart network news organization or
4216-411: Is "valor"). In the face of media attention and pleas from his staff, Rather abandoned the signoff on September 8. On September 11, 1987, Rather marched off camera in anger just before a remote broadcast of the program when it appeared that CBS Sports ' coverage of a U.S. Open tennis semifinal match between Steffi Graf and Lori McNeil was going to run over into time allotted for the newscast. Rather
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4352-401: Is a study of Mediaset 's rollout in Italy in the 1980s found that Mediaset's programming was slanted against news and educational content than its competitor RAI ( Radiotelevisione italiana ). A study in 2019 found that individuals in regions with an earlier rollout of Mediaset were more susceptible to populist appeals and less interested in "sophisticated" political arguments. The study said
4488-637: Is one famous example, although similar styles took place on the BBC in the United Kingdom, on shows in the Eastern Bloc, and so on, with high viewership concentrated in just a few prestige newscasts. This was something of an artifact of both technology and media culture: few channels were available, and those that did tended to take news casting seriously, even if lighter news could potentially have gotten more viewers. Government regulation also affected
4624-654: Is relatively uncommon on Canadian television; for many years, the closest program having similarities to the format was CTV's news and interview series Question Period ; Global would eventually debut the political affairs show The West Block in November 2011. Canada is host to several 24-hour news channels on specialty television, including CBC News Network and CTV News Channel in English, and Ici RDI and Le Canal Nouvelles (LCN) in French. BNN Bloomberg operates as
4760-474: Is solutions-oriented. On April 8, 2022, it was reported that O'Donnell had renewed her contract through at least the 2024 presidential election . A rebranding of the program was unveiled on August 29, 2022, featuring a world map motif (a design that has frequently been used in CBS News programming as an homage to Walter Cronkite's era) and elements of the CBS brand identity first introduced in 2020. As part of
4896-472: Is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or the internet in the field of broadcast journalism . The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or television studio newsroom , or by a broadcast network . A news broadcast may include material such as sports coverage, weather forecasts , traffic reports , political commentary , expert opinions, editorial content, and other material that
5032-559: The CBS News Mornings , CBS Mornings , and the CBS Evening News , and NBC produces Early Today , Today , and NBC Nightly News ) as well as weekly newsmagazine series (NBC's Dateline ; ABC's 20/20 and Nightline ; and CBS's CBS News Sunday Morning , 48 Hours , and 60 Minutes ). Network morning newscasts usually air at 7:00 a.m. (English-language network morning shows air live in
5168-603: The New York Herald . Calmer was an accomplished writer and novelist in addition to his journalistic career. His first novel, Beyond the Street , was published in 1934 by Little, Brown and Company . During his time in Paris, Calmer became a friend of Ernest Hemingway , who offered him advice on writing and also helped finance a trip back to the United States for Calmer and his wife and daughter. Calmer authored more than
5304-709: The American flag background on the news set (which had been used since the 2008 elections, this was last used on Harry Smith interim anchor episodes until 2011) was replaced by a replica of the globe fixture during the Cronkite era, and the James Horner theme was replaced by the 1987–91 theme composed by Trivers-Myers Music that was used during the Rather era (the theme was last used on Up to the Minute on June 24, 2011, and
5440-615: The Big Three ; CNN, Fox News , and MSNBC . Conversely, several cable news channels exist that carry news reports specifically geared toward a particular metropolitan area, region, or state such as New York City's NY1 (which focuses on the entire New York metropolitan area ) and News 12 Networks (which serves portions of the area outside Manhattan ), Orlando 's News 13 (which is also carried in areas surrounding Greater Orlando ), Tampa, Florida 's Bay News 9 , and Washington, D.C.'s NewsChannel 8 . These channels are usually owned by
5576-641: The CBS Broadcast Center and gained a new set to go with it. On May 30, 2017, reports surfaced confirming that Scott Pelley had been relieved of his duties at CBS Evening News . Pelley remained at CBS News as a 60 Minutes correspondent. Pelley reportedly asked staff members to clear out his office. The move was made official on May 31, 2017, and Anthony Mason was named interim anchor. On June 6, 2017, CBS Evening News announced that Pelley would anchor until June 16, 2017. On October 25, 2017, CBS News announced that correspondent Jeff Glor would be
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5712-620: The CBS Evening News became the third network evening newscast to begin broadcasting in high definition (behind NBC Nightly News and PBS 's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer ). On August 27, 2008, Mediabistro wrote a piece about the Big Three network newscasts, praising Couric's Evening News for extensive reporting that had, in its opinion, content better than its rivals. Another critic from MarketWatch praised Couric's work and said that people should watch out for her in 2009. Washington Post writer Tom Shales praised Couric as
5848-569: The CBS Evening News began in February 1966. On May 2, 2016, CBS announced that the weekend edition would be rebranded, effective May 7, 2016, as the CBS Weekend News . Weekend newscasts originate from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City and were anchored by Reena Ninan on Saturday and Elaine Quijano on Sunday. By the summer of 2020 Ninan and Quijano were replaced by Major Garrett and Jamie Yuccas. In December 2020, it
5984-461: The CBS Evening News to be "[where] they have big news to break". The CBS Evening News expanded to weekend evenings in February 1966, originally anchored by Roger Mudd . The Sunday edition of the program was dropped in September 1971, when CBS began airing 60 Minutes in the 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time (5:00 p.m. Central) slot in order to help affiliates fulfill requirements imposed by
6120-524: The CBS Evening News to become the #2 evening news broadcast, ahead of ABC's World News Tonight . The ABC News division was in flux following the death of anchor Peter Jennings in 2005, and, with the adoption of a dual-anchor format on World News Tonight , life-threatening injuries suffered by co-anchor Bob Woodruff in January 2006 when an Iraqi military convoy he rode in hit a roadside bomb, leaving Elizabeth Vargas as sole anchor. When Charles Gibson
6256-550: The CBS Evening News , CBS News, and CBS in general. Some of these concerns dated from Rather's position as White House correspondent for the network's news division during the Nixon administration . A shouting match with Vice President George H. W. Bush during an interview on live television in January 1988 related to the Iran–Contra affair did little to dispel those concerns. Rather unapologetically defended his behavior in statements
6392-545: The East Coast and West Coast through the installation of a new coaxial cable connection. That transcontinental link prompted Edwards to start each broadcast with the updated greeting "Good evening everyone, coast to coast." On November 30, 1956, the program became the first to use the new technology of videotape to time delay the broadcast (which originated in New York City ) for the western United States . On April 16, 1962, Walter Cronkite succeeded Edwards, and
6528-779: The Eastern Time Zone and tape delayed for the remaining time zones, while the Spanish-language morning shows air live in the Eastern, Central, and Mountain time zones and are tape delayed in the Pacific Time Zone); network evening newscasts usually are broadcast live twice, at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time /5:30 p.m. Central time for the East Coast before another "Western Edition" live broadcast at 6:30 p.m. Pacific time /7:30 p.m. Mountain time . Today
6664-517: The Evening News may be a more hospitable, welcoming sort of place than its competitors. He concluded by stating that "it's naive to think that viewers choose their news anchor based solely on strict journalistic credentials, though Couric's do seem to be in order, despite her critics' claims." The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric won the 2008 and 2009 Edward R. Murrow Award for best newscast. In September 2008, Couric interviewed Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin , earning respect from
6800-576: The Evening News would undergo a retool and introduce a multi-anchor format with an emphasis on its "ensemble of journalists"; John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois will be taking over as co-anchors, while Margaret Brennan of Face the Nation and WCBS-TV weather reporter Lonnie Quinn will serve as contributors. On November 22, 2024, O'Donnell announced that her last day as host will broadcast on January 24, 2025. Dickerson and DuBois will debut on January 27, 2025. 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens
6936-570: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s Prime Time Access Rule . The Sunday edition returned in January 1976, when the network moved 60 Minutes one hour later to 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time, where that program remains to this day (except when the NFL on CBS is scheduled to air a doubleheader; on those Sundays, 60 Minutes is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET). News broadcasting#Television News broadcasting
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#17327866815647072-519: The New York Times reported that 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley was considered to be the front-runner to replace Couric as anchor of the program. On May 3, 2011, CBS confirmed that Pelley would replace Couric as anchor for the CBS Evening News in June. The graphics were subtly updated (the Couric 2009-2011 graphics were used for the first two days of Pelley's tenure as anchor in 2011),
7208-561: The Omni Television station group). Canadian television stations normally broadcast newscasts between two and four times a day: usually at noon, 5:00, 5:30, and 6:00, and 11:00 p.m. (there are some variations to this: stations affiliated with CTV usually air their late evening newscasts at 11:30 pm, due to the scheduling of the network's national evening news program CTV National News at 11:00 p.m. in all time zones; most CBC Television -owned stations formerly carried
7344-654: The Pacific Time Zone and 5:30 p.m. in the Alaska time zone and on tape delay in the Hawaii–Aleutian Time Zone . At midnight Eastern, the Western Edition is posted on the website for CBS News and their YouTube channel. The Western Edition additionally airs along with the weekend versions on CBS News' streaming channel . As of April 11, 2024, CBS Evening News remains in third place of
7480-552: The assassination of President John F. Kennedy . In late 1972, Cronkite prodded the show's producers to feature two nights of lengthy explanation on the Watergate scandal , which had been extensively covered by The Washington Post , but had not received major national coverage. After the first half of the report, shown on a Friday, ran for 14 minutes, roughly half of the air time of the broadcast, White House officials complained to CBS founder William S. Paley . The second half of
7616-588: The " Telecopter ", a helicopter equipped for newsgathering use that was the most advanced airborne television broadcast device of its time. The modern-day coverage of major breaking news events came to fruition following the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963; the news of Kennedy's death was first announced by Eddie Barker , the news director at KRLD-TV (now KDFW ) in Dallas , who passed along word from an official at Parkland Hospital ; Barker's scoop appeared live simultaneously on CBS and ABC as
7752-464: The 1991–92 season. Couric began working at CBS News in July 2006. During her first broadcast as anchor on September 4, 2006, a new graphics package and set, and a new theme composed by Academy Award -winning composer James Horner were introduced. Similar graphics and music would be introduced on other CBS News programs such as Up to the Minute , CBS Morning News and The Early Show throughout
7888-620: The 20 largest U.S. media markets). Duopolies and outsourcing agreements have also affected Fox stations in a similar manner; although Fox is considered to be a major network on the same level as NBC, ABC, and CBS and has urged its affiliates since the early 1990s to broadcast local news, about half of its stations broadcast local news programming through news share agreements with many of the remainder operating their own news departments. Several stations affiliated with Spanish-language networks (such as Univision , Telemundo , and UniMás ) or also broadcast their own newscasts, these stations often produce
8024-409: The 2015–16 television season with CBS's highest ratings in the time period in 10 years (since the 2005–06 season), according to Nielsen most current ratings. The CBS Evening News has grown its audience for six consecutive seasons, a first-time achievement for any network evening news broadcast since the advent of people meters (since at least 1987). Under Pelley, who assumed the anchor chair in June 2011,
8160-539: The CBS Evening News added 1.4 million viewers and an audience increase of 23%, double NBC and ABC's growth combined over the same period (since the 2010–11 season). Pelley has refocused the program towards hard news and away from the soft news and infotainment features of the early Katie Couric era. Story selection has focused more on foreign policy, Washington politics, and economic subjects. The program's audience viewership began to grow immediately, closing
8296-489: The CBS television studios at Grand Central Station from the radio network's base at 485 Madison Avenue, to give information and commentary on the attack. The WCBW special report that night lasted less than 90 minutes, but it pushed the limits of live television in 1941 and opened up new possibilities for future broadcasts. As CBS wrote in a special report to the FCC, the unscheduled live news broadcast on December 7 "was unquestionably
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#17327866815648432-477: The Internet tends to be a la carte, however – rather than a recap show of the issues of the day like a TV or radio show, Internet news sites will usually allow the browser to find the one story they are interested in and watch a video strictly on that, even if said video might have been a segment of a larger show. Internet native news shows do exist such as Vice News , but they tend to seep elsewhere: Vice News ran
8568-470: The Press , ABC's This Week , CBS' Face the Nation , Fox's sole news program Fox News Sunday , Univision's Al Punto , and Telemundo's Enfoque ); of these programs, Meet the Press holds the distinction of being the longest-running American television program as it has aired since November 6, 1947. The U.S. is one of the few countries in which broadcast networks provide overnight or early morning national news programs, in addition to those airing in
8704-553: The United States, most Canadian television stations have license requirements (enforced by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission ) to offer locally produced newscasts (or any local programming, for that matter) in some form. Educational television stations are exempt from these requirements as are multicultural television stations, however some stations licensed as multicultural outlets do produce local newscasts in varied languages (such as
8840-569: The broadcast was retitled Walter Cronkite with the News . On September 2, 1963, the newscast, retitled CBS Evening News , became the first half-hour weeknight news broadcast on network television and was moved to 6:30 p.m. Eastern time (NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report expanded to 30 minutes exactly one week later on September 9, 1963). As before, some affiliates (including flagship owned-and-operated station WCBS-TV in New York City) had
8976-1102: The broadcaster feels is relevant to their audience. An individual news program is typically reported in a series of individual stories that are presented by one or more anchors . A frequent inclusion is live or recorded interviews by field reporters . Television news programs inform and discuss current events via the medium of television. A "news bulletin" or a " newscast " are television programs lasting from seconds to hours that provide updates on events. Programs can vary their focus; some newscasts discuss largely international or national matters, while others will focus on regional and local news events. Example providers of generalist broadcast news shows focusing on national and international matters include BBC News , NBC News , CNN , Fox News Channel , CNA , and Al Jazeera . In addition to general news outlets, there are many specialized news outlets. ESPNews , Fox Sports , and Eurosport News cover sports journalism topics; CNBC , Bloomberg Television , and Fox Business Network are examples that cover business news . Local programming covers
9112-602: The commentary-focused The O'Reilly Factor ). However, their gains did not offset the continuing steep decline in viewership of mainline network news. This era saw diversification and fragmentation proceed even further as new niche networks gained prominence such as the business-focused CNBC , Bloomberg Television , and Fox Business . Instead, people used the Internet for news rather than television broadcasts, both in mainline sites such as ones runs by newspapers as well as independent blogs and message boards with other Internet-users sharing opinions and news Internet news, while
9248-475: The cost of starting a news department from scratch or because of a lack of studio space. These commonly involve Fox, CW, and MyNetworkTV affiliates (and previously affiliate stations of the now-defunct predecessors of the latter two networks, The WB and UPN ) and in some cases, independent stations; however such agreements exist in certain markets between two co-owned/co-managed Big Three affiliates. News share agreements are most common with stations co-owned with
9384-546: The early 2000s). CBC Television, Global, and CTV each produce national evening newscasts ( The National , Global National and CTV National News , respectively), which unlike the American network newscasts do not compete with one another in a common timeslot; while Global National airs at the same early evening time slot as the American evening network newscasts, The National ' s 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time slot competes against primetime entertainment programming on
9520-408: The early evening; and 10:00 or 11:00 p.m. Some stations carry morning newscasts at 4:00, 7:00, 8:00, or 9:00 a.m., midday newscasts at 11:00 or 11:30 a.m., late afternoon newscasts at 4:00 or 4:30 p.m., or early evening newscasts at 5:00 or 6:00 p.m. Many Fox affiliates, affiliates of minor networks (such as The CW and MyNetworkTV ), and independent stations air newscasts in
9656-470: The effect included populist parties in general that offered simple slogans and easy cure-alls, including non-Berlusconi populist parties such as the Five Star Movement . From 2000 to 2010, overall viewership of television broadcast news continued to decline. Some news-adjacent cable programs gained fame and success in this era (such as the comedy-focused The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and
9792-1169: The evening during "prime time", but there are also morning newscasts of two to three hours in length. Rolling news channels broadcast news content 24 hours a day. The advent of the internet has allowed the regular 24-hour-a-day presentation of many video and audio news reports, which are updated when additional information becomes available; many television broadcasters provide content originally provided on-air as well as exclusive or supplementary news content on their websites. Local news may be presented by standalone local television stations, stations affiliated with national networks or by local studios which "opt-out" of national network programming at specified points. Different news programming may be aimed at different audiences, depending on age, socio-economic group, or those from particular sections of society. "Magazine-style" television shows (or newsmagazines ) may mix news coverage with topical lifestyle issues, debates, or entertainment content. Public affairs programs provide analysis of and interviews about political, social, and economic issues. News programs feature one or two (sometimes, three) anchors (or presenters,
9928-404: The few remaining users of the concept), most of which eventually disposed of the hourly update format by the early 2000s. Since the early 1990s, independent stations and stations affiliated with a non- Big Three network have entered into "news share agreements", in which news production is outsourced to a major network station (usually an affiliate of ABC, NBC, or CBS), often to avoid shouldering
10064-558: The final hour of primetime (i.e., 10:00 p.m. in the Eastern and Pacific time zones or 9:00 p.m. in the Mountain and Central time zones in the U.S.). Stations that produce local newscasts typically broadcast as little as one to as much over twelve hours of local news on weekdays and as little as one hour to as much as seven hours on weekends; news programming on weekends are typically limited to morning and evening newscasts as
10200-436: The following Thursday, May 19, 2011, would be her last broadcast. Despite originally retooling the newscasts to add more features, interviews, and human interest stories, over time it returned to the hard news format popularized by Cronkite. Harry Smith served as an interim anchor until Pelley's tenure started on June 6, 2011 (like Couric before him, Smith would also depart from CBS a month later). In an April 2011 article,
10336-577: The following day, and Bush went on to win the presidential election in November. Earlier, on September 1, 1986, amidst a brewing battle among CBS's Board of Directors for control of the company and turmoil at CBS News, Rather closed his Monday broadcast with the word "courage," repeating it the following night. On September 3, Rather said the masculine noun for the Spanish word for "courage," "coraje" (the primary translation for "courage" in Spanish
10472-525: The gap between the CBS Evening News and its competitors by one million viewers within a year, although the CBS program remains in third place among the network evening newscasts. In late May 2016, a new theme tune composed by Joel Beckerman of Man Made Music was introduced. Later that same year in December, the program moved permanently into CBS Studio 57, which the newscast used during their 2016 election coverage (moving from its longtime home of studio 47) at
10608-442: The hour, although the medium of radio has generally shifted toward people doing something else such as driving, working or waking up, compared to television. Radio news broadcasts can range from as little as one minute to as much as the station's entire schedule, such as the case of all-news radio , or talk radio . Stations that use a "wheel" format tend to keep to a set schedule of certain programming at certain specific minutes on
10744-728: The hour, and one of these segments is frequently a news bulletin. These short bulletins will provide overviews of any breaking news of interest, and may include local concerns such as weather forecasts or traffic reports. The vast majority of professionally produced video or audio news on the Internet tends to be attached to existing news organizations. Radio stations will upload their news reports as streamable podcasts and television networks will sometimes make their broadcasts available over Internet video. Print newspapers will sometimes feature video on their websites for breaking news events and for long-form video journalism. The usual focus on
10880-410: The importance of reading, in a piece substantially lifted from a Wall Street Journal column by Jeffrey Zaslow . Couric appeared to personally reminisce about her first library card — "I still remember when I got my first library card, browsing through the stacks for my favorite books" — but the words were all Zaslow's. It was later determined that a producer had actually plagiarized the piece, and
11016-454: The increased presence of duopolies and outsourcing agreements since the early 2000s, the number of minor network affiliates and independent stations that produce their own newscasts has markedly decreased compared to when duopolies were barred under Federal Communications Commission rules prior to 2000 (as of 2013, there are at least 15 minor network affiliates or independent stations that produce their own local newscasts, most are located within
11152-725: The larger amount of network programming that those networks carry). In 1990, WEWS-TV in Cleveland conceived a concept known as the "24-Hour News Source" (which has its origins in a news format used by short-lived Boston independent station WXPO-TV when it signed on in 1969), in which supplementary 30-second long news updates were produced at or near the top of each hour outside regular long-form newscasts during local commercial break inserts shown within network and syndicated programming. The format spread to other U.S. television stations (most notably, WISH-TV in Indianapolis , one of
11288-495: The late 1970s, the first local morning news programs debuted. Additional changes in local news content came during the 1980s and 1990s; in January 1989, WSVN in Miami became the first to adopt a news-intensive programming format; rather than fill its schedule with syndicated content as other Fox stations did at the time it joined that network, Ed Ansin (owner of WSVN parent Sunbeam Television ) chose instead to heavily invest in
11424-588: The longest-running network newsmagazine in Canada). CTV's Your Morning is the sole national morning news program on broadcast television in Canada, and replaced Canada AM , which aired since 1975. Most CTV owned-and-operated stations west of the Ontario-Manitoba border dropped the program during the summer and fall of 2011 in favor of locally produced morning newscasts. The Sunday morning talk show
11560-415: The many examples of smaller stations with a regional focus. Newscasts, also known as bulletins or news program(me)s, differ in content, tone, and presentation style depending on the format of the channel/station on which they appear, and their timeslot. In most parts of the world, national television networks will have bulletins featuring national and international news. The top-rated shows will often air in
11696-418: The market. In some countries, radio news content may be syndicated by a website or company to many stations in a particular region or even the entire country. A notable example is Israel, where there are groups of radio stations that broadcast the same hourly news capsule by an Israeli news website and television station. There are currently two groups of local Israeli stations: one broadcasts news from YNET ,
11832-433: The matter and several CBS staffers were fired or asked to resign. After departing from the Evening News , Rather remained with CBS News as a correspondent. On June 20, 2006, CBS News President Sean McManus announced that Rather and CBS had agreed to end his 44-year career with the network. On March 13, 2005, Rather was succeeded on an interim basis by Face the Nation host and CBS News correspondent Bob Schieffer . At
11968-539: The men's final. By 1990, the CBS Evening News had fallen to third place in the ratings, behind ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw . On January 22, 1991, demonstrators from the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) broke into the CBS News studio and chanted "Fight AIDS , not Arabs " during the show's introduction. One protester was seen on camera just as Rather began speaking. Rather immediately called for
12104-550: The month of October. A new opening title sequence was designed, with Walter Cronkite providing the voiceover, replacing Wendell Craig unless a temporary voice-over was needed. Following Cronkite's death months earlier, actor Morgan Freeman recorded a new voice-over for the title sequence, which debuted on January 4, 2010. The program also debuted a new feature called "freeSpeech" in which different Americans, ranging from well-known national figures to average people, would provide news commentary. After overwhelmingly negative reaction,
12240-620: The months following Rather's departure, the program came to emphasize live exchanges between Schieffer and various CBS News correspondents around the world. In contrast to traditional network news practice, these exchanges were unrehearsed as part of an effort to make the language on the broadcast sound more "natural". Viewership increased over this period, with the program being the only network evening news broadcast to gain viewers during 2005. In November 2005, CBS announced that CBS Evening News executive producer Jim Murphy would be replaced by Rome Hartman, who took over in January 2006. Schieffer led
12376-416: The morning and early evening. CBS and ABC are currently the only networks that produce overnight news programs on weeknights in the form of Up to the Minute and World News Now , respectively; NBC previously produced overnight newscasts at different times, both of which have since been cancelled: NBC News Overnight from 1982 to 1983, and NBC Nightside from 1991 to 1998 (NBC currently does not offer
12512-437: The most stimulating challenge and marked the greatest advance of any single problem faced up to that time." Additional newscasts were scheduled in the early days of World War II , including War Backgrounds (December 1941–February 1942), World This Week (February–April 1942), and America At War (March–May 1942). In May 1942, WCBW (like almost all television stations) temporarily suspended studio operations, which resulted in
12648-460: The new CBS Evening News anchor. On November 26, 2017, the organization announced his first official air date for December 4, 2017. Together with Glor's debut, the newscast also updated its looks and used a new logotype and updated typography, using Ridley Grotesk as its base. However, the theme music and set from the later Pelley era were retained. On May 6, 2019, it was announced that Glor would leave CBS Evening News . His last day of his broadcast
12784-460: The newly independent unit was renamed ABC (American Broadcasting Company). A general shift over time happened in the style of the evening newscasts in most countries. In the 1950s, television was novel enough that it was considered entertainment. In the 1960s and 70s, television newscasts tended to be unusually "serious" by later standards, featuring more "hard news" and less light entertainment mixed in. The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
12920-475: The news landscape: in the United States, the Federal Communications Commission forced networks to abide by strict public-interest requirements that required broadcasting news, while television in the Soviet Union was strictly regulated by the government which looked on frivolous topics with disfavor. In the 1980s and 90s, this tended to fall away as a consequence of cable and satellite technology allowing
13056-433: The newspapers. The outbreak of World War II led to a great increase in the quantity of news programming, consuming as much as 20% of the schedules of the major networks. Chief among these reporters was Edward Roscoe Murrow , whose reports from London kept the American public focused on a war far from home. Also, the eventual "big three" were complete in 1945; the FCC forced a sale of NBC Blue due to anti-trust concerns, and
13192-550: The only television stations in the country carrying a primetime newscast); conversely, pre-5:00 a.m. local newscasts do not exist in Canada. Like with U.S. television, many stations use varied titles for their newscasts; this is particularly true with owned-and-operated stations of Global and City (Global's stations use titles based on daypart such as News Hour for the noon and early evening newscasts and News Final for 11:00 p.m. newscasts, while all six City-owned broadcast stations produce morning news/talk programs under
13328-553: The option of carrying a later edition, scheduled at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time. NBC also allowed this practice for the Huntley-Brinkley Report , with ABC later following it for the ABC Evening News (now ABC World News Tonight ). The networks ended this practice after 1971, although some affiliates – mostly in larger markets – continued to carry the national newscasts at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time on
13464-615: The original title CBS Television News , eventually adopting its current title in 1963. Beginning on July 15, 2019, the nightly broadcast has been anchored by Norah O'Donnell and has been titled CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell ; starting on December 2, 2019, the newscast has originated from CBS News' bureau in Washington, D.C. Previous weeknight anchors have included Douglas Edwards , Walter Cronkite , Dan Rather , Connie Chung , Bob Schieffer , Katie Couric , Scott Pelley , and Jeff Glor . Saturday and Sunday broadcasts of
13600-529: The other broadcasts them from Channel 10 . Israeli Army Radio general public stations broadcast the same news capsule every hour, and IBA 's Kol Israel stations broadcast theirs. Ned Calmer Calmer was born Edgar Calmer in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the University of Virginia . Calmer was hired by Edward R. Murrow to work for CBS in 1940. He worked abroad and in the United States as
13736-627: The outsourcing partner's own newscasts, as a result, minor network affiliates involved in these NSAs often will carry a morning newscast from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. (in competition with the national network newscasts instead of airing competing with the Big Three affiliates' newscasts) or a primetime newscast at 10:00 pm. Eastern and Pacific or 9:00 pm. Central and Mountain Time, with limited to no newscasts in other traditional news time periods (midday, late afternoon, or early evening). Because of
13872-444: The private broadcast networks, while CTV National News airs against locally produced 11:00 p.m. newscasts on other stations. The National , which has aired on CBC Television since 1954, is the longest-running national network newscast in Canada. All three networks also produce weekly newsmagazines : CBC's The Fifth Estate (aired since 1975), Global's 16x9 (aired since 2008), and CTV's W5 (aired since 1966 and currently
14008-480: The race for President . "If I've lost Walter Cronkite... [I]'ve lost Middle America," he stated. Under Cronkite, the newscast began what would eventually become an 18-year period of dominating the ratings among the network evening news programs. In the process, Cronkite became "the most trusted man in America" according to a Gallup Poll , a status that had first been fostered in November 1963 through his coverage of
14144-566: The radio. NBC began broadcasts in November 1926, with CBS entering production on September 25, 1927. Both initially discussed similar topics, such as election results, presidential inaugurations, and other matters of concern to the general public. However, NBC soon emerged as the dominant force for entertainment talent. In response, CBS President William S Paley focused on giving CBS Radio an upscale reputation with better news as well as commentary programs with well-regarded hosts such as Lowell Thomas . Both broadcasters faced stiff competition from
14280-570: The rebrand, the show introduced a new theme composed by Antfood , which is an arrangement of the Trivers-Myers theme used during the Dan Rather and Scott Pelley eras that incorporates Antfood's sonic branding for the network. On July 30, 2024, O'Donnell announced that she would step down as anchor of the CBS Evening News after the 2024 elections; she will remain with CBS News as a senior correspondent. On August 1, CBS News announced that
14416-485: The report was aired the following Monday, but only for eight minutes. Cronkite was replaced as anchor of the program the Monday after his retirement, March 9, 1981, by 49-year-old Dan Rather , who had been with CBS News as a correspondent since the early 1960s and later became a correspondent for the network's newsmagazine 60 Minutes . Concerns about excessive liberalism in the media were frequently leveled at Rather,
14552-1106: The reporter provides additional information. Often in situations necessitating long-form reporting on a story (usually during breaking news situations), the reporter is interviewed by the anchor, known as a 'two-way', or a guest involved in or offering analysis on the story is interviewed by a reporter or anchor. There may also be breaking news stories which will present live rolling coverage. Television news organizations employ several anchors and reporters to provide reports (as many as ten anchors, and up to 20 reporters for local news operations or up to 30 for national news organizations). They may also employ specialty reporters that focus on reporting certain types of news content (such as traffic or entertainment ), meteorologists or weather anchors (the latter term often refers to weather presenters that do not have degrees in meteorology earned at an educational institution ) who provide weather forecasts – more common in local news and on network morning programs – and sports presenters that report on ongoing, concluded, or upcoming Packages will usually be filmed at
14688-420: The segment was discontinued. On March 8, 2007, The New York Times reported that the program's executive producer Rome Hartman was being replaced by television news veteran Rick Kaplan . Hartman left as executive producer on March 7. Kaplan came to the Evening News after stints at MSNBC , CNN , and ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings . On April 4, 2007, Couric read a one-minute commentary about
14824-507: The show would be moving to Washington, D.C. , on December 2, 2019. This marked the first time that a major network evening news program was based outside of New York since 1978, when ABC World News Tonight used bureaus in Washington, Chicago and London for its broadcast. O'Donnell's approach has been described by her as " hard news with heart", combining investigative reporting and original storytelling which connects with people and
14960-404: The station sharply cutting back its live program schedule, and resorting exclusively to the occasional broadcast of films. This was primarily because much of the staff had either joined the military service or were redeployed to war-related technical research, and to prolong the life of the early, unstable cameras which were now impossible to repair due to the wartime lack of parts. In May 1944, as
15096-740: The station's news department, and replace national newscasts and late-prime time network programs vacated as a result of losing its NBC affiliation (the byproduct of an affiliation switch caused by CBS and WSVN's former network partner NBC buying other stations in the market) with additional newscasts. This model was eventually replicated by many other stations affiliated with the post-1986 television networks as well as some news-producing independent stations (beginning with Fox's 1994 deals with New World Communications and SF Broadcasting that saw several major network stations change their affiliations), and also resulted in even NBC, CBS, and ABC affiliates adopting similar scheduling formats (tweaked to account for
15232-602: The station's on-air branding (such as combining the network affiliation and channel number with the word "News"), others use franchised brand names (like Eyewitness News , Action News and NewsChannel ) for their news programming. Conversely, the naming conventions for a station's newscast are sometimes used as a universal on-air branding for the station itself, and may be used for general promotional purposes, even used in promoting syndicated and network programming (such as KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma, which uses
15368-499: The syndicated news program The Daily Buzz , while some Tribune Broadcasting -owned CW and MyNetworkTV stations air a similar program called EyeOpener ). 24-hour news channels are devoted to current events around the clock. They are often referred to as cable news channels. The format was originated by the cable television channel CNN (Cable News Network), which was established in 1980. Many other television channels have since been established, including what has become known as
15504-591: The talk radio model. Hyper-local news is also more feasible on the Internet: issues such as school board meetings streamed on video, town parades, and so on. Silent news films were shown in cinemas from the late 19th century. In 1909 Pathé started producing weekly newsreels in Europe. Pathé began producing newsreels for the UK in 1910 and the US in 1911. News broadcasts in the United States were initially transmitted over
15640-407: The terminology varies around the world) segueing into news stories filed by a reporter (or correspondent) by describing the story to be shown; however, some stories within the broadcast are read by the presenter themselves; in the former case, the anchor "tosses" to the reporter to introduce the featured story; likewise, the reporter "tosses" back to the anchor once the taped report has concluded and
15776-414: The three major television news programs, with around 4,969,000 total viewers. Upon becoming commercial station WCBW (channel 2, now WCBS-TV ) on July 1, 1941, the pioneer CBS television station in New York City broadcast two daily news programs, at 2:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. weekdays, anchored by Richard Hubbell. Most of the newscasts featured Hubbell reading a script with only occasional cutaways to
15912-591: The time Schieffer took over, it was uncertain how long he would host the broadcast, whether it would retain its current structure, or instead adopt some kind of multiple host or alternative format. Under Rather in the years leading up to his retirement, the CBS Evening News trailed its rivals at ABC and NBC by a fairly large margin. White House correspondent John Roberts , and Scott Pelley , his predecessor in that position, were often mentioned as possible successors to Rather when he retired. Jim Axelrod became White House correspondent when Roberts later left for CNN . In
16048-486: The time); usually these programs aired as supplements to network-supplied evening news programs or leadouts for primetime programming. Reports featured on local and national television newscasts during this time were generally provided via film or still photography; eventually, videotape began to be used to provide live coverage of news events. The 1950s also saw the first use of airborne newsgathering; most notably, in 1958, Los Angeles television station KTLA began operating
16184-442: The umbrella title Breakfast Television and its flagship station CITY-DT / Toronto 's evening newscasts are titled CityNews ). Overall umbrella titles for news programming use the titling schemes " (Network or system name) News " for network-owned stations or " (Callsign) News " for affiliates not directly owned by a network or television system (although the latter title scheme was used on some network-owned stations prior to
16320-448: The umbrella title Hechos . In the cases of Univision and Telemundo, both of their evening news programs compete with national evening news programs on their English-language competitors. Fox, The CW, and MyNetworkTV do not produce national morning and evening news programs (although Fox made a brief attempt at a morning program from 1996 to 1997 with Fox After Breakfast ; many CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates and independent stations air
16456-410: The uniform news and general branding NewsChannel 4 ). Many stations title their newscasts with catchy names like Daybreak , Good Morning (city or region name) , First at Four , Live at Five , Eleven @ 11:00 , or Nightcast . These names are intended to set one station apart from the rest, especially for viewers who are chosen for audience measurement surveys. If the respondent was unable to provide
16592-498: The variable scheduling of network sports programming (if a station is affiliated with a network with a sports division) usually prevents most stations from carrying midday newscasts (however a few stations located in the Eastern and Pacific time zones do produce weekend midday newscasts). From the 1940s to the 1960s, broadcast television stations typically provided local news programs only one to two times each evening for 15 minutes (the normal length for many locally produced programs at
16728-546: The video was subsequently removed from the CBS News website. Zaslow responded that CBS had "been very gracious and apologetic, and we at the Journal appreciate it." Furthermore, this was a notable case of "double plagiarism": the producer claimed the text from Zaslow, and the anchor claimed the words from the producer. That producer, Melissa McNamara, was fired hours after the Journal contacted CBS News to complain. The network promised changes to its procedures. On July 28, 2008,
16864-625: The war began to turn in favor of the Allies, WCBW reopened the studios and the newscasts returned, briefly anchored by Ned Calmer , followed by Alan Jackson, Everett Holles, and Dwight Cooke. After the war, expanded news programs appeared on the WCBW schedule. The station's call letters were changed to WCBS-TV in 1946. Anchors included Bob McKee, Milo Boulton, Jim McMullin, Larry LeSueur, Tom O’Connor , and, beginning in 1947, Douglas Edwards . On May 3, 1948, Edwards began anchoring CBS Television News , now
17000-417: Was May 10, 2019. John Dickerson , Major Garrett , Margaret Brennan , Anthony Mason , David Begnaud , Jim Axelrod , and Maurice DuBois anchored on an interim basis until Norah O'Donnell took the anchor chair on July 15, 2019. On May 6, 2019, CBS News announced that Norah O'Donnell was named anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News to replace Glor, effective July 15, 2019. It also announced that
17136-404: Was a segment featured on a September 2004 broadcast of 60 Minutes Wednesday , questioning President George W. Bush 's Texas Air National Guard record. Conservative activists challenged the authenticity of the documents used for the report. A number of bloggers analyzed scans of the documents, and rapidly concluded they were forgeries. Subsequently, CBS commissioned an independent inquiry into
17272-552: Was announced that Adriana Diaz and Jericka Duncan would be the new weekend anchors. The weeknight edition of the CBS Evening News airs live at 6:30 p.m. in the Eastern and 5:30 p.m. in the Central Time Zones and is tape delayed for the Mountain Time Zone . A "Western Edition", with updated segments covering breaking news stories, airs pre-recorded at 6:30 p.m. for most stations in
17408-440: Was appointed sole anchor of World News Tonight in May 2006, after Elizabeth Vargas resigned in connection with her pregnancy, ABC regained stability and momentum to regain the #2 spot. Bob Schieffer 's final CBS Evening News program was broadcast on August 31, 2006. Russ Mitchell filled in for the following night (September 1, 2006), after which he was succeeded by Katie Couric on September 4, 2006. On December 1, 2005, it
17544-513: Was in Miami covering the visit to the city by Pope John Paul II . When the tennis match ended sooner than expected at 6:32 p.m. Eastern Time , Rather was nowhere to be found, and six minutes of dead air followed before he returned to the broadcast position; nearly half of the audience watched and waited. Rather attempted to explain his actions with a statement release on Sunday, but made no mention of it on his next newscast on Monday, delayed by
17680-421: Was named supervising producer, and fellow 60 Minutes producer Guy Campanile was named executive producer. CBS News and Stations CEO Wendy McMahon stated that the program's new format "won't be the traditional headlines that move from one clipped story to the next", and would share the "values" of 60 Minutes . Its correspondents will also be heavily featured in the new format, with McMahon stating that she wanted
17816-402: Was on May 19, 1995. The newscast returned to a solo anchor format on May 22, 1995, with Dan Rather continuing in his role as anchor. At age 73, Rather retired from the Evening News on March 11, 2005, 24 years after succeeding Cronkite. Rather left the anchor position amidst controversy and a credibility crisis over reports broadcast during the 2004 presidential election campaign. The report
17952-566: Was replaced by the Rather and Pelley theme the same year). In his first nine months in the anchor chair, Pelley gained an additional 821,000 viewers. CBS News also enjoyed increases in its audience for special news events. After election night in 2012, Variety wrote, "With Scott Pelley front and center; the Eye was up 8% from four years ago." The CBS Evening News had increased its audience every year from 2011 through 2015. On May 29, 2015, media website The Wrap wrote: "These days, CBS brass may finally have
18088-526: Was reported that Katie Couric, co-anchor of NBC's Today , was considering an offer by CBS to anchor the Evening News . Couric officially signed a contract to become anchor of the CBS Evening News on April 1, 2006, and formally announced four days later on Today that she would be leaving the show and NBC News after a 15-year run as the morning show's co-anchor. Ratings during Couric's period as anchor fluctuated, seemingly improving at times, but also posting historic lows rivaling those dating back to at least
18224-464: Was simply film footage with voice narration. The network also broadcast a recap of the week's news stories on a Sunday night program titled Newsweek in Review , which was later moved to Saturday and retitled The Week in Review . In 1950, the nightly newscast was renamed Douglas Edwards with the News , and in September the following year it became the first news program to be broadcast simultaneously on
18360-522: Was the first morning news program to be broadcast on American television and in the world, when it debuted on January 14, 1952; the earliest national evening news program was The Walter Compton News , a short-lived 15-minute newscast that aired on the DuMont Television Network from 1947 to 1948. All four major English networks and the two largest Spanish networks also carry political talk programs on Sunday mornings (NBC's Meet
18496-466: Was the first murder to have been witnessed live on U.S. network television. The coverage provided by the local stations eventually led to further investments and technological developments to provide real-time news; newsgathering vehicles equipped with satellites began to be used on the local and national levels beginning in the 1970s. During the 1960s and 1970s, many stations began to provide additional news programming, beginning with midday news programs; in
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