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O'Brien started his career working for KSOO TV-Radio in his hometown of Sioux Falls. [citation needed] After graduating from college in 1970, he worked as a researcher at NBC News in Washington, D.C., [5] and was a production assistant for The Huntley-Brinkley Report. [6] He then served as an anchor and reporter for WMAQ-TV in Chicago.
On May 3, 1948, Edwards began anchoring CBS Television News, now 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. [ 6 ] (
CBS The Alan Dale Show: 1948 1951 Dumont Amanda: 1948 1949 Dumont Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts: 1948 January 1, 1958 CBS The Bigelow Show: 1948 1949 Break the Bank: 1948 1957 ABC Cartoon Teletales: 1948 1950 ABC Celebrity Time: 1948 September 1952 CBS Child's World: 1948 1949 Club Seven: 1948 1951 ABC The Philco Television Playhouse: 1948 ...
On CBS in 1948, CBS Television News premiered on the network in May with on-camera anchor Douglas Edwards, later retitled Douglas Edwards and the News. CBS Television also featured public affairs programs such as Longines Chronoscope which featured newsworthy public figures, and which ran from June 1951 to April 1955 at 11pm ET.
CBS Television News premieres as the first network nightly newscast, hosted by journalist Douglas Edwards. June 21 The 1948 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania becomes the first political convention to be telecast by the networks.
Notes: On CBS, To the Queen's Taste began airing during the late spring or early summer of 1948. On DuMont, King Cole's Birthday Party also was known simply as Birthday Party. It debuted on May 15, 1947, on DuMont's New York City station, WABD and by early 1948 was carried by the entire network. The date on which it switched from a New York ...
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 1948 episodes of the Berle show are missing, but many of the 1949 episodes still exist. A short-lived series, The Laytons , was the first network television sitcom to feature an African-American in a regular supporting role, albeit a stereotypical one.