1963–64 United States network television schedule aired on CBS from 6:30 to 7 p.m. "100 Grand" only lasted three weeks, and was replaced by "Laughs For Sale", which ran until December 1963. On April 1964, "The Celebrity Game" was added to CBS' primetime lineup. "Empire" on ABC consisted of reruns of the 1962-63 NBC TV series. Note: Beginning in September, "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" (formerly "Walter Cronkite with the News") and "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" expanded to a half-hour, airing weekdays at 6:30 p.m Note: The 1964 CBS summer series "High Adventure with Lowell Thomas" consisted of reruns of specials which had aired under that
CBS Evening News officials complained to CBS founder William S. Paley. The second half of the report was aired the following Monday, but only for eight minutes. Cronkite was replaced as anchor of the program the Monday after his retirement, March 9, 1981, by then 49-year-old Dan Rather, who had been with CBS News as a correspondent since the early 1960s and later became a correspondent for the network's newsmagazine "60 Minutes". Concerns about excessive liberalism in the media were frequently leveled at Rather, the "CBS Evening News", CBS News and CBS in general. Some of these concerns dated from Rather's position as