TheCBS Evening News is the flagship eveningtelevision news program ofCBS News, the news division of theCBS television network in the United States. TheCBS Evening News is a daily evening broadcast featuring news reports, feature stories and interviews by CBS News correspondents and reporters covering events around the world. The program has been broadcast since July 1, 1941, under the original titleCBS Television News, eventually adopting its existing title in 1963.
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Genre | News program |
Created by | Don Hewitt |
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Narrated by | Joe Cipriano |
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Composers | John Trivers,Elizabeth Myers andAlan Pasqua (1987; 2022; 2025) |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 72 |
No. of episodes | 16,400+ |
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Executive producers | Guy Campanile (since January 27, 2025) |
Producer | Bill Owens (since January 27, 2025) |
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Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 15 minutes (1941–1963) 30 minutes (since 1963) |
Production company | CBS News Productions |
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Network | CBS |
Release | July 1, 1941 (1941-7-1) – present |
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Since January 27, 2025, the flagship nightly broadcast has been co-anchored byJohn Dickerson andMaurice DuBois from theCBS Broadcast Center inNew York City. Previous weeknight anchors have includedDouglas Edwards,Walter Cronkite,Dan Rather,Connie Chung,Bob Schieffer,Russ Mitchell,Katie Couric,Harry Smith,Scott Pelley,Anthony Mason,Jeff Glor andNorah O'Donnell.
Saturday and Sunday broadcasts of theCBS Evening News began in February 1966. On May 2, 2016, CBS announced that the weekend edition would be rebranded, effective May 7, 2016, as theCBS Weekend News. Weekend newscasts originate from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City, and are anchored byJericka Duncan. From 2016 to 2020, theCBS Weekend News was anchored byReena Ninan on Saturday andElaine Quijano on Sunday. By the summer of 2020 Ninan and Quijano were replaced byMajor Garrett and Jamie Yuccas. In December 2020, it was announced thatAdriana Diaz and Jericka Duncan would be the new weekend anchors; Diaz left the program in 2024.
The weeknight edition of theCBS Evening News airs live at 6:30 p.m. in theEastern and 5:30 p.m. in theCentral Time Zones and istape delayed for theMountain Time Zone. A "Western Edition", with updated segments coveringbreaking news stories, airs pre-recorded[1] at 6:30 p.m. for most stations in thePacific Time Zone and 5:30 p.m. in theAlaska time zone and on tape delay in theHawaii–Aleutian Time Zone.[2] At midnight Eastern, the Western Edition is posted on the website forCBS News and their YouTube channel.[3] The Western Edition additionally airs along with the weekend versions onCBS News 24/7.
As of April 11, 2024,CBS Evening News remains in third place of the three major television news programs, with around 4,969,000 total viewers.[4]
History
editEarly years (1941–1948)
editUpon becoming commercial station WCBW (channel 2, laterWCBS-TV) on July 1, 1941, the pioneer CBS television station in New York City broadcast two daily news programs, at 2:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. weekdays, anchored by Richard Hubbell. Most of the newscasts featured Hubbell reading a script with only occasional cutaways to a map or still photograph. WhenPearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941, WCBW (which was normally off the air on Sunday to give the engineers a day off), took to the air at 8:45 p.m. with an extensive special report. The national emergency broke down the unspoken wall between CBS radio and television. WCBW executives convinced radio announcers and experts such as George Fielding Elliot and Linton Wells to come to the CBS television studios at Grand Central Station from the radio network base at 485 Madison Avenue, to give information and commentary on the attack. The WCBW special report that night lasted less than 90 minutes, but it pushed the limits of live television in 1941 and opened up new possibilities for future broadcasts. As CBS wrote in a special report to the FCC, the unscheduled live news broadcast on December 7 "was unquestionably the most stimulating challenge and marked the greatest advance of any single problem faced up to that time."
Additional newscasts were scheduled in the early days ofWorld War II, includingWar Backgrounds (December 1941–February 1942),World This Week (February–April 1942), andAmerica At War (March–May 1942). In May 1942, WCBW (like almost all television stations) temporarily suspended studio operations, which resulted in the station sharply cutting back its live program schedule, and resorting exclusively to the occasional broadcast of films. This was primarily because much of the staff had either joined the military service or were redeployed to war-related technical research, and to prolong the life of the early, unstable cameras which were impossible to repair due to the wartime lack of parts.
In May 1944, as the war began to turn in favor of the Allies, WCBW reopened the studios and the newscasts returned, briefly anchored byNed Calmer, followed by Alan Jackson, Everett Holles, and Dwight Cooke. After the war, expanded news programs appeared on the WCBW schedule. The station's call letters were changed to WCBS-TV in 1946. Anchors included Bob McKee, Milo Boulton, Jim McMullin, Larry LeSueur,Tom O’Connor, and, beginning in 1947,Douglas Edwards.
Douglas Edwards (1948–1962)
editOn May 3, 1948, Edwards began anchoringCBS Television News, as a regular 15-minute nightly newscast on the CBS television network, including WCBS-TV. It aired every weeknight at 7:30 p.m., and was the first regularly scheduled, network television news program featuring an anchor.[5] (WCBW/WCBS-TV newscasts prior to this time were local television broadcasts seen only in New York City.)NBC's offering at the time,NBC Television Newsreel, which premiered in February 1948, was simply film footage with voice narration.
The network also broadcast a recap of the week's news stories on a Sunday night program titledNewsweek in Review, which was later moved to Saturday and retitledThe Week in Review. In 1950, the nightly newscast was renamedDouglas Edwards with the News, and in September the following year it became the first news program to be broadcast simultaneously on theEast Coast andWest Coast through the installation of a newcoaxial cable connection. That transcontinental link prompted Edwards to start each broadcast with the updated greeting "Good evening everyone, coast to coast."[6]
On November 30, 1956, the program became the first to use the new technology ofvideotape totime delay the broadcast (which originated inNew York City) for thewestern United States.[7]
Walter Cronkite (1962–1981)
editOn April 16, 1962,Walter Cronkite succeeded Edwards, and the broadcast was retitledWalter Cronkite with the News. On September 2, 1963, the newscast, retitledCBS Evening News, became the first half-hour weeknight news broadcast on network television and was moved to 6:30 p.m.Eastern time (NBC'sHuntley-Brinkley Report expanded to 30 minutes exactly one week later on September 9, 1963). As before, some affiliates (including flagshipowned-and-operated stationWCBS-TV in New York City) had the option of carrying a later edition, scheduled at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time. NBC also allowed this practice for theHuntley-Brinkley Report, withABC later following it for theABC Evening News (nowABC World News Tonight). The networks ended this practice after 1971, although some affiliates – mostly in larger markets – continued to carry the national newscasts at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time on a half-hour tape delay.
TheCBS Evening News was first transmitted in color as a one-evening test broadcast on August 19, 1965,[8] before permanently switching to the format on January 31, 1966.[9] Cronkite's prime time special report,Who, What, When, Where, Why, broadcast on February 27, 1968, ended with his declaration that the United States could only hope for a stalemate inVietnam. It is often credited with influencingLyndon Johnson's decision to drop out ofthe race forPresident. "If I've lost Walter Cronkite... [I]'ve lost Middle America," he stated.[10]
Under Cronkite, the newscast began what would eventually become an 18-year period of dominating the ratings among the network evening news programs.[11] In the process, Cronkite became "the most trusted man in America" according to aGallup Poll, a status that had first been fostered in November 1963 through his coverage of theassassination of President John F. Kennedy.[12]
In late 1972, Cronkite prodded the show's producers to feature two nights of lengthy explanation on theWatergate scandal, which had been extensively covered byThe Washington Post, but had not received major national coverage. After the first half of the report, shown on a Friday, ran for 14 minutes, roughly half of the air time of the broadcast,White House officials complained to CBS founderWilliam S. Paley. The second half of the report was aired the following Monday, but only for eight minutes.[13]
Dan Rather (1981–2005)
edit1981–1993
editCronkite was replaced as anchor of the program the Monday after his retirement, March 9, 1981, by 49-year-oldDan Rather,[14] who had been with CBS News as a correspondent since the early 1960s and later became a correspondent for the network'snewsmagazine60 Minutes. Concerns about excessiveliberalism in the media were frequently leveled at Rather, theCBS Evening News, CBS News, and CBS in general.[15][16][17] Some of these concerns dated from Rather's position as White House correspondent for the network's news division during theNixon administration. A shouting match with Vice PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush during an interview on live television in January 1988 related to theIran–Contra affair did little to dispel those concerns.[18][19] Rather unapologetically defended his behavior in statements the following day,[20][21][22][23] and Bush went on to win thepresidential election in November.
Earlier, on September 1, 1986, amidst a brewing battle among CBS'sBoard of Directors for control of the company and turmoil at CBS News, Rather closed his Monday broadcast with the word "courage," repeating it the following night. On September 3, Rather said the masculine noun for theSpanish word for "courage," "coraje" (the primary translation for "courage" in Spanish is "valor"). In the face of media attention and pleas from his staff, Rather abandoned the signoff on September 8.[24]
On September 11, 1987, Rather marched off camera in anger just before a remote broadcast of the program when it appeared thatCBS Sports' coverage of aU.S. Open tennis semifinal match betweenSteffi Graf andLori McNeil was going to run over into time allotted for the newscast.[25] Rather was inMiami covering thevisit to the city byPope John Paul II. When the tennis match ended sooner than expected at 6:32 p.m.Eastern Time, Rather was nowhere to be found, and six minutes of dead air followed before he returned to the broadcast position;[26] nearly half of the audience watched and waited. Rather attempted to explain his actions with a statement release on Sunday,[27] but made no mention of it on his next newscast on Monday, delayed by the men's final.[28] By 1990, theCBS Evening News had fallen to third place in the ratings, behind ABC'sWorld News Tonight withPeter Jennings andNBC Nightly News withTom Brokaw.[11]
On January 22, 1991, demonstrators from theAIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) broke into the CBS News studio and chanted "FightAIDS, notArabs" during the show's introduction. One protester was seen on camera just as Rather began speaking. Rather immediately called for a commercial break, however, the screen went black instead for six seconds before returning to Rather. He apologized twice to viewers about the incident.[29]
Connie Chung as co-anchor (1993–1995)
editOn May 31, 1993, CBS News correspondentConnie Chung began co-anchoring the broadcast with Rather. Chung normally co-anchored in the studio with Rather, but sometimes one of them appeared on location, while the other remained in the studio. Though Rather never said so publicly, CBS News insiders said he did not approve of her appointment.[30] Chung's last broadcast as co-anchor was on May 19, 1995.
1995–2005
editThe newscast returned to a solo anchor format on May 22, 1995, with Dan Rather continuing in his role as anchor. At age 73, Rather retired from theEvening News on March 9, 2005, exactly 24 years after succeeding Cronkite.
Rather left the anchor position amid controversy and a credibility crisis over reports broadcast during the2004 presidential election campaign. The report was a segment featured on a September 2004 broadcast of60 Minutes Wednesday, questioning PresidentGeorge W. Bush'sTexas Air National Guard record.[31][32] Conservative activists challenged the authenticity of thedocuments used for the report. A number of bloggers analyzed scans of the documents, and rapidly concluded they were forgeries. Subsequently, CBS commissioned an independent inquiry into the matter and several CBS staffers were fired or asked to resign.
After departing from theEvening News, Rather remained with CBS News as a correspondent. On June 20, 2006, CBS News PresidentSean McManus announced that Rather and CBS had agreed to end his 44-year career with the network.[33]
Bob Schieffer (2005–2006)
editOn March 10, 2005, Rather was succeeded on an interim basis byFace the Nation host and CBS News correspondentBob Schieffer. At the time Schieffer took over, it was uncertain how long he would host the broadcast, whether it would retain its current structure, or instead adopt some kind of multiple host or alternative format. Under Rather in the years leading up to his retirement, theCBS Evening News trailed its rivals at ABC and NBC by a fairly large margin. White House correspondentJohn Roberts, andScott Pelley, his predecessor in that position, were often mentioned as possible successors to Rather when he retired.[34]Jim Axelrod became White House correspondent when Roberts later left forCNN.
In the months following Rather's departure, the program came to emphasize live exchanges between Schieffer and various CBS News correspondents around the world. In contrast to traditional network news practice, these exchanges were unrehearsed as part of an effort to make the language on the broadcast sound more "natural".[35] Viewership increased over this period, with the program being the only network evening news broadcast to gain viewers during 2005. In November 2005, CBS announced thatCBS Evening News executive producer Jim Murphy would be replaced byRome Hartman, who took over in January 2006.
Schieffer led theCBS Evening News to become the #2 evening news broadcast, ahead of ABC'sWorld News Tonight. TheABC News division was in flux following the death of anchor Peter Jennings in 2005, and, with the adoption of a dual-anchor format onWorld News Tonight, life-threatening injuries suffered by co-anchorBob Woodruff in January 2006 when anIraqi military convoy he rode in hit a roadside bomb, leavingElizabeth Vargas as sole anchor. WhenCharles Gibson was appointed sole anchor ofWorld News Tonight in May 2006, after Elizabeth Vargas resigned in connection with her pregnancy, ABC regained stability and momentum to regain the #2 spot.
Bob Schieffer's finalCBS Evening News program was broadcast on August 31, 2006.Russ Mitchell filled in for the following nights (September 1, 2006 & September 4 2006), after which he was succeeded byKatie Couric on September 5, 2006.
Katie Couric (2006–2011)
editOn December 1, 2005, it was reported that Katie Couric, co-anchor of NBC'sToday, was considering an offer by CBS to anchor theEvening News. Couric officially signed a contract to become anchor of theCBS Evening News on April 1, 2006, and formally announced four days later onToday that she would be leaving the show andNBC News after a 15-year run as the morning show's co-anchor.[36] Ratings during Couric's period as anchor fluctuated, seemingly improving at times, but also posting historic lows rivaling those dating back to at least the 1991–92 season.[37]
Couric began working at CBS News in July 2006. During her first broadcast as anchor on September 5, 2006, a new graphics package and set, and a new theme composed byAcademy Award-winningcomposerJames Horner were introduced. Similar graphics and music would be introduced on other CBS News programs such asUp to the Minute,CBS Morning News andThe Early Show throughout the month of October. A newopening title sequence was designed, withWalter Cronkite providing the voiceover, replacing Wendell Craig unless a temporary voice-over was needed. Following Cronkite's death months earlier, actorMorgan Freeman recorded a new voice-over for the title sequence, which debuted on January 4, 2010. The program also debuted a new feature called "freeSpeech" in which different Americans, ranging from well-known national figures to average people, would provide news commentary.[38] After overwhelmingly negative reaction, the segment was discontinued.
On March 8, 2007,The New York Times reported that the program's executive producer Rome Hartman was being replaced by television news veteranRick Kaplan. Hartman left as executive producer on March 7. Kaplan came to theEvening News after stints atMSNBC,CNN, and ABC'sWorld News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
On April 4, 2007, Couric read a one-minute commentary about the importance of reading, in a piece substantially lifted from aWall Street Journal column byJeffrey Zaslow. Couric appeared to personally reminisce about her firstlibrary card — "I still remember when I got my first library card, browsing through the stacks for my favorite books" — but the words were all Zaslow's. It was later determined that a producer had actuallyplagiarized the piece, and the video was subsequently removed from the CBS News website.[39] Zaslow responded that CBS had "been very gracious and apologetic, and we at theJournal appreciate it."[40] Furthermore, this was a notable case of "double plagiarism": the producer claimed the text from Zaslow, and the anchor claimed the words from the producer.[41][42] That producer, Melissa McNamara, was fired hours after theJournal contacted CBS News to complain.[40][43] The network promised changes to its procedures.[44]
On July 28, 2008, theCBS Evening News became the third network evening newscast to begin broadcasting inhigh definition (behindNBC Nightly News andPBS'sThe NewsHour with Jim Lehrer).[45]
On August 27, 2008,Mediabistro wrote a piece about theBig Three network newscasts, praising Couric'sEvening News for extensive reporting that had, in its opinion, content better than its rivals.[46] Another critic fromMarketWatch praised Couric's work and said that people should watch out for her in 2009.[47]Washington Post writerTom Shales praised Couric as a warmer, more benevolent presence than her two competitors, something that she brought to the program nearly 16 years of goodwill from doing "Today" and becoming America's sweetheart, or else very close to it, and he claimed that this goodwill remained. Shales added that viewers "may find bad news less discomforting and sleep-depriving if Couric gives it to them". He also added that she does not try to "sugarcoat" or "prettify" grim realities. According to Shales, theEvening News may be a more hospitable, welcoming sort of place than its competitors. He concluded by stating that "it's naive to think that viewers choose their news anchor based solely on strict journalistic credentials, though Couric's do seem to be in order, despite her critics' claims."[48]
TheCBS Evening News with Katie Couric won the 2008 and 2009Edward R. Murrow Award for best newscast. In September 2008,Couric interviewed Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, earning respect from a MarketWatch critic for asking tough questions.[49] In 2011, the program was the recipient of both anEmmy for Outstanding Continuing Coverage and theEdward R. Murrow Award for Video News Series for foreign correspondentTerry McCarthy's feature story "Afghan Bomb Squad."[50][51]
On May 18, 2009, the newscast's graphics were overhauled, using a blue and red color scheme withweb-influenced motifs and layouts. The new graphics design featured a look influenced by the graphics that CBS used during the2008 presidential election coverage.[52]
On April 3, 2011, theAssociated Press reported that Couric would be leaving theEvening News when her contract expired in June. Couric later confirmed her departure toPeople magazine, citing a desire for "a format that will allow (her) to engage in more multi-dimensional storytelling."[53] On May 13, 2011, Couric announced that the following Thursday, May 19, 2011, would be her last broadcast.
Despite originally retooling the newscasts to add more features, interviews, and human interest stories, over time it returned to thehard news format popularized by Cronkite.[54]Harry Smith served as an interim anchor until Pelley's tenure started on June 6, 2011 (like Couric before him, Smith would also depart from CBS a month later).
Scott Pelley (2011–2017)
editIn an April 2011 article, theNew York Times reported that60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley was considered to be the front-runner to replace Couric as anchor of the program.[55]
On May 3, 2011, CBS confirmed that Pelley would replace Couric as anchor for theCBS Evening News in June.[56][57][58] The graphics were subtly updated (the Couric 2009-2011 graphics were used for the first two days of Pelley's tenure as anchor in 2011), theAmerican flag background on the news set (which had been used since the 2008 elections, this was last used on Harry Smith interim anchor episodes until 2011) was replaced by a replica of the globe fixture during the Cronkite era, and the James Horner theme was replaced by the 1987–91 theme composed by Trivers-Myers Music that was used during the Rather era (the theme was last used on Up to the Minute on June 24, 2011, and was replaced by the Rather and Pelley theme the same year).[59]In his first nine months in the anchor chair, Pelley gained an additional 821,000 viewers. CBS News also enjoyed increases in its audience for special news events. After election night in 2012,Variety wrote, "With Scott Pelley front and center; the Eye was up 8% from four years ago." The CBS Evening News had increased its audience every year from 2011 through 2015. On May 29, 2015, media website The Wrap wrote: "These days, CBS brass may finally have a reason to smile. On Wednesday, the network announced 'Evening News with Scott Pelley' added more than 1.25 million viewers over the past four years – a whopping 21 percent jump. The show also saw audience growth for the fifth consecutive season, the first time any network evening news broadcast has done that since 1987."
At the end of the 2015–2016 television season, CBS News announced, "The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, America's fastest growing network evening news broadcast, finished the 2015–16 television season with CBS's highest ratings in the time period in 10 years (since the 2005–06 season), according to Nielsen most current ratings. The CBS Evening News has grown its audience for six consecutive seasons, a first-time achievement for any network evening news broadcast since the advent of people meters (since at least 1987). Under Pelley, who assumed the anchor chair in June 2011, the CBS Evening News added 1.4 million viewers and an audience increase of 23%, double NBC and ABC's growth combined over the same period (since the 2010–11 season).
Pelley re-focused the program towards hard news and away from thesoft news andinfotainment features of the early Katie Couric era. Story selection focused more on foreign policy, Washington politics, and economic subjects.[60] The program's audience viewership began to grow immediately, closing the gap between theCBS Evening News and its competitors by one million viewers within a year, although the CBS program remains in third place among the network evening newscasts.[61] In late May 2016, a new theme tune composed by Joel Beckerman of Man Made Music was introduced.[59] Later that same year in December, the program moved permanently into CBS Studio 57, which the newscast used during their 2016 election coverage (moving from its longtime home of studio 47) at theCBS Broadcast Center and gained a new set to go with it.[62]
Anthony Mason (June 2017–December 2017)
editOn May 30, 2017, reports surfaced confirming that Scott Pelley had been relieved of his duties atCBS Evening News. Pelley remained at CBS News as a60 Minutes correspondent. Pelley reportedly asked staff members to clear out his office.[63][64] The move was made official on May 31, 2017, andAnthony Mason was named interim anchor.[65][66] On June 6, 2017,CBS Evening News announced that Pelley would anchor until June 16, 2017.
Jeff Glor (2017–2019)
editOn October 25, 2017, CBS News announced that correspondentJeff Glor would be the newCBS Evening News anchor.[67][68] On November 26, 2017, the organization announced his first official air date for December 4, 2017.[69] Together with Glor's debut, the newscast also updated its looks and used a new logotype and updated typography, using Ridley Grotesk as its base.[70][71] However, the theme music and set from the later Pelley era were retained.
Rotating hosts (May–July 2019)
editOn May 6, 2019, it was announced that Glor would leaveCBS Evening News. The last day of his tenure was May 10, 2019.John Dickerson,Major Garrett,Margaret Brennan,Anthony Mason,David Begnaud,Bob Schieffer,Bill Whitaker,James Brown,Jane Pauley,Jim Axelrod,Maurice DuBois, andTony Dokoupil anchored on an interim basis until Norah O'Donnell took the anchor chair on July 15, 2019.[72][73]
Norah O'Donnell (2019–2025)
editOn May 6, 2019, CBS News announced thatNorah O'Donnell was named anchor and managing editor ofCBS Evening News to replace Glor, effective July 15, 2019.[74][75] It also announced that the show would be moving toWashington, D.C., on December 2, 2019. This marked the first time that a major network evening news program was based outside of New York since 1978, whenABC World News Tonight used bureaus in Washington,Chicago andLondon for its broadcast.[76] O'Donnell's approach has been described by her as "hard news with heart", combining investigative reporting and original storytelling which connects with people and is solutions-oriented.[77][78]
On April 8, 2022, it was reported that O'Donnell had renewed her contract through at least the2024 presidential election.[79] A rebranding of the program was unveiled on August 29, 2022, featuring a world map motif (a design that has frequently been used in CBS News programming as an homage to Walter Cronkite's era) and elements of the CBS brand identity first introduced in 2020.[80] As part of the rebrand, the show introduced a new theme composed byAntfood, which is an arrangement of the 1987−91 Trivers-Myers theme used during Dan Rather and Scott Pelley's tenures as anchor during their respective eras (1987 and 2011), and incorporates Antfood's sonic branding for the network.[81]
John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois (2025–present)
editOn July 30, 2024, O'Donnell announced that she would step down as anchor of theCBS Evening News after the2024 elections. She remains with CBS News as a senior correspondent.[82] On August 1, CBS News announced that theEvening News would undergo a retool and introduce a multi-anchor format with an emphasis on its "ensemble of journalists";John Dickerson andMaurice DuBois would serve as co-anchors, whileMargaret Brennan ofFace the Nation andWCBS-TV weather reporterLonnie Quinn would serve as regular contributors for politics and weather-related topics.[83]60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens was named supervising producer, and fellow60 Minutes producer Guy Campanile was named executive producer.[83] O'Donnell anchored her final edition of theCBS Evening News on January 23, 2025, with Dickerson and DuBois debuting on January 27, 2025.[84][85]
The retooledEvening News carries anews magazine-like format with a focus on in-depth stories, rather than the headline-focused formats of its main competitors (with these relegated to a short "RoundUp" segment at the end of the opening block, which features brief summaries of other headlines).[86][87] CBS News and Stations CEOWendy McMahon explained that the program would share the "values" of60 Minutes and make use of its correspondents, aiming for the program to be "[where] they have big news to break".[83][88] Dickerson explained that "people have the news all day in their pockets, and we're not trying to compete with that. What we can share is the perspective that comes from the deep reporting that our correspondents do."[88] DuBois emphasized the increased emphasis on correspondents in the new format, explaining that they would "feel like people you know describing incredible things that they just witnessed."[88] By February 12, 2025, the format began to see changes, including some broadcasts featuring a more traditional "tease" in the introduction, or leading with conventional, headline-based packages in the opening block rather than immediately beginning with a newsmagazine-like story.[89]
Production returned to studio 47 at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City, with a new studio utilizing athree-sided video wall.[90] The theme music adopted in 2022 was also dropped, with the original version of the Trivers-Myers theme reinstated.[90]
Alongside the newEvening News, CBS also announced that it would introduce a half-hour extension—CBS Evening News Plus— anchored by Dickerson. Similarly toCBS Mornings Plus (introduced in September 2024), which premiered two weeks later on February 10, 2025. The program features several additional key segments, such as "The Interview", and "In Depth". The program streams onCBS News 24/7, and airs on selected CBS owned-and-operated stations (predominantly on the West Coast) immediately following the main program.[91][92][93]
Weekend editions
editCBS Evening News | |
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Genre | Weekend news show |
Presented by | Jericka Duncan Nancy Chen |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Production location | New York City |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | CBS |
Release | February 1966 (1966-2) – present |
TheCBS Evening News expanded to weekend evenings in February 1966, originally anchored byRoger Mudd. The Sunday edition of the program was dropped in September 1971, when CBS began airing60 Minutes in the 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time (5:00 p.m. Central) slot in order to help affiliates fulfill requirements imposed by theFederal Communications Commission (FCC)'sPrime Time Access Rule. The Sunday edition returned in January 1976, when the network moved60 Minutesone hour later to 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time, where that program remains to this day (except when theNFL on CBS is scheduled to air a doubleheader; on those Sundays,60 Minutesis scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET).
From 2011 to 2014, theCBS Evening News was the only remaining network evening newscast that used separate anchors for its Saturday and Sunday editions (NBC Nightly News previously used separate anchors for both weekend broadcasts untilJohn Seigenthaler was appointed anchor of both the Saturday and Sunday editions in 1999, while ABC'sWorld News Tonight maintained separate anchors for its weekend editions until Saturday anchorDavid Muir also assumed anchor duties on the program's Sunday edition in 2011).John Roberts did anchor both Saturday and Sunday editions of theCBS Evening News for several months in 1999. More recently,Russ Mitchell served as the weekend anchor for theCBS Evening News until December 2011, when he announced his resignation from CBS News to take a lead anchor position with NBC affiliateWKYC-TV inCleveland,Ohio. The following year, Mitchell was replaced on the weekend editions byJim Axelrod on Saturdays andJeff Glor on Sundays.
Weekend editions of theCBS Evening News were periodically abbreviated or preempted outright due toCBS Sports programming.[94] On May 2, 2016, CBS announced that the weekend editions of theCBS Evening News, effective May 7, would be revamped as theCBS Weekend News, with the Saturday and Sunday editions anchored byReena Ninan andElaine Quijano, respectively. (The Saturday edition airs only on theWest Coast from September through mid-December due toCBS's college football coverage; the Sunday edition similarly only airs on the West Coast most weeks from September through January due to the network'sNFL coverage, except when adoubleheader is not scheduled.) The new program would rely on resources from CBS's streaming news channel CBSN (nowCBS News 24/7), as well as reports from local affiliates, and highlights from the past week. CBS News executive editor Steve Capus argued that "given the number of sports overruns and out-and-out pre-emptions, it would be better for us as a news organization to come up with what I think is a smarter, 24-hour approach to covering the world, and making sure we've got all the bases covered."[95]
Impact of COVID-19
editIn March 2020, theCOVID-19 pandemic caused the temporary shutdown of the CBS Broadcast Center after a number of CBS News staffers tested positive for the virus. While the network did reopen the facility for a brief period, further positive tests along with a number of corporate directives by CBS News PresidentSusan Zirinsky resulted in a second, indefinite shutdown of the Broadcast Center. With no live weekend sporting events for the next three months (primarily due to the cancellation of CBS'sMarch Madness coverage as well as the temporary pause of the2019–20 PGA Tour season) resulting in no likely sports pre-emptions, production of theCBS Weekend News was dramatically altered with CBS News staffers outsourcing certain production services to selectCBS-owned stations and affiliates, who would originate the newscasts from the stations' respective studios with the station or affiliate's main anchors serving as the program's anchor for the weekend.[96] The usage of local CBS stations and affiliates was, in part, to reduce the pressure on CBS News' Washington, D.C. bureau, where the weeknightCBS Evening News is based, as it had already taken on increased responsibilities during the pandemic.[96]
The following CBS affiliates assisted with production of theCBS Weekend News from March 14 until May 31:
- March 14–15:KCBS Los Angeles (CBS O&O)[97]
- March 21–22 and 28-29:KTVT Fort Worth-Dallas (CBS O&O)[96]
- April 4–5:KCNC Denver (CBS O&O)[98]
- April 11–12:KHOU Houston[99][100]
- April 18–19:WGCL Atlanta[101]
- April 25–26:WUSA Washington, D.C.[102][103]
- May 2–3:KIRO Seattle[104]
- May 9–10:WTTV Indianapolis[105]
- May 16–17:KOIN Portland, Oregon[106]
- May 23–24:KOVR Sacramento (CBS O&O)[107]
- May 30–31:KMOV St. Louis[108]
From June 7, 2020 (a special Saturday edition of theCBS Evening News covering the weekend'sGeorge Floyd protests aired the previous day), until December 2020, withCBS Sports set to resume live coverage of the PGA Tour, CBS News resumed full production of theCBS Weekend News with either chief Washington correspondentMajor Garrett or Los Angeles correspondent Jamie Yuccas presiding as anchor, as production for all CBS News programs from the CBS Broadcast Center remained temporarily suspended. On December 4, 2020, CBS News announced correspondentsAdriana Diaz andJericka Duncan would be promoted into permanent anchor positions, with Diaz leading the Saturday edition from the network'sChicago bureau atWBBM-TV and from the network's Washington, D.C. BureauWUSA later, and Duncan leading the Sunday edition from the CBS Broadcast Center.[109] Diaz left theCBS Weekend News in September 2024 to become a co-host forCBS Mornings Plus;Nancy Chen filled in for the following three Saturdays. on October 4, CBS announced that Jericka Duncan would add the program's Saturday edition to her Sunday duties. In 2025 after the weekday edition introducing a multi-anchor formatNancy Chen began rotating with Duncan.[110]
Western edition
editCBS introduced a Western edition of the program in 1979, which was anchored byTerry Drinkwater[111] with staff based in its Los Angeles bureau being placed on standby for updates to the mainCBS Evening News broadcast each weeknight; this lasted until September 1985, when CBS News instituted layoffs at the Los Angeles bureau following a successful fending off of a takeover attempt of the network byTed Turner.[112] The program eventually resumed production of the Western edition from its New York City and Washington studios (which may also be produced from remote locations where the program is broadcast when warranted). The host previously announced, "good evening to our viewers in the West" and packages may be updated to reflect late breaking news.
Anchors
editWeekdays
- Richard Hubbell (1941–1942)
- Ned Calmer (1944)
- Everett Holles (1944–1945)
- Allan Jackson (1944–1945)
- Dwight Cooke (1945–1946)
- Tom O’Connor (1945–1946)
- Bob McKee (1946)
- Milo Boulton (1946)
- Jim McMullin (1946–1947)
- Larry LeSueur (1947)
- Douglas Edwards (1947–1962)
- Walter Cronkite (1962–1981)
- Terry Drinkwater (Western Edition co-anchor; 1979–1985)
- Dan Rather (1981–2005)
- Connie Chung (co-anchor; 1993–1995)
- Bob Schieffer (2005–2006)
- Russ Mitchell (September 1, 2006 and September 4, 2006)
- Katie Couric (2006–2011)
- Harry Smith (2011)
- Scott Pelley (2011–2017)
- Anthony Mason (2017)
- Jeff Glor (2017–2019)
- Norah O'Donnell (2019–2025)
- John Dickerson (2025–present)
- Maurice DuBois (2025–present)
Saturdays[113]
- Roger Mudd (1966–1973)
- Dan Rather (1973–1976)
- Bob Schieffer (1976–1996)
- Paula Zahn (1996–1999)
- John Roberts (1999)
- Anthony Mason (1999)
- Harry Smith (1999)
- Thalia Assuras (1999–2008)
- Troy Roberts (1999)
- Jeff Glor (2008–2010)
- Russ Mitchell (1999–2011)
- Jim Axelrod (2012–2016)
- Reena Ninan (2016–2020)
- Adriana Diaz (2020–2024)
- Jericka Duncan (2024-present)
- Nancy Chen (2025-present)
Sundays[113]
- Bob Schieffer (1976)
- Morton Dean (1976–1984)
- Susan Spencer (1985–1989)
- Connie Chung (1989–1993)
- Deborah Norville (1993–1995)
- John Roberts (1995–2006)
- Russ Mitchell (1995, 2006–2011)
- Jeff Glor (2012–2016)
- Elaine Quijano (2016–2020)
- Jericka Duncan (2020–present)
- Nancy Chen (2025-present)
Audio format
editFormer CBS Radio owned news stations had aired an audio simulcast of theCBS Evening News airs weekdays.KYW is the last of these stations to do so. Only the first thirteen to fifteen minutes of the broadcast are aired, before resuming regular programming.
WCLO airs an audio simulcast of the entireCBS Evening News from Madison-basedWISC-TV.
In addition to a radio broadcast, theCBS Evening News is also available as a podcast.[114]
International broadcasts
editIn Australia, the program is shown daily onSky News Australia at 11:30 a.m. inNew Zealand,Sky News broadcasts the program live at 1:30 a.m. local time.
From March 17, 1987, until the early 2000s, the program was shown daily (from Tuesday to Saturday) with French subtitles on French networkCanal+ at 7:00 a.m. every morning.[115][116]
The program was broadcast on theAmerican Network inMexico,Guatemala, andEl Salvador.
InJapan, theCBS Evening News was shown onBS-TBS as part of that network's morning news program.[117]
TheEvening News was broadcast live onATV World inHong Kong daily until January 1, 2009.
Belize'sTropical Vision Limited occasionally airs the program as a substitute for its airing of theNBC Nightly News on Saturdays and occasionally during the week.
Logos
editWeekday version
- July 15, 2019 – August 28, 2022
- July 15, 2019 – August 28, 2022 (version with anchor name)
- August 29, 2022 – January 24, 2025 (version without anchor name)
- August 29, 2022 – January 23, 2025 (version with anchor name)
- Since January 27, 2025
Weekend version
- September 3, 2022 – January 26, 2025
- Since February 1, 2025
CBS Evening News Plus
- Since February 10, 2025
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External links
edit- Official website
- Internet Movie Database links:
- CBS Television News/Douglas Edwards with the News atIMDb
- Walter Cronkite with the News/CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite atIMDb
- CBS Evening News with Dan Rather atIMDb
- CBS Evening News with Bob Schieffer atIMDb
- CBS Evening News with Katie Couric atIMDb
- CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley atIMDb
- CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor atIMDb
- CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell atIMDb