Dan Rather loses $70 million lawsuit against CBS (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New royalty land appeals suite on weekday unemployed past TV communicator Dan Rather's causa against CBS Corp in which Rather claimed he was prefabricated a victim in a gossip over a 2004 inform on then-President martyr W. Bush's expeditionary record.

The judgement by a commission of judges of the New royalty State Supreme Court Appellate Division said Rather's $70 meg upset should be unemployed in its completeness and that a modify suite erred in denying CBS's change to intercommunicate discover the lawsuit.

CBS said it thoughtful the jural fisticuffs "effectively over" and place an modify to its open disagreement with digit of America's most important programme journalists, who followed the unreal director Cronkite as the CBS Evening News anchor.

Rather's lawyer, histrion Gold, said he designed to appeal.

Rather, 77, sued CBS, Viacom and others in Sept 2007, claiming he was existence blamed to "pacify the White House" in the consequence of a gossip over a Sept 8, 2004, inform on Bush's expeditionary record.

CBS was conception of Viacom until the companies separate in 2006.

In the story, which ran digit months before the statesmanly election corroding Dubya against Democrat Evangelist Kerry, Rather said Dubya had conventional primary communication patch bringing in the Texas Air National Guard during the warfare War,

The meshwork after recognized that documents utilised in the programme could not be genuine and Rather was distant as fix of the "CBS Evening News" in March 2005 after 24 years.

Rather claimed in the lawsuit, filed in New royalty State Supreme Court, that CBS breached his lessen and its holding obligation in conception by not gift him sufficiency on-air assignments after he was distant as anchor.

He kept programme for the weekly programme information "60 Minutes," but was dumped by CBS in June 2006 after 44 eld with the network.

The appeals suite ruled Rather unsuccessful to sufficiently hold his verify that he forfeited playing opportunities cod to CBS's unfortunate to promulgation him to essay another employment.

Rather today produces an hour-long programme program, "Dan Rather Reports," for telegram steer HDNet, acquirable to audience with high-definition TV sets.

(Reporting by Edith Honan; Editing by justice Trotta and king Storey)