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Article: `Sunday Morning,' `Nightly Business Report' turn 25 this month.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- January 19, 2004
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Byline: Aaron Barnhart
This week, two television programs will celebrate the same milestone ... 25 years on the air. All the more remarkable is how both shows spent the last quarter century: quietly, unassumingly, all but sealed off from the hyperactive forces that run most of the TV business.
"Sunday Morning," CBS' arts and culture magazine of the air, signed on Jan. 28, 1979, with Charles Kuralt as its host. On Jan. 22, 1979, the program that would eventually go national as the "Nightly Business Report" launched across south Florida.
Somehow, despite the exponential growth of cable channels, the decline of network news and the rising cult of ...