Smith moved to ABC at a time when that network's news division was a distant third among the " Big Three " networks.

Fox News Break news capsules segments produced and compiled by WNYW and KTTV reporters also aired during network primetime from the network's launch in 1987 until about 1995.

Many Fox stations that have started news departments from scratch typically do not run a full slate of newscasts as its larger affiliate competitors do, standardly launching with a primetime newscast in the network's recommended late news time period and then gradually adding newscasts in morning, midday and other evening timeslots ; Fox has recommended its affiliates to carry more newscasts ( especially ones in midday and early evening time slots ) for several years, prior to the formation of Fox News Channel.

Although the Fox network itself does not carry any national, regularly scheduled news programming other than Fox News Sunday, both this program and the network's breaking-news coverage are produced by the Fox News Channel, and are regular subjects of controversy.

Also in 2007, ABC unveiled a new, glossier logo and their new imaging campaign, revolving around the slogan ABC: Start Here, which signifies the network's news content and entertainment programming being accessible through not only television, but also the Internet, portable media devices, podcasting, and mobile device-specific content from the network.

Burt Reinhardt, the then executive vice president of CNN, hired most of CNN's first 200 employees, including the network's first news anchor, Bernard Shaw.

Chung left NBC for CBS where she hosted Saturday Night with Connie Chung, and on June 1, 1993, she became the second woman ( after Barbara Walters with ABC in 1976 ) to co-anchor a major network's national news broadcast ( the solo national news anchor title in the United States goes to Katie Couric at CBS ).

ABC News had at the time been in the middle of blunders such as the disastrous pairing of Barbara Walters with Harry Reasoner at the desk of the network's evening news.

The Huntley-Brinkley Report ( sometimes known as The Texaco Huntley-Brinkley Report, for one of its early sponsors ) was the NBC television network's flagship evening news program from October 29, 1956, until July 31, 1970.

By 1956, NBC executives had grown dissatisfied with Swayze in his role anchoring the network's evening news program, which fell behind its main competition, CBS's Douglas Edwards with the News, in 1955.

The network's news programming went to all-color broadcasts at that time, and NBC could not justify allocating four ( then-expensive ) color cameras to the Florida Showcase studio.

In 1956, NBC News executives considered various possibilities to anchor the network's coverage of the Democratic and Republican political conventions, and when executive J. Davidson Taylor suggested pairing two reporters ( he had in mind Bill Henry and Ray Scherer ), producer Reuven Frank, who favored Brinkley for the job, and NBC's director of news, Joseph Meyers, who favored Chet Huntley, proposed combining Huntley and Brinkley.

In addition to CTV's local owned-and-operated stations ( O & Os ) in Eastern Canada as well as affiliate station CITL-DT Lloydminster, the program also airs on independent station CJON-DT ( NTV ) in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as CTV News Channel, the network's 24-hour national news service.

CNBC, which airs only one hour of infomercials nightly during the business week, airs up to 28 hours of infomercials on Saturdays and Sundays during the time where the network's business news coverage otherwise airs ; since the September – October 2008 financial crisis, CNBC has inserted a paid programming bug on the top right corner of the screen during all airings of infomercials.

Until the 1970s, the ABC-TV network had fewer affiliate stations, and also weaker prime-time programming lineups to support the network's news departments than the two larger networks had, each of which had established their radio news operations during the 1930s.

Only after Roone Arledge, the head of ABC Sports at that time, became the president of ABC News in 1977, at a time when this network's prime-time entertainment programs were achieving good ratings and drawing in advertising revenues and profits to the ABC corporation overall, was ABC able to invest the resources to make it a major source of news telecasting.

In addition, Fox airs a program produced by its Fox News sister company called Fox News Sunday, which is the Fox network's only scheduled news program.

As war clouds darkened over Europe in the late 1930s, Paley recognized Americans ' desire for news coverage of the coming war and built the CBS news division into a dominant force just as he had previously built the network's entertainment division.

While the CRTC ultimately ordered Remstar to retain local news programming on the network, it did take the network's precarious financial situation into account by allowing a reduced amount of local news programming until the network's licence renewal hearing in 2011.

Twenty regional bulletins are presented from studios in Wollongong, Canberra, Ballarat, Rockhampton, Toowoomba, Mount Gambier, Hobart and Perth, in addition to Nine News bulletins presented and produced from the network's metropolitan stations, STW in Perth, Western Australia and NWS in Adelaide.

The brief bulletins, produced out of the network's Canberra production centre, are made for the network's seventeen license areas.

The bulletins consist of three-minute local news updates that are broadcast five times throughout the network's daytime schedule.

CFRN-DT initially aired morning bulletins within the network's morning show, Canada AM, while re-running the previous evening's late night news before Canada AM.

Nine News Darwin is presented from the network's NTD-8 Darwin studios by Jonathan Uptin with sports presenter Michelle Buckworth ( who also presents short weekend bulletins ).

Trout anchored the network's live coverage of D-Day and was behind the microphone when the bulletins announcing the end of World War II in Europe, and later Japan, came across.

The decision was part of a push to nationalise lead-in content for the network's struggling news bulletins.

The 1980s, however, were arguably the network's most successful period with its local Sydney and Melbourne bulletins often rating highest for their 6pm timeslot.

Further changes in September 2011 saw the axing of the network's late night bulletin and the state-based 6pm weekend bulletins.

A few popular DuMont programs, such as Cavalcade of Stars and Emmy Award winner Life Is Worth Living, appear in TV retrospectives or are mentioned briefly in books about U. S. television history, but almost all the network's programming was destroyed in the 1970s.

CBS began to adapt the popular novel as a miniseries, but the historians Virginius Dabney ( a direct descendant of Jefferson's sister Martha ) and Dumas Malone successfully campaigned against it directly with the network's president William S. Paley, and persuaded him to kill the project.

Then in May 1999, the channel debuted the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants, which quickly became one of the most popular and longest-running Nicktoons in the network's history, and has remained very popular to this day, consistently ranking as the channel's highest-rated series since 2000.

On July 25, 2011, TeenNick began airing The ' 90s Are All That, a block of Nickelodeon's most popular 1990s programming, targeting the network's target demographic from that era.

It became one of the radio network's most popular programs.

The network's flagship programme is the popular sitcom The Big Bang Theory.

Her prime time Apprentice spin-off received poor ratings, which some attribute to popular dislike for the opportunistic tone of the network's massive promotional campaign and to NBC's slotting the show up against the hit drama Lost.

Described as a " fully converged music industry simulation game " and " part TV show, part Internet game ," the program allowed viewers to register at the network's website and buy " stock " in popular artists, songs, and albums.

Audio downloads of many episodes are available from the CBC website, as well as via the CBC Ideas podcast, which was, by popular demand, one of the first to be included in the network's large podcasting initiative begun in 2005.

In January 1935, the show was discontinued in order to ease Cooper's workload ( he was then writing scripts for the network's prestigious Immortal Dramas program ), but was brought back by huge popular demand a few weeks later.

He started his entertainment career as an announcer for the YTV game show CLIPS, and soon was hosting the network's popular morning kids show Brain Wash, where he was known as Ed Brainbin.

The game became one of the network's most popular programs, with thousands of players monthly.

The Happy Station Show was a long-running popular radio show, originating on the network's predecessors in 1928 and continued until 1995.

After three decades, WBZ, along with all but one of the other Westinghouse Broadcasting stations ( KEX in Portland, Oregon was affiliated with ABC ), ended their affiliations with NBC Radio on August 26, 1956 following a dispute over the network's daytime programming, and the station then decided to program popular music around-the-clock.

Although still popular, Green Acres was canceled after six seasons as part of CBS ' " rural purge ", the network's attempt to draw the younger audiences advertisers desired by updating its schedule with more urban, contemporary-themed shows.

While critics, particularly Globe and Mail columnist Russell Smith, have frequently raised the spectre of the network airing mainstream pop artists such as Nelly Furtado and The Black Eyed Peas, the network's popular music component consists almost exclusively of artists who would be classified as adult album alternative, folk, world music or singer-songwriter pop — and very few of whom receive any airplay whatsoever on commercial radio.

The show, which debuted in June 2004, was immediately panned by the network's viewers, who complained that the Fox Network-owned channel was sinking to a low level by caving into the reality dating shows that are so popular in the present day.

The United Kingdom's Channel 4 has also had consistent success with late-afternoon game shows ; Countdown, airing daily since the network's launch, has been one of the network's popular programmes.

Currently, the company's websites include the gaming portal, GameSpy. com, created in 1999 ; the Planet Network, a collection of " Planet " websites devoted to popular video games ( such as Planet Quake, Planet Half-Life and Planet Unreal ) as well as the genre-related websites, 3DActionPlanet, RPGPlanet, SportPlanet and StrategyPlanet ; ForumPlanet, the network's extensive message board system ; and FilePlanet, arguably one of the largest video game file download site on the Web.

Diffey, Bob Varsha and Krista Voda are now the mainstays of The Speed Report-the network's popular Sunday evening wrap of the week's news and results.

When The Nashville Network bought 50 % of Ken Squier and Fred Rheinstein's World Sports Enterprises, and shifted production of TNN's popular RaceDay from Patterson International to the network's own in-house operation, located inside the industrial park of Lowe's Motor Speedway, Benjamin was named anchor of the network's RaceDay in 1995, anchoring the show until MTV shut down the entire CBS Charlotte operation in November 2000.