* 1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become " the most trusted man in America ".

This was so novel a proposition at the time that it got picked up and published by Newsweek and also covered by Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News.

* 1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.

* 1963 – CBS Evening News becomes U. S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.

Hewitt, who had been a producer of the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, sought out Wallace as a stylistic contrast to Reasoner.

However, on the West Coast ( and all of the Mountain time zone ), because the actual end of the live games is much earlier in the afternoon in comparison to the Eastern and Central time zones, 60 Minutes is always able to start at its normal start time of 7 pm Pacific Time ( 6 pm Mountain Time ), leaving affiliates free to broadcast local news, the CBS Evening News, and other local or syndicated programming leading up to 60 Minutes.

The show's success has led CBS Sports to schedule the Masters Tournament, the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, and other events leading into 60 Minutes and the rest of the network's primetime lineup, thus ( again, except on the West Coast ) pre-empting the Sunday editions of the CBS Evening News and affiliates ' local newscasts.

In 1969, the veteran reporter became the co-anchor of the ABC Evening News, first with Frank Reynolds, then the following year with another CBS alumnus, Harry Reasoner.

Walter Cronkite, who started with United Press in Kansas City, gained fame for his coverage of World War II in Europe and turned down Edward R. Murrow's first offer of a CBS job to stay with UP, but who later went on to anchor the CBS Evening News, once said, " I felt every Unipresser got up in the morning saying, ' This is the day I'm going to beat the hell out of AP.

* On the day the New York Mets and Baltimore Orioles wrapped up their respective League Championship Series in 1969, a feature story on the CBS Evening News showed telecast clips of the ALCS game ( albeit with no original sound ).

Daniel Irvin " Dan " Rather, Jr. ( born October 31, 1931 ) is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News.

Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9, 1981, to March 9, 2005.

Rather became embroiled in controversy about a disputed news report involving President Bush's Vietnam-era service in the National Guard and subsequently left CBS Evening News in 2005, and he left the network altogether after 43 years in 2006.

Success there ( and a threat to bolt to ABC News ) helped Rather pull ahead of longtime correspondent Roger Mudd in line to succeed Walter Cronkite as anchor and Managing Editor of CBS Evening News.

On joining the CBS Evening News, however, she worked to report " pop news " stories that did not fit the style of the broadcast.

At the end of Rather's time as anchor, the CBS Evening News lagged behind the NBC Nightly News and ABC World News Tonight in the ratings, although it was still drawing approximately 7 million viewers a night.

* 2002: Former CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite

The parade was a hit, and its unique notion of having no live music has drawn the attention of CBS Evening News and the Washington Post, among others.

Chung was a Washington, D. C .- based correspondent for the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite in the early 1970s, during the Watergate political scandal.

While hosting the CBS Evening News, Chung also hosted a side project on CBS, Eye to Eye with Connie Chung and also Face to Face with Connie Chung.

Consequently, after public outcry, and Rather's complaints, Chung was laid off as co-anchor of the CBS Evening News and was offered a demotion to weekend anchor or morning anchor.

60 Minutes correspondent and CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley also lives in town as does Rob Morrison, anchor of CBS 2 News This Morning and CBS 2 News At Noon.

An academic content analysis of election news later found that coverage at ABC, CBS, and NBC was more favorable toward Kerry than Bush, while coverage at Fox News Channel was more favorable toward Bush.

* Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg ( 2001 )

** The television industry is mostly an oligopoly of seven companies: The Walt Disney Company, CBS Corporation, Viacom, Comcast, Hearst Corporation, Time Warner, and News Corporation.

* CBS News article-' Shadow Government ' News to Congress March 2, 2002

With war still looming on 24 February 2003, Saddam Hussein took part in an interview with CBS News reporter Dan Rather.

CBS News claims that in the United States women who are ages 30 to 44 and hold a university degree make only 62 percent of what similarly qualified men do, a lower rate than in all but three of the 19 countries for which numbers are available.

* Ryan Smith, CBS News, 48 Hours

Bush and CBS News anchor Dan Rather clash over Bush's role in the Iran-Contra scandal, during a contentious television interview.

** Paula Zahn, American television journalist ( CBS News )

Initially, 60 Minutes aired as a bi-weekly show hosted by Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace, debuting on September 24, 1968, and alternating weeks with other CBS News productions on Tuesday evenings at 10: 00 p. m.

However, the initial season was troubled by lack of network confidence, as the show did not garner ratings much higher than that of other CBS News documentaries.

However, when Richard Nixon began targeting press access and reporting, even Safer, formerly the CBS News bureau head in Saigon and London, began to do " hard " investigative reports, and during the 1970 – 71 season alone 60 Minutes reported on cluster bombs, the South Vietnamese Army, draft dodgers, Nigeria, the Middle East, and Northern Ireland.

CBS News engineers prepare a remote: Justice Hugo Black's 1937 denial of Klan ties

* CBS News

* 1930 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers.

* 1954 – McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, " A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy ", produced by Fred Friendly.

The graphics package lasted on CBS ' sports broadcasts until the end of 1995, after which CBS discarded it in favor of an orange and yellow color scheme.

While regular season and post-season games in the NFL are all broadcast by national television contracts on CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN and NFL Network, the television broadcasts are for the most part handled by the individual teams.

* September 7 – CBS broadcasts a two-and-a-half hour memorial concert nationwide on radio in memory of George Gershwin, live from the Hollywood Bowl.

* September 30 – CBS broadcasts the final episodes of Suspense and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, marking the end of the Golden Age of Radio.

Its unique format, a contemporary version of the story in the form of faux news broadcasts, had many CBS listeners panicked into believing invaders from Mars were actually devastating Grover's Mill, New Jersey, despite three disclaimers during the broadcast that it was a work of fiction.

It featured such popular radio broadcasts as Viva América which showcased leading musical talent from both North and South America accompanied by the CBS Pan American Orchestra under the musical direction of Alfredo Antonini.

During World War II Freedom House sponsored the weekly radio program, Our Secret Weapon ( 1942 – 1943 ), a CBS radio series created to counter Axis shortwave radio propaganda broadcasts.

From 1983-1989, Buck teamed with the likes of Sparky Anderson, Bill White, and Johnny Bench for World Series radio broadcasts on CBS.

Unlike CBS and NBC, he continued experimental broadcasts throughout World War II.

As of 1997, CBS had saved 1, 000, 000 videotapes of news reports, broadcasts, stock footage, and outtakes according to a report that year from the National Film Preservation Board.

One television station, WCBI-TV, the CBS affiliate, is located in the city's historic downtown area ; it broadcasts CW and MyNetworkTV programming on digital subchannels.

Glendive is the smallest of the 210 designated markets for broadcast television in the United States ( as designated by Nielsen ), with one station ( KXGN channel 5 ) carrying a CBS affiliation along with state and local news broadcasts for a small potential audience of several thousand people ( county population is 9, 059 ).

There was also a Columbia Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra, sometimes called the CBS Symphony Orchestra, which frequently performed on CBS Radio broadcasts and made 78-rpm recordings for Columbia Records during the 1940s, usually conducted by Howard Barlow.

The JTAC still recommended the CBS system, and after the resolution of an ensuing RCA lawsuit, color broadcasts using the CBS system started on June 25, 1951.

CBS initiated a limited schedule of color broadcasts from its New York station WCBS-TV Mondays to Saturdays beginning November 14, 1950, making ten color receivers available for the viewing public.

While the CBS color broadcasting schedule gradually expanded to twelve hours per week ( but never into prime time ), and the color network expanded to eleven affiliates as far west as Chicago, its commercial success was doomed by the lack of color receivers necessary to watch the programs, the refusal of television manufacturers to create adapter mechanisms for their existing black-and-white sets, and the unwillingness of advertisers to sponsor broadcasts seen by almost no one.

During the 1940s, Herrmann had played Raff's 3rd and 5th Symphonies in his CBS radio broadcasts.

* All CBS soap operas transition from live to tape broadcasts.

* CBS announces their efforts to develop television broadcasts.

Peter Hyams began thinking about a film of a space hoax while working on broadcasts of the Apollo missions for CBS.