Editing CBS Evening News (section)

===Douglas Edwards (1948–1962)===
[[File:Douglas Edwards With the News CBS 1952.JPG|thumb|right|Edwards on set of ''CBS Television News'']]
On May 3, 1948, Edwards began anchoring ''CBS Television News'', as a regular 15-minute nightly newscast on the CBS television network, including WCBS-TV. It aired every weeknight at 7:30&nbsp;pm, and was the first regularly scheduled, network television news program featuring an anchor.<ref>For a time in the early 1940s, the nightly [[Lowell Thomas]] NBC radio network newscast was simulcast on television locally on NBC's WNBT—([[WNBC]]).</ref> (WCBW/WCBS-TV newscasts prior to this time were local television broadcasts seen only in New York City.) [[NBC]]'s offering at the time, ''NBC Television Newsreel'', which premiered in February 1948, was simply film footage with voice narration.

The network also broadcast a recap of the week's news stories on a Sunday night program titled ''Newsweek in Review'', which was later moved to Saturday and retitled ''The Week in Review''. In 1950, the nightly newscast was renamed ''Douglas Edwards with the News'', and in September the following year, it became the first news program to be broadcast simultaneously on the [[East Coast of the United States|East Coast]] and [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]] through the installation of a new [[coaxial cable]] connection. That transcontinental link prompted Edwards to start each broadcast with the updated greeting "Good evening everyone, coast to coast."<ref>{{cite web|title=Douglas Edwards Chronology|url=http://web.sbu.edu/friedsam/archives/Edwards/chronology.htm|author=Dennis Frank|work=The Douglas Edwards Archives at St. Bonaventure University|publisher=[[St. Bonaventure University]]|date=March 2, 2006|access-date=September 9, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927224551/http://web.sbu.edu/friedsam/archives/Edwards/chronology.htm|archive-date=September 27, 2007}}</ref>

On November 30, 1956, the program became the first to use the new technology of [[videotape]] to [[broadcast delay|time delay]] the broadcast (which originated in New York City) for the [[Western United States]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Channel 5 Engineer Honored With Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award |url=http://www.knpb.org/staff/awards.asp |publisher=[[KNPB]] |access-date=September 9, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070813015019/http://www.knpb.org/staff/awards.asp |archive-date=August 13, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>