Ron Cochran was a TV news journalist for ABC. He served as the anchor of the ABC Evening News (now, World News Tonight) from 1962 to 1964. Before that, he was the host of the CBS drama television series Armstrong Circle Theatre. The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a television and radio network in the United States. ... ABC World News Tonight (often abbreviated as WNT) is the ABC television networks flagship evening news program. ... CBS (formerly an acronym for Columbia Broadcasting System, the former legal name of the network) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States. ... Armstrong Circle Theatre was an anthology drama television series which ran from 1950 to 1957 on NBC, and then until 1963 on CBS. It alternated weekly with The U. S. Steel Hour. ...