Television news in the United States a team of Tom Brokaw in New York and Roger Mudd in Washington. Brokaw became sole anchor in 1983. CBS launched "CBS Television News" in May 1948 to compete against the NBC newsreel programs, hosted on camera by Douglas Edwards, it was renamed "Douglas Edwards with the News" in 1950. In 1962, Walter Cronkite landed the anchor seat, which he would hold until 1981, and the program's name was changed to "CBS Evening News". On September 2, 1963, the show expanded from 15 to 30 minutes. In the 1970s, "CBS Evening News" was the dominant newscast on American television, and
Walter Cronkite Cronkite was the voice of Benjamin Franklin in the educational television cartoon "Liberty's Kids", which included a news segment ending with the same phrase he did back on the "CBS Evening News". His distinctive voice provided the narration for the television ads of the University of Texas, Austin, his alma mater, with its 'We're Texas' ad campaign. Cronkite voiced Tim's grandpa in the BrainPOP episode about aging. He held amateur radio operator license KB2GSD and narrated a 2003 American Radio Relay League documentary explaining amateur radio's role in disaster relief. the video tells Amateur Radio's public service story to non-hams,