Tomorrow marks the 70th anniversary of CBS News Radio’s The World News Roundup, the longest-running news broadcast in history.
Roundup launched on March 13, 1938 and was anchored by Robert Trout in New York. Click here to listen to the very first broadcast, which began, “Tonight the world trembles torn by conflicting forces.” Trout continues in that first broadcast with “swift, fresh details of a Europe in turmoil.”
The World News Roundup was the first broadcast to feature correspondents filing live reports from locations around the world — and marked the debut of Edward R. Murrow, reporting from Vienna.
“Seventy years ago the producers of The World News Roundup invented a new kind of journalism that was riveting and compelling as well as groundbreaking,” said CBS News Radio VP Harvey Nagler.
Over the years, featured reporters have included Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, Howard K. Smith, and Christopher Glenn.
Roundup airs daily on CBS Radio affiliates at 8amET, with a late edition at 7pmET. And, something the creators might never have imagined: the program is also available as a podcast, at CBSNews.com.