{"id":33351,"date":"2012-09-05T05:40:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T09:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=33351"},"modified":"2023-06-09T12:20:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T16:20:33","slug":"50-years-ago-last-night-on-september-4-1962-cbs-became-the-first-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=33351","title":{"rendered":"SEPTEMBER 4, 1962&#8230;CBS NEWS EXPANDS TO 30 MINUTES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 4, 1962 CBS became the first network to air a half hour of television news. Walter Cronkite had replaced the original anchor, Douglas Edwards, in April of that year.<\/p>\n<p>A week later, The Huntley-Brinkley Report at NBC went to a half hour as well.<\/p>\n<p>On May 3, 1948, Douglas Edwards began anchoring &#8216;CBS Television News&#8217;, a regular 15-minute nightly newscast. It aired every weeknight at 7:30 PM, and was the first regularly scheduled television news program.<\/p>\n<p>In 1950, the name was changed to &#8216;Douglas Edwards With The News&#8217;, and the following year, it became the first news program to be broadcast on both coasts, thanks to a new coaxial cable connection, prompting Edwards to use the greeting &#8220;Good evening everyone, coast to coast&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/426197314084490\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/50-Years-Ago-Last-Night...-On-September-4-1962-CBS-became-the-first-network\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/426197324084489\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 4, 1962 CBS became the first network to air a half hour of television news. Walter Cronkite had replaced the original anchor, Douglas Edwards, in April of that year. A week later, The Huntley-Brinkley Report at NBC went to a half hour as well. On May 3, 1948, Douglas Edwards began anchoring &#8216;CBS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":33352,"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":[],"tags":[724,783,766,782,787],"class_list":["post-33351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cast","tag-cbs","tag-coaxial-cable","tag-nbc","tag-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33351","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=33351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79423,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33351\/revisions\/79423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}