William S. Paley bought a small radio chain in 1928 and rebuilt it into the Columbia Broadcasting System, whose news division, built around Edward R. Murrow's wartime reporting, gave American broadcast journalism much of its early standing. Under Paley's guidance CBS became one of the largest radio networks in the United States and, later, one of the three dominant American television networks.
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Pioneering CBS radio and television journalist, from See It Now to his wartime London broadcasts.
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The two oldest of the American Big Three broadcast networks, rivals across radio and then television from the 1920s onward.
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Led CBS Laboratories as chief engineer, developing the long-playing record and CBS's early field-sequential color television system.
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CBS Evening News anchor from 1962 to 1981, widely called the most trusted man in America.
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Built CBS into a major network as its chairman from 1928 to 1983.
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WBBM-TV, the Chicago site of the debate, was a CBS-owned station, and the debate was moderated by CBS newsman Howard K. Smith.
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Under Paley's guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States and eventually one of the Big Three American broadcast television networks.
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(CBS, an abbreviation of its original name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American commercial broadcast television network and the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Skydance.
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The radio series first aired on CBS on April 26, 1952, with the episode "Billy the Kid," written by Walter Newman, and ended on June 18, 1961.
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The teleprompter was used for the first time on December 4, 1950, in filming the CBS soap The First Hundred Years.
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