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Dan Rather - Wikipedia  Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9, 1981, to March 9, 2005. He also contributed to CBS's 60 Minutes. Rather became...
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Rather Walked Off Set of CBS News - NYTimes.com  Sep 13, 1987 ... LEAD: Dan Rather, angered because CBS decided to shorten the ''CBS Evening News'' to broadcast the end of a tennis match on Friday, walked off the set and caused the network to ''go black'' for six minutes. ... Rather Left Studio ... is also the managing editor of the ''Evening News,'' into his anchor chair.
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Dan Rather left the set 9 years ago | EW.com  Sep 13, 1996 ... 11, 1987, no news was a complete fiasco. ... The anchor left the set for 6 minutes, and ''CBS Evening News'' has been ... the CBS Evening News when a tennis match threatened to cut into his ... A month before, he began signing off his broadcasts with the ... They just signed the black screen for 13 weeks..
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Rather Criticized For His Cbs News 'Walkout' - latimes  September 15, 1987|JAY SHARBUTT | Times Staff Writer ... said Monday that CBS anchor Dan Rather "blew it" in leaving his newscast for six minutes Friday, ... But when CBS's tennis coverage went beyond that, Rather left his post to make other ... The network went to black for six minutes while news staffers looked for him.
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CBS Evening News - Wikipedia  The CBS Evening News is the flagship evening television news program of CBS News, the ... Previous anchors have included Douglas Edwards, Walter Cronkite, Dan ... The CBS Evening News airs live at 6:30pm in the Eastern and 5:30pm in the .... When the tennis match ended sooner than expected at 6:32 p.m. Eastern...
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60 Minutes - Wikipedia  60 Minutes is an American newsmagazine television program broadcast on the CBS television .... 60 Minutes struggled under that stigma during its first three years. ... When Reasoner left CBS to co-anchor ABC's evening newscast (he would .... whenever Rooney did not appear, the final line was "Those stories and more,...
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Jeopary Questions page 1715 - PRISON LIFE - TriviaBistro.com  ANDERSONVILLE: In 1985, this AP news reporter was kidnapped in West Beirut as he was returning home from playing tennis  OZ: Dorothy followed the Yellow...
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CBS News Sunday Morning - Wikipedia  CBS News Sunday Morning is an American newsmagazine television program that has aired on CBS since January 28, 1979. Created by Robert Northshield and original host Charles Kuralt, the 90-minute program currently airs Sundays from 9:00 ... The show is hosted by Jane Pauley, who succeeded Charles Osgood on...
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Dan Rather - Wikipedia  Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr. (born October 31, 1931) is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News. He is now managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine Dan ... Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9, 1981, to March 9, 2005. He also...
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Katie Couric - Wikipedia  She remained at Today and NBC News for fifteen years until May 31, 2006, when she announced that she would be going to CBS to anchor the CBS Evening...
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The Museum of Broadcast Communications - Encyclopedia of ...  Through a CBS network career spanning thirty-seven years, this award winning journalist and author has brought the ... Quoted in TV Guide on 2 April 1994, Kuralt said, "I am ashamed that so many [anchorpersons] ... Into the 1990s, Kuralt continued his Sunday Morning efforts and for an approximate ... A Life on the Road.
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Legendary sportscaster Jim McKay dies - tribunedigital-chicagotribune  Jun 8, 2008 ... The industry remembered the ABC announcer whose vast resume ... Among them was NBC's Bob Costas, who captured the essence of McKay's talent ... In 1961 Arledge tabbed McKay as host for a sports anthology series that ... The thrill of victory and (cue the unfortunate ski jumper) the agony of defeat."...
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48 Hours (TV series) - Wikipedia  48 Hours is an American documentary/news magazine television series broadcast on CBS. ... Dan Rather, at the time also serving as anchor of the CBS Evening News, ... changed again to 48 Hours Mystery in 2004, and with its single-topic format, ... coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre in April 2007 or coverage of the...
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TV ACRES: Censorship & Scandals > Jack Paar's Water Closet Joke ...  Jack Paar's Water Closet Joke - One of the early classic moments in ... host Jack Paar walked off his NBC program after the network censors nixed ... and cut it from the February 10, 1960 broadcast without consulting with Paar. When Paar discovered that his four-minute story had been cut, he later walked off in the middle of...
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Walter Cronkite - Wikipedia  Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916  July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (196281). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so .... A "CBS News Bulletin" bumper slide abruptly broke into the broadcast at...
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Dan Rather to Leave 'CBS Evening News' - ABC News  Nov 23, 2004 ... He and the network began discussing his future during the summer, he said, ... CBS chairman and co-president and co-chief operating officer of CBS ... as anchor of "CBS Evening News" on March 9, 1981, when he took over from ... months after he and CBS News came under fire for a report on "60 Minutes...
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Mike Wallace, Hugh Downs: Game Show Hosts  Feb 20, 2003 ... ABC News anchor John Daly and his NBC counterpart, John ... were not the only news personalities of the 1950s and '60s to be associated with game shows. ... He and Barbara Walters were teamed as co-hosts on that show for the last ... Mike Wallace has been a fixture on CBS's 60 Minutes since 1968.
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J! Archive - Show #3642, aired 2000-06-06  The poster for this Rita Hayworth classic is seen here: ... In 2000 this multi-sport announcer seen here moved to CBS after 25 years at NBC:...
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Hello and Goodbye - CBS News  Jan 30, 2009 ... Charles Kuralt Turns Over Hosting Duties To Charles Osgood. ... CBS News veteran Charles Kuralt turned over his Sunday Morning hosting duties to Charles ... A real honor to succeed you, not replace you, on this broadcast.
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Journalist Shana Alexander Dead - CBS News  Jun 24, 2005 ... ... with conservative James J. Kilpatrick on CBS' "60 Minutes" were so popular they ... with Kilpatrick at the end of each "60 Minutes" broadcast in the late 1970s. ... in television journalism, when women were few and far between," the show's ... CBS News Battleground Tracker poll: Who won final debate?
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Harold Dow, Veteran CBS News Correspondent, Dies - CBS News  Aug 21, 2010 ... CBS News  CBS Evening News  CBS This Morning  48 Hours  60 Minutes  Sunday ... Longtime CBS News Correspondent Harold Dow died suddenly ... for the CBS News magazine "Street Stories" (1992-93) and reported for the ... where he served as co-anchor and talk-show host for KETV Omaha.