Camel News Caravan
| Camel News Caravan | |
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| Presented by | John Cameron Swayze |
| Country of origin | United States |
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| Running time | 15 minutes |
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| Network | NBC |
| Release | February 16, 1949 – October 26, 1956 |
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The Camel News Caravan or Camel Caravan of News was a 15-minute
Chrysler's Plymouth division sponsored the other days, and on those days, the program was labelled the Plymouth News Caravan. The program featured a young Washington correspondent named David Brinkley, and competed against Douglas Edwards with the News on rival CBS. With greater resources, the News Caravan attracted a larger audience than its CBS competition until 1955.[3]
Launched on February 16,
Camel Newsreel Theatre it began as a 10-minute program that featured Fox Movietone News newsreels. John Cameron Swayze provided voice-over for the series. The Camel News Caravan was an expanded version of the Camel Newsreel Theatre and featured Swayze on-camera. It was also known as the Camel Caravan of News.[4]
The Camel News Caravan was replaced by the
Notes
- ^ Anchors Aweigh Archived 2009-12-21 at the Wayback Machine Entertainment Weekly.
- ^ "RCA-NBC Firsts in Color Television" Archived 2008-12-19 at the Wayback Machine E.H. Reitan, Jr.
- ^ a b c Matusow, Barbara. The Evening Stars: The Making of the Network News Anchor (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983), pp. 62-63, 69.
- ^ NBC: America's Network Michele Hilmes, Michael Lowell Henry; University of California Press, 2007 - Performing Arts - 362 pages, page 176.
- ^ John Cameron Swayze dead at 89 CNN (1995-08-16).