In other news, this will never stop being funny to me.
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.
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.
A fake news reader replacing a fake news reader. Ought to make the fake news headlines
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.
[Blind Gossip] There are lots of TV shows with a panel of hosts who are all competing for attention.
While they are usually all smiles and nice on the surface, there is actually a fierce competition that goes on for air time and salaries.
This one successful show is dumping one of its hosts. They are saying that it is something that was initiated by the executives.
No.
It was initiated by one of the other hosts!
She doesn’t like other women taking her air time, plus she wants to renegotiate her contract. She thinks that if she bumps another woman off the show will be more desperate to keep her AND she will get a bigger share of the show’s talent budget.
That’s cold. And she seems like such a nice person on the outside! Like someone you would want to have as a best friend…
Similar: Blather Host
TV Show:
Bumped Host:
Staying Host:
[Optional] What is the worst panel TV show currently on the air? Why?
TV Show: CBS This Morning
Bumped Host: Bianna Golodryga
Staying Host: Gayle King
Holy sh*t.
Gayle King just got rid of BOTH of her female cohosts on CBS This Morning!
Your friends at Blind Gossip told you a month ago that Gayle “doesn’t like other women taking her air time, plus she wants to renegotiate her contract. She thinks that if she bumps another woman off, the show will be more desperate to keep her AND she will get a bigger share of the show’s talent budget.”
We were originally talking about cohost Bianna Golodryga, who did wind up leaving the show.
However, Gayle didn’t stop there. She didn’t just get rid of ONE female cohost. She got rid of BOTH of them! Norah O’Donnell is now out, too!
That’s cold.
Now Gayle King will now be the only female on a panel with two men.
From The New York Post:
GAYLE KING PUSHES OUT NORAH O’DONNELL AT ‘CBS THIS MORNING’
Norah O’Donnell is officially out as co-host CBS’ struggling morning show — thanks to Gayle King.
Sources close to CBS say the new anchor lineup for “CBS This Morning” has been set and it doesn’t include O’Donnell because King — riding high off her big interview with R. Kelly — has demanded she be sent elsewhere.
“Norah is toxic,” a CBS insider said, explaining that the anchor is difficult to work with and has aided in feeding rumors about the impending exit of Jeff Glor, anchor of “CBS Evening News,” while vying for his job.
The blood is so bad between the morning news co-hosts that King demanded O’Donnell be moved off the show as part of King’s recent contract negotiations, which kicked off after her now-infamous Kelly interview, sources said.
Besides King, the new morning show lineup includes “CBS This Morning Saturday” co-anchor Anthony Mason and CBS News correspondent Tony Dokoupil, a source said.
Notice how they are trying to make Norah O’Donnell the villain here? Nasty.
Well, at least they are not trying to pretend any more that it was an “executive decision.” This was all Gayle King’s doing.
Well, Gayle King and a certain famous friend of hers.
You see, Gayle King’s best friend Oprah has been “advising” her during this process. The result was that all the other women got pushed out. Only Gayle and the men remain. We’ll just leave that little note there for you to consider.
Congratulations to Meruhdith for being first with the correct response!
“CBS Evening News” still exists?
I couldn’t care less how the forces of evil shift around their fake news talking heads. One liar is pretty much the same as another.
Article states..”the program will originate full time ‘from Washington’ for the first time in its 71-year history....
Am reading other news moving programming to Washington. Likely with the election ahead or wanting to be closer to the center of power.
