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is Your Local News Worthless? We'll Have The Details As CBS 2 News Continues....
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It's the 50th anniversary of something that changed TV, and everything: the debut of "The Big News" on CBS TV station KNXT (now KCBS-TV) in Los Angeles. What was so special? It was the first 45-minute local newscast in America. Soon, it was a full hour. When it started, local news was always 15 or 30 minutes, and the general consensus was that there wasn't enough material to fill an hour. Oh, how wrong they were. All the fluff and alarmist "special reports" we now associate with TV news? That all began 50 years ago, with "The Big News." (Los Angeles Times)
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