I am trying to remember if there has ever before been a time when the anchor of a network evening news broadcast was not the Chief anchor of news division (which is what Stephanopoulous's title will now be)? It seems to me than even when guys like Cronkite, Brinkley and Brokaw stepped down, their replacements as evening news anchors were clearly the senior anchors for the news division, and would lead coverage of any major story. This kind of feels like to me ABC is saying "George is our best news guy, but we make too much money in the morning to risk putting him on an evening show that nobody watches anyway".
It is possible that from now on, the senior network news anchor will be seen as the lead anchor of the morning shows...(once Williams and Pelly move on) On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 7:12 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/26/business/media/david-muir-to-succeed-diane-sawyer-as-world-news-anchor.html?_r=0 > > "Diane Sawyer to step down as anchor of the network’s evening newscast in > August, replaced by David Muir, a rising star anchor at ABC. George > Stephanopoulos, a co-host of “Good Morning America” and the host of the > Sunday talk show “This Week,” will become the lead anchor for all breaking > news coverage such as election nights. (SNIP) [Sawyer} would become a > full-time anchor for investigative reports and major interviews. She will > retain the title of ABC News anchor." > > > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
