2/16/1948 - 15 minutes until 9/9/1963, then 30 minutes Black and White until 1966, then Color Anchors: John Cameron Swayze (1948-1956), Chet Huntley (1956-1970), David Brinkley (1956-1979), John Chancellor (1971-1982), Tom Brokaw (1982-2004), Roger Mudd (1982-1983)
It started as the Camel Newsreel Theatre. Camel, as in the cigarettes.Lasting only ten minutes, the show featured John Cameron Swayze and the Movietone Newsreels. Later it expanded to fifteen minutes and Swayze narrated the news. In 1954 the now Camel News Caravan broadcast the first network news show in color, though this did not become a regular thing until 1965.
Eisenhower was the first presidental candidate to utilize television. Both the 1952 and 1956 conventions received network coverage.
NBC had paired a couple of fellows as anchors for these conventions who seemed to click. The partnership of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley was the stuff from which legends are formed. 1956 saw the beginning of the Huntley-Brinkley Report, a 15 minute nightly news program, the first of its kind. (It expanded to 30 minutes in 1963.)The Huntley-Brinkley Report was the top rated news program for most of its 14 year life.
After Huntley departed in 1970, the show was renamed the NBC Nightly News.
Passings
Chet Huntley died in 1974 of lung cancer, John Cameron Swayze in 1995, John Chancellor in 1996 of stomach cancer. Goodnight David, Goodnite Chet (Wav)(23K)
John Cameron Swayze
David Brinkley
Brought to You in Living Color: 75 Years of Great Moments in Television and Radio from NBC - BOOK
Market Data 
Markets 
AI
