CBS Evening News has found Norah O’Donnell’s successors in John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois, who will replace O’Donnell behind the anchor desk later this year.
Just two days after O’Donnell shared her plans to step down from CBS Evening News, the network has announced a creative overhaul for its nightly news program, which will move back to New York City after O’Donnell’s stint in Washington, D.C. In addition to Dickerson (currently CBS News’ chief political analyst) and DuBois (a longtime anchor for New York City’s local CBS station), the revamped Evening News has tapped Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan to lead the show’s D.C. coverage, while Lonnie Quinn has been named chief weathercaster for the broadcast.
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What an interesting mix. I’d predict like many of these multi-anchor formats in the past, it won’t last.
Maybe I should be running CBS News 
Seems like an on-air contest between Dickerson and DuBois. Let’s call it America’s Next Top Newsreader.
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KPIX San Francisco has recently been in the sport/morning side of their studio for main bulletins…
… they’re remodeling their set for the next 8 weeks, according to the station’s GM…
… and they’re doubling down on the AR/VR set formula, claiming it’d be in all CBS O&Os by the end of 2025:
Quoted from this interesting interview:
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a) she’s probably just had enough of anchoring nightly…
b) so CBS probably want to keep her on the payroll to stop her defecting elsewhere. Hence this sinecure.
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WCCO Minneapolis was hit by power outage due to the storm and knocked off the air.
Their news bulletin resorted to a barebones Facebook livestream, down to a weather forecast with print maps:
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Seems like a very narrow viewpoint from Katie. There are hundreds of women fronting newscasts all across America, from local bulletins to national streamers. By focussing her comments on these three 30 min bulletins, she invalidates the importance of women in local news while detracting from the merits of the men who were elevated to the role.
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The same article also outlines that Denver and Chicago are the next ones to get a VR set after KPIX - both got their studios recently renovated.
Speaking of, KPIX seems to be moving their 5pm news to the virtual set:
Hope Texas would be the forth one in the Digiday article I shared earlier - current set is over a decade old and counting…
CBS Mornings is planning a Third Hour at the end of September - the last of the Big 3 to do so.
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KTVT is Dallas, not Houston. Houston’s CBS station (KHOU) is owned by a third-party station group. Interestingly enough, because KTVT is the only CBS owned and operated station in the entire state of Texas they’ve adopted the branding of “CBS Texas.” A bit of a branding luxury that California and Pennsylvania CBS stations can’t do.
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His final day at CBS News is next Friday, September 6.
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If this is the virtual set that CBS wants to push for its O&O stations… yeahhhh no thanks. This looks shocking, worse than Seven Perth IMO.
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Yep, even the weather that comes from there is always lit badly and has chrome key distortion. Virtual sets suck.
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On an unrelated note, CBS has killed the 9am bulletins in New York, Dallas and Boston, replacing them with Drew Barrymore.
This is the final edition on WCBS, where Cindy Hsu is moving to noon:
and the opening for KTXA’s new hour-long 7am newscast, in place for KTVT:
And as WBFS is affiliating with The CW, the bulletin is to be pushed to 10pm. Its branding is also set to be CW Miami 33 - adopting CBS’ existing indie branding in the Nexstar network’s typeface.
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Gosh they really love the relocation of bulletins don’t they. A 5 year investment in the studio etc there for it to then end and return to New York.
I know our market here isn’t comparable but it would be hell expensive to keep chopping and changing locations.
I mean was Norah actually worth it all? Personally I don’t think so. She was incredibly Icy on screen and apparently off.
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We now get more details on the Third Hour show - it’ll be called CBS Mornings Plus, hosted by Tony Dokoupil and Adriana Diaz, and will air on their O&Os in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit and Miami.
(Video from here)
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Wonder if Adriana will a) move to NY, and b) keep doing weekend evening news?
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I wonder if 10 locally will take the extra hour for their early morning line up 6-7am?
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