CBS News is the news division of Americantelevision and radio network CBS. Its current president is Sean McManus who is also head of CBS Sports. Don Hewitt was the original creator of “60 Minutes” and former executive producer of CBS News. Rick Kaplan, a multiple award-winning news producer and executive whose career in broadcast journalism spans more than 35 years, is the executive producer of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.
Newsbreak (twice-daily 90 second daytime broadcast)
CBS News MoneyWatch (60 second business news break, reported by Alexis Christoforous, Anthony Mason, Russ Mitchell, Alison Harmelin or Claire Leka)
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 Cochran 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)
Saturday Afternoon/Evening Network News History (15 & 30 minute programs)
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)
In February 1966, the "CBS Evening News" premiered on Saturday as 30 minutes. The named to "CBS Weekend Evening News". In 1988, "CBS Weekend Evening News" renamed to "CBS Saturday Evening News" in Saturday broadcasts, and "CBS Sunday Evening News" in Sunday broadcasts.
CBS Weekend Evening News with Roger Mudd (1966-1973)
CBS Weekend Evening News with Dan Rather (1973-1979)
CBS Weekend (later Saturday) Evening News with Bob Schieffer (1979-1990)
CBS Saturday Evening News with Paula Zahn (1990-1997); Giselle Fernández (substituted in 1991-1994)
CBS Saturday Evening News with Deborah Norville (1997-1999)
CBS Saturday Evening News with Russ Mitchell (1999-2007) or Thalia Assuras (2002-2007) (anchors rotated every other Saturday); Mika Brzezinski (substituted in 2005-2006)
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)
CBS Sunday Evening News with Susan Spencer (1988-1989)
CBS Sunday Evening News with Connie Chung (1989-1993)
CBS Sunday Evening News with John Roberts (1992-2005)
CBS Sunday Late News History (all 15 minute programs)
The Week in Review (1-49-1950)
John Daly and the News (1950)
Sunday News Special (Don Hollenbeck, Winston Burdett) (1951-1961)
Walter Cronkite with the News (1961-1962)
CBS Sunday Night News with Eric Sevareid (1962-1963)
CBS Sunday Night News with Harry Reasoner (1963-1970)
CBS Sunday Night News with Dan Rather (1970-1973)
CBS Sunday Night News with Bob Schieffer (1973-1976)
CBS Sunday Night News with Ed Bradley (1976-1981)
CBS Sunday Night News with Charles Osgood (1981-1988)
CBS Sunday Night News with Bill Plante (1988-1996)
Broadcasts were after late night local news and ended after 1996.
Prime Time/Evening News Program History
See It Now (Edward R. Murrow, Howard K. Smith ) (1951-1957)
Douglas Edwards and the News (1948-1962)
The Twentieth Century (Walter Cronkite) (1957-1970)
CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (1962-1981)
CBS Reports (Howard K. Smith, Edward R. Murrow, Eric Sevareid, Ed Bradley) (1959-1971)
CBS Evening News with Dan Rather (1981-2005) or Connie Chung (1993-1995)
Nightwatch (Charlie Rose) (1982-1992)
West 57th (1985-1989)
America Tonight (1990-1991)
Street Stories (1992-1993)
Eye to Eye with Connie Chung (1993-1995)
Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel (1997-1998)
60 Minutes II (Wednesday) (1999-2005)
CBS Evening News with Bob Schieffer (2005-2006)
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.
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.
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.
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.
In 1964, Rep. Jimmy Utt (R-Cal.) filed a libel suit against CBS regarding a CBS Reports "Case History of a Rumor" program. He claimed the defendants had "'entrapped' him into giving a television interview that turned out to be a 'cross examination' by Roger Mudd, who acted as 'prosecutor, judge, and jury.'" The case was dismissed. Utt died in office in 1970 and was succeeded by John Schmitz. (Source: "The Place To Be" by Roger Mudd)
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]
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