* 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.

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 )

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

** 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.

* 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.

* 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.

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

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.

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.

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

* CBS News

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.

A July 8, 1980 New York Times Article titled " What George Steinbrenner is to the American League, Lee Eisenberg is to the Rotisseries League " set off a media storm that led to stories about the league on CBS TV and other publications.

When Reasoner left CBS to co-anchor ABC's evening newscast ( he would return to CBS and the show in 1978 ), Morley Safer joined the team in 1970, and he took over Reasoner's duties of reporting less aggressive stories.

A team of ten University students creates and produces news videos, sports highlight videos for WDTN-TV ( Dayton NBC ), WHIO-TV ( Dayton CBS ), WKEF-TV ( Dayton ABC ) and the university web, record news stories for WUSO, the student run radio station, and write press releases for the university website.

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

My Sister Eileen originated as a series of short stories by Ruth McKenney that eventually evolved into a book, a play, a musical, a radio play ( and unproduced radio series ), two films, and a CBS television series in the 1960 – 1961 season.

A television situation comedy based on the short stories and subsequent adaptations premiered on CBS on October 5, 1960.

Extreme Ironing has been featured in news stories on CBS Sunday Morning, in The New York Times, The Sun, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Sydney Morning Herald, Calcutta Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Toronto Star, TIME Magazine, ESPN. com, The Financial Times, MTVu, and CNN. com.

The program also faced pressure from management to take advantage of CBS News redefining itself more as a hard news organization after the end of the Katie Couric era, asking the program's staff to take advantage of stories presented on 60 Minutes and the CBS Evening News and expand on those stories in the morning time slot rather than following the lead as defined by Today and GMA to the letter.

CBS Morning News is the half-hour daily television broadcast from CBS News that airs following Up to the Minute and features late-breaking news stories, weather forecasts, and sports scores.

WKRP was given a new timeslot, one of the best on the network, following M * A * S * H. This allowed creator Hugh Wilson to move away from farcical radio-based stories, which is what CBS mostly wanted at the beginning, and start telling stories that, while not necessarily serious, were more low-key and character-based.

Since September 2008, The Baltimore Sun became the newspaper partner of the CBS owned and operated station WJZ-TV ; involving sharing content, story leads, and teaming up on stories.

CBS Newspath has a team of domestic and global correspondents and freelance reporters dedicated to reporting for affiliates and offers several different national or international stories fronted by reporters on a daily basis.

Robert has appeared on “ CBS Sunday Morning ,” “ CBS Morning Show ,” “ Live with Regis and Kathy Lee ,” “ Larry King ,” " The Jim Bohannon Show " and Garrison Keillor ’ s “ American Radio Show .” He has had feature stories and reviews in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune.

However, on occasion, the Sunday broadcasts ( airing in a time slot otherwise reserved for family-friendly programming, aside from CBS ' competitor 60 Minutes ) focuses on stories tailored for younger viewers, such as recent Sunday reports on teen drivers and child safety.

Unlike the other flagship newsmagazines on U. S. television ( CBS News ' 60 Minutes and ABC News 20 / 20 ), Dateline featured more character-driven stories focusing on the audience's emotional attachment to the persons featured, and fewer non-character driven international and national news stories.

Several Honolulu local stations are available on cable ( converted from ATSC to DVB-T ): KHON-TV ( Fox ), KITV-TV ( ABC ), KHNL-TV ( NBC ) and KGMB-TV ( CBS ).

Paramount's home entertainment unit continues to distribute the Paramount TV library through CBS DVD, as both Viacom and CBS Corporation are controlled by Michael Redstone's National Amusements.

But from 2006 – 2009, the library was distributed by CBS Television Distribution, the television distribution arm of CBS Paramount Television ( now CBS Television Studios ) – the films are now distributed by Trifecta Entertainment & Media on television.

Television rights to Paramount's library, included properties owned outright, and those only for certain media, are currently held on Paramount's behalf by Trifecta Entertainment & Media ( Trifecta had inherited this library from CBS Television Distribution in 2009 ).

Paramount ( via CBS DVD ) has outright video distribution to the aforementioned CBS library with few exceptions-for example, the original Twilight Zone DVDs are handled by Image Entertainment.

The CBS-produced / owned films, unlike other films in Paramount's library, are still distributed by CBS Television Distribution on TV, and not by Trifecta Entertainment & Media, because CBS ( or a subdivision ) is the copyright holder for these films.

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.

CBS, Fox and NBC games are shown respectively in Tampa Bay on WTSP, WTVT channel 13 and WFLA Channel 8, while they are shown respectively in Orlando on WKMG, WOFL and WESH.

They are: 5 ( Cable Only ) WT05 – CW, 11 WTOL – CBS, 13 WTVG – ABC, 24 WNWO-TV – NBC, 30 WGTE-TV – PBS, 36 WUPW – Fox, 40 WLMB – FN, 58 ( Cable Only ) WMNT-CA – My Network TV and 22 WDTJ-LP – Trinity Broadcast Network.

* Most local commercial television stations are owned-and-operated by or affiliated with the large national broadcast networks such as ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, and The CW.

The character Gil Grissom in the CBS television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and the character Virgil Tracy in the British television series Thunderbirds are named after the astronaut.

The CBS reduction and proline catalysed aldol condensation are prominent examples.

The uses of these islands vary: Davids ' Island, the former location of the U. S. Army ’ s Fort Slocum, is currently unoccupied but is slated for use as passive parkland ; Glen Island is a County park for passive and active recreation ; Huckleberry Island is largely undeveloped and has one of the largest rookeries for some shore bird species in western Long Island Sound ; Columbia Island was the former site of CBS television broadcast antennas and is currently unoccupied ; Echo Island is used by a private yacht club ; Execution Rocks is the site of a 19th century lighthouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places ; Pea Island is owned by Huguenot Yacht Club but remains undeveloped ; Goose Island is undeveloped ; Clifford, Harrison and Tank Islands are part of a nature preserve and city park ; and Oak and Pine Islands are used as private residences.

The major network television affiliates are WTVR-TV 6 ( CBS ), WRIC-TV 8 ( ABC ), WWBT 12 ( NBC ), WRLH-TV 35 ( Fox ), and WUPV 65 ( CW ).

The remaining are 27 % Roman Catholic, 15. 7 % Protestant and 5. 3 % Muslim ( data CBS 2005, 2007 ).