48 Hours

Unlike most other newsmagazines, 48 Hours devotes its entire hour to one topic. In the earliest years of the programme, it would focus exclusively on the events which happened in a two day time span, thus the name. Dan Rather was assigned to anchor the newsmagazine, allegedly to prevent the type of internal infighting that killed another attempt at a newsmagazine, "West 57th". Intriguingly, one of the correspondents is Bernard Goldberg, who would go on to become a notable critic of CBS and Dan Rather. The show's theme is the unmistakeable work of Edd Kalehoff. The titles use heavy CGI of a camera.