First videotaped TV broadcast

On November 30 in 1956, CBS replayed the 15-minute "Douglas Edward and the News" for the Pacific time zone, three hours after it was aired in the rest of the US. It was the world's first broadcast via videotape.

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Douglas Edwards, newscaster, CBS

 

Douglas Edwards (July 14, 1917 — October 13, 1990) was America's first network news television anchor, anchoring CBS's first nightly news broadcast from 1948–1962, which was later to be titled CBS Evening News.


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