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David Sarnoff
Sarnoff became technology's champion, especially for broadcast communications, starting at the age of fifteen. Sarnoff first posed the concept of broadcast radio in 1915. Ultimatly, he introduced RCA's electronic monochrome television system in 1939 and the world's first electronic color television system in 1946. -
Lowell Thomas
He pioneered radio journalism with a career that spanned 50 years.
His standard closing to his radio report was “So long until tomorrow” -
Edward Murrow "Mr. Television"
Mr. Murrow is considered to have started the whole concept of Radio News, most well known for the unforgetable documentary series, "Living", which lasted for about 4 years. These half-hour radio programs, aired on Sunday afternoons, and dealt with a wide variety of subjects ranging from air pollution to the Olympic Games. -
Walter Cronkite
"The Most Trusted Man in America". Cronkite was picked in 1962 to anchor the "CBS Evening News," and for two of the most tumultuous decades in American history, he was the authoritative voice of news in America, the man who told viewers that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated, that men had walked on the moon and that the Vietnam War couldn't be won. -
Barbara Walters
Barbara Walters was on the Today show for 11 years. She is also the first woman to co-anchor a network (ABC) evening news program. -
Marlene Sanders
In 1976 she became the only female national network vice-president in any news division.She first appeared in a fifteen-minute news cast in the ABC nightly news, the first prime-time newscast by a woman -
Dan Rather
When Rather was young, he wrote about sports for the school paper and played end on the football team. Now Rather appears on the "CBS EveningNews". -
Peter Jennings
At the age of nine, Peter had his own show where he played songs that his listeners requested. He worked in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as an announcer. Now Mr. Jennings is the anchorman of one of the more popular news broadcasts, "World News Tonight". -
Tom Brokaw
In 1955 Brokaw began working in the KYNT an indepently owned radio station. Currently he is anchorman of the "NBC Nightly News." -
Richard Hubbel, 1940's
Hubbell was one of the first television news anchors. He had a 15 minute program, out of New York during 1941, called Richard Hubbell and the News. He was an employee of the Columbia Broadcasting System
