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UPDATE, with CBS News response Former CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley said today on CNN’s Reliable Sources news magazine that he was fired from his job because he “wouldn’t stop complaining to management” about a “hostile work environment” in the news division. The remarks came after Pelley was asked about the…

“This is my last broadcast for the CBS Evening News. We hope this has been something of a lighthouse for you to help you with your bearings in a stormy world,” Scott Pelley said Friday night – a couple weeks after word broke he was out, when people contacted reporters with word Pelley’s office was being cleaned out…

Hours after word broke of Scott Pelley’s exit from CBS Evening News – when he arranged for his office to be  cleaned out while he was on assignment for 60 Minutes – CBS News officially announced his full-time move to the newsmag. Pelley has anchored the evening newscast since taking over for Katie Couric in 2011. The…

Expect the familiar face of CBS News Senior National Correspondent Anthony Mason to take over for Scott Pelley as anchor of CBS Evening News, for now. CBS News has yet to officially announce Pelley’s exit from the newscast, word of which broke Tuesday when the news operation cleaned out his office while he was on…

Scott Pelley is out as anchor of CBS Evening News.  Pelley had anchored since taking over for Katie Couric in 2011; he will continue to be seen on 60 Minutes, which he has co-hosted since 2003. One source told Deadline Pelley’s anchor tenure wrapped after talks to renew his anchor deal failed to end happily. …

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt has won its eighth straight sweep in the news demographic, viewers 25-54. ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir took the May sweep in total viewers, after February and November sweep wins in same metric, marking ABC News’ first such streak since Peter Jennings anchored 21 years…

UPDATED: David Muir will be anchoring ABC’s newscast tonight from Jacksonville, FL, as Hurricane Matthew barrels toward the state, the network confirmed. NBC’s Lester Holt this afternoon tweeted work he’s landed in Orlando, Florida, and was motoring to Melbourne, which is on the east coast of the state. Crew and I…

ABC’s World News Tonight snagged the largest overall audience for the first two weeks of the 2016-17 TV season, marking the first time on that in 17 years. The David Muir-anchored newscast clocked nearly 8.3M viewers during Debate Week, besting NBC Nightly News’s 7.9M and CBS Evening News’s 6.6M on all five week…

CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley and the network’s Face the Nation anchor John Dickerson will lead CBS News’ live coverage of Monday’s first presidential debate, 9-11 PM ET.  CBS News correspondents Nancy Cordes and Major Garrett will provide original reporting on the network's primetime debate coverage…

The Lester Holt-anchored NBC Nightly News logged 8.8 million viewers last night, topping the David Muir-anchored World News Tonight (8M) on ABC, and the Scott Pelley-helmed CBS Evening News (7.2M). In the news demo, 25-54 years, NBC's newscast (2.2M) also topped ABC's (1.8M) and CBS' (1.7M). All three newscasts were ex…

Updated with President Obama’s remarks and update on victims: Brian Williams made his real return to TV news this afternoon anchoring MSNBC's live coverage of the country’s latest mass shooting at a school, this time at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, OR. Sure, Williams had anchored large swaths of MSNBC’s Pope…

NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt snagged its fourth straight across-the-board weekly ratings win. The newscast has won four straight weeks in total viewers, the 25-54 news demographic, and viewers aged 18-49. Nightly has led its broadcast competitors in all three metrics since Holt was named permanent anchor, after…