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David Brinkley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Huntley–Brinkley Report was America's most popular television newscast until it was overtaken, at the end of the 1960s, by the CBS Evening News, anchored by Walter Cronkite. When Huntley retired from the anchor chair in 1970, the show was renamed NBC Nightly News, and Brinkley co-anchored the broadcast with John Chancellor. Brinkley was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he began writing for a local newspaper, the Wilmington Morning Star, while still attending New Hanover High School. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Brinkley   (690 words)

CJR - Books - David Brinkley: A Memoir, review by Neil Hickey 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. Brinkley quite possibly could be the forerunner of a new school of television commentator; he is not an earnest Voice of Authority imparting the final word to the unwashed of videoland. David Brinkley was the twinkley one, but he neglects to mention that wry tribute in his autobiography, a ripping tale of a life in journalism that spans the entire history of television news -- a record of longevity that no other TV newsperson now working can come close to matching. archives.cjr.org /year/95/6/books-brinkley.asp   (1690 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. Within two years, "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" was television's most-watched news program and would largely remain so until Huntley's retirement in 1970. Brinkley was paired with Huntley as coanchor of the network's coverage of the 1956 Democratic National Convention. www.boston.com /news/daily/12/obit_brinkley.htm   (1162 words)

WRAL.com - Home Now, can anyone tell me...I remember the Huntley-Brinkley Report starting on its NBC nightly broadcast with the opening bars of Beethoven's Ninth. David Brinkley was witty, had a good sense of humor, and he wrote his material with a "down to earth" style. Brinkley's news when I was a child, a teen and an adult. forums.ibsys.com /viewmessages.cfm?sitekey=ral&Forum=79&Topic=8588   (656 words)

Veteran broadcast journalist David Brinkley dies Brinkley was instrumental in shaping the way TV news is covered, starting with the landmark "Huntley-Brinkley Report" with the late Chet Huntley, which NBC aired from 1956 until Huntley's retirement in 1970. Brinkley reported on every president from Franklin Roosevelt to Bill Clinton and covered every presidential election and nominating convention from 1956 until his retirement. Brinkley's formula included a paradoxical mix of a reserved personal manner with a professional style and wry wit that served him well in journalism, where maintaining relationships is critical. www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/icopyright_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1913516   (1051 words)

FilmStew.com • Newsman David Brinkley Dead When Huntley retired in 1970, Brinkley became the host of the NBC Nightly News. Brinkley, who became known for his dry wit and willingness to say what was on his mind, was born July 10, 1920, in Wilmington, NC. Brinkley, who died of complications from a fall, was 82 years old. www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=6061   (390 words)

APPRECIATION / Brinkley was an original / Witty newsman let his personality do the talking His short-lived "David Brinkley's Journal" (from October of 1961 to August of 1963) was a manifestation of the journalistic cult of personality he achieved as the more formidable if not more serious part of "The Huntley-Brinkley Report," which began in 1956 and ran for 14 years. After "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" folded (Huntley retired), Brinkley was the solo anchor on the "NBC Nightly News," but that lasted barely a year when John Chancellor stepped up to co-anchor. David Brinkley was the last of the old, old guard (for what will we call Dan Rather when his day comes, if not the last of the TV anchors as figureheads?) At the very least, Brinkley is at the end of a line of television journalists who were dipped in ink at birth. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/14/DD152878.DTL&type=tvradio   (934 words)

Brinkley announces he will leave ABC to `try something else' The reigning dean of Washington TV journalists, Brinkley was a television fixture from 1956-1971 as co-host with Chet Huntley of The Huntley-Brinkley Report, which was the NBC evening news program. Brinkley, believed to be 77, said he was offered a new contract but decided to take his career into a direction different from television. All fine," Brinkley said in a statement, describing TV as "a metaphysical relationship between the broadcaster and the audience, intimate but distant. www.chron.com /content/chronicle/ae/tv/9798/archives/brinkley.0-0.html   (318 words)

Huntley, Chet The Huntley-Brinkley Report's audience was estimated at 20 million, and in 1965, a consumer research company found that, as a result of their hugely successful news program, both Huntley and Brinkley were more recognizable to American adults than such famous stars as Cary Grant, James Stewart or the Beatles. 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. 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. www.museum.tv /archives/etv/H/htmlH/huntleychet/huntleychet.htm   (588 words)

JS Online: Brinkley shaped role that anchors played 1956-'70: Anchor with Chet Huntley on NBC's "Huntley-Brinkley Report" Huntley and Brinkley continued as a team until Huntley retired in 1970. Brinkley stayed at NBC to anchor "The NBC Nightly News" through the 1970s, the decade marked by the end of the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and the nation's first energy crisis. www.jsonline.com /enter/tvradio/jun03/147881.asp?format=print   (995 words)

Brinkley, David McClure on Encyclopedia.com Their nightly Huntley-Brinkley Report (1956-70) won several awards, including the Peabody, Sylvania, and “Emmy.” From 1981 until 1996, Brinkley hosted This Week with David Brinkley, a weekly news panel, for the American Broadcasting Company. Within a few years, Brinkley and fellow newsman Chet Huntley developed documentary techniques for televised analyses of public affairs. As a news analyst Brinkley was noted for his clipped speech, terse and biting commentary, candor, and dry wit. www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/brinkley.asp   (342 words)

Brinkley, David 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. In that year Huntley retired to a Montana ranch, and Brinkley became progressively restless at NBC. www.museum.tv /archives/etv/B/htmlB/brinkleydav/brinkleydav.htm   (1081 words)

CNN.com - Pioneer newsman David Brinkley dies at 82 - Jun. 12, 2003 The combination of Brinkley's puckish wit and Huntley's straightforward delivery made their news show, "The Huntley-Brinkley Report," the top-rated news program for many years until it was overtaken by Walter Cronkite's CBS report in the late 1960s. Brinkley, known for that dry wit and caustic commentaries, was modest about his achievements in a 1992 interview with the AP. David Brinkley, whose writing and delivery changed television news, dies at age 82 of complications from a fall. www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/12/obit.brinkley   (1010 words)

David Brinkley dies -- TV news icon / Covered 11 presidents, 4 wars, 3 assassinations Huntley reported from New York, and Brinkley held forth from Washington. "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" ended with Huntley's retirement in 1970, but Brinkley remained at NBC for 11 years after his departure. Brinkley was among the last of a generation of reporters who got their basic training at newspapers and wire services, then made their name in the new medium of television. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/06/13/MN254152.DTL   (942 words)

Online NewsHour: Veteran News Anchor David Brinkley Dies at 82 -- June 12, 2003 Brinkley first broke onto the national airwaves as a reporter for NBC in 1946, gaining greater national attention ten years later when he and fellow newsman Chet Huntley began the Huntley-Brinkley Report, NBC's evening newscast. Former Huntley-Brinkley Report producer Reuven Frank said Brinkley had "wit, style, intelligence, and perhaps most importantly, a lean writing style made potent with strong declarative sentences, which is effective for the delivery of TV news," the Museum of Broadcast Communication notes in its Brinkley profile. Veteran reporter and anchor David Brinkley died at the age of 82 Wednesday night at his home in Houston, TX after suffering complications from a fall. www.pbs.org /newshour/media/media_watch/jan-june03/brinkley_06-12.html   (763 words)

Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act 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. 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. Chester Robert Huntley was born on December 10, 1911, at Cardwell, Montana. foia.fbi.gov /foiaindex/chethuntley.htm   (255 words)

USATODAY.com - David Brinkley: Ever a strong voice for TV news The combination of the somewhat somber Huntley with the wry, sometimes sarcastic Brinkley immediately caught on, and that year, NBC's nightly newscast became The Huntley-Brinkley Report. 1956-70: NBC News, The Huntley-Brinkley Report, which pioneered the technique of using two journalists in different cities to anchor a news program The contributions of the founding fathers of televised news — men such as Brinkley, Chet Huntley and Edward R. Murrow — are hard to overstate. www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2003-06-12-brinkley-obit_x.htm   (807 words)

PaperFrog: Good night, David. Brinkley knew he was ushering the new medium of television news to dominance over its newspaper and radio competition. David Brinkley, the much-decorated icon of television jounalism and holder of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, died today. He and Chet Huntley were largely responsible for the development of TV news’ documentary style. paperfrog.com /blog/archives/000078.php   (244 words)

View From The Middle By Charles Rogers There was one particular occasion when, shortly after the Huntley-Brinkley Report ended with Hunt-ley retiring and going back to his ranch in Montana, I was a field producer on a documentary feature story we were shooting in Harlem and Mr. Brinkley was the "commentator." I worked closely with him at the time, making sure everything was juuuust right, with proper locations and logistics pinpointed and, well, to make the long story short, the show worked out very well. Of course, I’m talking now about the late David Brinkley, who passed away last week at the age of 82; the same David Brinkley who was the icon of correct, precise, class broadcast journalism; the one who started it all and to this day was and is an example of how it should be done. www.canarsiecourier.com /news/2003/0619/View   (708 words)

Huntley, Chet --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia In 1955 he joined NBC and soon moved to New York for the nightly news broadcast The Huntley-Brinkley Report, which ran from 1956 until 1970. Born on Dec. 10, 1911, in Cardwell, Mont., Chet Huntley joined CBS as a newscaster and correspondent in 1939 and moved to ABC in 1951, where he did three daily news shows. Noted for his dry wit as much as for his intelligence and professional integrity, journalist David Brinkley was one of the pioneers of U.S. television news. www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9326881   (682 words)

The Independent (London, England): Obituary: David Brinkley; Veteran anchorman whose `Huntley-Brinkley Report', with Chet Huntley, changed US television news.(Obituaries)@ HighBeam Research Along with his co-anchor Chet Huntley, Brinkley launched The Huntley- Brinkley Report on NBC in October 1956, in the wake of their groundbreaking presidential convention coverage earlier that summer. IN THE breathless and self-important world of US television news, David Brinkley was an understated exception, an anchor and commentator with a taste for irony, a star almost in spite of himself. But a star he was - among the founding fathers of television news, who helped invent a format which has changed remarkably little in almost half a century. www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:103298021&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (232 words)

On the Media I watched the Huntley-Brinkley Report with my parents when I was a little kid. Brinkley spoke not from on high but with feet firmly planted in the soil. When he stepped down as host of This Week with David Brinkley in November of '96 he had been the anchor or host of a TV news show for 40 years -- longer than anyone ever had. www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_061303_david.html   (495 words)

Main Hall to Main St. The University of Montana He was teamed with David Brinkley to co-anchor “The Huntley-Brinkley Report” during 1956-70. A native of Cardwell, Mont., Huntley was born Dec. 10, 1911. “Huntley was one of Montana’s most prominent native sons,” said Frank D’Andraia, UM dean of library services. www.umt.edu /urelations/MainHall/1003/library.htm   (284 words)

Reference.com/Encyclopedia/CBS Evening News Edwards attracted more viewers during the mid-1950s, but lost ground when Chet Huntley and David Brinkley were teamed up by NBC on the Huntley-Brinkley Report. In 1970, upon Huntley's retirement, the CBS Evening News began a period of domination in terms of viewership unmatched in American television. Rather retired sooner than he wished after an internal investigation at CBS found that he violated journalistic rules in a report regarding George W Bush's National Guard record in the midst of the 2004 Presidential Election. www.reference.com /browse/wiki/CBS_Evening_News   (832 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. TERENCE SMITH: Brinkley's big break came in 1956 when he teamed with Chet Huntley to anchor NBC's coverage of the political conventions. Brinkley was a major part of that; and part of it was content. www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/media/jan-june03/brinkley_6-12.html   (1836 words)

Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / A fuzzy picture In ''The Republic of Mass Culture," James Baughman notes that the ''Huntley-Brinkley Report" was NBC's single most profitable program in 1969, earning approximately $30 million. To compete with NBC's top-rated ''Huntley-Brinkley Report" CBS announced in 1963 that Walter Cronkite's evening news would expand to 30 minutes. Broadcast news audiences proved exceptionally loyal; between 1959 and 1981, the ratings leadership for an entire season changed exactly once, when the ''CBS Evening News" surpassed the ''Huntley-Brinkley Report" in 1967-68, and it would hold the lead until Cronkite's retirement in 1981. www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/04/08/a_fuzzy_picture   (836 words)

Reaction to David Brinkley’s death (printable version) 1970 — The final broadcast of “The Huntley-Brinkley report airs on July 31. “When he teamed up with Chet Huntley for the 1956 political conventions, America saw something brand new: reporting that brought personality and intimacy to the screen and at the same time was of impeccable accuracy and authority.” Neal Shapiro, NBC News president. “David Brinkley served NBC with style and aplomb for almost 40 years, and in the process had a tremendous influence on the profession of broadcast journalism. www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=44493   (646 words)

David Brinkley dies at 82 Brinkley was a major figure in network-television news since 1956, when he teamed up with Chet Huntley to anchor NBC’s The Huntley-Brinkley Report. A veteran political reporter, Brinkley covered every presidential election and nominating convention from 1956 through his retirement. Brinkley’s career in broadcasting began in 1943, when he joined NBC News as White House correspondent. www.nuzgeeks.com /news/publish/article_119.shtml   (245 words)

Hoopes - Alldredge Vision Institute, Laser Correction Center in Salt Lake City and Sandy, Utah - Testimonials Brinkley teamed with Chet Huntley for 14 seasons on the award winning and highly rated Huntley-Brinkley Report, where his renowned wit, singular delivery, and superb TV news writing style made him an institution in broadcast journalism. Brinkley was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, and eventually rose to the pinnacle of media stardom. Brinkley joined ABC news in 1981 and was a mainstay for over 16 years. www.hoopesvision.com /html/testimonials.html   (4396 words)

David Brinkley / Schooler Lecture / Academics / Mount Union College - Mount Union College Also in 1956, Brinkley paired up with NBC anchor Chet Huntley to host The Huntley-Brinkley Report, which ran on the network until Huntley's retirement in July 1970. Brinkley began his association with ABC in 1981 with the premiere of This Week With David Brinkley, but this affiliation with ABC goes beyond his weekly news program. Brinkley's long television journalism career began in 1943 as a White House Correspondent for NBC News. www.muc.edu /academics/schooler_lecture/david_brinkley   (366 words)

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