The Sunday Night News (15 minutes from 11:00 - 11:15pm) provided a weekly anchoring role for Walter Cronkite at WCBS in New York.
He originally served as anchor of the network's 15-minute late Sunday Night News "UP TO THE MINUTE" from 1951 to 1955, at which time the title was changed to simply CBS SUNDAY NIGHT NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE.
The Premiere broadcast on April 17, 1955 during this transition was the only occasion that this newscast was broadcast in color during the run of this weekend Sunday newscast concluding its final broadcast with Walter Cronkite anchoring on April 22, 1962.
The following Sunday, April 29, 1962 Eric Sevareid would replace Cronkite as anchor.
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After extensive research there appears to be no surviving broadcasts of this Sunday night News broadcast, with the exception of eleven episodes archived (AUDIO ONLY) in the collection of Archival Television Audio, Inc., including the archives at The Paley Center for Media, UCLA Film & TV Archive, Library of Congress, other prominent national news repositories, and non- extant in any private collection or posted on media platforms.
Highlights: Holiday crowds visit the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, Truman claims the presidency is a "tough and terrible job, CBS News Correspondent Eric Sevareid interviews former President Harry Truman, Venezuela and Argentina break off diplomatic relations over failure of Venezuela to expel former Argentina President Juan Peron, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, and Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota oppose President Dwight Eisenhower's foreign policy with Russia related to satellites.
NOTE: One of the earliest archived CBS SUNDAY NIGHT NEWS WITH WALTER CRONITE extant broadcasts, in any media format. At this time Cronkite would do one fifteen TV newscast a week on Sunday nights from 11:00pm to 11:15pm...almost five years before he would anchor the prime-time CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE five evenings a week.
