Walter Cronkite arrives for the Broadway opening of the new musical 'Young Frankenstein' in New York, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Posted on 11/16/2007 6:18:55 PM PST by mdittmar
Walter Cronkite, the TV news icon often described as "the most trusted man in America," is returning to television, signing on as a regular contributor to the startup cable network Retirement Living TV.
Beginning November 20, the former CBS Evening News anchor will contribute weekly editorial commentaries during the channel's two-hour noontime program, Daily Cafe. Each of Cronkite's videotaped messages will run between seven and 10 minutes in length.
The "Cronkite's Commentaries" segments will provide the veteran newsman a platform from which to offer his take on a host of issues, ranging from politics to the environment.
Retirement Living made the announcement Thursday morning, capping months of negotiations with the 91-year-old Cronkite. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
While Cronkite signed off from CBS News for the last time on March 6, 1981, he has stayed true to his parting words, "old anchormen, you see, don't fade away; they just keep coming back for more." Over the years, he has made occasional appearances on TV, including Discovery Channel documentaries and specials.
Retirement Living reaches some 29 million U.S. households, primarily through DirecTV. Its broadcast day runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST.
Cronkite will be a big draw for that program - the viewers can start throwing things at the teevee again!
Gbye Walter. We don’t need your BS. Stay retired.
I wonder if he will be a guest on Imus.
How old is Cronkite now? 130?
He was 90 during the Viet Nam war!
Hey walter,can you get up and point to a map anymore?
Lucille Ball and Gale Gordon attempted that. Their age showed and their show crashed and burned. Sometimes you need to just fade away. Johnny Carson was to the left politically but he had great business sense and show business sense. He left us wanting and didn’t do the Bob Hope thing. Linkletter and Harvey are exceptions to this, but their gig is to talk to us like cheerleaders and grandfathers. That wears better, much better. If Cronkite wants to do that maybe it will work. If he wants to lecture us on politics, I don’t think so.
Which goes to prove that old communists never die.....
They just go to syndication....
He should have guests like Alan Greenspan, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Cindy Sheenan, and all of those other people who just won’t go away.
Cronkite is still alive?
Walter Cronkite arrives for the Broadway opening of the new musical 'Young Frankenstein' in New York, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
The Return of the 2000 Year Old Man.
Depends on what you mean my “alive”. ;-)
Hue City? Its to bad he’s still not there.Permanently.
my = by
Cronkite is more alive than the Mummy of King Tut.
I’m approaching retirement age and the last thing I want to see is a senile old coot.
When you really need to end a war, Who would you look for?. Bob Hope?..nope. He was an American patriot. Che Guevera? Already taken. Cindy Sheehan? She and her smelly friends are still in my basement! Ewww. Get the a@@hole who lied and distorted the Vietnam war from start to finish. there ya go.
Not by much. ;-)
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