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At 5:58 a.m ET, the channel began playing an old style Indian Head test card, and started playing Edward R. Murrow's "Wires and Lights in a Box" speech, talking about how television can help people learn, but only if they accept it. Midway through the speech, in the bottom right, a message said:
Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) [1] was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent.He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS.
See It Now is an American newsmagazine and documentary series broadcast by CBS from 1951 to 1958. It was created by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, with Murrow as the host of the show.
In the 2005 film, David Strathairn played Murrow, while Clooney acted opposite him as Fred W. Friendly, co-producer of Murrow's See It Now program. Both the film and the play take their title from ...
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946 – Present by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh (Ballantine Books, New York, 1995) Radio Drama: American Programs 1932–1962 by Martin Grams (McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, North Carolina, 2000)
Harvest of Shame was a 1960 television documentary presented by broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow on CBS that showed the plight of American migrant agricultural workers.It was Murrow's final documentary for the network; he left CBS at the end of January 1961, at John F. Kennedy's request, to become head of the United States Information Agency.
The show began on August 24, 1940 when CBS News Chief Paul White and CBS European Events Director Edward R. Murrow began to arrange the show by cable and short wave conference. Murrow lined up nine commentators from America, Britain and Canada, with the help of the BBC and the CBC, and set them up all over London with microphones.
A collaboration between Murrow and Friendly, it interwove historical events with speeches and Murrow's narration and marked the beginning of one of the most famous pairings in journalism history. The huge success of the record (and two follow-up albums released in 1949 and 1950) prompted the pair to parlay it into a weekly radio show for CBS ...