News program news, and often regularly included "feel-good stories" or humorous reports as the last items on their newscasts, as opposed to news programs transmitted thirty years earlier, such as the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite". From their beginnings until around 1995, evening television news broadcasts continued featuring serious news stories right up to the end of the program, as opposed to later broadcasts with such anchors as Katie Couric, Brian Williams and Diane Sawyer. News broadcasts in the United States were initially transmitted over the radio. NBC began broadcasts in November 1926, with CBS entering production on the 25th of
CBS News Weekend Roundup the basis for the "CBS World News Roundup," which airs mornings and evenings on the radio network, but the Sunday morning talk shows that are a staple of American TV. The "Weekend Roundup" is also a direct successor to the CBS Radio Network show "Capital Ideas", focusing on government and domestic news, which aired during the 1990s from Washington, D.C. and featured correspondents Rob Armstrong and John Hartge as well as Arenstein. CBS News Weekend Roundup The CBS News Weekend Roundup is a weekly news show that airs on the CBS Radio Network, designed for a one-hour time slot, though