2000 Robert Northshield, TV news producer, Sunday Morning, dies at 78
1998 32nd TNN Music City News Country Awards
1998 Don Harrison, Headline News anchor, dies at 61
1998 Sandy Hume, correspondent (Fox News), commits suicide at 28
1998 News of the Lewinsky/Clinton affair is published, President Clinton vigorously denies all allegations
1998 Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever
1997 Nancy Dickerson, 1st female news correspondent (CBS), dies at 70
1997 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1997 Charles Kuralt, news anchor for CBS Sunday Morning, dies at 62
1997 31st Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and LeAnn Rimes
1997 ABC News and Starwave Corp launch ABCNEWS.com
1997 Nancy Woodhull, news editor for USA Today, dies of cancer at 52
1996 John Chancellor, news anchor (VOA, NBC), dies at 68
1996 30th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson
1996 John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge, news commentator (BBC), dies at 91
1996 Brian Hulls, television news cameraman, dies at 48
1995 Sunday New York News increases price from $1.00 to $1.25
1995 Mary Tyler Moore returns to series TV in "NY News," on CBS
1995 Cable News Network joins internet
1995 John Cameron Swayze, news anchor (NBC), dies at 89
1995 Mason City Iowa's TV news personality Jodi Huisentruit disappears
1995 29th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Reba McEntire
1995 CBS News fires co-anchor Connie Chung
1995 Chopper 4 1st used on WNBC TV (New York City) news
1995 Siem Suurhoff, TV-director (Behind the News, Sonja), dies at 58
1994 William Leonard, head (CBS News), dies of a stroke at 78
1994 Circulation of Netherlands Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000
1994 N.Y. Daily News increases prices to 50 cents
1994 1st French "all news" TV, LCI, begins broadcasting
1994 28th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Ray Stevens
1994 Peter Hacker, U.S. journalist/actor (NBC, Broadcast News), dies at 69
1994 Betty Furness, actress/news consumer reporter (WNBC), dies at 78
1994 Pat Harper, New York City news anchor (WPIX, WNBC), dies
1993 Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment
1993 27th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Vince Gill
1993 Connie Chung joins Dan Rather as anchors of CBS Evening News
1993 ABC news analyst Jeff Greenfield weds Karen Gannett
1993 Richard Salant, news president (CBS-60 Minutes), dies at 78
1992 WCBS TV news anchor Carol Martin weds Joe Terry
1992 Hughes Rudd, news anchor (CBS Morning News), dies of aneurysm at 71
1992 "Scared Silent" is 1st non news program to be seen on 3 networks simultaneously. (CBS, NBC and PBS), about child abuse hosted by Oprah
1992 David Kaplan, news director (ABC), killed in Sarajevo Yugoslavia
1992 Eric Savareid, News correspondent (CBS), dies at 79
1992 26th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Garth Brooks
1992 CBS TV premieres overnight news program "Up To The Minute"
1991 NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns
1991 NY Daily News files for protection under chapter 11
1991 Robert Maxwell, Billionaire publisher (New York Daily News), dies at 68
1991 News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio KFI-AM personally attacked her by discuss her having a disformed baby
1991 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1991 Kathryn Cravens, news correspondent, dies at 92
1991 25th Music City News Country Awards: Ricky Van Shelton
1991 New York Daily News begins using motto "Forward with NY"
1991 CBS News correspondant Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf
1990 New York Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991)
1990 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1990 Kim Thomas-Friedland, news anchor (FNN), dies at 32
1990 24th Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton and Patty Loveless
1990 "Capital News" starring Lloyd Bridges premieres on ABC-TV
1990 Sports News Network begins operation on cable TV
1989 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1989 Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of Today Show
1989 23rd Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton and Randy Travis
1989 Terry Drinkwater, CBS news correspondent, dies at 53 of cancer
1988 Herbert "Tubo" Rhoad, U.S. singer (Persuasions-Good news), dies at 44
1988 ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy porkers' popularity as pets
1988 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1988 New York Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychiatrist
1988 22nd Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis and Statler Brothers
1988 VP Bush and Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair
1987 Cecil Brown, news correspondent (CBS), dies at 80
1987 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1987 21st Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis
1987 R Budd Dwyer, Penns State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy and perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference
1986 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
1986 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1986 20th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers and Loretta Lynn
1985 "News" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 4 performances
1985 "News" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 4 performances
1985 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1985 19th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers, B Mandrell
1984 WNSY-AM in Newport News Virginia returns from WGH
1984 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1984 18th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers
1984 Edwin Newman retires from NBC News after 35 years with the network
1983 Jessica Savitch, news anchor (NBC-TV), dies at 35
1983 WGH-AM in Newport News Virginia changes call letters to WNSY
1983 Frank Reynolds, news anchor (ABC Evening News), dies at 59
1983 17th Music City News Country Awards: Marty Robbins and Roy Acuff
1982 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1982 John Palmer becomes news anchor of Today Show
1982 Roger Ebert's Movie News premieres on ABC FM network
1982 16th Music City News Country Awards: Barbara Mandrell
1982 Jan Kuiper, Dutch news editor (IKON), murdered in El Salvador
1981 CNN Headline News debuts
1981 Stanley Clements, actor (Boys' Prison, Army Bound, Hot News), dies
1981 15th Music City News Country Awards: Mandrell Sisters
1981 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1981 Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News
1981 Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of CBS Evening News
1980 14th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers and Loretta Lynn
1980 1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network
1980 Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting
1980 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1979 Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC)
1979 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
1977 Carter holds 1st news conf by U.S. President in Eastern Europe (Warsaw)
1977 Doris Davenport, actress (Behind the News, Westerner), dies at 81
1977 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1977 NBC News and Information Service (24 hr news) ends on radio
1977 Quincy Howe, newscaster (CBS Weekend News), dies at 76
1976 Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of Today Show
1976 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show
1976 NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor and David Brinkley, premieres
1976 Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor
1976 Lynn Thomas, Newport News, Virginia, playmate, May 1997
1975 New York Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead"
1975 NBC News and Information Service (24 hr news) premieres on radio
1975 Emmy 2nd Daytime Award and Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1975 "Good News" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 16 performances
1974 "Good News" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 16 performances
1974 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1974 Barbara Walters becomes news co-anchor of Today Show
1974 NBC radio begins on the hour news 24 hours a day (following CBS lead)
1973 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1973 CBS radio begins on hour news 24 hours a day
1972 Gabriel Heather, U.S. news anchor, dies at 81
1972 Bill Lawrence, news anchor (ABC), dies at 56
1971 Frank McGee becomes news anchor of Today Show
1971 White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks
1970 Meeno Peluce, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, actor, Bad News Bears
1970 Sporting News names Willie Mays as Player of the Decade for the 1960s
1969 VP Spiro T. Agnew accused network TV news depts of bias and distortion
1969 Shane Butterworth, actor, Timmy-Bad News Bears
1969 Melissa Rivers, New York City, TV hostess, MTV, CBS Morning News
1967 "News at 10" premieres on English TV
1966 Tricia Cast, Medford, New York, actr, Amanda-Bad News Bear, Young and Restless
1965 1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in New York City) begins operating
1965 Quentin Reynolds, newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI), dies at 62
1965 Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news
1964 New York City news anchor Jim Jenson's 1st appearance on WCBS-TV
1963 CBS and NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
1962 Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News
1961 Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show
1961 John Chancellor becomes news anchor of Today Show
1961 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference (John F. Kennedy)
1960 CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes
1960 In Britain, News Chronicle and Daily Mail merge, and London Evening Star merges with Evening News
1959 Walter Compton, news anchor (DuMont Evening News), dies at 47
1958 Deborah Norville, news anchor, Today Show, Inside Edition
1958 UP and International News Service merge into United Press International
1958 Holly Hunter, born in Atlanta Georgia, actress, Broadcast News, Roe vs Wade
1958 Holly Hunter, born in Conyers, Georgia, actress, Broadcast News, Once Around
1957 Chris Hayes, California, rock guitarist, Huey Lewis and The News
1957 Faith Daniels, news anchor, CBS-TV
1957 Katie Couric, born in Arlington, Virginia, TV news host, Today
1956 1st use of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards and the News)
1956 Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, NBC News, team up
1956 Bill Lagattuta, born in New York City, news correspondent, CBS, 48 Hours, Eye to Eye
1956 Paula Zahn, born in Napperville, Illinois, news anchor, ABC, CBS This Morning
1955 Cora Ann Mahalick, New Jersey, news anchor, WNYW-TV
1955 Jimmy Fortune, born in Newport News, Virginia, singer, Statler Bros-Class of '57
1955 1st presidential news conference on network TV, Eisenhower on ABC
1955 1st presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower)
1954 USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va
1954 Stone Phillips, news host, NBC Dateline
1954 Mario Cipollina, California, rock bassist, Huey Lewis and The News
1954 Richard Schlesinger, born in New York City, news correspondent, CBS, 48 Hours
1954 Don Hollenbeck, newscaster (CBS Weekend News), dies at 49
1953 Frank Blair becomes news anchor of Today Show
1953 Sean Hopper, born in California, rock keyboardist, Huey Lewis and The News
1953 Bree Walker, news anchor, WNBC TV, KNBC TV
1952 1st atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada
1951 Bill Gibson, California, rock drummer, Huey Lewis and The News
1950 Joan Lunden, Fair Oaks California, news host, Good Morning America
1950 Kaity Tong, news anchor, WABC-TV New York City
1950 Mitchel Laurance, actor, LA Law, Not Necessarily the News
1950 Donna Hanover Giuliani, TV news anchor, WPIX, /wife of Mayor Giuliani
1949 Robert Lynd [YY], Irish writer/critic (News Chronicle), dies at 70
1949 Mary Alice Williams, news reporter, NBC-TV
1948 CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece
1948 George Polk, CBS news correspondant, body found
1948 1st newsreel telecast, "20th Century Fox-Movietone News" shown on NBC
1948 Jessica Savitch, Kennet Sq, Pennsylvania, news anchor, NBC
1947 Chris Wallace, born in Chicago, Illinois, newscaster, NBC Weekend News
1947 Harold Dow, Hackensack, New Jersey, news correspondent, CBS, 48 Hours
1947 Jackie Robinson is named Rookie of Year by Sporting News
1947 Brian Hulls, British TV news cameraman
1947 Albert Brooks, born in Los Angeles, California, comedian, Broadcast News, Lost in America
1947 1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington"
1947 Ann Compton, news reporter, ABC TV
1946 Connie Chung, Washington D.C., news ancher, NBC, CBS
1946 Connie Chung, TV news anchor, NBC, CBS
1946 Steve Friedman, TV news executive/actor, American Anthem
1944 John Suchet, British TV journalist, Independent TV News
1944 "War As It Happens" news show premieres on NBC TV (New York City only)
1943 Michael Unger, English editor-in-chief, Evening News, Manchester
1943 Ernie Anastos, born in Nashua, New Hampshire, news anchor, WCBS, WABC
1943 Geraldo Rivera, born in New York City, news personality, 20/20, Geraldo
1942 Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Due West, South Carolina, news reporter, McNeil-Lehrer
1941 Ed Bradley, born in Philadelphia, CBS news correspondent, 60 Minutes
1940 Bernard Shaw, news correspondant, CBS, CNN
1940 James L. Brooks, producer/director, Broadcast News, Taxi, Critic
1940 Ted Koppel, born in Lancashire, England, news anchor, ABC Nightline
1940 Tom Brokaw, born in Yankton, South Dakota, news anchor, NBC Nightly News 1982-
1939 Luther Allison, Mayflower, Arkansas, rock guitarist, Bad News is Coming
1939 Max Robinson, Richmond, Virginia, black news anchor, ABC Evening News
1938 Peter Jennings, born in Toronto, Canada, news anchor, ABC Evening News
1938 Christopher Glenn, born in New York City, news anchor, CBS Nightwatch
1938 Sylvia Chase, St. Paul, Minnesota, newscaster, ABC Weekend News, 20/20
1937 Joyce Bulifant, Newport News, Virginia, actress, Marie-Mary Tyler Moore Show
1937 Mort Zuckerman, CEO, US News and World Report, New York Daily News
1937 Washington Daily News is 1st U.S. newspaper with perfumed advertising page
1937 Bob Schieffer, born in Austin, Texas, newscaster, CBS Weekend News
1936 Tom Snyder, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, newscaster, Tommorow, NBC Weekend News
1936 Lloyd Dobbins, born in Newport News, Virginia, newscaster, NBC News Overnight
1935 John Palmer, Kingsport Tennessee, news anchor, NBC Weekend News
1934 Tom Jarriel, LaGrange, Georgia, newscaster, ABC Weekend News, 20/20
1934 Bill Moyers, born in Hugo, Oklahoma, news commentator, Bill Moyers' Journal
1934 James Charles Lehrer, Wichita, Kansas, news anchor, McNeil-Lehrer Report
1933 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Georgia)
1933 Charles Osgood, born in New York City, news anchor, CBS Weekend News
1932 Mike Royko, born in Chicago, journalist, Chic Daily News, author, Boss
1932 John Hart, born in Denver, Colorado, newsman, CBS News Retrospective, NBC News
1931 Dan Rather, born in Wharton, Texas, news anchor, CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes
1931 Fred Graham, newscaster/journalist, CBS News, Court TV
1931 Richard Searby, deputy-chairman, News Corp Ltd-Australia
1931 Lawrence K. Grossman, News president, NBC-TV
1931 Robert D Novak, Joliet, Illinois, news reporter, CNN-Evans and Novak
1931 Robert MacNeil, Montreal, news anchor, NBC Weekend News, 1965-67
1931 Thomas Hoving, New York City, news correspondent, 20/20
1930 Sporting News picks Bill Terry as NL MVP and Joe Cronin as AL MVP
1930 Jimmy Breslin, Queens New York City, columnist, New York Post, News, Newsday
1929 James Bishop, editor, London News Publications
1928 WGH-AM in Newport News Virginia begins radio transmissions
1928 Roger Mudd, Washington D.C., news ancher, CBS Weekend News, NBC Evening News
1928 Sander Vanocur, born in Cleveland, Ohio, news anchor, NBC Weekend News
1927 Robert Abernethy, Geneva Switz, Newscaster, NBC News Encore
1927 B. G. DeSylva/Lew Brown's musical "Good News," premieres in New York City
1927 John William Chancellor, born in Chicago, Illinois, news anchor, NBC, VOA
1925 Judy Woodruff, news analyst and commentator
1925 Fons Jansen, news reader/Dutch cabaretier, court jester of beliefs
1925 Viscount Rothermere, English press magnate, Daily Mail, Evening News
1925 U.S.S.R.'s official news agency TASS forms
1924 Floyd Kalber, born in Omaha, Nebraska, newscaster, NBC Weekend News Anchor-1973
1924 1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in New York City Daily News
1923 Frank Reynolds, E Chicago, Indiana, news anchor, ABC Evening News
1923 Robert Maxwell, [Jan Hoch], Czechoslovakia, billionaire/CEO, New York Daily News
1923 Louis Simpson, Jamaican and US poet, Good News of Death
1923 Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Smith, Texas, journlist/author, WNBC, New York Daily News
1922 Don Hewitt, New York City, CBS news executive producer, 60 Minutes
1922 Theresa Merritt, Newport News, Virginia, actress, Mama-That's My Mama
1921 Frank McGee, Monroe, Louisiana, news anchor, NBC Evening News
1921 Rowland Evans, born in White Marsh, Pennsylvania, news reporter, CNN-Evans and Novak
1920 Walter Matthau, New York City, actor, Odd Couple, Bad News Bears
1920 Detroit radio station is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air
1920 David Brinkley, born in Wilmington, North Carolina, NBC news anchor, Huntley-Brinkley
1919 N.Y. Daily News begins publishing
1919 Andy Rooney, born in Albany, New York, CBS news correspondent, 60 Minutes
1918 Humphrey van Loo, Dutch news director, ANP/Reuter
1918 Paul Harvey, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, news commentator, Rest of the story
1918 Ella Fitzgerald, Newport News, Virginia, jazz singer, Is it live or Memorex
1918 Pearl Bailey, born in Newport News, Virginia, singer, Hello Dolly
1917 Douglas Edwards, born in Alda, Oklahoma, newscaster, CBS Evening News, FYI
1917 Charles Collingwood, Michigan, news commentator, CBS, Chronicles
1916 Walter Cronkite, St. Joseph, Missouri, news anchor, CBS Evening News 1962-81
1916 Marshall Field IV, publisher/editor, Chic Daily News, Sunday Times
1912 Eric Sevareid, Velva ND, newscaster, CBS Weekend News
1912 Leo Cherne, New York City, economist/commentator, All Star News
1908 Gordon Fraser, Lawrence Massachusetts, newscaster, All Star News
1907 Cecil Brown, news correspondent, CBS
1906 John Cameron Swayze, news correspondent/spokesman, Timex
1904 Don Goddard, born in Binghamton, New York, news anchor, ABC Evening News 1958-59
1904 John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge, bBC news announcer/commentator
1902 Morgan Beatty, born in Little Rock, Arkansas, news anchor, Du Mont Evening News
1902 Quentin Reynolds, New York City, newscaster, Its News to Me, /author, FBI
1900 Quincy Howe, born in Boston, Massachusetts, newscaster, CBS Weekend News
1900 Lawrence E Spivak, born in Brooklyn, New York, news panelist, Meet the Press
1900 Associated Press News Service forms in New York
1900 Associated Press organizes in New York City as non-profit news cooperative
1899 Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the news agency (Reuters), dies
1897 N.Y. Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
1885 News of fall of Khartoum reaches London
1884 Julius P. Hoste, Belgium minister/daily newspaper publisher, Last News
1879 News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London
1878 Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
1877 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston and Salem, Mass
1862 Congress outlaws polygamy (1st time); bad news for Utah
1846 1st edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News"
1844 1st telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot
1842 1st edition of London Illustrated News
1816 Paul Julius Baron von Reuter, founded Reuters news service
|
|
