CBS Evening News
1948–CBSDocumentary
Cronkite's bulletin, and the desk American network news was invented at.
One opening sequence is catalogued for CBS Evening News, covering season 1.
It arrived on CBS in 1948, when Candid Camera, The Ed Sullivan Show and Studio One were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
No usable clip kept. The available upload is the theme over a static card and fails the moving-picture check.
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