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ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir again finished the season on top in total viewers and the key demographic, but all the network evening newscasts saw their viewership drop in 2020-21 versus a year earlier. The newscast averaged 8.74 million total viewers, down 7% from 9.39 million a season earlier. NBC Nightly…

A year after the start of the Covid-19 shutdowns, network evening news viewership fell to levels resembling pre-pandemic habits. Viewership for World News Tonight with David Muir, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell was down for the week of March 8 compared to the same period a…

CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell landed an interview with Charlotte Bennett, the former aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo who is one of three women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. In the interview, Bennett dismissed Cuomo’s apology, which he made at a press appearance  Wednesday. She told O’Donnell…

UPDATED with CBS News statement & Norah O’Donnell video: Despite a technical glitch putting the kibosh on Tuesday’s East Coast airing of CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, the show will go on. A 6:30 PM PT West Coast edition of the network's evening news will air as planned, sources tell Deadline. Earlier Tuesday…

CBS Evening News has now made the full transition to Norah O'Donnell as anchor: After her debut in July, the newscast made a move to its permanent location earlier this week, distinguishing itself as the only network evening news broadcast from Washington. On a new set at the CBS M Street bureau, executive producer Ja…

Jay Shaylor has been named executive producer of CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell as the newscast readies to move to Washington, D.C., from New York later this fall. Shaylor has been executive producer of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer since 2013, and has been part of the team that produced CNN’s election…

Norah O’Donnell’s debut as anchor of CBS Evening News drew 5.61 million total viewers Monday, on par with the newscast’s numbers in the recently ended second quarter and year-over-year but lower in viewers and the key news demo compared with this season’s averages. The broadcast, featuring a sit-down with Amazon’s…

Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, believes a degree of regulatory scrutiny is “fair” given the company’s sprawling scale, but he insists it is “not a monopoly.” He made the comments to CBS News (see the video below) as Apple unveiled a range of new products and services at its developers conference in San Jose on Monday. On the…

After being removed from CBS Evening News, Jeff Glor has decided to stick with the network as co-host of CBS This Morning: Saturday. He will be co-hosting with Dana Jacobson and Michelle Miller. Glor also has been named CBS News Special Correspondent, in which capacity he will report feature stories and investigative…

Jeff Glor signed off as anchor of the CBS Evening News for the final time Friday, wrapping his last broadcast before Norah O’Donnell takes over this summer from the show’s new home base in Washington, D.C. Glor took a few minutes at the end of the broadcast to wish O’Donnell “the best of luck” and give special thanks…

Jeff Glor will sign off for the last time as anchor of CBS Evening News on Friday, though his replacement Norah O’Donnell will not make her entrance until later in the summer, and then a second grand entrance when the show moves its base to Washington D.C. in the fall. CBS News will put a rotation of buffer anchors…

CBS This Morning did its best to attract the biggest crowd possible to Monday’s broadcast, promising viewers last Friday it would address reports of the show’s on-air overhaul that would put Gayle King in the starring role, joined by Anthony Mason and Tony Dokoupil. On that Friday, show co-host Norah O’Donnell…