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When Katie Couric took over the "CBS Evening News" in 2006, CBS had Walter Cronkite, the network’s legendary newsman, record her introduction. When Cronkite died last July, Couric made a point of saying they would keep the voiceover as part of the broadcast.

That changed on Monday, with actor Morgan Freeman’s voice replacing Cronkite’s.

1. Obama makes history. The historic inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th -- and first black -- president of the United States on Jan. 20 was the first must-watch-if-not-be-there media event of the year. Millions turned up, and tuned in.

As I write this, I realize I am about to do something that, for the most part, is never done. I am going to criticize a critic.

Filmmakers are never supposed to respond to a critic about their work. It’s an unspoken rule of engagement. But in this case, I feel compelled.

My grandmother once told me that when she heard on the BBC that America had dropped an atomic weapon on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, she suddenly thought how, with man now possessing the true might of Gods, the world had fundamentally changed. She would say that there was a pre-Hiroshima world and a post-Hiroshima world and they had very little in common.

The Kennedy assassination. The moon landing. The Nixon resignation.

Walter Cronkite had a few lifetimes’ worth of signature, career-defining, on-air moments during his 20-year career as host of the CBS Evening News. But what about the network anchors who came after Cronkite?

... was the night I got kicked out of Tom Freston’s house.

Allow me to explain.

CNN, MSNBC and Fox News devoted most of their Friday evening coverage to Walter Cronkite, the legendary newsman and iconic CBS anchor, who died at the age of 92 at his New York home.

CBS did not.