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CBS News
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The headquarters of CBS News at the CBS Broadcast Center.
Division of: CBS Broadcasting Inc. (CBS)
Key people: Leslie Moonves
President & CEO
CBS Corporation

Jeff Fager
Chairmen of CBS News[1]

David Rhodes
President of CBS News[2]

Katie Couric
Managing Editor/Evening News Anchor[3]

Russ Mitchell
Managing Editor/Weekend Evening News Anchor[4]
Founded: 1948
Headquarters: New York City, New York, United States
Area served: Worldwide
Broadcast programs: 48 Hours Mystery
60 Minutes
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
CBS News Sunday Morning
The Early Show
Face the Nation
Parent: CBS Corporation
Website: CBSnews.com
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CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes[5]. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main anchor Katie Couric. Other programs include a morning show called, The Early Show, news magazine programs CBS News Sunday Morning, 60 Minutes, & 48 Hours, and Sunday morning political affairs program Face the Nation.

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[edit] Current CBS News broadcasts

"Classic" logo of CBS News, from the 1970s. Still in use as a secondary logo.

[edit] Broadcast history

The information on programs listed in this section came directly from CBS News in interviews with the Vice President of Communications and NewsWatch Dallas.

According to the CBS News Library and source Sandy Genelius (Vice President, CBS News Communications), the "CBS Evening News" was the program title for both Saturday and Sunday evening broadcasts. The program title for the Sunday late night news beginning in 1963 was the "CBS Sunday Night News". These titles were also seen on the intro slide of the program's opening.

[edit] Five minute news program history

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[edit] Saturday afternoon/evening network news history (15 & 30 minute programs)

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[edit] Sunday late afternoon/early evening news history

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[edit] CBS Sunday late news history (all 15 minute programs)

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[edit] Prime time/evening news program history

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[edit] CBS Newspath

CBS Newspath is CBS News' satellite news gathering service (similar to CNN Newsource). CBS Newspath provides national hard news, sports highlights, regional spot news, features and live coverage of major breaking news events for affiliate stations to use in their local news broadcasts. CBS Newspath has a team of domestic and global correspondents and freelance reporters dedicated to reporting for affiliates and offers several different national or international stories fronted by reporters on a daily basis. CBS Newspath also relies heavily on local affiliates sharing content. Stations will often contribute locally-obtained footage that may be of national interest.

Network News Service (NNS) is a pioneering news organization formed by ABC News One, CBS Newspath and Fox News Edge. Launched in June 2000, its subscriber list already includes more than 500 ABC, CBS and Fox affiliates throughout the United States. The three news distributors created NNS to cost-effectively pool resources for developing and delivering second tier news stories and b-roll footage. The goal was to realize cost savings in the creation and distribution of these news images, while news organizations and member TV stations continued to independently develop and deliver their own signature coverage of top news stories.

[edit] CBS Radio Network News

The branch of CBS News that produces newscasts and features to radio stations is CBS Radio News, which airs on the CBS Radio Network. The radio network is the oldest unit of CBS and traced its roots to the company's founding in 1927, and the news division took shape over the following 10 years. The list of CBS News correspondents (below) includes those reporting on CBS Radio News.

CBS Radio News produces the oldest daily news show on radio or television, the CBS World News Roundup (it first aired in 1938 and celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2008), which airs each morning and evening. The morning CBS Radio World News Roundup is anchored by Steve Kathan and produced by Paul Farry. The “late edition” is anchored by Bill Whitney and produced by Greg Armstrong. The evening Roundup, previously known as The World Tonight, has aired in its current form since 1956 and has been anchored by Blair Clark, Douglas Edwards, Dallas Townsend and Christopher Glenn.

The CBS Radio Network provides newscasts at the top of the hour, regular updates at :31 past the hour, the popular Newsfeeds for affiliates (including WCBS and KYW) at :35, and breaking news updates when developments warrant, often at :20 and :50 past the hour. Westwood One handles the distribution.

[edit] Slogans

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Current correspondents

New York World Headquarters

Washington Bureau

Los Angeles Bureau

London Bureau

Chicago

San Francisco

Dallas

Atlanta

Miami

Denver

Beijing

Rome

Kabul

Contributors

CBS Newspath

CBS Radio News

Source: CBS News & NewsWatch Dallas

[edit] Past correspondents

+ - deceased Source: CBS News & NewsWatch Dallas

[edit] Bureaus and offices

(Source: CBS News - Vice President of Communications) Domestic Bureaus & Offices*

Foreign Bureaus & Offices*

(CBS News defines a bureau or office as "a definite physical location with CBS NEWS staff ... not someone's home or space or having a stringer living in a city." CBS Radio News also has Jerusalem and Manila.)

[edit] International broadcasts

CBS Evening News is shown on Sky News to viewers in Europe and Africa.

In Australia, the CBS Evening News bulletin is shown at 11.30am Monday to Saturday, and at 12.30pm on Sundays on Sky News Australia.

In Philippines, CBS Evening News is broadcast via satellite on Q11 (a sister station of GMA Network) at 7:30pm and Replays at 1:00pm after Balitanghali. CBS Evening News broadcasts were stopped on Q11 to make way for a public affairs look-back program (Napa-Strip Or Power Review)

CBS is not shown outside the Americas on a channel in its own right. However, both CBS News is shown for a few hours a day on Orbit News in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. CBS News stories are a common occurrence on Australia's Ten News on Network Ten, as part a CBS programming content deal. They also air The Early Show each weekday as well.

[edit] Controversies

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In 1964, Rep. Jimmy Utt (R-Cal.) filed a libel suit against CBS regarding a CBS Reports "Case History of a Rumor" program. He claimed the defendants had "'entrapped' him into giving a television interview that turned out to be a 'cross examination' by Roger Mudd, who acted as 'prosecutor, judge, and jury.'" The case was dismissed. Utt died in office in 1970 and was succeeded by John G. Schmitz.[6]

In a speech in 1971, Vice-President Spiro Agnew accused CBS News of disseminating "deceptive, self-serving propaganda". He quoted from reports by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Special Subcommittee on Investigations of the House Commerce Committee. These reports mentioned a CBS documentary called "Project Nassau", an effort to depose the François Duvalier regime in Haiti. "The House Subcommittee found that CBS had, in effect, financially subsidized a planned 1966 invasion of Haiti in order to make a documentary on the event." In his deposition, Tom Dunkin, journalist for the Atlanta Journal, said that producer Jay McMullen of CBS told him in November, 1966 that he had "spent a lot of time and money on this project and had nothing to show for it". (In January 1967 the project ended with the arrest of 75 participants.)[7]

Van Gordon Sauter became president of CBS News in 1982 and cut several CBS veterans from the newsroom, working toward a style-over-substance format CBS anchor Walter Cronkite described as infotainment. Cronkite said he felt as if he was being pushed out the door by Van Sauter and his staff, and treated as a "leper."[8]

In a September 1, 2004 CBS news commentary, titled "Vice President Dick Agnew", CBS editorial director Dick Meyer said that Vice President Cheney "drew from a different tradition typified by Spiro Agnew" in a tradition that "uses the hired help to do the political dirty work."[7][9]

See also: Killian Documents

[edit] References

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  6. ^ Mudd, Roger (2008). The Place To Be. New York: PublicAffairs. ISBN 9781586485764. 
  7. ^ a b MIT archives, "TECH", Mar 23, 1971
  8. ^ Cronkite, Walter (1996). A Reporter's Life. New York: A.A. Knopf. p. 358. ISBN 0394578791. 
  9. ^ Hearings before the "Special Subcommittee of Investigations" of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce House of Represtatives, 91st Congress, 1st and 2nd sessions, Serial No. 91-55: U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington

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