As I have said before, it would be great to see Elizabeth Vargas takeover. It will never be the same without Peter, but I think a woman should take the top job. Only two others have anchored one of the main national bulletins, Connie Chung at CBS and Barbara Walters at ABC.
Charles is good, I think put him on WNT, and send a younger but well known person onto GMA.
I heard somewhere that Katie or Matt might be leaving TODAY, is this true??
The buzz in US trade mags is that CBS is wooing Katie Couric for its revamped Evening News. She has met a number of times with CBS chairman Leslie Moonves (source: Variety). CNN's Anderson Cooper has also been mentioned as a possibility.
The biggest problem for ABC is that appointing Charles Gibson would break up the partnership with Diane Sawyer on GMA. It is the network's most profitable show and is taking a real charge at NBC's Today.
Really tough decision to see who replaces Peter Jennings. It's unlikely they will go outside ABC News though.
Looks like Katie has decided against.Usually with these US news people they simple talk about moving network to force up their wages but very few of the real top guys actually move: Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings were all approached by rivals and din't make the leap. Bryant Gumbel, ex of NBC's Today, did move to CBS and sank without trace. Here's the story from TV Newser:
Couric admits to recent conversations with Les Moonves, and says "there are some appealing things about it." But there's a downside: "Twenty-two minutes on the Evening News is very unappealing. I don't know if it would be too constraining for me."
What would suit her best, Couric believes, is an opportunity to do "important journalism. I have a real appetite for smart journalism that's not being done currently. I'd like to provide some type of forum for more intelligent discussion of the issues, so it's not just one person on one side and one person on the other and a lot of screaming."
ABC most certainly is not right wing, it's sensible, middle-ground. Patriotic when it needs to be but not above criticising the US and government.
If you want neo-fascist isolationist crap watch Fox News.
I don't doubt that much of Fox's output is isolationist -- or indeed crap, but don't devalue the word fascist by using it incorrectly. If you knew anything about the fascists you would know that that comment is nonsense.
ABC most certainly is not right wing, it's sensible, middle-ground. Patriotic when it needs to be but not above criticising the US and government.
If you want neo-fascist isolationist crap watch Fox News.
ABC, like all the US networks is essentially corporate and commercially centrist, not right-wing. The misconception probably stems from the employment of John Stossel - who has a reputation of being conservative and right-wing.
ABC News said Monday it will replace Ted Koppel on "Nightline" with the three-anchor team of Martin Bashir, Cynthia McFadden and Terry Moran and heavily revamp the show's format.
Will it be lines of "Tonight with Trevor McDonald?" We'll find out soon
The buzz in US trade mags is that CBS is wooing Katie Couric for its revamped Evening News. She has met a number of times with CBS chairman Leslie Moonves (source: Variety). CNN's Anderson Cooper has also been mentioned as a possibility.
The biggest problem for ABC is that appointing Charles Gibson would break up the partnership with Diane Sawyer on GMA. It is the network's most profitable show and is taking a real charge at NBC's Today.
Really tough decision to see who replaces Peter Jennings. It's unlikely they will go outside ABC News though.
ABC likes to stay in-house with new hires - even George Stephanopolus (who hosts "This Week") had been working for them for more than a year before getting that slot.
The morning ratings race is far too tight for them to sacrifice by losing Charlie Gibson from "GMA." He's more likely to stay put for the moment. Splitting duties with he and Elizabeth Vargas is likely to be the rule of the day for the moment. If they were to go with one anchor, and backed off of Vargas, I'd think they'd look to Stossel, John Quinones or one of the overnight anchors on WNN before they'd let Gibson leave "GMA" permanently.
As for CBS, if Moonves can't get Katie Couric, look for them to either try grabbing a local anchor (Antonio Mora at WBBM/Chicago was formerly an ABC network reporter/anchor; Rick Magers at KCBS/Los Angeles would probably entertain a move as well - plus there are a number of anchors in other markets that are both very talented, and have the potential to move up to network level) or to try to rob one of the other networks (I could very easily see them grabbing Rick Sanchez from CNN, or perhaps John Sigenthaler from NBC).
CNN has figured out that they need to hang on to Anderson Cooper - they've got him co-anchoring ("field anchoring" is the way one newspaper writer termed it) "NewsNight" from 10 p.m. to midnight ET with Aaron Brown now. They won't let him go anytime soon.