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...Late last month, to a modest amount of media applause, ?CBS SM? turned 25. Host Charles Osgood and his crew threw themselves a nostalgic little party, opening the video scrapbook on the January 25 broadcast and whisking the dust from some venerable stories to air them again. Twenty-five in TV years is ancient; only a liver-spotted handful of weekly shows have lasted that long. But ?CBS SM? is, by nature, older than that - forever looking back, finding resonance in an anniversary or obituary, as if it were the memory bank for the Alzheimer?s generation...
...perhaps because nowhere else do the staffers so frequently consult, and replay, that glorious past. On the anniversary episode last month, a clip was shown of Edward R. Murrow, in 1951, instructing his director (Don Hewitt! - everyone was young once) to hook up the first ?live? coast-to-coast broadcast link, between WCBS in New York and KPIX in San Francisco. (Alas, that station now carries ?CBS SM? in less-than-prime 6 a.m. slot. But that?s OK. Old people can time-shift...
...generically adorable Kens and Barbies of today?s news shows, Kuralt was a throwback to such early TV hosts and humorists as Dave Garroway, Will Shriner, Jimmy Dean and the young monologist Andy Griffith - but with a touch of the Hallmark poet and a zeal to bring to broadcast life an America most people didn?t know (or care) still existed. As TV zoomed into the electronic age, Kuralt stayed unplugged, logging 50,000 miles a year in his mobile home-office. TIME called his reports for the CBS Evening News ?two-minute cease fires? from urban riots, the Vietnam...
...Kuralt cousin. He joined the CBS network in 1971 and filled a daily 90-sec. slot called ?The Osgood File? (it?s run on 350 stations) as well as serving, for five years, as a host of the CBS morning show, which for 50 years now has been broadcast live from the Death Valley of Nielsen ratings. ?CBS SM? was the ideal perch for him, his soothing FM voice replacing Kuralt?s cracker-barrel baritone. The transition was seamless. Under current executive producer Rand Morrison, ?CBS SM? has picked up the pace but never swerved off-course...
...book is a compilation of essays based on 44 interviews Gates conducted last summer with black Americans from all walks of life for a four-part BBC/PBS documentary series called “America Beyond the Color Line.” Gates wrote and hosted the series, which was broadcast in honor of Black Awareness Month on February 3 and 4 on the local PBS affiliate, WGBH...