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CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963. Currently, CBS Evening News is anchored on weekdays by Katie Couric, on Saturdays by Thalia Assuras, and on Sundays by Russ Mitchell.
The Douglas Edwards era
In 1950, the name of the nightly news was changed to Douglas Edwards with the News. When in 1951 it became the first news program to be broadcast on both coasts, thanks to a new coaxial cable connection, Edwards started using the greeting "Good evening everyone, coast to coast."[1] The program competed against the Camel News Caravan on NBC, launched in 1949. Edwards attracted more viewers during the mid-1950s, but lost ground when Chet Huntley and David Brinkley were teamed up by NBC on the Huntley-Brinkley Report. On November 30, 1956, the show became the first to use videotape; it was used to time delay broadcasts to the western U.S.[2] The Walter Cronkite era
Image:Cronkite.jpg Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News in the 1970s.
NBC's team of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley had the most-watched network news program at the time, but under Cronkite, the show began what would eventually become an eighteen-year period of dominating the nightly news ratings.[3] In the process, Walter Cronkite became an American icon, judged "the most trusted man in America" in a Gallup Poll from that era, a status that had first been fostered by his coverage of the JFK Assassination.[citation needed] With the retirement of NBC's Huntley in 1970, Cronkite moved into the ratings lead and held it through the decade. Cronkite's image was further bolstered by his enthuisiastic support for the space program, culminating with his anchoring of CBS News' coverage of the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969. His 1968 editorial declaring that the United States could only hope for a stalemate in Vietnam is often credited with influencing Lyndon Johnson's decision to drop out of the Presidential race. "If I've lost Walter Cronkite," said Johnson, "I've lost the country."[citation needed] In late 1972, Cronkite prodded the show's producers to feature two nights of lengthy explanation of the Watergate scandal, which had been heavily covered by The Washington Post but had not received heavy national coverage. After the first half of the report, shown on a Friday, ran for 14 minutes -- half of the air time of the broadcast -- White House officials complained to CBS founder William S. Paley. Monday's report was aired, but only for six minutes. Cronkite retired from the broadcast March 6, 1981, under a CBS policy requiring mandatory retirement at age 65. The Dan Rather eraImage:DanRather-CBS2005.jpg Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News in 2005. Dan Rather, a CBS news correspondent since the early 1960s and a 60 Minutes reporter, took over the program in 1981, and for a while, led the show into continued ratings dominance.[3] But by 1990, the show was third, behind ABC and NBC.[3] Concerns about excessive liberalism in the media, which gained great favor during the Reagan years, were frequently leveled at Rather and CBS in general.[citation needed] Some of these concerns dated from Rather's position as White House correspondent for CBS News during the Nixon Administration. An interview related to the Iran-contra affair with then-Vice President George H.W. Bush where the two engaged in a shouting match on live television did little to dispel those concerns.[4] Rather apologized for his behavior in statements the following day. On Monday, September 1, 1986, Rather attempted to initiate a slogan, as his predecessor had "And that's the way it is." Simply closing his broadcasts by saying "courage" after his closing remarks. On Wednesday, September 3 he said what he thought was the Spanish word for courage, pronouncing it "cur-AH-he." This was heavily criticized and mocked in the media, and Rather abandoned it on Monday, September 8.[5] On September 11, 1987, Dan Rather marched off the camera in anger when it appeared that CBS Sports' coverage of a US Open semifinal match was going to force the news to be pre-empted. When the tennis match ended at 6:32 p.m., Rather was nowhere to be found. Six minutes of dead air followed before he returned to the broadcast position. Surprisingly, nearly half of the audience watched and waited. He later suggested that his intention was to force the sports department to fill up the entire half-hour so that he wouldn't have to truncate their elaborately-planned coverage of a visit by Pope John Paul II. Walter Cronkite was incensed, telling an interviewer, "I would have fired him. There's no excuse for it."[citation needed] On January 23, 1991, demonstrators from AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) broke into CBS using forged ID's and were heard chanting "Fight AIDS, not Arabs" during the show's introduction. One person was seen on camera just as Dan Rather began speaking. Rather immediately called for a commercial break.[6] Connie Chung began co-anchoring the broadcast with Rather on June 1, 1993. Although Rather never said so publicly, CBS News insiders said he did not approve of her appointment.[7] Chung left in 1995. In 2005, Rather left the anchor position amidst controversy over a September 2004 60 Minutes Wednesday story questioning George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard record. The Pentagon challenged the authenticity of the Killian documents used for the report. A number of bloggers analyzed scans of the documents, and rapidly concluded the documents were forgeries. Subsequently, CBS commissioned an independent inquiry into the matter. Rather denied this incident was the reason for his departure from the broadcast. After his departure from the anchor chair, Rather worked on other CBS News programming. Rather retired from the Evening News on March 9, 2005, at 7:00 eastern time, exactly 24 years after succeeding Cronkite. On June 20, 2006, CBS News President Sean McManus announced that Rather and CBS had agreed to end Rather's 44-year career with the network. The Bob Schieffer transition periodImage:BobSchieffer.jpg Bob Schieffer Image:CBSEveningNews.jpg CBS Evening News with Bob Schieffer title card Rather was succeeded on an interim basis by longtime CBS News correspondent Bob Schieffer. Schieffer has hosted the CBS News public affairs program Face the Nation, based in Washington, D.C., since 1991. At the time Schieffer took over, it was uncertain how long he would host the broadcast, or whether it would retain its current shape or instead adopt some kind of multiple-host or other alternative format. Under Rather in the years leading up to his retirement, the show trailed its rivals at ABC and NBC by a fairly large margin.[citation needed] John Roberts, the White House correspondent and Scott Pelley, his predecessor in that position, were often mentioned as possible successors to Rather when he retired.[citation needed] Jim Axelrod took over as White House correspondent when Roberts later left for CNN. In the months following Rather's departure, the program came to emphasize live exchanges between Schieffer and the various CBS News correspondents around the world. In contrast to traditional network-news practice, these exchanges are unrehearsed as part of an effort to make the language on the broadcast sound more "natural," according to Schieffer.[citation needed] Viewership levels increased over this period of time. It became the only news broadcast to gain viewers during 2005. In November 2005, CBS announced that Evening News executive producer Jim Murphy would be replaced by Rome Hartman, who took the helm over in early January 2006. Schieffer led the CBS Evening News to become the #2 evening news broadcast, beating out ABC World News Tonight. This came after a five-year period of being a distant third. The death of Peter Jennings in 2005 put the ABC News division in flux. Some speculate[citation needed] Jennings's death as a major factor in the ground that CBS has gained in the ratings war. But when Charles Gibson was appointed as anchor at World News Tonight, ABC regained much of its momentum and is also closing in on rival NBC Nightly News. Bob Schieffer's final broadcast of the newscast occurred on Thursday, August 31, 2006. He was succeded the following Tuesday by Katie Couric. The Katie Couric eraImage:CBSEveningNews Couric Sept06.jpg Katie Couric on the set of the CBS Evening News on her first day as anchor. Image:KatieCouricCBSEveningNews.jpg Katie Couric anchors Free Speech, a new segment of the CBS Evening News. On December 1, 2005, it was reported that Katie Couric, host of NBC's Today morning show, was considering CBS's offer to take over the CBS Evening News. On April 1, 2006, Couric officially signed the deal to become the anchor of the CBS Evening News.[8] On April 5, 2006, Couric officially told the Today audience she would step down as co-anchor, a spot she had held for fifteen years, longer than any other Today Show anchor. There had been a great deal of speculation on whether she would leave a multi-million dollar contract with Today. To lure Couric away from NBC, CBS offered her the anchor post and additionally, the opportunity to become a contributor to 60 Minutes. Couric is the first female to anchor a national network newscast solo and will also serve as the program's managing editor. Many have criticized the move by CBS to promote Couric to the broadcast chair, questioning Couric's ability to deliver hard journalism after 15 years of entertainment and fluff segments on Today. Critics claim she lacks the weight to be a sole anchor of the CBS Evening News. Also, Couric has little experience doing live field reports from news hotspots nor any experience leading a news team as evening anchors have traditionally done.[9] This is despite the fact that she was once a Washington deputy reporter on the Pentagon beat for NBC News in the 1980s.[10][11] Couric began working at CBS News in July 2006. During her first broadcast as anchor on Tuesday, September 5, 2006, new graphics, a new set, and a new theme composed by Academy Award winning composer James Horner were introduced; similar graphics and music would be pushed to other CBS News productions such as Up to the Minute, CBS Morning News, and The Early Show throughout the month of October. A new opening title sequence was designed, with Walter Cronkite providing the voiceover. The program also debuted a new feature called "Free Speech" in which different Americans, ranging from a well known national figure to an average person, would provide a news commentary.[12] The debut episode for Katie Couric nearly doubled the average audience the program had pulled in up until then, bringing in 13.6 million viewers. Initially, the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric remained number one every night since its debut, with the exception of Monday, September 11, when it slipped back to third place. For the week of September 18 it dropped to second. However, as of mid-October 2006, the broadcast has slipped back into third place.[13] Since its debut, the Couric version of the CBS Evening News has been repeatedly criticized by liberals and the American left for its inclusion of highly conservative voices such as Rush Limbaugh without counterbalance, and its failure to include commentary from prominent liberals.[14][15] However, Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor of the liberal magazine The Nation, has done several commentaries for the program. Arianna Huffington has also contributed commentary for the program. Most recently, a dust-up with Bill Maher, who claims he was denied the opportunity to speak about religion during his appearance on the show's "Free Speech" segment, intensified these criticisms.[16] On March 8, 2007, the New York Times reported that executive producer Rome Hartman was being replaced by television news veteran Rick Kaplan. Hartman's last broadcast aired on March 7, 2007. Kaplan comes to the CBS Evening News after stints at MSNBC, CNN and ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. Weekend editionsCBS correspondent Russ Mitchell anchors the Sunday edition of the CBS Evening News. as of April 3, 2006. Mitchell also currentley substitutes for Couric on the weekday edition of the CBS Evening News. The Saturday editions of the CBS Evening News are anchored by Thalia Assuras. Substitutes for the weekend edition include Tracy Smith, Harry Smith, Charles Osgood, Maurice DuBois and Sharyn Alfonsi. Former anchors of the weekend newscasts include Bob Schieffer, Paula Zahn, John Roberts, Deborah Norville, Giselle Fernández, and Mika Brzezinski. International broadcastsCBS Evening News is shown on Sky News to viewers in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia also by sister station Sky News Australia to viewers in Australia and New Zealand. On Sky News Australia, it is shown with a 2 to 4 hour time delay, which is morning local time. CBS is not shown outside the Americas on a channel in its own right. However, CBS News is shown for a few hours a day on satellite channel Orbit News in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. CBS Evening News is broadcast live on ATV World in Hong Kong daily (except on certain weekends). Credits
Bill Owens
Katie Boyle, Betty Chin, Christopher Dinan, James McGlinchy, Marc Rosenwasser
Eric Shapiro, Steve Besner
Terri Belli, Lori Beecher, Kevin Finnegan, David Frifield, Sally Garner, Nicolla Hewitt, Mary Hood, Linda Karas, Clifden Kennedy, Catherine Kim, Elliot Kirschner, Dorie Klissas, Matt Lombardi, Yvonne Miller-Halee, Karen Raffensperger, Taigi Smith, Andrew Wolff
Andrea Bruce, Mark Katkov, Jeff Scott Goldman Mary Hager Robert Hendin, Max McClellan, Allyson Ross Taylor, Ward Sloane, Andres Triay, Mary Walsh, Carter Yang
Bert Rudman, Phil Hirschkorn, Wendy Krantz, Michael Ray
Jerry Cipriano
Joe Clines, Mary Alice Williams
Chloe Arensberg, Josh Gross, Brian Goldsmith, Patrick Kiker, Michelle M. Peltier, Jamie McGlinchy, Deborah Rubin
Melissa Smith,
Scott Berger, Beth Efran, Erin Hiner-Gee, Bob Rooney, Patty Smith, Jill Baker, Gail Barsky, Kathleen Cassidy, Dan Edelman, Mark Farrington, Jyll Friedman, Christopher George, Nora Gerard, Guya Patterson-Lloyd, Terry Robinson
Michael Carlucci, Jeff James, William C. Phypers
Rob Mabli, Tom Jimenez, Harry McCabe, Jay Judell, Lee Solomon, Brian McGovern
Tom Crocker, Alan Schatz, Terry Wool
Ronald J. Riccardi, Michael Schussel, Karen Gennarelli, Diane Hamilton, Karen E. Hymes, Heather V. Spinelli, Jerry Stevenson
Mike Williams, Tim Culp
Jason Cullum, Tyrone Jones, J.R. Naeder, Kevin Cavallini, Nick Rawluk, Dwight Brugo, Clarke Smith
Fred Rodriguez, Robyn Hartman, Robert Cauttero, Wade Karlquist,
Lonnie Juli
James Brennan
Lindsley McGrath
John Abbruzzese, James J. Brennan, Cedric Fearrington,
Malcolm Barnard, Randell Benjamin, Brian Cunningham, Trustum C. DeVoe, Bob Enrione, Tome Ferrante, Dan Ferraro, Gayle Fitzpatrick, Jean Francillon, Bryan Hopkins, Russ Johnson, Lee Kaminski, jeff Laing, Terrence R. Leitz, Ted Lewandowski, Robert Liotta, Douglas Manley, Walter Matwichuk, Paul Mueller, Mitch Oppenheim, Joe Palumbo, Mary Peatman, Charles Pesch, Ed Petrovits, Ron Prophete, Robert Simmons, Bob Simon, Jan Lynn Sokota, Al Stilson, Alvin Stiney, Stevan Strom, Gayle Sunderland, James Talluto, Lynn Valenti, Bill Weinstein, Todd Weiss, Jerry Wholstetter
Craig Crawford, Joe Frandino, Bob Green, Catherine Landers, Walt Leiding, Mike Mayberry, Tom McEneny, Tom Micklas, Ed Petrovits,
Remick Benice, Jack McCloy
Maureen A. Cashin
Ariel Bashi, Leslie Cavanaugh, Jenny Gold, Selena Powers, Victoria Thompson
Yael Marwah, Michele A. Filgate, Alexa Hirschfeld, Bacchus Johnson, Candice Leonard, Lauren Mitchell
David Abbate, Joan Johnson, Philip Mirante, Geri Papiernick, David Rosen, Ned Steinberg, J. Rod Thaler
Bob Peterson
Debra L. Bryant
John Michael Pelech
Clyde Miles, Mary Frances Sirianne, Sue Ann Staake, Sharman Mesard, Mark White
Phil Gillespie, Dan Radovsky, Michael Faulkner, Rob Blache, Kimberlee Shaffir, Charlie Wilson
Alan Cassell, David Patsel, Karen Saint-Rossy, John Fantacone
Karen Saint-Rossy, Donald Morgan
Tom Albano, Frank Gilies
Jerry Posey, Karen Saint-Rossy, David Patsel, Greg Shaffir
Gilbert LeVegue, Susan M. Ottalini, Maria Nicoletti, Frank Walters Saturday Edition
Patricia Shevlin
Guy Campanile John Mondello
Michael Teng, Erica Zolberg, Carrie Rabin, Chris Hulme, Bonney Kapp, Susan Rucci, Kristen Muller, Heather Abbott
Chip Colley Sunday Edition
Patricia Shevlin
Guy Campanile John Mondello
Michael Teng, Erica Zolberg, Carrie Rabin, Chris Hulme, Bonney Kapp, Susan Rucci, Kristen Muller, Heather Abbott
Chip Colley See also
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