CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963.
The CBS Evening News is currently anchored on weekdays by Katie Couric, on Saturdays by Jeff Glor, and on Sundays by Russ Mitchell. It is broadcast from the CBS Broadcast Center at 524 West 57 Street in New York City.
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CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963.
The CBS Evening News is currently anchored on weekdays by Katie Couric, on Saturdays by Jeff Glor, and on Sundays by Russ Mitchell. It is broadcast from the CBS Broadcast Center at 524 West 57 Street in New York City.
CBS began broadcasting news shows on Saturday nights, expanding to two nights a week in 1947. On May 3, 1948 Douglas Edwards began The CBS-TV News, a regular 15-minute nightly newscast. It aired every weeknight at 7:30 PM ET/6:30PM CT, and was the first regularly-scheduled television news program. The week's news stories were recapped Sunday night with Newsweek in Review. The name was later shortened to Week in Review and the show was moved to Saturday.
In 1950, the name of the nightly news was changed to Douglas Edwards with The News. When in 1951 it became the...
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