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...episode last month, a clip was shown of Edward R. Murrow, in 1951, instructing his director (Don Hewitt! - everyone was young once) to hook up the first ?live? coast-to-coast broadcast link, between WCBS in New York and KPIX in San Francisco. (Alas, that station now carries ?CBS SM? in less-than-prime 6 a.m. slot. But that?s OK. Old people can time-shift...
...show was old at birth, when Charles Kuralt, the first host, began the inaugural program by declaring, ?Here starts something new... a Sunday newspaper that comes in a tube.? Something new for television, not for newspapers and magazines. ?CBS SM? has its closest equivalent, and direct inspiration in the Sunday New York Times - specifically in its magazine and its Arts and Leisure section, with essayish reports on social trends and features on and criticism of music, film and art. But the Times, like most journalistic enterprises these days, is avid to get younger; ?CBS SM? is content to be late...
...step and muttered, ?Humiliated by a 104-year-old man.? The show itself moved at Kuralt?s pace and with his interests, searching out the underappreciated overachievers, the local good-deed-doers. On other news-and-entertainment shows, an editor might dump a story on a worthy anonymity; ?CBS SM? would say that attention must be paid. At the end of his last show, in 1994, Kuralt recited this childlike quatrain: ??Remember, please, when I am gone, / ?Twas aspiration led me on. / Tiddly-widdly, toodle-oo, / All I want is to stay with you.? But here I go.? He died...
...Another reason to cherish ?CBS SM?: when Kuralt retired, he was succeeded by a man a year older than he. Osgood was New York City born, bred, schooled (Fordham) and employed (as the mellifluous morning man on WCBS news radio). Yet his bow tie, wry good nature and weakness for writing up a story in helium-light verse marked him as a Kuralt cousin. He joined the CBS network in 1971 and filled a daily 90-sec. slot called ?The Osgood File? (it?s run on 350 stations) as well as serving, for five years, as a host...
...Here?s how a typical ?CBS SM? runs...