New anchors may control the major evening newscasts by the end of 2005.
And aside from local newscasts by UPN affiliates, there is no UPN network news programming.
Mr. Hodac in turn blacked out screens, preventing the public from viewing newscasts by the rebels.
Cronkite's demeanor inspired the nickname "Uncle Walter" and when he signed off his newscasts by saying, "And that's the way it is," few doubted him.
"So my mother said, 'What about cue cards?' " Cue cards, at this point, were nearly obsolete, having been replaced on most programs and newscasts by the teleprompter.
His demeanor inspired the nickname "Uncle Walter" and when he signed off his newscasts by saying, "And that's the way it is," few doubted him.
Groups like Free Press say that quality and diversity on local TV stations matters because the newscasts by those stations are the biggest sources of news for most Americans.
A long interview he gave last year justifying violence against Americans, for instance, appears in some videos with the logo of Al Qaeda's media wing, but in others as excerpted in newscasts by CNN and Al Jazeera.
Whatever the toll may be, politicians operate on the principle that one death is one too many if they can get on the evening newscasts by promising to prevent it.
The Tyndall Report, a news coverage monitoring service that has the broadcast networks as clients, reports that the three newscasts by the networks — which have a combined audience of more than 20 million people — spent roughly 114 minutes covering Mr. Obama since June.
