Who replaced Douglas Edwards as anchor of the CBS evening news?
Douglas Edwards (July 14, 1917 — October 13, 1990) was America’s first network news television anchor, anchoring CBS’s first nightly news broadcast from 1948-1962, which was later to be titled CBS Evening News. Early life and career Edwards joined CBS Radio in 1942, eventually becoming anchor for the regular evening newscast The World Today as well as World News Today on Sunday afternoons. Edwards came to CBS after stints as a newscaster and announcer at WSB in Atlanta, Georgia and WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan. As anchorman of Douglas Edwards with the News (The CBS Evening News) In 1948, as CBS’s top correspondents and commentators shunned the fledgling medium of television, Edwards was chosen to present regular CBS television news programs and to host CBS’s television coverage of the 1948 Democratic and Republican conventions. The term “anchor” would not be used until 1952, when CBS News chief Sig Mikelson would use it to describe Walter Cronkite’s role in the network’s political convent
Douglas Edwards (July 14, 1917 — October 13, 1990) was America’s first network news television anchor, anchoring CBS’s first nightly news broadcast from 1948-1962, which was later to be titled CBS Evening News. Among the events Edwards covered as a reporter in those years were the Miss America Pageant (five times), the attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman in November 1950, and the coronation of Elizabeth II in June 1953. He also received wide praise for his coverage, on both camera and radio, of the sinking of the SS Andrea Doria in July 1956. But by the end of the decade, viewership levels for the Edwards broadcast weakened severely as the Huntley-Brinkley Report began to attract a larger audience. By 1962, Edwards was replaced by Walter Cronkite, and the newscast’s name was eventually changed to CBS Evening News. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
