''News and Views'' was an early American evening news program. Broadcast on

ABC ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script known as the alphabet. ABC or abc may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting * American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster ** Disney–ABC Television ...

from 1948 to 1951, it was ABC's first evening news program and one of the first such programs on any television network; Both

CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainmen ...

and

NBC The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an Television in the United States, American English-language Commercial broadcasting, commercial television network, broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Enterta ...

also initiated their evening news programs (respectively '' CBS Television News'' and ''

Camel News Caravan ''The Camel News Caravan'' or ''Camel Caravan of News'' was a 15-minute American television news program aired by NBC News from February 16, 1949 to October 26, 1956. Sponsored by the Camel cigarette brand and anchored by John Cameron Swayze, it ...

'', called ''Camel Newsreel Theatre'' at first) that same year, both debuting a few months before the first broadcast of ''News and Views'' on August 11, 1948. The co-

anchor An anchor is a device, normally made of metal , used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin ''ancora'', which itself comes from the Greek ἄγ ...

s (not called that, as that meaning of "anchor" was not yet extant) were

H. R. Baukhage Hilmar Robert Baukhage (January 7, 1889 – January 31, 1976) was an American journalist and broadcaster. He was known to the public only as H. R. Baukhage or just Baukhage. Early life and news career Baukhage was born on January 7, 1889, in LaSal ...

and Jim Gibbons. Baukhage was a veteran radio broadcaster whose staccato baritone and gruff and abrupt sign-on, "Baukhage talking", was familiar to radio listeners of that era. Jim Gibbons was less well known. Typical of evening television news programs of the era, it ran for fifteen minutes. Its successor was ''

After the Deadlines ''After The Deadlines'' was an American evening news program of the early 1950s. It was broadcast on the ABC network from April 1951 to October 1952. Typical of evening television news programs of the era, it lasted fifteen minutes. ''After the De ...

'' and, ultimately, ''

ABC World News Tonight ''ABC World News Tonight'' (titled ''ABC World News Tonight with David Muir'' for its weeknight broadcasts since September 2014) is the flagship daily evening news broadcasting#television, television news program of ABC News, the news division ...

'', as seen in this list: ;ABC evening news programs *''News and Views'' (August 11, 1948 – March 30, 1951) *''After the Deadlines'' (April 2, 1951 – October 3, 1952) *''All-Star News'' (October 6, 1952 – January 2, 1953) *(No weekday evening news broadcast, January 5, 1953 – October 9, 1953) *'' John Daly and the News'' (October 12, 1953 – September 12, 1958) *''ABC News'' (September 15, 1958 – May 8, 1959) *''John Daly and the News'' (May 11, 1959 – December 16, 1960) *''ABC World News Tonight'' (December 19, 1960 – present ())

References

Notes

{{reflist, group=note ABC News American Broadcasting Company original programming 1948 American television series debuts 1951 American television series endings 1940s American television news shows 1950s American television news shows Black-and-white American television shows English-language television shows Television news program articles using incorrect naming style