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Newsweek Views the News
1948 American TV series or program From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Newsweek Views the News (also known as Newsweek Analysis) is an American television program broadcast Mondays at 8pm ET on the DuMont Television Network. The series ran from 1948 to 1950.
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Overview
The series is a public affairs program hosted by Ernest K. Lindley. Editors of Newsweek magazine interviewed guests and discussed current news events.[1]
The program, produced and distributed by DuMont, aired live on Monday nights from 8–8:30 p.m. on most DuMont affiliates. The last episode was aired on May 22, 1950, and DuMont replaced the series with Visit with the Armed Forces.
Episode status
Kinescopes of two episodes, "Casebook of Treason" (February 27, 1950) and "The Far East" (April 17, 1950), are in the collection of the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
"Casebook on Treason" featured ex-Soviet spies Whittaker Chambers and Hede Massing and Soviet defector Peter Pirogov as speakers.[2]
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