Norah O'Donnell is out at CBS Evening News

[Ali Gator]

After recently marking five years in the anchor chair at CBS Evening News, anchor Nora O'Donnell will be leaving the anchor desk shortly  after the November presidential elections, it's been reported. On Thursday, CBS announced they will have co-anchors on the nightly news, and have struck a deal with John Dickerson, political editor for CBS News, and Maurice DuBois, a local news anchor for the network’s New York station, WCBS. The last time CBS tried the co-anchor format was 30 years ago, when the network paired Dan Rather with Connie Chung. It did nothing to improve ratings, and didn't last long. 

CBS says O'Donnell's new position  (re: demotion) at the network news division will be as a senior correspondent who will seek out big interviews and opportunities for deeper reporting. It's the latest change in the news division, as CBS continues to lag in the ratings behind #1 ABC (David Muir) with 7+ million viewers and #2 NBC (Lester Holt) with 6+ million. CBS is averaging 5 million viewers each night. O'Donnell replaced the popular and well-liked Jeff Glor back in 2019, and CBS faced viewer back-lash as loyal Glor viewers didn't stick around to watch O'Donnell. 

[samhexum]

On 8/3/2024 at 6:02 PM, Ali Gator said:

CBS continues to lag in the ratings behind #1 ABC (David Muir) with 7+ million viewers and #2 NBC (Lester Holt) with 6+ million. CBS is averaging 5 million viewers each night.

Lester Holt leaving ‘NBC Nightly News’ after a decade

Edited February 24 by samhexum
because he's bored as hell

[d.anders]

The higher pay checks are being eliminated. Plus, the audience numbers are dropping everywhere. I can't remember the last time I watched TV news.

[samhexum]

On 2/24/2025 at 12:33 PM, samhexum said:

 

Lester Holt leaving ‘NBC Nightly News’ after a decade

Tom Llamas will replace him.