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By the late 1950s network era, as television began reaching larger portions of rural America, [29] their viewing habits began to be reflected in overall television ratings. Sylvester "Pat" Weaver was fired in 1956 after his strategy of programming highbrow "spectacular" productions once a month on NBC proved to be a ratings failure against more ...
From the 1950s to the 1980s, during the network era of American television, there were three commercial broadcast television networks – NBC (the National Broadcasting Company, "the Peacock Network"), CBS (the Columbia Broadcasting System, "the Eye Network"), ABC (the American Broadcasting Company, "the Alphabet Network") – that due to their longevity and ratings success are informally ...
Edwards presented news on CBS television every weeknight for 15 years, from March 20, 1947, until April 16, 1962. [4] Initially aired as a 15-minute program under the title CBS Television News , the broadcast evolved into the CBS Evening News and in 1963 expanded to a 30-minute format under Walter Cronkite , who succeeded Edwards as anchor of ...
Jay Leno (born 1950) Host of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from 1992 to 2009 and 2010 to 2014. David Letterman (born 1947) Former host Late Night with David Letterman 1982–1993; later joined CBS. Conan O'Brien (born 1963) Hosted Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993 to 2009, signed on to host The Tonight Show starting June 2009. later ...
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Walters joined ABC News in 1976, becoming the first female anchor on an evening news program. In a career that spanned five decades, Walters won 12 Emmy awards, 11 of those while at ABC News.
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Enrique Gratas (deceased), Estrella TV, formerly Univisión; David Gregory, NBC News; Roger Grimsby (deceased) formerly of WABC-TV, KGO-TV and WNBC; Bryant Gumbel, former anchor of NBC's Today and CBS' The Early Show; Savannah Guthrie, current co-anchor of NBC's Today; Tamron Hall, formerly of NBC's Today, NBC News and MSNBC