See It Now
Genre	newsmagazine and documentary
Running time	30 minutes
Creator(s)	Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow
Starring	Edward R. Murrow (host)
Country of origin	United States
Original channel	CBS
Original run	November 18, 1951 – July 7, 1958

See It Now was a television newsmagazine and documentary broadcast by CBS in the 1950s. It was created by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow and hosted by Murrow. The show won four Emmy Awards, in 1953, 1954, 1957, and 1958. It also won a 1952 Peabody Award, which cited its A newsmagazine, sometimes called news magazine, is a usually weekly magazine featuring articles on current events. ... A television documentary is a documentary or a series of documentaries that are meant to be broadcasted on television. ... Fred W. Friendly Fred W. Friendly (October 30, 1915 – March 3, 1998) was the former president of CBS News and the creator, with Edward R. Murrow, of the documentary television program See It Now. ... April 8, 1956: CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow talking to reporters during a stop in Wiesbaden, Germany. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States. ... November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A newsmagazine, sometimes called news magazine, is a usually weekly magazine featuring articles on current events. ... A television documentary is a documentary or a series of documentaries that are meant to be broadcasted on television. ... CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States. ... // Recovering from World War II and its aftermath, the economic miracle emerged in West Germany and Italy. ... Fred W. Friendly Fred W. Friendly (October 30, 1915 – March 3, 1998) was the former president of CBS News and the creator, with Edward R. Murrow, of the documentary television program See It Now. ... April 8, 1956: CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow talking to reporters during a stop in Wiesbaden, Germany. ... An Emmy Award. ... The George Foster Peabody Awards, more commonly referred to as the Peabody Awards, are annual international awards given for excellence in radio and television broadcasting and cable television. ...

simple, lucid, intelligent analysis of top news stories of the week on television....a strikingly effective format for presenting news and the personalities involved in the news with humor, sometimes with indignation, always with careful thought.

The show was an adaptation of radio's Hear It Now, also produced by Murrow and Friendly. Its first episode, on November 18, 1951, opened with the first live simultaneous TV transmission from both the East Coast (New York Harbor) and the West Coast (San Francisco Bay), as reporters on both sides of the North American continent gave live reports to Murrow, who was sitting in the control room on CBS' Studio 41 (near director Don Hewitt). November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Don Hewitt, broadcaster, born 14 December 1922. ...

One of the most popular of the See It Now reports was a 1952 broadcast entitled Christmas in Korea, when Murrow spoke with American soldiers assigned to the United Nations combat forces. 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Combatants United Nations: Republic of Korea  Australia  Belgium Canada  Colombia Ethiopia  France Greece  Netherlands  New Zealand  Philippines South Africa  Thailand  Turkey  United Kingdom United States Medical staff:  Denmark  Australia  Italy  Norway  Sweden Communist states: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea People’s Republic of China  Soviet Union Commanders Syngman Rhee... The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. ...

See It Now focused on a number of controversial issues in the 1950s, but it is best remembered as the show that criticized the Red Scare and contributed to the political downfall of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Some factual claims in this article need to be verified. ... Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin between 1947 and 1957. ...

Murrow produced a number of episodes of the show that dealt with the Communist witch hunt hysteria (one of the more notable episodes resulted in a U.S. military officer being acquitted, after being charged with supporting Communism), before embarking on a broadcast on March 9, 1954 that has often been referred to as television's finest hour. This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... A witch-hunt was traditionally a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, which could lead to a witchcraft trial involving the accused person. ... March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (69th in Leap years). ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

For three months in 1957 See It Now followed opera singer Marian Anderson on a goodwill tour of Southeast Asia.

By using mostly recordings of McCarthy himself in action interrogating witnesses and making speeches, Murrow and Friendly displayed what they felt was the key danger to the democracy: not suspected Communists, but McCarthy's actions themselves. As Murrow said in his tailpiece: Image File history File links See_it_now_with_marian_anderson. ... Image File history File links See_it_now_with_marian_anderson. ... Marian Anderson, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1940 Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) was an African-American contralto (same range as alto), best remembered for her performance on Easter Sunday, 1939 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. The concert, which commenced with...

No one familiar with the history of his country can deny that Congressional committees are useful. It is necessary to investigate before legislating. But the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one, and the junior senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly.

The broadcast provoked tens of thousands of letters, telegrams and phone calls to CBS headquarters, running 15 to 1 in favor of Murrow. Friendly later recalled how truck drivers pulled up alongside Murrow and shouted, "Good show, Ed. Good show, Ed."

The show's probe of the McCarthy-led anti-Communist era is the focus of the 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck. Good Night, and Good Luck. ...

Murrow's hard-hitting approach to the news eventually cost him influence in the world of television, although his celebrity talk show Person to Person remained a top-rated program with much better numbers than See It Now ever had. See It Now occasionally scored high ratings (usually when it was approaching a particularly controversial subject), but in general it did not score well on prime-time television. A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... A person-to-person call is an operator assisted telephone call in which the calling party wants to speak to a specific party and not to anyone who answers. ...

When the quiz show phenomenon began and took the world of TV by storm in the mid-1950s, Murrow realized the days of See It Now as a Tuesday-night fixture on CBS were numbered. The weekly version of See It Now ended in 1955 (after Alcoa pulled out its sponsorship), but the show remained as a series of occasional TV special news reports that defined documentary news coverage. Quiz Show is a 1994 film which tells the true story of the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A Television Special is a television program that is essentially a television movie or a short film usually intended to be broadcast sporadically, typically once a year at most. ...

During the years See It Now was an occasional series of specials, Murrow became upset by the network repeatedly granting (without consulting Murrow) equal time to subjects who felt wronged by the program. After CBS granted another such request -- regarding a See It Now show on whether or not Alaska and Hawaii deserved statehood -- Murrow complained to CBS head William S. Paley he could not continue doing the program if CBS continued to accede to such equal-time requests under those circumstances. William S. Paley (September 28, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois – October 26, 1990 in New York, New York) was the chief executive who built CBS from a small radio network to the dominant radio and television network operation in America. ...

Eventually, according to co-producer Friendly, Murrow and Paley had a blazing showdown in Paley's office. The CBS chairman told Murrow that he was tired of the constant "stomach aches" the program caused when it covered controversial subjects. That marked the beginning of the end of See It Now, the last episode of which aired on July 7, 1958. July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The show lives on in its spiritual successors, such as the CBS News broadcasts Sunday Morning and 60 Minutes (created by Hewitt and once also featuring former See It Now producers Palmer Williams and Joe Wershba). CBS News Sunday Morning is a news show featuring news and feature segments that airs Sunday mornings on CBS. Its hosted by Charles Osgood. ... 60 Minutes is an investigative television newsmagazine on United States television, which has run on CBS News since 1968. ...

Most recently, "See It Now" has also become the slogan for a relaunched CBS Evening News with new anchor Katie Couric in September 2006. CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963. ... Katherine Katie Anne Couric (born January 7, 1957) is an American media personality who became well-known as co-host of NBCs Today, and now serves as the anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News. ... Look up September in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... -1...

See also

• Good Night, and Good Luck.

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External links

• See It Now from the Museum of Broadcast Communications
• The script from See it Now, March 9, 1954 and Senator Mc Carthy's response on April 6 hosted by the University of Maryland, College Park, (Official Website)