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The first broadcast of “World News Roundup” was on March 13, 1938, hosted by legendary CBS newsman Robert Trout and broadcast by Edward R. Murrow made his radio debut. The program would revolutionize radio reporting and celebrate its 85th year on the air this year.
This first file photo shows Roundup’s original anchor Robert Trout.
To mark the anniversary of the nation’s longest-running news broadcast, CBS News Audio is launching the new “CBS News Roundup” podcast, which combines broadcasts of “Weekend Roundup,” the first and last editions of “World News Roundup” and “Kaleidoscope.” One. The network is also releasing a remastered debut broadcast from 1938.
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A file photo of a print advertisement with two Roundup anchors, Robert Trout and Dallas Townsend.
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Edward R. in London, England. Maro, May 1940.
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Radio news pioneer Robert Trout is shown in this July 30, 1964, photo. Trout, whose tenacity and ad-libbing skills informed audiences for seven decades on CBS and NPR, died Nov. 14, 2000. He was 91 years old.
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Undated publicity photo of original Roundup anchor Robert Trout.
Howard K. Smith
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American broadcast journalist Howard K. Smith sits behind a CBS radio microphone in the 1940s. Smith, who served as a World War II newscaster on CBS as a co-anchor and analyst for CBS as one of “Morrow’s Boys,” died at his home in Bethesda, MD, on February 15, 2002, at the age of 87.
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A file photo of longtime “World News Roundup” anchor Dallas Townsend.
VE Day, May 18, 1945
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Original Roundup anchor Robert Trout on VE Day, May 18, 1945.
United Nations Assembly, April 1946
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Robert Trout holding a CBS microphone at a League of Nations/United Nations meeting in San Francisco in April 1946. His partner from the bottom left. HV Kaltenborn, Chet Huntley, Eric Severeid and an unidentified person.
End of World War II
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CBS Radio newsmen broadcast from Times Square in New York City as crowds react to news of the Japanese surrender that ended World War II on August 14, 1945.
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January 20, 1953 Dwight D. Edward R. in front of the White House on Eisenhower’s inauguration day. kill
Trout visited CBS Radio News, 1999
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Original Roundup anchor, Robert Trout, in his final visit to CBS Radio News before his death, December 1999. He died less than a year later at the age of 91.
From left: Then CBS Radio News general manager Mike Friedman, World News Roundup producer Paul Farry, CBS Radio News executive producer Charlie Kaye, Dan Rather and retired correspondent and “beat boy” Richard C. the hotel