What year marked the start of NBC Evening News, what was it called, and who was the announcer?

• A. 1950; 'Camel Newsreel Theatre'; Dan Rather
• B. 1960; 'News at Eleven'; Walter Cronkite
• C. 1948; 'Camel Newsreel Theatre'; John Cameron Swayze
• D. 1975; 'NBC Evening Today'; Tom Brokaw

Answer: (C)

NBC Evening News has its roots in the late 1940s, when NBC aired a nightly news program built around film newsreels called Camel Newsreel Theatre. The announcer guiding viewers through those reels was John Cameron Swayze. This setup reflects the era’s sponsor-driven, reel-based news presentation, which predates the modern anchor-led NBC Nightly News formats that developed later. The other options mix up dates, show titles, and announcers associated with different networks or time periods (for example, Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather with CBS, and Tom Brokaw arriving as an NBC anchor years later). So the accurate combination is 1948, Camel Newsreel Theatre, with John Cameron Swayze as announcer.