{"id":5392,"date":"2014-10-23T09:30:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T14:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=5392"},"modified":"2014-10-23T09:32:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T14:32:04","slug":"thats-the-way-it-was-new-cbs-channel-turns-back-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/10\/23\/thats-the-way-it-was-new-cbs-channel-turns-back-time\/","title":{"rendered":"That\u2019s the way it was: New CBS channel turns back time"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Walter<\/a>

<\/a> Walter Cronkite<\/p><\/div>\n

Walter Cronkite will be back on TV. And I for one couldn\u2019t be happier.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the headline as far as I\u2019m concerned out of news this week that CBS is launching a new digital network called Decades <\/a>in partnership with Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting.<\/p>\n

Set to debut this spring on a digital subchannel of WBBM-Channel 2<\/a> and 15 other CBS-owned stations nationwide, Decades will feature news and entertainment programming culled from the network\u2019s vast library and organized around theme and dates. It will mark the first time CBS 2 is utilizing its digital tiers.<\/p>\n

Neal Sabin, vice chairman of Weigel Broadcasting and the programming genius behind MeTV,<\/a> Me-Too, The U and the just-launched Heroes & Icons, among other channels, said he hopes to air as many of Cronkite\u2019s vintage broadcasts as possible, including perhaps nightly runs of the \u201cCBS Evening News\u201d from the Cronkite era. Way to go, Neal.<\/p>\n

Revered by millions as \u201cThe Most Trusted Man in America,\u201d Cronkite stepped down as anchorman of the \u201cCBS Evening News\u201d in 1981 and died in 2009 at age 92. But his archive of work represents an unparalleled record of the second half of the 20th century.<\/p>\n

\"Neal<\/a>

Neal Sabin<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThe overall concept of Decades is to create a daily time capsule of historical events of all types \u2014 hard news, pop culture and entertainment,\u201d Sabin said.\u00a0\u201cOur relationship with CBS News will enable Decades to tell these stories via legendary journalists such as Walter Cronkite. Viewers will relive \u2014 or for younger viewers, experience for the first time \u2014 how events large and small were first brought to the attention of the American public.\u201d<\/p>\n

A centerpiece of the network will be \u201cDecades Retrospectical,\u201d a daily one-hour program that will be produced around the news events and cultural touchstones of a specific day, week or theme. Shows presented each day will reflect that day\u2019s theme or commemorative event, according to CBS.<\/p>\n

Entertainment programming will be drawn from among more than 100 classic series going as far back as \u201cI Love Lucy,\u201d which debuted in 1951.<\/p>\n

\u201cDecades is the most ambitious and creative subchannel programming service that has ever been created,\u201d Peter Dunn, president of CBS Television Stations, said in a statement. <\/a>\u201cWe are thrilled to partner with Weigel Broadcasting, the leaders in this space, to make smart use of our stations\u2019 spectrums and our companies\u2019 considerable programming assets. This service will be a tremendous new business for CBS and all of the other stations across the country that participate, regardless of their primary network affiliation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added Sabin: \u201cIn a video marketplace filled with more and more trivial information and exploitation, Decades will showcase substance and class, and have some fun in doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Walter Cronkite will be back on TV. And I for one couldn\u2019t be happier. That\u2019s the headline as far as I\u2019m concerned out of news this week that CBS is launching a new digital network called Decades in partnership with Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5392"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5398,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions\/5398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}