Douglas Edwards with the News(1948)

Douglas Edwards with the News is a groundbreaking television series that premiered on CBS on May 3, 1948. It was the first regularly scheduled network television news program to feature an anchor, airing nightly at 7:30 pm as a 15-minute broadcast. Douglas Edwards became the face of CBS Television News, delivering stories across the network's stations including WCBS-TV in New York. While NBC's competing newsreel program relied on film footage with voice narration, Edwards with the News established the anchor-led format that would define television journalism for decades. The program marked a pivotal shift in how Americans consumed news, bringing a trusted human presence into living rooms across the country.