Television evening newscasts expanded from fifteen minutes to thirty minutes on Labor Day of this year.
- 1957
- 1961
- 1963
- 1968
1963. On September 2, 1963, the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite began a thirty minute format. It featured an interview with President John Kennedy. The legendary NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report (evening newscast) expanded to thirty minutes one week later.
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