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World News Roundup
The ''CBS World News Roundup'' is the longest-running network radio newscast in the United States. It airs weekday mornings and evenings on the CBS Radio Network. It first went on-air on March 13, 1938, at 8 p.m. ET as a one-time special in response to growing tensions in Europe—specifically the Anschluss, during which Adolf Hitler invaded Austria. The early years When the show first went on the air it was hosted by veteran radio personality Robert Trout. The first show gave the world the voices of Edward R. Murrow and William L. Shirer. In fact, it was the first time Murrow had ever delivered a news report. During the early years of the war, Murrow's reports from London and Shirer's reports from Berlin were essential listening to anyone trying to keep informed on events unfolding in Europe. War correspondents, including members of the Murrow Boys, broadcast from around European throughout the war. The program was a 35-minute special report from multiple locations around th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBS Radio Network
CBS News Radio, formerly known as CBS Radio News and historically known as the CBS Radio Network, is a radio network that provides news to more than 1,000 radio stations throughout the United States. The network is owned by Paramount Global. It is the last of the three original national U.S. radio networks (CBS, NBC Radio Network and Mutual Broadcasting System) still operating and still owned by its parent company, even though CBS sold its owned and operated radio stations in 2017. (The current NBC Radio Network is actually owned by iHeartMedia but licenses use of the NBC name and NBC's TV news reports.) CBS News Radio is one of the two national news services distributed by Skyview Networks, which transmits national news, talk, music and special event programs, in addition to local news, weather, video news and other information to radio and television stations, as well as traffic reporting services. Background The network is the second-oldest unit of Paramount Global after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Charles Daly
John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly (February 20, 1914 – February 24, 1991) was an American journalist, host, radio and television personality, ABC News executive, TV anchor, and game show, game show host, best known for his work on the CBS panel game show ''What's My Line?'' Daly was the first national correspondent to report the attack on Pearl Harbor and the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. During World War II, Daly covered front-line news from Europe and North Africa. Early life The younger of two brothers, Daly was born in Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, South Africa, where his American father worked as a geologist. While in Johannesburg, Daly attended Marist Brothers Linmeyer, Marist Brothers College. After his father died of a tropical fever, Daly's mother moved the family to Boston, Massachusetts. At that time, John was 11 years old, and attended the Tilton School where he later served on its board of directors for many years, contributing to the construction or resto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American News Radio Programs
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1938 Radio Programme Debuts
Events January * January 1 ** The new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the authoritarian regime. ** State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Safinaz Zulficar, who becomes Farida of Egypt, Queen Farida, in Cairo. * January 27 – The Honeymoon Bridge (Niagara Falls), Honeymoon Bridge at Niagara Falls, New York, collapses as a result of an ice jam. February * February 4 ** Adolf Hitler abolishes the War Ministry and creates the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces), giving him direct control of the German military. In addition, he dismisses political and military leaders considered unsympathetic to his philosophy or policies. General Werner von Fritsch is forced to resign as Commander of Chief of the German Army following accusations of ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Radio Hall Of Fame
The Radio Hall of Fame, formerly the National Radio Hall of Fame, is an American organization created by the Emerson Radio Corporation in 1988. Three years later, Bruce DuMont, founder, president, and CEO of the Museum of Broadcast Communications, assumed control of the Hall, moved its base of operations to Chicago, and incorporated it into the MBC. It has been described as being dedicated to recognizing those who have contributed to the development of the radio medium throughout its history in the United States. The NRHOF gallery was located on the second floor of the MBC, at 360 N. State Street, from December 2011 until October 2017, when the traveling exhibit "''Saturday Night Live'': The Experience" was installed on the second and fourth floors. In September 2018 the MBC's board of directors was reportedly close to finalizing a deal to sell the museum's third and fourth floors to Fern Hill, a real estate development and investment firm, according to Chicago media blogger Robe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Arenstein
Howard Arenstein (born March 5, 1950) is an American news correspondent for CBS Radio and the radio bureau manager for CBS News in Washington, D.C. Early life and education Arenstein earned an undergraduate degree from State University of New York at Buffalo and then earned a master's degree in 1974 from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Professional career From 1974 until 1981, Arenstein resided in Israel, working as a reporter for The Jerusalem Post newspaper and for Israeli Radio. In 1978, Arenstein was hired by United Press International as the wire service's Jerusalem bureau chief and as an editor on UPI's foreign desk in New York and Washington. In 1984, Arenstein joined CBS News as a writer on the overnight CBS News television broadcast CBS News Nightwatch. In 1987, he began working for CBS Radio. During his time at CBS News, Arenstein has covered the impeachment process of President Clinton, the disputed United States presidential ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Raviv
Dan Raviv (born 1954) is an American journalist. Career Raviv is the senior Washington correspondent for i24 News, headquartered in Tel Aviv and New York. Previously he was with CBS News as their national correspondent and was heard regularly on the CBS Radio Network. He had also done TV reports from Washington, D.C. on the ''CBS Evening News,'' and he narrated the 1997-98 revival of the CBS TV news shorts series for children ''In the News''. Up until January 21, 2017, Raviv was host of a weekly radio magazine show, the ''CBS News Weekend Roundup''. A New York City native and graduate of Harvard, Raviv joined CBS at its all-news radio station in Boston ( WEEI) in 1974, moving to WCBS Newsradio in New York in 1976, then to the network radio newsdesk in New York. The start of his on-air career was his assignment in the Tel Aviv bureau, from 1978 to 1980, followed by twelve years as radio correspondent in the London bureau. There, he began making occasional appearances on CBS T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBS News Weekend Roundup
The ''CBS News Weekend Roundup'' is a weekly news show that airs on CBS News Radio, designed for a one-hour time slot, though it has an actual length without commercials of about forty minutes. It reviews the previous week's news and provides insights on possible future developments in the United States and the world. The show, produced Friday afternoons, also airs on CBS News Radio Network affiliate, affiliates on Saturdays and Sundays. It includes interviews with CBS News radio and TV correspondents and various newsmakers, compilations of reports through the week that have aired both on CBS-TV and CBS News Radio, as well as commentary from actor and TV personality Charles Grodin. In addition, an ad-free podcast of the entire program has been available from CBS News since early 2006, which is first distributed Friday afternoon. During breaking news events on Fridays and Saturdays the program is updated to affiliate stations which have not aired the program yet to provide the updat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Whitney
Willard "Bill" Whitney is an American broadcast journalist. He is best known for his work as an anchor and correspondent for the CBS Radio Network, where he hosted the evening edition of the ''World News Roundup''. Early career Before joining CBS News, Whitney, who began his career in broadcasting at the age of 17, worked his way up through the ranks at a variety of local radio stations including WKEN in Dover, Delaware; WGSM in Huntington, New York; WLIX in Islip, New York; and WGBB in Freeport, New York. From 1979 to 1982, Whitney worked as anchor/news director at WCBS-FM in New York City. He began his employ with the national CBS Radio unit in the early 1980s as one of the original anchors for CBS' young-adult oriented news service, RadioRadio. CBS News Whitney moved full-time to the main CBS Radio Network in 1984. During that time he filled in for Charles Osgood on ''The Osgood File'' and did commentaries under the ''Sidebar'' title. He covered a number of major news stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. It produces news reports that are distributed to its members, U.S. newspapers and broadcasters. The AP has earned 56 Pulitzer Prizes, including 34 for photography, since the award was established in 1917. It is also known for publishing the widely used '' AP Stylebook''. By 2016, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters, English, Spanish, and Arabic. The AP operates 248 news bureaus in 99 countries. It also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides newscasts twice hourly for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributing members of the cooperative. As part of their cooperative agreement with the AP, most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Edwards
Douglas Edwards (July 14, 1917 – October 13, 1990) was an American radio and television newscaster and correspondent who worked for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) for more than four decades. After six years on CBS Radio in the 1940s, Edwards was among the first major broadcast journalists to move into the rapidly expanding medium of television. He is also generally recognized as the first presenter or "anchor" of a nationally televised, regularly scheduled newscast by an American network. Edwards presented news on CBS television every weeknight for 15 years, from March 20, 1947 until April 16, 1962."Celebrating Douglas Edwards, a CBS legend" CBS News (Manhattan, New York), July 13, 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2021. Initially aire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas Townsend
Dallas Selwyn Townsend Jr. (January 17, 1919 - June 1, 1995) was an American broadcast journalist who worked for CBS Radio and television for over 40 years. An award jury at Columbia University said of Townsend, "No other newsman of our day has had a broader acquaintance with news nor communicated it with more economy and precision." Early career Born in New York City and raised in New Jersey, Townsend was the son of Dallas Townsend Sr., an attorney who once was assistant attorney general of the United States. He attended Montclair Kimberley Academy, graduating in the class of 1936. He graduated from Princeton University in 1940 and the Columbia School of Journalism. He worked as a news editor at WQXR in New York City before he went to work at CBS.DeLong, Thomas A. (1996). ''Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . Page 265. After working briefly for CBS as an editor in New York City he served in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
