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CBS Television News (1941–1950)
Douglas Edwards with the News (1950–1962)
Walter Cronkite with the News
(1962–1963)
Weekends:
CBS Weekend News (since 2016)
CBS Television News (1941–1950)
Douglas Edwards with the News (1950–1962)
Walter Cronkite with the News
(1962–1963)
Weekends:
CBS Weekend News (since 2016)
Why has CBS replaced their evening news anchors so many times compared to the other networks?
Norah O’Donnell to Exit as ‘CBS Evening News’ Anchor to Become Senior Correspondent
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Since Dan Rather’s departure in 2005, CBS has had 6 anchors: Bob Schieffer (2005-2006), Katie Kouric (2006-2011), Scott Pelly (2011-2017), Anthony Mason (2017), Jeff Glor (2017-2019), and now Norah O’Donnell.
ABC News in comparison has had 4 anchors since Peter Jennings died from lung cancer in 2005: Bob Woodruff/Elizabeth Vargas (2006), Charles Gibson (2006-2009), Diane Sawyer (2009-2014) and David Muir (2014-present). Had Peter Jennings not gotten lung cancer, he likely would have anchored until the late 2000s and ABC would probably only have 2 anchors after him.
NBC News has had only 2 anchors since Tom Brokov retired in 2004: Brian Williams (2004-2015) and Lester Holt (2015-present). Brian Williams would likely still be anchoring today had he not misrepresented his accounts of the 2003 Iraq invasion.
Is it just incompetence or bad ratings? ABC lost a legendary anchor to cancer and had to find a replacement and NBC had an anchor who lied, both obvious and valid reasons for new anchors to be chosen. CBS just seems to fire them for no reason.