The CBS Evening News
| CBS Evening News | |
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Current CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley title card.
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| Also known as |
Weekdays: CBS Television News (1948–1950) Douglas Edwards with the News (1950–1962) Walter Cronkite with the News (1962–1963) Weekends: CBS Weekend News (2016–present) |
| Genre | News program |
| Created by | Don Hewitt |
| Presented by |
Weekdays: Scott Pelley Saturdays: Reena Ninan Sundays: Elaine Quijano |
| Theme music composer | Walt Levinsky (1982-1987) John Trivers, Elizabeth Myers & Alan James Pasqua (1987–1991 and 2011–2016) Rick Patterson, Ron Walz and Neal Fox (1991–2006) James Horner (2006–2011) Joel Beckerman (2016–present) |
| Opening theme | "CBS News Theme", composed by Man Made Music |
| Ending theme | Same as opening |
| Composer(s) | Walt Levinsky (1982-1987) John Trivers, Elizabeth Myers & Alan James Pasqua (1987–1991 and 2011–2016) Rick Patterson, Ron Walz and Neal Fox (1991–2006) James Horner (2006–2011) Joel Beckerman (2016–present) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 67 |
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| Location(s) |
CBS Broadcast Center New York City, New York |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 15 minutes (1948–1963) 30 minutes (1963–present) |
| Production company(s) | CBS News Productions |
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| Original network | CBS |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV), 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | May 3, 1948 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows |
CBS Morning News CBS Overnight News CBS This Morning NBC Nightly News ABC World News Tonight |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The CBS Evening News is the flagship evening television news program of CBS News, the news division of the CBS television network in the United States. The program has been broadcast since May 3, 1948 under the original title CBS Television News, eventually adopting its current title in 1963. Since June 6, 2011, the weekday editions of the program have been anchored by Scott Pelley. Previous anchors have included Douglas Edwards, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer, and Katie Couric.
Weekend editions of the CBS Evening News weekends began in February 1966. On May 2, 2016, CBS announced that the weekend editions would be rebranded, effective May 7, as the CBS Weekend News, whose Saturday and Sunday editions are anchored by Reena Ninan and Elaine Quijano respectively. The weekend editions draw from the resources of CBSN, the digital news channel where Ninan and Quijano also serve as anchors.
The CBS Evening News airs live at 6:30pm in the Eastern and 5:30pm in the Central Time Zones, and are tape delayed for the Mountain Time Zone. A separate "Western Edition", featuring updated segments to provide coverage of breaking news stories, airs pre-recorded at 5:30pm in the Pacific Time Zone and on tape delay in the Alaska and Hawaii–Aleutian Time Zones.
CBS began broadcasting news programs on Saturday evenings in the mid-1940s, which expanded to two nights a week in 1947. On May 3, 1948, the network debuted a weeknightly newscast, CBS Television News, which originally aired as a 15-minute broadcast each weeknight at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time; first anchored by Douglas Edwards, it was the first regularly scheduled network television news program to use an anchor.
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