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David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.. From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top-rated nightly news program, The Huntley–Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley and thereafter appeared as co-anchor or commentator on its successor, NBC Nightly News, through the 1970s.
Television news anchor and reporter for WKRC-TV [73] Robyn Bernard: 64 Actress (General Hospital). She made guest appearances in Whiz Kids, Simon & Simon, The Facts of Life and others. [74] March 13 Gerald M. Levin: 84 Former CEO. Appeared himself in 60 Minutes and The 2000s. [75] Bill Jorgensen: 96 Television news anchor for WNYW [76] Dan ...
NBC News executives were seeking to counter the growing popularity of CBS' Walter Cronkite, who had been a ratings success at the 1952 conventions. They decided to replace their current news anchor, John Cameron Swayze, but there was a disagreement on who the new anchorman should be. The two leading contenders were Huntley and David Brinkley ...
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Fox News’ Neil Cavuto, one of the few anchors whose time at the Fox Corp. owned outlet dates to its 1996 launch, said in late December he was leaving. All these exits take place amid a not-so ...
Huntley and Brinkley concluded their final newscast together on July 31, 1970. Upon Huntley's retirement, the network renamed the program the NBC Nightly News. Huntley died in 1974. Brinkley worked as co-anchor or commentator on Nightly News until 1981 when he departed for ABC News and its new weekly Sunday morning news program This Week. He ...
Charles Kimbrough, a Tony- and Emmy-nominated actor who played a straight-laced news anchor opposite Candice Bergen on “Murphy Brown,” died Jan. 11 in Culver City, California. Kimbrough played ...
Charles Harrison Brown, 82, American politician (U.S. Representative for Missouri's 7th congressional district). [34] John Semple Galbraith, 86, British historian. Hal Gausman, 85, American set decorator. Silvio Pedroni, 85, Italian racing cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team road race at the 1948 Summer Olympics). [35]