After the Deadlines
After The Deadlines was an American evening news program of the early 1950s.[1] It was broadcast on the ABC network from April 1951 to October 1952.[2]
Typical of evening television news programs of the era, it lasted fifteen minutes. After the Deadlines aired at 7:00 PM, earlier than its competitors, Camel News Caravan (NBC, 7:45 PM) and Douglas Edwards with the News (CBS, 7:30 PM)[3] in an attempt to draw news viewers from these more-established networks. Its predecessor was News and Views, and its successor was All-Star News and, eventually, ABC World News, as seen in this list:
- ABC evening news programs[4]
- News and Views (August 11, 1948 – March 30, 1951)
- After The Deadlines (April 2, 1951 – October 3, 1952)
- All-Star News (October 6, 1952 – January 2, 1953)
- (No weekday evening news broadcast, January 5, 1953 – October 9, 1953)
- John Daly and the News (October 12, 1953 – September 12, 1958)
- ABC News (September 15, 1958 – May 8, 1959)[note 1]
- John Daly and the News (May 11, 1959 – December 16, 1960)
- ABC World News (December 19, 1960 – present (As of 2015[update]))[note 2]
In 1951 and 1952, most American households did not have television receivers, and ABC was a distinctly minor network compared to NBC and CBS, so After the Deadlines was not a major factor in the overall news business, and the identity of the anchor or anchors of After the Deadlines may be lost to history.[5]
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