A recent, retooled “CBS Evening News” won’t begin until timely next year, but it already has a sequel.
CBS News unveiled set ups Wednesday to begin “CBS Evening News Plus,” a 30-minute continuation of its overhauled flagship recentscast that will stream online and air on brave CBS-owned stations. Already, the recent half-hour program, which will be anchored by John Dickerson, will materialize on KCBS in Los Angeles, KPIX in San Francisco, KOVR in Sacramento and WFOR in Miami.
“John is a genuine multiplatcreate journaenumerate. From TV to streaming… from podcasting to magazines and books… John has a order of distilling recents and storylines for diverse audiences amid a firehose of recommendation and headlines,” said Wendy McMahon, plivent and CEO of CBS’ recents, stations and syndication operations, in a memo to staffers. “These capabilities will fuel a lot of what we’ll see nightly on ‘CBS Evening News Plus.’”
Watching the netlabor evening-recents has for decades been a standalone experience. Now, CBS is laboring to produce it part of a wideer media join.
Norah O’Donnell will wrap her tenure as the anchor of the venerable “CBS Evening News” on Friday, January 24, and the recent version of the program, led by Dickerson and Maurice DuBois of WCBS, debuts Monday January 27. A recent on-air team that participates weathercaster Lonnie Quinn and Washington-based “Face The Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan, aims to fracture recents and recommend more depth, rather than trying to run down dozens of items that surfaced earlier in the day in the space of less than 30 minutes.
Under McMahon, CBS News has tried to spur recent interest in a wideer array of streaming satisfied, all of which materializes on the free, ad-helped CBS News 24/7. A fourth hour of “CBS Mornings,” dubbed “CBS Morning Plus,” streams and materializes on brave CBS stations, and debuted in September.
Alturo Rhymes, a 20-year veteran of CBS News, has been named executive producer of “CBS Evening News Plus.” He has labored as an executive story editor and co-anciaccess widecast produce at the evening recents, and now will help direct what could become a createat of its future.
For Dickerson, the allotment recurrents someskinnyg of a continuation of duties. The anchor has since 2022 led an hour-lengthy 7 p.m. recentscast on CBS streaming platcreates that aims to provide provide insight and historical context around the events of the day to recommend watchers a proset uper empathetic of the recents cycle.
