Use the link below to answer all the questions. Please write your answers on binder paper.
1. What makes a network?
2. How long were the first TV news broadcasts?
3. What year did Camel Newsreel Theater on NBC first hit the airwaves?
4. How did CBS take their news show in a different direction in August of 1948?
5. When did ABC first start producing a nightly news program? How did they do in the ratings?
6. Name four of the most notable early TV news anchors:
7. Who was the first person to report from a national political convention?
8. How did Edward R. Murrow raise to fame?
9. What was Morrow's most famous "See it Now" broadcast?
10. What was the name of the very first celebrity interview show?
11. Who is the most well-known and respected American TV news anchor?
12. What was his signature line?
13. What did LBJ allegedly say about Cronkite?
14. In what year did Cronkite and CBS first beat NBC in the ratings?
15. During which decade did the newtorks start using color news reel?
16. During which decade did the TV networks switch to a 30-minute news format?
17. Which network was first to switch to a 30-minute format? What year did this occur?
18. During which decade did the networks start using mobile satellites?
19. How did the networks adjust to compete with the arrival of CNN?
20. Who are the two winners of the prestigious Walter Cronkite Award?
BONUS - Earn $5 Olson Dollars - be the first student to tell Mr. Olson the HMBHS student who is the Tuesday/Thursday news anchor. Must be claimed by the end of the period today (May 15th).