Ever since I can remember as a young boy, the local news of the day came on at 5 p.m. every day.
In the days of the newspapers, you could always turn on the five o’clock news and get the news of what was happening in your local area, city, and state, along with the weather report and any news that was happening in the sports world. As I grew older, I became aware of the events of the world news that came on at 6 p.m.
I remember the Huntley/ Brinkley Report that aired over the NBC Weeknight Network News from 1956-70 and the CBS Evening News hosted at the same time slot by Walter Cronkite from 1962-81. We depended upon all three of these men to keep us abreast of news that was happening in our own country as well as what was happening all over the world.
