After The Deadlines was an American evening news program of the early 1950s.[1] It was broadcast on the ABC network from April 1951 to October 1952.[2]
Typical of evening television news programs of the era, it lasted fifteen minutes. After the Deadlines aired at 7:00 PM, earlier than its competitors, Camel News Caravan (NBC, 7:45 PM) and Douglas Edwards with the News (CBS, 7:30 PM)[3] in an attempt to draw news viewers from these more-established networks. Its predecessor was News and Views, and its successor was All-Star News and, eventually, ABC World News Tonight, as seen in this list:
In 1951 and 1952, most American households did not have television receivers, and ABC was a distinctly minor network compared to NBC and CBS, so After the Deadlines was not a major factor in the overall news business, and the identity of the anchor or anchors of After the Deadlines may be lost to history.[5]
'After the Deadlines' was so minor that we couldn't find a definitive source of who anchored it... There is some disagreement over who hosted the evening program between John Charles Daly and Ron Cochran. Some sources suggest more co-anchors than others.