In 1961 television news was in relative infancy in the United States. Network news broadcasts ran just 15 minutes, hardly enough time to communicate the news of the day. Local news broadcasts likewise ran 15 minutes, five minutes for news, five minutes for weather and five minutes for sports. But in October of 1961 a brilliant television pioneer named Sam Zelman decided to change the TV news landscape by introducing "The Big News," an hour long broadcast...