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      • Edwards presented news on CBS television every weeknight for 15 years, from March 20, 1947, until April 16, 1962. [ 4 ]
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  2. Douglas Edwards (July 14, 1917October 13, 1990) was an American radio and television newscaster and correspondent who worked for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) for more than four decades.

  3. Jul 13, 2017 · Douglas Edwards, the first anchor of this broadcast, was born 100 years ago, on July 14, 1917 in Ada, Oklahoma. A radio veteran, Edwards was tapped to anchor the first nightly network TV...

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  4. Oct 13, 1990 · SARASOTA, Fla. -- Former CBS newscaster Douglas Edwards, who had been a continuous anchor longer than any other broadcast journalist before retiring in 1988, died Saturday after a two-year...

  5. Oct 14, 1990 · He was 73. The veteran CBS newsman began working for a Troy, Ala., radio station at age 15 and anchored CBS news shows from 1948 until 1988, when he retired because of the bladder cancer that...

  6. Douglas Edwards was born 100 years ago, on July 14, 1917. He was tapped to anchor the first nightly network TV newscast in 1948, put together, he would later say, "with spit, bailing wire and...

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  7. Mar 9, 1988 · On Aug. 15, 1948, CBS News launched ``Douglas Edwards with the News'' on a TV network of six stations: New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Washington.

  8. Sep 2, 2013 · (CBS News) NEW YORK -- On Sept. 2, 1963, what had been, since 1948, a 15-minute broadcast, anchored first by Douglas Edwards and then Walter Cronkite, doubled to 30 minutes overnight.

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