BBC News | Amid Blizzard, Cronkite Helped Make Sports History New York Times When Walter Cronkite hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics, he was two years from replacing Douglas Edwards as the anchor of the "CBS Evening News." Cronkite, who died Friday at 92, was already well known for hosting the Democratic and ... The Beatles' First Time On American TV Cronkite the 'standard' for broadcasters How 'That's the way it is' became Cronkite's tag line |