In other news, this will never stop being funny to me.
Posted on 05/06/2019 7:35:31 AM PDT by John W
It’s anchors aweigh at CBS News.
The division’s president, Susan Zirinsky, announced major on-air talent changes Monday for the network’s ratings-challenged evening newscast and morning program.
As expected, Norah O’Donnell will exit her role as co-host of “CBS This Morning” to become the new anchor of “CBS Evening News,” replacing Jeff Glor. Starting this fall, the program will originate full time from Washington for the first time in its 71-year history. She will also be a contributor to “60 Minutes.”
O’Donnell’s co-host John Dickerson will also leave the morning program to become a correspondent for the newsmagazine “60 Minutes.” He will also contribute to the network’s political coverage.
Gayle King becomes the senior member of “CBS This Morning,” which will have two new co-hosts starting May 20: CBS News veteran Anthony Mason and Tony Dokoupil, who joined the division as a correspondent in 2016 and has never hosted a daily program.
The personnel shifts have been percolating for months since Zirinsky, a 46-year veteran of CBS News, was named president of the division in January. The shake-up will be her first major test as a decision maker.
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This should go well.
Their ratings must be going downhill. Maybe they should try strait up reporting and not go the fake news route.
Who is Jeff Glor? Ha, I haven't watched CBS News in 20 years. Maybe since Cronkite.
Does anyone even watch Evening News anymore?
I recall her starting out. Dazzling blue eyes gazing aluringly at Jerry “Geraldo” Rivers. I knew right then she would make it to the top by hook or by crook.
Terrible decision which will tank them even further even though they are already last.
NorDUH O’Donnell is a feminist’s feminist, every story is about how women suffer more than men. She has no gravitas and is constantly anti-trump.
John is too effeminate to be a man anchor. Gayle’s interview with R Kelly was awful, but they all thought it was award winning.
A bundh of losers rearranging the deck chairs.
And Jeff Glor, less gravitas than even NorDuh.
I always thought she was attractive......until she opened her mouth.
“Starting this fall, the program will originate full time from Washington for the first time in its 71-year history.”
If it was moving to Oklahoma, I might start watching! But DC? Just means they will be in bed with the politicians even more than they have been - and all of one party.
LOL, I have no idea either who anchors network (fake) news these days. The only time I even get a glimpse of them is if they do a news update during a golf tournament.
It pleases me that I don’t know who any of these people are.
The broadcast equivalent of re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. If CBS thinks Nora O’Donnell and Gayle King are the answers to their ratings problems, they are sadly mistaken.
Here’s the real question: regardless of who’s in the anchor chair, how long before a lot of CBS affiliates start bailing on the “Evening News” altogether. Most have long afternoon news blocks that begin at 4 pm and run until (or past) the network newscast. Most would love to have another 30 minutes to recycle the local headlines and keep all the profits from that time slot, instead of selling a few “local” spots during the network newscast. If O’Donnell’s ratings look like Glor’s a year down the road, watch for some of the larger CBS affiliates (not owned by the network) to delay or dump the “Evening News” altogether.
The real loser in all this is Jeff Glor. He was given an impossible task two years ago when Scott Pelley was removed from the nightly broadcast, became the scapegoat for continued failure, and now CBS is “discussing” his future options. When you don’t see specific assignments in a network talent shuffle like this one, it’s usually a sign the suits are negotiating your contract buy-out, instead of finding a new position for you.
Almost 60 years ago, CBS told another anchor they would find another assignment for him after being demoted from the Evening News. The anchor was Douglas Edwards, one of the true gentlemen in the history of the business. He led CBS to first place in the ratings in the 1950s, but by 1962, he had fallen to second place behind Chet Hutley and David Brinkley on NBC.
After being replaced by Walter Cronkite, Edwards was demoted to the late, local news on WCBS-TV in New York. Eventually, he returned to CBS Radio and spent the rest of his career anchoring “The World Tonight” before retiring in 1988. An amazing show of loyalty to a company that didn’t always return the favor. These days, demoted anchors take the big buyout, spend their usual summer in the Hamptons or on Marth’s Vineyard, and wait for their agent to secure their next gig.
In other news, this will never stop being funny to me.
Lol, Jeff Glor? Who? I thought Scott Pelley was the CBS anchor. Shows how long it’s been since I’ve even turned on the TV much less seen any network “news”. And I’m part of the apparent target audience given the type of commercials I remember seeing on those shows. Who watches that propaganda anyway now?
A fake news reader replacing a fake news reader. Ought to make the fake news headlines
“I always thought she was attractive......until she opened her mouth”
Same here. The “mute” button on your remote can make her very attractive again though :-).
So am I to understand that the CBS Evening News has been anchored by this person?
I assure you that I have never in my life heard the name “Jeff Glor” until reading this thread!
I may not have liked nor watched pinko Walter Kronkite but his was a household name that EVERYONE knew!
My how times have changed!
“The division’s president, Susan Zirinsky, announced major on-air talent changes Monday for the network’s ratings-challenged evening newscast and morning program.
As expected, Norah O’Donnell will exit her role as co-host of “CBS This Morning” to become the new anchor of “CBS Evening News”
Another woman led organization down the tube.
This is MAJOR news. Inside the news industry.
For the rest of the 99% of us, who cares.
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