CBS Evening News is anout change big time.
After the Nove elections, the broadcast will become a nightly version of 60
According to reports, there will be no anchor person. Margaret Brennan, John Dickerson, Channel 2 New York’s Maurice DuBois will rotate stories. Jim Axelrod and Steve Hartman will be featured, as well a full time weatherman in Lonnie Quinn.
The CBS Evening News will become largely male and white, a change from its current configuration.
There won’t be a face of Evening News. Norah O’Donnell will make cameo appearances.
The move affects not just the network but also channel 2. Months ago, WCBS removed Dana Tyler and Dick Brennan to elevate Dubois, who’s been in local news for years.
Giving up a main anchor is anathema to CBS News tradition. Cronkite, Rather, Schieffer, even Katie Couric, Jeff Glor, and O’Donnell are among the recent and famous anchors.
But CBS Evening News runs a distant third to ABC and NBC, and recently has been filled with female correspondents. The new CBS ownership obviously didn’t want that anymore, so now we’ll have a three ring circus with almost all men, and DuBois for diversity.
Will it work? No. But they’ll say it will. We’ve all been here before, many times.
More to come…
