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  Encyclopedia: Chet Huntley
Chet Huntley (December 10 December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
The two leading contenders were Chet Huntley and David Brinkley David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003) was an American television newscaster for NBC and later ABC.
NBC News's Chet Huntley broke the news of John F. Kennedy's assassination, and McGee was on the phone from Dallas giving an account of this and was on air for 45 hours able to report without a script.
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 Chet Huntley: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Chet Huntley (December 10, 1911 - March 20, 1974) was an American (A native or inhabitant of the United States) television (A telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points) newscaster.
The two leading contenders were Chet Huntley and David Brinkley (additional info and facts about David Brinkley).
It was decided to have the two men co-anchor the show; Huntley from New York (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies), Brinkley from Washington (A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific).
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 AllRefer.com - Chet Huntley (Journalism And Publishing, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Chet Huntley (Chester Robert Huntley), 1911–74, American news broadcaster, b.
Huntley and David Brinkley developed documentary techniques for televised analyses of public affairs.
In 1971, Huntley retired from television to develop land in Montana.
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 Huntley-Brinkley Report - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was anchored by Chet Huntley in New York City, and David Brinkley in Washington, DC.
Along with Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley is widely considered to have possessed one of the best broadcast voices ever heard.
Upon Huntley's retirement in 1970, the program was renamed NBC Nightly News.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Huntley-Brinkley_Report   (353 words)

  
 Huntley, Chet
Huntley's rise to broadcast news stardom began during his senior year at the University of Washington when he landed his first broadcasting job at Seattle's KPCB radio.
The NBC duo successfully garnered the largest share of the convention television audience, and as a result, the Huntley-Brinkley team was born.
Throughout his impressive career, however, Huntley developed a reputation for airing his personal opinions on-air, and he was once accused of editorializing with his eyebrows.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/H/htmlH/huntleychet/huntleychet.htm   (588 words)

  
 NoGators.com / Field Guide to North American Chets
Huntley used to read the news with David Brinkley many, many moons ago, before the notions of "journalism" and "broadcasting" were mutually exclusive.
CHET his name is CHET, the bellhop from the Coen brothers' film Barton Fink.
Chet EDWARDS, member of the House of Representatives from the 11th district of Texas.
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 Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Chester Robert Huntley was born on December 10, 1911, at Cardwell, Montana.
Chet Huntley was employed as a member of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and in 1951, while employed by radio station KGW, he transferred to the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in Los Angeles, California.
Chet Huntley moved to television reporting and was paired with David Brinkley on the news program known as the "Huntley-Brinkley Report." Chet Huntley retired as a television reporter in July of 1970.
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 TV News in the Fifties - Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow
The partnership of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley was the stuff from which legends are formed.
After Huntley departed in 1970, the show was renamed the NBC Nightly News.
Chet Huntley died in 1974 of lung cancer, John Cameron Swayze in 1995, John Chancellor in 1996 of stomach cancer.
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 Beatrice Daily Sun
Former NBC News reporter Chet Huntley is the latest well-known American to grace the front of the visitor center building at Homestead National Monument of America as part of the ongoing "Homestead Legacies" project.
Huntley was born in Cardwell in 1911 and died in 1974.
Huntley was one of the nation's most well-known and respected journalists, and his early experiences as the son of homesteaders surely contributed much to his success."
www.beatricedailysun.com /articles/2005/04/29/news/news2.txt   (251 words)

  
 Boston.com / Latest News / Nation
Brinkley first won fame as the partner of Chet Huntley for 14 years on NBC's nightly news broadcast, "The Huntley-Brinkley Report." In 1981, he began hosting ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley," which brought him a new generation of admirers too young to remember his work with Huntley.
Huntley, a heavyset Westerner with a bluff manner, complemented Mr.
Earlier in the '70s, after Huntley retired, he had briefly served as a rotating coanchor, along with John Chancellor and Frank McGee, on NBC's nightly news, then as a commentator from 1971 to 1976, at which time he again became a coanchor (this time with Chancellor) until 1979.
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 CJR - Books - David Brinkley: A Memoir, review by Neil Hickey
For eleven years (1956-1967), the unlikely pairing of Chet Huntley -- a rugged Montanan who sometimes seemed more interested in cattle than the news -- and David Brinkley dominated the TV evening news scene, as well as the coverage of primaries, political conventions, and election nights.
So potent was the Huntley-Brinkley synergy that after the 1964 Republican convention in San Francisco, CBS in a panic ejected Walter Cronkite from his anchor seat and replaced him with their own dynamic duo (Robert Trout and Roger Mudd), a team that fared even worse in the ratings war against the surging NBC News.
Huntley hung around for a few more years and then retired and went home to the big-sky country where he was happiest.
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 TVgameshows.net: All in the Game by Steve Beverly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When Brinkley was teamed with the late Chet Huntley for the 1956 political conventions on NBC, the two barely knew each other.
Huntley and Brinkley employed a conversational, witty and unconventional approach to convention coverage.
Brinkley and Huntley (for once, we delight in flip-flopping the order of their names) pioneered the dual anchor format in television which evolved locally in the seventies to the one part blow-dry, one part cutie pie at the main news desk.
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Chet Baker was a primary exponent of the West Coast school of cool jazz in the early and mid-'50s.
Without Chet Atkins, country music may never have crossed over into the pop charts in the '50s and '60s.
Widely hailed as "the Father of the Summer of Love," Chet Helms was the nexus of San Francisco counterculture.
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 Special for Missoulian Online - The 100 Most Influential Montanans of the Century
Huntley retired from the news business July 31, 1970, at the age of 58.
Despite assurances the project would be done with minimal impacts on the environment, Huntley incurred public anger and political sandbagging in his efforts.
Meanwhile, Huntley made President Richard Nixon's notorious "enemies list" as rumors circulated that Vice President Spiro Agnew was pressuring the Forest Service to withhold a crucial land swap the Big Sky project needed.
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 Chet Huntley - 1946 - Teletype - CBS/KNX Columbia Square
Or perhaps you remember Chet Huntley as being co-anchor with David Brinkley on the NBC Evening Television News.
Huntley's office was a large, noisy machine that was constantly clattering away in an adjacent room.
Huntley standing at the machine, scanning the reams of text it continually spewed out.
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 Finding aid to the Personal Papers of Chester R. Huntley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Chester ("Chet") Robert Huntley was a broadcast journalist best known for his work on NBC’s top-rated news show, the "Huntley/Brinkley Report." Born December 10, 1911, in Caldwell, Montana, he began his career in radio, eventually serving three national networks as a newsman, analyst, and commentator.
In 1956, Huntley and co-host David Brinkley began their celebrated television news program, which ended with Huntley’s retirement in 1970.
The Personal Papers of Chester Robert Huntley consist of correspondence received by him relating to his coverage of the assassination and funeral of President Kennedy.
www.jfklibrary.org /fa_huntley.html   (340 words)

  
 Main Hall to Main St. | The University of Montana
Among its many collections, UM’s K. Ross Toole Archives houses the papers of broadcast journalist Chet Huntley, the former co-anchor of NBC’s “The Huntley-Brinkley Report.”; The archives are located on the fourth level of UM’s Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library.
“Huntley was one of Montana’s most prominent native sons,” said Frank D’Andraia, UM dean of library services.
A native of Cardwell, Mont., Huntley was born Dec. 10, 1911.
www.umt.edu /urelations/MainHall/1003/library.htm   (284 words)

  
 Friday
From that moment on, he was one of the young reporters who embraced the medium, and one of the few who actually looked comfortable appearing on-camera as others struggled to go from unseen radio personality to publicly scrutinized television personality.
He and Huntley broadcast from different cities but shared a strong knowledge of politics and interest in the sociology of political parties.
After Huntley retired and Brinkley endured other NBC co-anchors such as John Chancellor, the veteran journalist threatened to quit in 1981 unless the network fired “that SOB,” NBC News president Bill Small.
www.medialifemagazine.com /news2003/jun03/jun09/5_fri/news6friday.html   (886 words)

  
 Huntley, Chet on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
(Chester Robert Huntley), 1911-74, American news broadcaster, b.
Obituary: David Brinkley; Veteran anchorman whose `Huntley-Brinkley Report', with Chet Huntley, changed US television news.(Obituaries)
TV newscaster David Brinkley, shown here with Chet Huntley in a 1960 Library of Congress handout photo, died today, June 12, 2003, at his home in Houston, Texas, of complications from a fall.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/h/huntley.asp   (367 words)

  
 St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Chet Huntley
As part of the most successful television broadcasting team in television history, Chet Huntley (with co-anchor David Brinkley) was responsible for NBC's winning the news ratings war against CBS and ABC in the 1960s.
Beginning in 1956 and until 1970 when Huntley retired, the Huntley/Brinkley Report was a household staple for millions of Americans.
Huntley's resonate voice and straightforward style seemed a perfect match to Brinkley's more cryptic, somewhat cynical approach.
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 CHET HUNTLEY - INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED
A news announcer since his college days, Huntley (1911-1974) teamed on television with David Brinkley, beginning with the presidential nominating conventions of 1956.
Cutting between Huntley in New York and Brinkley in Washington, the news program set new standards in TV journalism.
Huntley retired to his native Montana in 1970.
www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/9_2003/tv/CHET_HUNTLEY.htm   (161 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: In Memoriam -- June 12, 2003
He and Huntley were such a success, NBC selected them as co-anchors of the Nightly News and renamed it the Huntley-Brinkley report.
Their on-air partnership ended with Huntley's retirement in 1970, but Brinkley stayed with NBC until 1981 when ABC news president Roone Arledge lured him to the network.
And his contribution was to bring all those qualities, very serious writer, serious print journalist, background in print, with his wonderful personality and with his sort of ironic, wry, skeptical way that made it...that gave him a little detachment and endeared him to the millions.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/media/jan-june03/brinkley_6-12.html   (1836 words)

  
 Read about Chet Huntley at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Chet Huntley and learn about Chet Huntley here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Cameron Swayze, but there was a disagreement on who the new anchorman should be.
The two leading contenders were Chet Huntley and
It was decided to have the two men co-anchor the show; Huntley from New York, Brinkley from
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 Kathleen Parker
It seems fitting to write of Brinkley's exit around Father's Day as he and his co-anchor of many years, Chet Huntley, were father figures of a sort in American households during the 50s and 60s, as well as spokemen for events that defined the era.
It was a bumpy ride, and Huntley and Brinkley brought calm and forbearance to American living rooms where families gathered for nightly briefings.
Here is what Huntley and Brinkley really meant: We kids would be roasted on a spit in the backyard barbecue pit or thrown into a cast iron pot with the rosin potatoes if we made a sound during Father's despair-filled date with Mssrs.
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 The Wacky World of KuKuAchoo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Chet Huntley is most famous for his role as co-anchor of the critically acclaimed and highly rated The Huntley-Brinkley Report.
The Huntley-Brinkley Report introduced an innovative broadcast style, cutting between Huntley in New York and David Brinkley in Washington, D.C. The energy, pace, and style of the program was clearly a step beyond the more conventional work of "news readers" who had preceded the new format.
The 'CBS Evening News' quickly became the top-rated newscast for the next two decades and Brinkley moved to ABC where he started his phenomenally successful Sunday morning talk show 'This Week with David Brinkley' that continues today without him.
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 Brinkley, David
And when this natural TV journalist was teamed with the California reporter Chet Huntley, they literally took TV audiences by storm.
TV news before Huntley and Brinkley was a combination of dull film reports, similar to movie theater newsreels of the 1940s, and a radio reporting style similar to the World War II era.
But Huntley and Brinkley took TV news into a new age of electronic journalism.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/B/htmlB/brinkleydav/brinkleydav.htm   (1081 words)

  
 Biography for Chet Huntley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Chet Huntley, a native of Bozeman, Montana, worked for Movietone News and then CBS radio in Los Angeles, as well as NBC TV in Los Angeles.
Chet also participated in historical events, such as November 22, 1963, when, along with stunned colleagues Bill Ryan and Frank McGee, he brought to NBC viewers live coverage and instant analysis of the events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Chet later, after Huntley-Brinkley went off the air, became a spokesman for American Airlines and started his own Montana resort.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0403142/bio   (221 words)

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