He was a vice president at ABC during the 1950s. He did hosting duties on "Who Said That?", "It's News to Me", "We Take Your Word", and "Open Hearing" and was a narrator on "The Voice of Firestone" starting in 1958. He also had several television and movie guest appearances from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, including an uncredited role in "Bye Bye Birdie" (as the reporter announcing the title character's induction into the Army) and as the narrator, in a mock documentary style, on the premiere episode of the rural comedy series "Green Acres". In 1949 he starred in the short-lived CBS Television newspaper drama "The Front Page", where it was thought that his presence and journalistic experience would give the series more authenticity. During the 1950s, Daly became the vice president in charge of news, special events, and public affairs, religious programs and sports for ABC and won three Peabody Awards. From 1953 to 1960, he anchored ABC News broadcasts and was the face of the network's news division, even though "What's My Line?" was then on competing CBS. In addition, he provided the voice of a Conelrad radio announcer on the May 18, 1954 broadcast of The Motorola Television Hour on ABC entitled "Atomic Attack", which showcases a story about a family in a New York City suburb dealing with the aftermath of an H-bomb attack fifty miles away. At the time, this was a very rare instance of a television personality working on two different US broadcast TV networks simultaneously. (Daly did not work for CBS but for the producers of "What's My Line?", Goodson-Todman Productions. He also filled in occasionally on NBC's "The Today Show", making Daly one of the few people to work simultaneously on all "three" networks.) His closing line on the ABC Newscast was "Good night, and a good tomorrow." Daly resigned from ABC on November 16, 1960, after the network preempted the first hour of 1960 presidential election night coverage to show Bugs Bunny cartoons and "The Rifleman" from 7:30 to 8:30 pm while CBS and NBC were covering returns from the Kennedy–Nixon presidential election and other major races. In an accompanying article on the same page, however, it was stated that the reason for his resignation was the decision of the then-president of ABC, Leonard Goldenson, to bring in Time Inc. to co-produce documentaries that had previously been under Daly's direction for the network.