CBS News

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CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. Its current president is Sean McManus who is also head of CBS Sports.

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[edit] Current CBS News Broadcasts

"Classic" logo of CBS News, from the 1970s until 2006
"Classic" logo of CBS News, from the 1970s until 2006
  • The CBS Evening News historically began with the announcer, "Direct from our newsroom in New York, in color, this is the "CBS Evening News" with Walter Cronkite."

[edit] Five Minute News Program History

  • Charles Collingwood with the News (1956, 1961-1962)
  • Walter Cronkite with the News (1956-1960)
  • Charles Kuralt with the News (1960)
  • Ron Cochrane with the News (1960-1961)
  • Stuart Novins with the News (1961)
  • Harry Reasoner with the News (1961-1962)
  • CBS News with Harry Reasoner (1962-1963)
  • CBS News with Douglas Edwards (1962-1963)
  • CBS Mid-Morning News with Douglas Edwards (1979-1980)
  • CBS Midday News with Harry Reasoner (1963)
  • CBS Midday News with Robert Trout (1963-1965)
  • CBS Midday News with Mike Wallace (1965-1966)
  • CBS Midday News with Joseph Benti (1966-1969)
  • CBS Midday News with Douglas Edwards (1969-1979)
  • CBS Afternoon News with Douglas Edwards (1963-1969)

[edit] Saturday Network News History

  • The Week in Review (1950)
  • Saturday News Special (with Don Hollenbeck) (1950-1951)
  • Douglas Edwards and the News (1951)
  • News with Edward P. Morgan (1951)
  • Up To The Minute (Walter Cronkite) (1951-1952)
  • The Saturday News with Robert Trout (1959)
  • The Saturday News with Harry Reasoner (1959-1962)
  • CBS News with Robert Trout (1962-1963)
  • CBS News with Roger Mudd (1962)
  • CBS News with Mike Wallace (1963)
  • CBS Saturday News with Robert Trout (1963-1966)
  • CBS Saturday News with Richard C. Hottelet (1964)
  • CBS Saturday News with Martin Agronsky (1964-1965)
  • CBS Saturday News with David Schoumacher (1965)
  • CBS Saturday News with Dave Dugan (1965)
  • CBS Saturday News with Charles Kuralt (1965)
  • CBS Saturday News with Stuart Novins (1965)
  • CBS Saturday News closed its early afternoon programming in Jan., 1966 and was replaced by the CBS Evening News with Roger Mudd in the standard evening time slot.

[edit] Sunday Late Afternoon/Early Evening News History

  • The Week in Review (1948)
  • News Program (Edward P. Morgan) (1951)
  • Shape of the News (Edward P. Morgan) (1951)
  • Sunday News (Ron Cochran) (1951)
  • The American Week (commentary & analysis by Eric Sevareid) (1954-1955)
  • CBS Sunday News (Eric Sevareid) (1956)
  • World News Roundup (Eric Sevareid, Robert Trout) (1957-1958)
  • Robert Trout with the News (1958)
  • Harry Reasoner with the News (1959-1960)

[edit] CBS Afternoon News History

  • The Week in Review (1-49-1950)
  • John Daly and the News (1950)
  • Afternoon News Special (Don Hollenbeck, Winston Burdett) (1951-1961)
  • Walter Cronkite with the News (1961-1962)
  • CBS News with Eric Sevareid (1962-1963)
  • CBS News with Harry Reasoner (1963)
  • CBS Afternoon News with Harry Reasoner (1963-1970)
  • CBS Afternoon News with Dan Rather (1970-1973, 1974-1975, 1979-1981)
  • CBS Afternoon News with Bob Schieffer (1973-1974, 1988-1991)
  • CBS Afternoon News with Morton Dean (1975-1976)
  • CBS Afternoon News with Ed Bradley (1976-1979)
  • CBS Afternoon News with Charles Osgood (1981-1988)
  • CBS Afternoon News with Bill Plante (1991-1996)
  • CBS Afternoon News with Russ Mitchell (1996-2002) * CBS Afternoon News with Bryant Gumbel (2002-present)

[edit] Prime Time News Program History

  • See It Now (Edward R. Murrow, Howard K. Smith ) (1951-1957)
  • The Twentieth Century (Walter Cronkite) (1957-1970)
  • CBS Reports (Howard K. Smith, Edward R. Murrow, Eric Sevareid, Ed Bradley) (1959-1971)
  • America Tonight (1990-1991)
  • Eye to Eye with Connie Chung (1993-1995)
  • Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel (1997-1998)
  • 60 Minutes II (Wednesday) (1999-2005)

[edit] CBS Newspath

CBS Newspath is CBS News' satellite news gathering service (similar to CNN Newsource). CBS Newspath provides national hard news, sports highlights, regional spot news, features and live coverage of major breaking news events for affiliate stations to use in their local news broadcasts. CBS Newspath has a team of correspondents and freelance reporters dedicated to reporting for affiliates and offers several different national or international stories fronted by reporters on a daily basis. CBS Newspath also relies heavily on local affiliates sharing content. Stations will often contribute locally-obtained footage that may be of national interest.

CBS Newspath is a part of the Network News Service, a collaborative effort between the affiliate news services of ABC, CBS and FOX. This means that, for example, the FOX affiliate could uplink footage to their affiliate network, which would then be picked up by NNS, and be available to any ABC, CBS or FOX affiliate outside of the market that the footage originated in.

[edit] CBS Radio Network News

The branch of CBS News that produces newscasts and features to radio stations is CBS Radio News, which airs on the CBS Radio Network. The radio network is the oldest unit of CBS News and traced its roots to the company's founding in 1927, and the news division took shape over the following 10 years. The list of CBS News correspondents (below) includes those reporting on CBS Radio News.

CBS Radio News produces the oldest daily news show on radio or television, the CBS World News Roundup (it first aired in 1938 and celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2008), which airs each morning and evening. Nick Young anchors the original morning broadcast, produced by Paul Farry, while Bill Whitney hosts the evening edition, produced by Greg Armstrong. The evening Roundup, previously known as The World Tonight, has aired since 1956 and has been anchored by Blair Clark, Douglas Edwards, Dallas Townsend and Christopher Glenn.

CBS Radio News produces newscasts at the top of the hour, regular updates at :31 past the hour, and the popular Newsfeeds for affiliates (including WCBS and KYW) at :35, and breaking news updates when developments warrant, often at :20 and :50 past the hour.

[edit] Public Eye

In 2005, CBS News created its own blog called Public Eye to act as a defacto ombudsman for CBS News and give greater transparency to the decisions being made. It occasionally invites other journalists and bloggers to give their own opinions on this site.

[edit] CBS News Correspondents (Past & Present)

Source: CBS News & NewsWatch Dallas

[edit] International broadcasts

CBS Evening News is shown on Sky News to viewers in Europe and Africa.

In Australia, the CBS Evening News bulletin is shown at 11.30am Monday to Saturday, and at 12.30pm on Sundays on Sky News Australia.

CBS is not shown outside the Americas on a channel in its own right. However, both CBS News is shown for a few hours a day on Orbit News in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. CBS News stories are a common occurrence on Australia's Ten News on Network Ten, as part a CBS programming content deal. They also air The Early Show each weekday as well.

[edit] Controversies

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In a speech in 1971, Vice-President Spiro Agnew accused CBS News of disseminating "deceptive, self-serving propaganda". He quoted from reports by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Special Subcommittee on Investigations of the House Commerce Committee. These reports mentioned a CBS documentary called "Project Nassau",an effort to depose the Francois Duvalier regime in Haiti. "The House Subcommittee found that CBS had, in effect, financially subsidized a planned 1966 invasion of Haiti in order to make a documentary on the event." In his deposition, Tom Dunkin, journalist for the Atlanta Journal, said that producer Jay McMullen of CBS told him in November, 1966 that he had "spent a lot of time and money on this project and had nothing to show for it". (In January of 1967 the project ended with the arrest of 75 participants.)[1]

In 1986 CBS Television sought to trim its expenses. It undertook major layoffs of the News division staff.[2]

In a September 1, 2004 CBS news commentary, titled "Vice President Dick Agnew", CBS editorial director Dick Meyer said that Vice President Cheney "drew from a different tradition typified by Spiro Agnew" in a tradition that "uses the hired help to do the political dirty work". [3][4]

Also see Killian Documents re Fall 2004 coverage of President George W. Bush and the National Guard.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Related newpaper article from MIT archives: Special Subcommittee on Investigations of the House Commerce Committee
  2. ^ http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=49&aid=104912
  3. ^ HEARINGS before the SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS of the COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 91st Congress, 1st and 2nd sessions, Serial No. 91-55: U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington
  4. ^ MIT archives, "TECH", Mar 23, 1971

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