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CBS Radio's Christopher Glenn

What???

Sorry, Fred, that is just not true.

CBS Radio then and now shares CBS TV News employees. It's one (unhappy) department - been that way since Murrow. A lot of the TV people (called CTNs) chafe at the radio people's (called CRNs) demands.

Trust me, I worked there. WW1 may handle some aspects of CBS Radio sales, but producing the news is NOT one of them.
 
He had great pipes but he was a news reader, not a reporter. He certainly should not be compared to someone like Murrow.

Murrow was in a class by himself, if for no other reason than he was a pioneer. But to diminish Christopher Glenn with the above quote is not fair. Among other things, he covered the Challenger liftoff / explosion and did a remarkable job. A mere news reader could not have pulled that off. Lots of people are merely news readers (the average local anchor man / babe), but Christopher Glenn was not among them.
 
daypart said:
Those of us who watched Saturday morning TV in the 70s may remember his voiceovers for CBS's "In the News" segments that ran between the cartoons.

It still amazed me to hear him doing those "World News Roundup" segments in this decade.
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Oh yeah, I was amazed to hear him on radio for the first time in the mid-80's or so. I knew him ONLY from TV's "In The News".

Sneaky television bastards...trying to teach us something even when we're not in class on Saturday morning! CBS and those School House Rockers on ABC! Curses!
 
JeffMcDermott said:
Sneaky television bastards...trying to teach us something even when we're not in class on Saturday morning! CBS and those School House Rockers on ABC! Curses!
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You forgot "Ask NBC News", which was kind of a rip-off of CBS' "In the News". :D
 
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