{"id":90691,"date":"2025-10-20T20:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/90691\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T20:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:05:07","slug":"watch-50-years-of-pbs-news-in-just-3-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/90691\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: 50 years of PBS News in just 3 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The show you now know as the PBS News Hour went on the air 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Watch in our video player above.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Robert MacNeil Report\u201d first appeared on television screens on Oct. 20, 1975, an outgrowth of MacNeil and Jim Lehrer\u2019s unprecedented gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings two years earlier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/as-pbs-news-turns-50-longtime-viewers-share-what-the-show-has-meant-to-them\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE: As PBS News turns 50, longtime viewers share what the show has meant to them<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the past five decades, our team has covered the biggest stories and interviewed leaders around the world. Here\u2019s a major moment from every year we\u2019ve been on air.<\/p>\n<p>\n                    A free press is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy.\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"invite_body\">\n                    Support trusted journalism and civil dialogue.\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/give.newshour.org\/page\/88646\/donate\/1?ea.tracking.id=pbs_news_sept_2025_article&amp;supporter.appealCode=N2509AW1000100\" class=\"donation-link ga-click-funding ga-click-ender-funding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    Donate now<\/p>\n<p>                <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The show you now know as the PBS News Hour went on the air 50 years ago. Watch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-90691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}