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Was sad to hear of the passing of Christopher Glenn, the host. It was introduction to world events and led me to listen to the news & read the paper for more than just sports & comics. Couldn't figure why he didn't replace Cronkite. He had the voice that you trusted. Thank you Mr. Glenn. Rest in peace.

In The News" was outstanding. Very informative and educational. And didn't try to treat its viewers like idiots. And even better - DIDN'T try to be "hip" ("hip"...another cultural crime). Wasn't it actually a "revamping" of an earlier, more "hip" (and offensive) "In The Know"?

Looking back, In The News was very instrumental in my knowledge of world events. I also loved Christopher Glenn's voice. Up until Feb. 23, I listened to him every morning on the CBS World News Roundup. Glenn announced his retirement recently and his last day was Feb. 23.

I remember many In The News items (Pope Paul VI's death, Mickey Mouse's 50 birthday). TV Land repeated some of these items several years ago (I saw the one about ketchup run constantly on this channel). I also remember Christopher Glenn's 30 Minutes program that replaced The CBS Childrens Film Festival. One memorable item was about a high school play that contained dirty words. As the segment began, audio of the play was aired with bleeps. Glenn explained that the bleeps were the dirty words that we were not allowed to hear. This was the first that I knew there were certain words I was not supposed to hear as a child and that network television would not broadcast (at least not then, I know that some words like piss have been on the air a lot since then!).

I'll never forget that spinning globe and goofy sound effect. The only news I can remember though was about a nerdy kid who taught himself Egyptian hieroglyphics, and wanted to be an archaeologist. That was cool but he even showed off his "mummy." It was obviously a Barbie type doll wrapped in some gauze. I thought I could get on TV too by mummifying a doll...then the globe spins, a 70s synth beeps and bloops, and it's time for another episode of U.S. of Archie!

So you couldn't sing along. Big fat hairy deal. These little snippets made our mornings worthwhile, especially when our favorite characters introduced them with "another interesting story that's in the news." There was so much more to weekend morning TV than the Schoolhouse Rock.

How on earth could "In the News" jump? The animated, elongated globe spinning around, the blippity-blippity-blippity doo-doo-DOO-doo-doo-doo theme song, Christopher Glenn's soothing yet efficient voice... Never jumped.

I always enjoyed it too. People have mentioned Christopher Glenn also being on news radio. But he was also one of a set of hosts of an overnight interview show called Nightwatch in 1982-83, which was very underrated (especially compared to the later Charlie Rose version). I've been looking constantly for tapes of it, and having a lot of near-misses. The years it belongs to aren't really the problem with that, or even the fact that it started at about midnight. I think it's that it was a fairly low-key show of that kind, not the "ambush" kind (unlike 60 Minutes, Barbara Walters and so on) , and didn't really get noticed.

I don't think this show jumped at all. I often saw the In The News segments when I was growing up and I think I learned much about politics from them, along with the occasional specials done by CBS on Saturday mornings (such as "What's a Presidential Election All About?"). Those programs clearly explained public affairs to youngsters back then--although I've often wondered if some politicians and decision-makers also watched these programs to get an idea about what they were doing!

Does anybody else recall the similar segment that preceded "In The News"? For one or two seasons before Christopher Glenn, I remember they used a segment called "In The Know" as a bumper between cartoons. It was hosted by Josie and the Pussycats, and - if memory serves - was a little less "hard news" compared to "In The News".

Just as a side note: I learned that the war in Vietnam was over from this show. Even though I am Canadian, I still loved it.

I'll never forget it. To the earlier poster, it's: "I'm Christopher Glen with (insert topic)...'In the News'."

The narrator was Christopher Glenn, who also hosted "30 Minutes", the Saturday afternoon mews show for kids. He still works for CBS Radio. I also thought the theme was cool-a synththesized tune that sort of went "blippity-blippity" all the way through the show, with that closing "Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-DOOOO!", almost like "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". However, I don't remember much about the actual reports.

Day One. I can still remember me and all my friends complaining about this show. It was too stiff and informative a show too be stuck in between all the classic Saturday morning cartoons Remember this was an era when Saturday cartoons was THE thing. We only had 3 major networks and we craved Krofft shows and stuff like that. As a kid, I had no interest in current events, that was strictly for school time. Even though "In the News" was supposed to be educational and fun like "Schoolhouse Rock", it just couldn't compare. I looked forward to "Schoolhouse Rock". You couldn't sing along to "In the News" = maybe that was it.

Christopher Glenn was the narrator of 'In the News'. At the time, he was the news anchor of WCBS, CBS's New York City affiliate and, as recently as a month ago was doing the CBS Radio News Hourly News updates (about five minutes worth) syndicated on news/talk radio stations across the country! I liked those spots a great deal,too, they NEVER jumped but Saturday Morning kids' programming *did* when they quit having them to make more room for witless programs and commercials! At least Linda Ellerbee has 'Nick News' every Saturday night on Nickeleodeon!