A brand new, retooled “CBS Evening News” gained’t launch till early subsequent 12 months, nevertheless it already has a sequel.
CBS News unveiled plans Wednesday to launch “CBS Evening News Plus,” a 30-minute continuation of its overhauled flagship newscast that may stream on-line and air on sure CBS-owned stations. Already, the brand new half-hour program, which will likely be anchored by John Dickerson, will seem on KCBS in Los Angeles, KPIX in San Francisco, KOVR in Sacramento and WFOR in Miami.
“John is a true multiplatform journalist. From TV to streaming… from podcasting to magazines and books… John has a command of distilling news and storylines for diverse audiences amid a firehose of information and headlines,” mentioned Wendy McMahon, president and CEO of CBS’ information, 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 community evening-news has for many years been a standalone expertise. Now, CBS is working to make it a part of a broader media play.
Norah O’Donnell will wrap her tenure because the anchor of the venerable “CBS Evening News” on Friday, January 24, and the brand new model of this system, led by Dickerson and Maurice DuBois of WCBS, debuts Monday January 27. A brand new on-air staff that features weathercaster Lonnie Quinn and Washington-based “Face The Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan, goals to interrupt information and provide extra depth, slightly than attempting to run down dozens of things that surfaced earlier within the day within the house of lower than half-hour.
Under McMahon, CBS News has tried to spur new curiosity in a broader array of streaming content material, all of which seems on the free, ad-supported CBS News 24/7. A fourth hour of “CBS Mornings,” dubbed “CBS Morning Plus,” streams and seems on sure CBS stations, and debuted in September.
Alturo Rhymes, a 20-year veteran of CBS News, has been named government producer of “CBS Evening News Plus.” He has labored as an government story editor and co-senior broadcast produce on the night information, and now will assist lead what may grow to be a format of its future.
For Dickerson, the task represents one thing of a continuation of duties. The anchor has since 2022 led an hour-long 7 p.m. newscast on CBS streaming platforms that goals to offer present perception and historic context across the occasions of the day to supply viewers a deeper understanding of the information cycle.