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{{Short description|American newsmagazine and TV documentary series (1951-58)}}
{{Infobox television
| name = See It Now
| image =
| caption =
| genre = [[Newsmagazine]]<br>[[Television documentary|Documentary]]
| creator = [[Fred W. Friendly]]<br>[[Edward R. Murrow]]
| presenter = Edward R. Murrow
| country = United States
| language = English
| num_seasons =
| num_episodes =
| runtime = 45–48 minutes
| company = Columbia Broadcasting System
| distributor =
| channel = [[CBS]]
| picture_format = [[Black-and-white]]
| audio_format = [[Monaural]]
| first_aired = {{Start date|1951|11|18}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1958|07|07}}
}}
'''''See It Now''''' is an American [[newsmagazine]] and [[Television documentary|documentary]] series broadcast by [[CBS]] from 1951 to 1958. It was created by [[Edward R. Murrow]] and [[Fred W. Friendly]], with Murrow as the host of the show. From 1952 to 1957, ''See It Now'' won four [[Emmy Award]]s, shows 3 "wins" and 3 nominations.<ref name="fn2">[http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0151499.html Infoplease], list of 1952 Emmy Awards.</ref> and was nominated three other times. It also won a 1952 [[Peabody Award]].

==Report of Senator McCarthy==
Murrow produced a number of episodes of the show that dealt with the [[Communist]] [[witch-hunt]] hysteria (one of the more notable episodes resulted in a U.S. military officer, [[Milo Radulovich]], being acquitted, after being charged with supporting Communism), before embarking on a broadcast on March 9, 1954<ref>{{cite episode| series=See it Now | airdate=March 9, 1954| network=CBS| title=A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (video)|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=1065699n&tag=contentMain;contentBody| accessdate=2011-05-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite episode | series=See it Now | airdate=March 9, 1954 | network=CBS | title=A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (transcript)| url=http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/murrowmccarthy.html | accessdate=2011-05-16}}</ref>

==2000s==
In September 2006, "See It Now" became the slogan for a relaunched ''[[CBS Evening News]]'' with new anchor [[Katie Couric]].<ref>{{cite press release|title=DEBUT WEEK OF THE 'CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC' CREATES 57% SURGE IN TRAFFIC TO CBSNEWS.COM AND HIGH DEMAND ON OTHER PLATFORMS|url=http://www.cbspressexpress.com/cbs-news/releases/view?id=13866|publisher=CBS Press Express |access-date=3 October 2012}}</ref>

==See also==
* ''[[Good Night, and Good Luck]]''
* ''[[Murrow (film)|Murrow]]''
* ''[[Person to Person]]'', Murrow's companion, "lite fare" program
* ''[[Satchmo the Great]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{wikiquote|Edward R. Murrow#See It Now .281954.29|Edward R. Murrow on ''See It Now''}}
* {{IMDb title|0211168}}
* [http://www.museum.tv/eotv/seeitnow.htm ''See It Now''] from the [[Museum of Broadcast Communications]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051107004119/http://www.honors.umd.edu/HONR269J/archive/Murrow540309.html ''See it Now, March 9, 1954''] and Senator McCarthy's response on April 6, hosted by the [[University of Maryland, College Park]]

{{Edward R. Murrow}}

[[Category:1951 American television series debuts]]
[[Category:1958 American television series endings]]
[[Category:1950s American television news shows]]
[[Category:1950s American documentary television series]]
[[Category:Black-and-white American television shows]]
[[Category:CBS original programming]]
[[Category:English-language television shows]]
[[Category:Peabody Award-winning television programs]]
[[Category:Cultural depictions of Josip Broz Tito]]
[[Category:Cultural depictions of Jawaharlal Nehru]]

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