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Can you name famous, forgotten or influential radio and/or television news broadcasters from the beginning of their mediums to the present? as listed in the heading Mr. Murrow is legendary so he is a given.

Gabriel Heeter
Mike Wallace
John Cameron Swayze
Howard K. Smith
Howard Cosell
Eric Sevareid
Walter Winchell
Walter Cronkite
Chet Huntley
David Brinkley

......among others.

syd wrote:Gabriel Heeter
Mike Wallace
John Cameron Swayze
Howard K. Smith
Howard Cosell
Eric Sevareid
Walter Winchell
Walter Cronkite
Chet Huntley
David Brinkley

......among others.

John Charles Daly.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

What sort of profile did Alistair Cooke have in the US ??? He broadcast for BBC Radio from America weekly for nearly 60 years.....

Penfold wrote:What sort of profile did Alistair Cooke have in the US ??? He broadcast for BBC Radio from America weekly for nearly 60 years.....

He hosted OMNIBUS on CBS from 1952-61, a wonderful and now sadly forgotten series on the Arts which had some great programs, then he hosted MASTERPIECE THEATER on NET/PBS which ran all the BBC Classic mini-series from 1968 until he retired in 1994. I miss his LETTERS FROM AMERICA.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Richard M Roberts wrote: I miss his LETTERS FROM AMERICA.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Me too. Every Friday night at 8.45, it was a highlight of my week. Thankfully a lot of these are still available to listen to online.
A wonderful archive:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f6hbp" target="_blank

Sander Vanocur(b. 1928)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYPn9K7YGFc" target="_blank" target="_blank
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sander_Vanocur" target="_blank

Charles Kuralt(1934-1997)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kuralt" target="_blank

Dave Garroway
Sandy Becker
Paul Harvey
Maury Povich (Once a prolific anchorman
at WTTG Channel 5 in Washington D.C.
He also hosted a one hour noonday talk show on
that station entitled Panorama. Some of the best
political minds in the world were featured and
the quality of discussion was top-notch. Hard to
believe given current affairs (Ha Ha. Get it?).

I'd add my boyhood idol Lowell Thomas to this list...

H.V. Kaltenborn (sp?)

Bob

there is Cameron Swayze, son of John Cameron Swayze.

Max Robinson(1939-1988)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Robinson" target="_blank" target="_blank

Al Sanders(1941-1995) , I remember when he died in Baltimore, hugely popular there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Sanders" target="_blank" target="_blank

Harry Reasoner(1923-1991) of 60 Minutes fame
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reasoner" target="_blank

Richard M Roberts wrote:

syd wrote:Gabriel Heeter
Mike Wallace
John Cameron Swayze
Howard K. Smith
Howard Cosell
Eric Sevareid
Walter Winchell
Walter Cronkite
Chet Huntley
David Brinkley

......among others.

John Charles Daly.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Wait a second, I don't remember Richard M. Roberts being a newscaster...

Graham McNamee, possibly the first nationally known sportscaster. He was also an announcer for Ed Wynn & Rudy Vallee, and (aside from newsreels) made a few screen aperances as himself-

Hugh Downs (Started his broadcasting career in
1939 on the radio)

John Chancellor

Frank Reynolds (Would sometimes tell his audience
how much he sucked at gambling.
During one of the Apollo missions
he told the audience that the astronauts
had a better chance at reaching the moon
then he did winning at a crap table)

Soupy Sales

Quin A. Ryan (probably the first newscaster to have his own program, on Chicago's WGN)
Elmer Davis (also a writer of popular stories and novels, several of which became movies)
Robert Trout (Ed Murrow's broadcast mentor)
William L. Shirer (CBS overseas correspondent, wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich)
Frank McGee (also hosted NBC's Today program)
Edwin Newman (wrote Strictly Speaking and A Civil Tongue, two great books about the English language and usage)

Connie Chung
Carol Simpson
Lesley Stahl
Jessica Savitch
Barbara Walters
Oprah Winfrey (Was a co-anchor and talk show
host for WJZ-TV Channel 13
in Baltimore, Maryland from
1976 to 1983)

Let's not forget: Douglas Edwards, Charles Collingwood, and Frank Blair.

Radio broadcaster

What about this guy? Airchecks galore survive. I have been passed his former Church some 45 years ago.

Father Charles Edward Coughlin (October 25, 1891 – October 27, 1979) was a controversial Roman Catholic priest at Royal Oak, Michigan's National Shrine of the Little Flower church. He was one of the first political ........

Coughlin began his radio broadcasts in 1926 on station WJR, in response to cross burnings by the Ku Klux Klan on the grounds of his church, giving a weekly hour-long radio program.[10] His program was picked up by CBS four years later for national broadcast.[9] Until the beginning of the Depression, Father Coughlin mainly covered religious topics in his weekly radio addresses, in contrast to the political topics which dominated his radio speeches throughout the 1930s. His radio addresses began to communicate a more political message in January 1930, when he began a series of attacks against communism and socialism.[11] In addition to attacking communism and socialism, he also criticized the capitalists in America whose greed had made Communist ideology attractive to many Americans.[12] Having gained a reputation as an outspoken anti-communist, in July 1930 he was given star billing as a witness before the House Committee to Investigate Communist Activities.[13]

In 1931 the CBS radio network dropped free sponsorship after Coughlin refused to accept network demands that his scripts be reviewed prior to broadcast, so he raised money to create his own national network, which soon reached millions of listeners on a 36-station hookup. He strongly endorsed Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1932 Presidential election. He was an early supporter of Roosevelt's New Deal reforms and coined the phrase "Roosevelt or Ruin", which became famous during the early days of the first FDR administration. Another phrase he became known for was "The New Deal is Christ's Deal."[14] In January 1934, Coughlin testified before Congress in support of FDR's policies, saying, "If Congress fails to back up the President in his monetary program, I predict a revolution in this country which will make the French Revolution look silly!" He further stated to the Congressional hearing, "God is directing President Roosevelt."[15]