The document summarizes the origins and history of radio and television news broadcasting. It notes that the first radio news broadcast occurred in 1916 by Harold Power, while the first known radio news program was broadcast in 1920 from Detroit. Television news began in the 1930s and 1940s with Lowell Thomas hosting news broadcasts and the Camel Newsreel Theatre. Edward Murrow is considered a pioneer for his weekly See It Now program on CBS in the 1950s. National television news networks like CBS, NBC, and ABC launched in the late 1940s and 1950s and expanded to 30 minute formats. Modern television news utilizes electronic field production techniques.
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1. First Radio and Televison
Newscast
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2. Origin of Television News
•Lowell Thomas hosted the first news broadcast in
1930 and the first regularly scheduled broadcast
in 1940.
•Television broadcasts entered homes for the first
time in the 1940s with NBC's Camel Newsreel
Theatre
•Some people believe that Edward Murrow was the
pioneer of television news.
•Murrow's weekly news See It Now on CBS
presented live reports from journalists on both the
east and west coasts on America.
3. See It Now
•First program with simultaneous transmission
from coast to coast
•Focused on controversial issues
•Most memorable moment was a 30 minute
special on March 9, 1954 entitled " A Report on
Senator Joseph McCarthy" which talked about the
eventual political downfall of the senator.
4. History of Network News
•Launched in Feb. 1948 by NBC and was a 10
minute segment which showed newsreels.
•CBS followed in May 1948 with a 15 minute
segment CBS-TV News.
•Sept 2 1963, CBS expanded their show to a 30
minute segment.
•ABC Evening News began airing in 1953
•In 1978, ABC Evening News was succeeded by
ABC World News Tonight.
5. Today's Television News
•We now have electronic news gatherings which is
anything from a journalist taking a video camera
to shoot a story to an entire production crew
taking a satelite truck to cover a live story.
•Electronic news gathering has enabled reporters
to capture video and audio at a better ease and
edit footage faster.
•Now we have local, cable, and network news.
•National networks news includes CBS, ABC, and
NBC
6.
7. Origin of Radio News
•First broadcast was on December 24, 1906
• Brant Rock, Massachusetts
•Canadian engineer, Reginald Fessenden
•Played O Holy Night on the violin and read the
Christmas story
•Was heard on a ship by shipboard wireless
operators called Sparks
8. Harold Power
•March 8 1916, Harold Power and his radio
company, American Radio and Research Company
broadcasted the first continous broadcast.
•From Tufts University
•First to broadcast on daily schedule
•First to broadcast radio dance programs
•First university professor lectures
•First weather broadcaster
9. Radio Progression
•August 31 1920 was the broadcast of the first
KNOWN news program, 8MK, from Detriot,
Michigan
•1922 regular wireless broadcasts for
entertainment began in the UK from the Marconi
Center
•KDKA of Pittsburgh in Oct 1920 received their
license and went on air as the first liscened
broadcasting station.
•Regular morse code transmissions were in 1916
10. KDKA
•Nov 6 1919, Frank Conrad began broadcasting
from his Wilkinsburg, PA garage with call letter
8XK.
•8XK became KDKA in Nov 2 1920
•Worlds First Commercially Licensed Radio
•First licensed broadcast was the results of
Harding/ Cox presedential elections.