{"id":27206,"date":"2014-03-04T07:39:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T12:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=27206"},"modified":"2021-03-27T11:04:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T15:04:45","slug":"cbs-evening-news-with-scott-pelley-cronkites-anchoring-debut-celebrates-50th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=27206","title":{"rendered":"Walter Cronkite\u2019s First Night As CBS News Anchorman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Cronkite&#8217;s First Night As CBS News Anchorman<\/p>\n<p>It was 6:45, Monday April 16, 1962 when Walter Cronkite delivered his first news cast as the new anchor of &#8216;The Evening Edition Of CBS News&#8217;. His new set was in Studio 41 at Grand Central which had also been where Douglas Edwards had delivered the news, but for many years, Edwards&#8217; show was done from one of the four CBS studios ( <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/53\">#53<\/a>, 54, 55 and 56) at Liederkrantz Hall. For several years after leaving the anchor chair on CBS, Edwards headed the evening news on WCBS-TV.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards subsequently moved back to CBS Radio, where he delivered the network&#8217;s flagship evening newscasts &#8216;The World Tonight&#8217; for many years. Until his retirement on April 1, 1988, he maintained at least a small role within CBS television news, anchoring a five-minute mid day newsbreak at 11:55. He also served for a time as a co-anchor of the &#8216;CBS Morning News&#8217;. His last radio newscast included a report of the death of singer Andy Gibb.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VjZV2UDEG2A&amp;ab_channel=CBSNews\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VjZV2UDEG2A&amp;ab_channel=CBSNews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VjZV2UDEG2A\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley - Cronkite's anchoring debut celebrates 50th anniversary\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/CBS-Evening-News-with-Scott-Pelley-Cronkites-anchoring-debut-celebrates-50th-anniversary.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/10201849839993819\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Cronkite&#8217;s First Night As CBS News Anchorman It was 6:45, Monday April 16, 1962 when Walter Cronkite delivered his first news cast as the new anchor of &#8216;The Evening Edition Of CBS News&#8217;. His new set was in Studio 41 at Grand Central which had also been where Douglas Edwards had delivered the news, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60356,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27206\/revisions\/60356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}