What a professional! What a voice! He came from an era where you had to have a QUALITY voice.....nothing like to news babes and air heads that claim to be journalists. Edwards was bumped off the CBS Evening news by Cronkite....what a huge BLUNDER by CBS...and yet Edwards continued on with CBS. Douglas Edwards was the symbol of what a newscaster should do...REPORT THE DAMN NEWS and leave the liberal bias out!!
How great it was for us of a certain age to have such great, honest and true journalists to deliver the news to us. I can think of nothing I trusted more than watching Newsbreak in the afternoons at 3:00 and hearing Douglas Edwards say "Good Afternoon I'm Douglas Edwards and this is Newsbreak". When I see these hacks and comediens, Olberman, Mathews, Hannity, and Beck its enough to make you sick..RIP Mr Edwards and Well Done..
The line on Edwards was he hung in so long he went from being a joke (doing fill-in work his successors would have sniffed at) to becoming an institution (doing fill-in work his successors would have sniffed at). As someone from NBC said: "Our guy (John Cameron Swayze) wound up selling watches. At least your guy (Doug E.) finished up with class."
According to an airing in September 2009 (after the Guiding Light finale) of CBS Newsbreak, Katie Couric said that one was the last one. I don't know if NBC does them anymore and if so, when they stopped. NBC only has Days left during the day to air a newsbreak afterward so I would guess they stopped long before they whittled their daytime down to 1 show. [[ :- ( AW, loved and still missed :-( ]]
@ProgMetalLover Neither CBS nor NBC has newsbreaks anymore. CBS aired it's last newsbreak on September 18, 2009, which happened to air at the end of the final episode of Guiding Light. ABC airs the one remaining network newsbreak, which airs each weekday between One Life to Live and General Hospital.
A real gentlemen! something we do not see on TV News today except perhaps Brian Williams who is about the only real newsmen left on TV. Bravo Mr Edwards and well done!
Walter Cronkite was a great newsman and deserves his "props". But it was Douglas Edwards who proceeded him in the anchor chair at CBS, and really invented and introduced the job of tv anchor. Edwards was a class act all the way, first as a gentleman, then as a professional newsman. He actually was with CBS longer than Walter, retiring on April 1, 1988.
Walter Cronkite died tonight. He will be mourned and missed, but let no one forget Douglas Edwards and the others at CBS in the 1950s who helped pave the way for and bolster Cronkite's credibility. What a voice Edwards had! Really miss these great journalists.
This is lovely....I'd heard of Mr. Edwards for years, mainly in conjunction with the first ever videotaped news broadcast (1956), but assumed he'd retired years ago, and therefore never saw him- until this clip. (I didn't even know what he looked like.) Thank you so much for another time capsule- video of the news anchor who preceded Walter Cronkite.
Yesterday I sat down in five hotels writing about GOD,LOVE & WORLD PEACE in 11 languages & handing my works over to 10 glorious individuals representing 7 nations.
4 of them were in the investment sector & adore my partners Albert Arnold Gore Jr (Al Gore) & Sir Richard Branson. Google those names with World Peace.
I shall continue for PEACE is what most of the world desires.
I enjoy Manhattan for its diversity & being wired to the internet & google.
THAT is some tight news editing, like it isn't done anymore. And some strange advertising, like they don't make anymore, good thing. Jerusalem is still confused, but at least Ed Meese has vanished from the public conscience. Contras? Just take Doans.
Yes, "DOUGLAS EDWARDS WITH THE NEWS" (for Oldsmobile, at the time) was the first nightly network newscast to be videotaped on a regular basis, beginning in November 1956. This eventually became an advantage for those CBS affiliates who didn't want to carry the live 6:45pm(et) "feed", preferring to take the 7:15pm edition [including New York's WCBS-TV], because they wanted to expand their own local newscasts between 6:30 and 7pm. Doug's newscast was just 15 minutes...
His newscast was the first national tv show to be aired on that new phenomenen known as "videotape". Oldsmobile was the sponsor ("a rocket for every pocket"). Circa October, 1956.
In college I did a survey for Journalism class, asking foreign students to listen to recordings of the evening news to see which anchor or reporter they all could follow best. His voice, accent , rhythm and vocabulary. Nine out of ten chose Douglas Edwards. They all liked his style and dignity , no matter their nationality or first language! That is quite a tribute to a good newsman.
Edwards was nearly 10 years younger than Murrow and was never one of "Murrow's Boys" in Europe. He came to CBS in 1942 after working at WXYZ in Detroit, where Mike Wallace was also on the announcing staff. Edwards was primarily in CBS' New York studios and was not given an opportunity to report from Europe until the war was nearly over.
The TV job was offered to Edwards because, during the late '40s, Murrow and the like considered the new medium a novelty that was not worthy of their efforts. Edwards was the first television news "anchor" (a term coined by his producer Don Hewitt) and his style set the standard for those who followed, including Walter Cronkite.
Evidence of what a class act Douglas Edwards was: Upon learning that Walter Cronkite was going to succeed him as anchor of CBS' nightly newscast, Edwards went straight to Cronkite's office, extended his hand and said, "No hard feelings". A true gentleman.
Every Edwards newscast we have on Youtube, Reagan is "on a California vacation"! Ha. I am a senior TV journalism major, and everyone thinks I sound like Cronkite, but its actually Edwards who I have tried to mold myself after (of course, they dont know who he is).
Not only that, '10', WCBS-AM in New York allowed "THE WORLD TONIGHT" to run the entire 15 minutes that night, instead of usually cutting it off at the 10 minute mark {Edwards' usual outcue to cut away around 6:10pm- "Wall Street, on this 'World Tonight'"..}, since he was saying farewell to the broadcast at 6:13(et). Today, it is indeed "CBS WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP- LATE EDITION" at 7pm(et), for 10 minutes.
I remember as a child Mr. Edwards anchoring the midday Newsbreak when it was called the "CBS Midday News." I enjoyed his sign-off: "That's the news....good day from New York." To think that two decades later I work in the CBS Radio newsroom, and have filled in from time to time as producer of the evening radio broadcast Edwards used to anchor.
When Edwards began his nightly 15 minute newscast in 1948, it was known as "CBS TELEVISION NEWS". By the early '50s, it was "DOUGLAS EDWARDS WITH THE NEWS", and it remained that way until Crokite succeeded ihim in April 1962. That evening [4/1/88] was also Doug's final CBS radio broadcast on "THE WORLD TONIGHT"....
Great insight ... thanks. And he was great on "The World Tonight." That's still an excellent radio newscast (though I believe it is now "World News Roundup."
Douglas Edwards was a major reason why CBS was then referred to as "The Tiffany Network." Fortunately, we still have Charles Osgood, Bob Schieffer and "60 Minutes" bringing considerable brilliance to the Eye.
When Edwards heard that he was going to be replaced by Cronkite, he walked into Cronkite's office, shook his hand, congratulated him, and wished him well. Cronkite said it was the classiest thing he'd ever seen.
Great clip. Douglas Edwards anchored the CBS news (it was not officially called the "Evening News" until later) from August 1948 to April 1962. When CBS summarily removed him from the evening news, angry letters and telegrams poured into the network and ratings dropped.
He intended to write his memoirs after he retired but could not complete them before he died.
What a professional! What a voice! He came from an era where you had to have a QUALITY voice.....nothing like to news babes and air heads that claim to be journalists. Edwards was bumped off the CBS Evening news by Cronkite....what a huge BLUNDER by CBS...and yet Edwards continued on with CBS. Douglas Edwards was the symbol of what a newscaster should do...REPORT THE DAMN NEWS and leave the liberal bias out!!
RomualdOgaard 1 year ago 2
How great it was for us of a certain age to have such great, honest and true journalists to deliver the news to us. I can think of nothing I trusted more than watching Newsbreak in the afternoons at 3:00 and hearing Douglas Edwards say "Good Afternoon I'm Douglas Edwards and this is Newsbreak". When I see these hacks and comediens, Olberman, Mathews, Hannity, and Beck its enough to make you sick..RIP Mr Edwards and Well Done..
myboylollipop09 1 year ago
Hell, I wont miss Cronkite. He was a marxist.
oldies5161 1 year ago
I miss him to this date. One of the best ever.
giantsfan711 1 year ago
The line on Edwards was he hung in so long he went from being a joke (doing fill-in work his successors would have sniffed at) to becoming an institution (doing fill-in work his successors would have sniffed at). As someone from NBC said: "Our guy (John Cameron Swayze) wound up selling watches. At least your guy (Doug E.) finished up with class."
slokes1 1 year ago
Do either CBS or NBC have Newsbreaks anymore? If not, when did they discontinue them?
ProgMetalLover 2 years ago
According to an airing in September 2009 (after the Guiding Light finale) of CBS Newsbreak, Katie Couric said that one was the last one. I don't know if NBC does them anymore and if so, when they stopped. NBC only has Days left during the day to air a newsbreak afterward so I would guess they stopped long before they whittled their daytime down to 1 show. [[ :- ( AW, loved and still missed :-( ]]
awtribute 1 year ago
@ProgMetalLover Neither CBS nor NBC has newsbreaks anymore. CBS aired it's last newsbreak on September 18, 2009, which happened to air at the end of the final episode of Guiding Light. ABC airs the one remaining network newsbreak, which airs each weekday between One Life to Live and General Hospital.
sonoca12 1 year ago
A real gentlemen! something we do not see on TV News today except perhaps Brian Williams who is about the only real newsmen left on TV. Bravo Mr Edwards and well done!
myboylollipop09 2 years ago 2
A true legend.
CadillacL 2 years ago 3
Another true vetrain of radio & tv news long gone!
(Crying) Goodbye Doug!
143AC 2 years ago 3
He was a true pro. One of the many superb voices and faces of the glory days of network news. An era sadly that has passed us forever.
nakamichiguy 2 years ago 5
@nakamichiguy Absolutely right. Smooth and simple, without trying too hard. I miss Lem (I forget his last name) as well.
These CBS Newsbreaks are fun to look back on. :)
GreenGreenMauvePink 2 years ago
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MrTjbv 2 years ago
Walter Cronkite was a great newsman and deserves his "props". But it was Douglas Edwards who proceeded him in the anchor chair at CBS, and really invented and introduced the job of tv anchor. Edwards was a class act all the way, first as a gentleman, then as a professional newsman. He actually was with CBS longer than Walter, retiring on April 1, 1988.
rcmd444 2 years ago 9
Walter Cronkite died tonight. He will be mourned and missed, but let no one forget Douglas Edwards and the others at CBS in the 1950s who helped pave the way for and bolster Cronkite's credibility. What a voice Edwards had! Really miss these great journalists.
mac231208 2 years ago 12
One of brodcasting's great voices. My parents named me after him!
dowdy057 2 years ago 8
Back in the glory days of CBS, NBC & ABC news.
I can remember my dad watching Douglas Edwards, Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, etc.
Journalism today sucks. I miss the good old days...
banther1972 2 years ago 17
@banther1972 I know u put etc. but there r so many more! Rather, Schieffer, Mudd, Brinkley, Huntley, Chancellor just 2 name a few.
bWildcat1 1 year ago
Douglas Edwards, the pride of Ada, Oklahoma.
Juliaflo 2 years ago 4
One of his catchphrases in the late 40s was "Today's News Today" and my Father would say: That's too soon!
tomaskzzz 2 years ago
This is lovely....I'd heard of Mr. Edwards for years, mainly in conjunction with the first ever videotaped news broadcast (1956), but assumed he'd retired years ago, and therefore never saw him- until this clip. (I didn't even know what he looked like.) Thank you so much for another time capsule- video of the news anchor who preceded Walter Cronkite.
mca1218 2 years ago 4
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To the WORLD
Yesterday I sat down in five hotels writing about GOD,LOVE & WORLD PEACE in 11 languages & handing my works over to 10 glorious individuals representing 7 nations.
4 of them were in the investment sector & adore my partners Albert Arnold Gore Jr (Al Gore) & Sir Richard Branson. Google those names with World Peace.
I shall continue for PEACE is what most of the world desires.
I enjoy Manhattan for its diversity & being wired to the internet & google.
Jante Degaul
LoveAmericaStyle 3 years ago
He was one of the very best. No slur to any of today's crop, but men like him and Cronkite truly set the benchmark.
johnorydupont 3 years ago 5
THAT is some tight news editing, like it isn't done anymore. And some strange advertising, like they don't make anymore, good thing. Jerusalem is still confused, but at least Ed Meese has vanished from the public conscience. Contras? Just take Doans.
RIP Mr. Edwards, father of my stepmother.
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slamiam 3 years ago 3
How do you follow an act like that...?
I recall back in my morning-TV watching days, when Mr. Edwards co-anchored the CBS Morning News back in '87, impressed by his legacy.
noahf67 3 years ago
Why was this his last report?????
moviedudeinc 3 years ago
He retired.
10TVMan 3 years ago
He was retiring this was his last broadcast on April 1,1988
Douglas Edwards died im 1990
noaanhc 3 years ago
His last report is NOT an April Fools' joke, it was the real deal. He would die two years later in 1990.
SailorCallie 3 years ago
Yes, "DOUGLAS EDWARDS WITH THE NEWS" (for Oldsmobile, at the time) was the first nightly network newscast to be videotaped on a regular basis, beginning in November 1956. This eventually became an advantage for those CBS affiliates who didn't want to carry the live 6:45pm(et) "feed", preferring to take the 7:15pm edition [including New York's WCBS-TV], because they wanted to expand their own local newscasts between 6:30 and 7pm. Doug's newscast was just 15 minutes...
fromthesidelines 3 years ago 2
I met Douglas Edwards in 1987 at WMT's 65th Party. First class gentlemen. Miss you Doug.
IowaRocker1 3 years ago 2
His newscast was the first national tv show to be aired on that new phenomenen known as "videotape". Oldsmobile was the sponsor ("a rocket for every pocket"). Circa October, 1956.
MIKEPREAMP 3 years ago 2
I need an editor. Please forgive the fragment.
nomadnametab 3 years ago
In college I did a survey for Journalism class, asking foreign students to listen to recordings of the evening news to see which anchor or reporter they all could follow best. His voice, accent , rhythm and vocabulary. Nine out of ten chose Douglas Edwards. They all liked his style and dignity , no matter their nationality or first language! That is quite a tribute to a good newsman.
nomadnametab 3 years ago 4
Was he part of the Edward R. Murrow generation?
SEATTLEGRL1 3 years ago
Yes. Douglas Edwards was the original anchor of CBS Evening News before Walter Cronkite.
kxx46 3 years ago 3
Edwards was nearly 10 years younger than Murrow and was never one of "Murrow's Boys" in Europe. He came to CBS in 1942 after working at WXYZ in Detroit, where Mike Wallace was also on the announcing staff. Edwards was primarily in CBS' New York studios and was not given an opportunity to report from Europe until the war was nearly over.
tkaye2 3 years ago
The TV job was offered to Edwards because, during the late '40s, Murrow and the like considered the new medium a novelty that was not worthy of their efforts. Edwards was the first television news "anchor" (a term coined by his producer Don Hewitt) and his style set the standard for those who followed, including Walter Cronkite.
tkaye2 3 years ago
No,Doug, "thank you" for your beautiful voice bringing into our living rooms the evening news. No one has ever done it better since.
LordofDublin4 3 years ago 5
Evidence of what a class act Douglas Edwards was: Upon learning that Walter Cronkite was going to succeed him as anchor of CBS' nightly newscast, Edwards went straight to Cronkite's office, extended his hand and said, "No hard feelings". A true gentleman.
GoodsonTodman 4 years ago 5
Every Edwards newscast we have on Youtube, Reagan is "on a California vacation"! Ha. I am a senior TV journalism major, and everyone thinks I sound like Cronkite, but its actually Edwards who I have tried to mold myself after (of course, they dont know who he is).
j0sh177 4 years ago
Not only that, '10', WCBS-AM in New York allowed "THE WORLD TONIGHT" to run the entire 15 minutes that night, instead of usually cutting it off at the 10 minute mark {Edwards' usual outcue to cut away around 6:10pm- "Wall Street, on this 'World Tonight'"..}, since he was saying farewell to the broadcast at 6:13(et). Today, it is indeed "CBS WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP- LATE EDITION" at 7pm(et), for 10 minutes.
fromthesidelines 4 years ago 2
I remember as a child Mr. Edwards anchoring the midday Newsbreak when it was called the "CBS Midday News." I enjoyed his sign-off: "That's the news....good day from New York." To think that two decades later I work in the CBS Radio newsroom, and have filled in from time to time as producer of the evening radio broadcast Edwards used to anchor.
davemock 4 years ago 2
When Edwards began his nightly 15 minute newscast in 1948, it was known as "CBS TELEVISION NEWS". By the early '50s, it was "DOUGLAS EDWARDS WITH THE NEWS", and it remained that way until Crokite succeeded ihim in April 1962. That evening [4/1/88] was also Doug's final CBS radio broadcast on "THE WORLD TONIGHT"....
fromthesidelines 4 years ago 5
Great insight ... thanks. And he was great on "The World Tonight." That's still an excellent radio newscast (though I believe it is now "World News Roundup."
10TVMan 4 years ago
Long live Douglass.
dcat918 4 years ago
Douglas Edwards was a major reason why CBS was then referred to as "The Tiffany Network." Fortunately, we still have Charles Osgood, Bob Schieffer and "60 Minutes" bringing considerable brilliance to the Eye.
PhiloPharnsworth 4 years ago 3
A classy way to go out for The Man Who Came First. No April Fool's prank, here...
Godspeed, Doug. :-|
AarHan3 4 years ago
WAAHH wheres the cbs id?
corrupt200 4 years ago
"THIS IS CBS" ... there it is.
10TVMan 4 years ago
When Edwards heard that he was going to be replaced by Cronkite, he walked into Cronkite's office, shook his hand, congratulated him, and wished him well. Cronkite said it was the classiest thing he'd ever seen.
btm85bubs 4 years ago 5
Great clip. Douglas Edwards anchored the CBS news (it was not officially called the "Evening News" until later) from August 1948 to April 1962. When CBS summarily removed him from the evening news, angry letters and telegrams poured into the network and ratings dropped.
He intended to write his memoirs after he retired but could not complete them before he died.
btm85bubs 4 years ago