CBS News, Special Events and Sports at CBS Television in 1948. In 1950, the nightly newscast was retitled "Douglas Edwards with the News", and the following year, it became the first news program to be broadcast on both coasts, thanks to a new coaxial cable connection, prompting Edwards to use the greeting, "Good evening everyone, coast to coast" to begin each edition. The broadcast was renamed the "CBS Evening News" when Walter Cronkite replaced Edwards in 1962. Edwards remained with CBS News as anchor/reporter for various daytime television and radio news broadcasts until his retirement on April 1, 1988. Although CBS
Walter Cronkite a game show based on news events. During the presidential elections of 1952 and 1956 Cronkite hosted the CBS news-discussion series "Pick the Winner". Another of his network assignments was "The Morning Show", CBS' short-lived challenge to NBC's "Today" in 1954. His on-air duties included interviewing guests and chatting with a lion puppet named Charlemane about the news. He considered this discourse with a puppet as "one of the highlights" of the show. He added, "A puppet can render opinions on people and things that a human commentator would not feel free to utter. I was and I am proud