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KXAS-TV (channel 5) is a television ... station duopoly in the Dallas–Fort Worth market (after CBS owned-and ... an anchor/reporter from 1948 until he was laid off ...
From 2011 to 2014, the CBS Evening News was the only remaining network evening newscast that used separate anchors for its Saturday and Sunday editions (NBC Nightly News previously used separate anchors for both weekend broadcasts until John Seigenthaler was appointed anchor of both the Saturday and Sunday editions in 1999, while ABC's World ...
It was the first independent station to sign on in Texas, the fourth television station to sign on in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex (after NBC affiliate WBAP-TV (channel 5, now KXAS-TV), which signed on the air on September 29, 1948; ABC affiliate KBTV (channel 8, now WFAA), which debuted on September 17, 1949; and CBS affiliate KRLD-TV ...
On April 16, 1962, Cronkite succeeded Douglas Edwards as anchorman of CBS's nightly feature newscast, tentatively renamed Walter Cronkite with the News, [10] but later the CBS Evening News on September 2, 1963, when the show was expanded from 15 to 30 minutes, making Cronkite the anchor of American network television's first nightly half-hour ...
Edwards' departure from CBS Evening News did not end his work for the network either on television or radio. For several years, both during his time as network anchor and afterwards, he anchored the local late news team on WCBS-TV, channel 2, the network's flagship station in New York City. [5]
The unsolved murder of CBS News journalist George Polk in May 1948 has all the elements of a cover-up. The Fort Worth native’s sudden disappearance from the city of Thessaloniki, Greece, a few ...
In November 1978, she moved to the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex to anchor the ten o'clock news for KDFW-TV (the CBS station for the market at the time, now a Fox O&O). [1] In 1979 the six o'clock news was added to her duties. [2] As of 2012, she is the longest-serving news anchor in the Dallas/Fort Worth television market.
As compensation for the loss of stations, NBC and CBS traded transmitter facilities in Miami, with the NBC-owned WTVJ moving to channel 6 and the CBS-owned WCIX moving to channel 4 as WFOR-TV. [155] On August 1, 1995, Westinghouse announced it was acquiring CBS outright for $5.4 billion; [156] [157] the deal was completed on November 24. [158]