Douglas Edwards' Final CBS Broadcast

Veteran CBS Broadcaster Douglas Edwards anchored his last newscast on Friday, April 1, 1988, a two minute newsbreak. He joined CBS Radio in 1942 and anchored the CBS Evening News on TV before Walter Cronkite. He died in 1990 at age 73.

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[moviedudeinc]

Why was this his last report?????

[10TVMan]

He retired.

[fromthesidelines]

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"....

[10TVMan]

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."

[corrupt200]

WAAHH wheres the cbs id?

[10TVMan]

"THIS IS CBS" ... there it is.

[banther1972]

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...

[mac231208]

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.

[bWildcat1]

@banther1972 I know u put etc. but there r so many more! Rather, Schieffer, Mudd, Brinkley, Huntley, Chancellor just 2 name a few.

[RomualdOgaard]

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!!

[myboylollipop09]

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..

[oldies5161]

Hell, I wont miss Cronkite. He was a marxist.

[giantsfan711]

I miss him to this date. One of the best ever.

[sonoca12]

@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.

[slokes1]

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."

[awtribute]

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]

Do either CBS or NBC have Newsbreaks anymore? If not, when did they discontinue them?

[GreenGreenMauvePink]

@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. :)