. cbs news division of cbs broadcasting key people leslie moonves chairman & ceo of cbs david rhodes president of cbs news founded september 18 1927 ; 89 years ago 1927 09 18 headquarters cbs broadcast center manhattan new york city new york united states broadcast programs cbs evening news cbs this morning 48 hours 60 minutes cbs news sunday morning face the nation parent cbs broadcasting inc. website cbsnews.com streaming news network cbsn v t e cbs news is the news division of american television and radio service cbs . the president of cbs news is david rhodes . 1 cbs news broadcasts include the cbs evening news cbs this morning news magazine programs cbs sunday morning 60 minutes and 48 hours and sunday morning political affairs program face the nation . cbs operates a 24 hour news network called cbsn the first live anchored 24 hour streaming news network that is exclusively online and on smart devices . contents 1 history 1.1 television 2 broadcast history 3 current cbs news broadcasts 3.1 prime time evening news program history 3.2 morning news program history 3.3 late night early morning program history 4 cbsn 5 cbs newspath 6 cbs radio news 7 bureaus and offices 7.1 domestic bureaus 7.2 foreign bureaus 8 personnel 8.1 current correspondents 8.2 past correspondents 9 presidents of cbs news 10 international broadcasts 11 references 12 external links history edit in 1929 the columbia broadcasting system began making regular radio news broadcasts five minute summaries taken from reports from the united press one of the three wire services that supplied newspapers with national and international news . in december 1930 cbs chief william s. paley hired journalist paul w. white away from united press as cbs s news editor . paley put the radio network s news operation at the same level as entertainment and authorized white to interrupt programming if events warranted . along with other networks cbs chafed at the breaking news embargo imposed upon radio by the wire services which prevented them from using bulletins until they first appeared in print . cbs disregarded an embargo when it broke the story of the lindbergh kidnapping in 1932 using live on the air reporting . radio networks scooped print outlets with news of the 1932 presidential election . 2 485 486 in march 1933 white was named vice president and general manager in charge of news at cbs . 3 as the first head of cbs news he began to build an organization that soon established a legendary reputation . 2 486 in 1935 white hired edward r. murrow and sent him to london in 1937 to run cbs radio s european operation . 2 486 white led a staff that would come to include charles collingwood william l. shirer eric sevareid 4 john charles daly joseph c. harsch 2 501 cecil brown elmer davis quincy howe h. v. kaltenborn and robert trout . 5 cbs was getting its ducks in a row for the biggest news story in history world war ii wrote radio historian john dunning . 2 487 television edit upon becoming commercial station wcbw channel 2 now wcbs tv in 1941 the pioneer cbs television station in new york city broadcast two daily news programs at 2 30 and 7 30 p.m. weekdays anchored by richard hubbell . most of the newscasts featured hubbell reading a script with only occasional cutaways to a map or still photograph . when pearl harbor was bombed on december 7 1941 wcbw which was usually off the air on sunday to give the engineers a day off took to the air at 8 45 p.m. with an extensive special report . the national emergency even broke down the unspoken wall between cbs radio and television . wcbw executives convinced radio announcers and experts such as george fielding elliot and linton wells to come down to the grand central studios during the evening and give information and commentary on the attack . the wcbw special report that night lasted less than 90 minutes . but that special broadcast pushed the limits of live television in 1941 and opened up new possibilities for future broadcasts . as cbs wrote in a special report to the fcc the unscheduled live news broadcast on december 7 was unquestionably the most stimulating challenge and marked the greatest advance of any single problem faced up to that time . additional newscasts were scheduled in the early days of the war . in may 1942 wcbw like almost all television stations sharply cut back its live program schedule and the newscasts were canceled since the station temporarily suspended studio operations resorting exclusively to the occasional broadcast of films . this was primarily because much of the staff had either joined the service or were redeployed to war related technical research and to prolong the life of the early unstable cameras which were now impossible to repair due to the wartime lack of parts . douglas edwards on the cbs news set in 1952 . in may 1944 as the war began to turn in favor of the allies wcbw reopened the studios and the newscasts returned briefly anchored by ned calmer and then by everett holles . 6 after the war expanded news programs appeared on the wcbw schedule whose call letters were changed to wcbs tv in 1946 first anchored by milo boulton and later by douglas edwards . on may 3 1948 edwards began anchoring cbs television news a regular 15 minute nightly newscast on the cbs television network including wcbs tv . it aired every weeknight at 7 30 p.m. and was the first regularly scheduled network television news program featuring an anchor the nightly lowell thomas nbc radio network newscast was simulcast on television locally on nbc s wnbt now wnbc for a time in the early 1940s and the previously mentioned richard hubbell ned calmer everett holles and milo boulton on wcbw in the early and mid 1940s but these were local television broadcasts seen only in new york city . nbc s offering at the time nbc television newsreel which premiered in february 1948 was simply film footage with voice narration . in 1950 the name of the nightly newscast was changed to douglas edwards with the news and the following year it became the first news program to be broadcast on both coasts thanks to a new coaxial cable connection prompting edwards to use the greeting good evening everyone coast to coast . the broadcast was renamed the cbs evening news when walter cronkite replaced edwards in 1962 . 7 edwards remained with cbs news with various daytime television newscasts and radio news broadcasts until his retirement on april 1 1988 . broadcast history edit this section contains embedded lists that may be better presented using prose . you can help by converting the list or lists to prose if appropriate . editing help is available . december 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message the information on programs listed in this section came directly from cbs news in interviews with the vice president of communications and newswatch dallas . according to the cbs news library and source sandy genelius vice president cbs news communications the cbs evening news was the program title for both saturday and sunday evening broadcasts . the program title for the sunday late night news beginning in 1963 was the cbs sunday night news . these titles were also seen on the intro slide of the program s opening . the program airs on sadurday and sunday nights at 7 00 7 30pm utc eastern time on cbs . cbs news bulletin covering the assassination of john f. kennedy . current cbs news broadcasts edit this section needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . october 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message cbs news logo . cbs overnight news cbs morning news cbs this morning cbs this morning saturday cbs news sunday morning face the nation cbs evening news cbs weekend news 60 minutes 48 hours 8 prime time evening news program history edit west 57th meredith vieira john ferrugia august 13 1985 september 9 1989 48 hours january 19 1988 present 60 minutes ii january 13 1999 september 2 2005 america tonight dan rather charles kuralt lesley stahl robert krulwich edie magnus october 1 1990 1991 street stories ed bradley ; january 9 1992 june 10 1993 eye to eye with connie chung june 17 1993 may 25 1995 public eye with bryant gumbel october 1 1997 1998 cbs newsbreak person to person morning news program history edit cbs morning news 1963 1979 the morning program 1987 cbs this morning 1987 1999 ; 2012 present the early show 1999 2012 cbs news saturday morning 1997 1999 the saturday early show 1999 2012 cbs sunday morning 1979 present late night early morning program history edit cbs news nightwatch 1982 1992 cbs morning news 1982 present cbs up to the minute 1992 2015 cbs overnight news 2015 present this film television or video related list is incomplete ; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions . cbsn edit main article cbsn cbsn is a 24 hour streaming news channel available from the cbs news website and launched on november 4th 2014 . the channel feature live news from 9am to midnight on weekdays . the channel makes all of the resources of cbs news available directly on digital platforms with live anchored coverage 15 hours each week . it is a first for a u.s. 24 hour news channel to forgo cable and be available exclusively only on line and on smart devices such as smart tv s apple tv roku amazon fire and others . 9 the channel is based at cbs s new york city headquarters . cbs newspath edit cbs newspath is cbs news satellite news gathering service similar to cnn newsource . newspath provides national hard news sports highlights regional spot news features and live coverage of major breaking news events for affiliate stations to use in their local news broadcasts . the service has a team of domestic and global correspondents and freelance reporters dedicated to reporting for affiliates and offers several different national or international stories fronted by reporters on a daily basis . cbs newspath also relies heavily on local affiliates sharing content . stations will often contribute locally obtained footage that may be of national interest . it replaced a similar service cbs news newsnet . network news service nns is a pioneering news organization formed by abc newsone cbs newspath and fox newsedge . launched in june 2000 its subscriber list already includes more than 500 abc cbs and fox affiliates throughout the united states . the three news distributors created nns to cost effectively pool resources for developing and delivering second tier news stories and b roll footage . the goal was to realize cost savings in the creation and distribution of these news images while news organizations and member television stations continued to independently develop and deliver their own signature coverage of top news stories . cbs radio news edit main article cbs radio news the branch of cbs news that produces newscasts and features to radio stations is cbs radio news which airs on the cbs radio network . the radio network is the oldest unit of cbs and traced its roots to the company s founding in 1927 and the news division took shape over the following 10 years . the list of cbs news correspondents below includes those reporting on cbs radio news . cbs radio news produces the oldest daily news show on radio or television the cbs world news roundup which first aired in 1938 and celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2013 . the world news