[DOC] [TLE] Rather Walked Off Set of CBS News - NYTimes.com [PAR] Sep 13, 1987 ... LEAD: Dan Rather, angered because CBS decided to shorten the ''CBS Evening 
News'' to broadcast the end of a tennis match on Friday, walked off the set and 
caused the network to ''go black'' for six minutes. ... Rather Left Studio ... is also 
the managing editor of the ''Evening News,'' into his anchor chair. [DOC] [TLE] Rather Criticized For His Cbs News 'Walkout' - latimes [PAR] September 15, 1987|JAY SHARBUTT | Times Staff Writer ... said Monday that 
CBS anchor Dan Rather "blew it" in leaving his newscast for six minutes Friday, ... 
But when CBS's tennis coverage went beyond that, Rather left his post to make 
other ... The network went to black for six minutes while news staffers looked for 
him. [DOC] [TLE] Dan Rather - Wikipedia [PAR] Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9, 1981, to 
March 9, 2005. He also contributed to CBS's 60 Minutes. Rather became... [DOC] [TLE] CBS Evening News - Wikipedia [PAR] The CBS Evening News is the flagship evening television news program of CBS 
News, the ... Previous anchors have included Douglas Edwards, Walter Cronkite, 
Dan ... The CBS Evening News airs live at 6:30pm in the Eastern and 5:30pm in 
the .... When the tennis match ended sooner than expected at 6:32 p.m. Eastern... [DOC] [TLE] Dan Rather left the set 9 years ago | EW.com [PAR] Sep 13, 1996 ... 11, 1987, no news was a complete fiasco. ... The anchor left the set for 6 minutes, 
and ''CBS Evening News'' has been ... the CBS Evening News when a tennis 
match threatened to cut into his ... A month before, he began signing off his 
broadcasts with the ... They just signed the black screen for 13 weeks.. [DOC] [TLE] The Rise, Fall And Lasting Influence Of Roger Ailes : NPR [PAR] Jul 23, 2016 ... Now we want to spend a few minutes talking about a towering figure in American 
media. Roger Ailes created Fox News and ran it for two decades until he was ... 
star because he is the conclusion of all of the work that Roger Ailes has .... of 
CBS Evening News to carry the end of a U.S. Open tennis match. [DOC] [TLE] Dan Rather, JFK, Edward R. Murrow and the Business of TV News ... [PAR] Nov 26, 2013 ... When the match ended at 6:33, Sports put us into black. ... the CBS Evening 
News to broadcast the end of a tennis match on Friday, walked off... [DOC] [TLE] Melissa Harris-Perry, Dan Rather and Nolan Richardson fired for ... [PAR] Feb 29, 2016 ... She was paid money to spout off on whatever mattered to her. ... Dan Rather 
walked off the set in protest, leaving six minutes of dead air at CBS News. His 
walkout was triggered by the airing of a tennis match that cut into his broadcast. ... 
W. Bush, Rather was forced out of the anchor chair and soon fired. [DOC] [TLE] The Legend of Walter Cronkite - The New Yorker [PAR] Jul 9, 2012 ... Walter Cronkite and the legend of CBS News. ... and that Cronkite's deposed 
successor as CBS News anchor, Dan .... went off the air, but that wasn't because 
people missed Cronkite. .... of a tennis match ran over and the network went 
black for six minutes. ... At long last, have you left no sense of decency? [DOC] [TLE] NBC News Chief Andrew Lack Targets MSNBC as Priorities Emerge ... [PAR] Mar 25, 2015 ... On September 11, 1987, Dan Rather walked off the set of the CBS Evening News 
when a late running U.S. Open tennis match ... The network broadcast six 
minutes of dead air before Rather was found and returned to the studio. ... I am 
tired of the Left vs Right, Conservative vs Liberal Mess that's on TV. [DOC] [TLE] 1963: Endings and Beginnings, November 22 & 23. - A Proper ... [PAR] Oct

Question: In 1987 this anchor walked off, leaving CBS black for 6 minutes, because a tennis match cut into the news
Answer: Dan Rather