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Many of Edwards' early CBS radio and televised newscasts are preserved, including his World War II anchoring of World News Today, broadcasts on D-Day, and his coverage of the sinking of the Andrea Doria, all of which serve as important historical records of that period and of those events.
Jul 13, 2017 · Douglas Edwards was tapped to anchor the first nightly network TV newscast, in 1948 -- put together, he would later say, "with spit, bailing wire and high spirits"
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Jul 26, 2009 · Douglas Edwards was the anchorman of CBS' evening news broadcasts for 14 years. He was, in fact, network television's first anchorman; his broadcast -- "Douglas Edwards with the News,"...
At 9AM eastern war time, CBS World News signed on with Douglas Edwards reporting. On D-Day Edwards was twenty-six years old. He’d been hired in 1942 by CBS as a reporter and understudy for John Daly.
Douglas Edwards with the News. On May 3, 1948 Douglas Edwards begins "The CBS-TV News," a regular 15-minute nightly newscast later named "Douglas Edwards with the News." It is broadcast weeknights at 7:30 PM and is the first regularly scheduled television news program in American history.
A CBS newsman from 1942 to 1988, Douglas Edwards was a war-time correspondent on The World Today during World War II and anchored The World Tonight on CBS Radio for 22 years. Edwards was born on July 14, 1917 in Ada, Oklahoma.
