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Pages in category "1960s American television news shows" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Lowell Thomas hosted the first-ever, regularly scheduled news broadcast on American television in March 1940; it was a simulcast of his nightly 6:45 PM NBC network radio newscast, with the television broadcast seen only in New York City over what was then experimental TV station W2XBS. [1] The television simulcast lasted for only a few months.
On an exclusive basis for $60,000, CBS broadcasts coverage of the 1960 Winter Olympics from Squaw Valley, in Placer County, California, making these games the first Winter Olympics to be broadcast in the U.S. Hosted by future CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite, the coverage provided 31 hours of coverage over 11 days, including a healthy ...
In some areas, Douglas Edwards with the News and The Huntley-Brinkley Report aired at 6:45 p.m. Peter Gunn moved from NBC to ABC in the fall of 1960. The episodes of Brenner that ran on CBS in the summer of 1961 consisted of two previously unaired episodes produced in 1959 and reruns of episodes broadcast during the summer of 1959.
Chet Huntley (right) at NBC News' New York headquarters and David Brinkley on screen in Washington, D.C., June 1963.. The Huntley–Brinkley Report (sometimes known as The Texaco Huntley–Brinkley Report for one of its early sponsors) is an American television program broadcast by NBC.
Coincidentally, many local CBS affiliates adopted the branding "Eyewitness News" for their local newscasts in the 1960s. [citation needed] Leslie Midgley and John Sharnik were the producers. [2] One of the show's producers, Av Westin, went on to become executive producer of ABC Evening News and, later, 20/20. [citation needed]
September 11 – Series Danger Man premieres on ITV in UK; broadcast also by CBS in USA (1960–1961, 1964–1966). September 17 – Series Checkmate premieres on CBS ( 1960 –1962). September 18 – Series The Tab Hunter Show premieres on NBC ( 1960 –1961).
Theaters started demanding payment for broadcasting of their plays, and by the end of 1960s the frequency of theatrical shows fell to one show a week. [58] Because the State Committee for Cinematography would hold freshly released movies from television broadcast, television studios started producing their own made-for-TV movies