Carlos Granda Carlos Granda Carlos Granda is a reporter for KABC-TV News in Los Angeles. Carlos Granda holds a Bachelor's degree in Mass Communications and Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Florida. He became interested in journalism after watching Walter Cronkite on the news. When he was a child, Carlos Granda was impressed by how articulate and poised Walter Cronkite was. Granda began his career in television news at WINK-TV, the CBS affiliate in Fort Myers, Florida where he joined as an associate producer. Later he became a full-time reporter for the station. Moving to Miami-based WLTV-TV in 1985, Granda covered
Walter Cronkite events that alter and illuminate our times ... and you were there." In 1971, the show was revived and redesigned to attract an audience of teenagers and young adults, hosted again by Cronkite on Saturday mornings. In 1957, he began hosting "The Twentieth Century" (eventually renamed "The 20th Century"), a documentary series about important historical events of the century composed almost exclusively of newsreel footage and interviews. A long-running hit, the show was again renamed as "The 21st Century" in 1967 with Cronkite hosting speculative reporting on the future for another three years. Cronkite also hosted "It's News to Me",