CBS Evening News

CBS Evening News
Also known as	Weekdays: CBS Television News (1941–1950) Douglas Edwards with the News (1950–1962) Walter Cronkite with the News (1962–1963) Weekends: CBS Weekend News (since 2016)
Genre	News program
Created by	Don Hewitt
Directed by	Brian Nalesnik
Presented by	Weekdays: John Dickerson Maurice DuBois Weekends: Jericka Duncan (See former anchors)
Narrated by	Joe Cipriano
Theme music composer	Walt Levinsky (1982–1987) John Trivers, Elizabeth Myers and Alan Pasqua (1987–1991; 2011–2016; since 2025) Rick Patterson, Ron Walz and Neal Fox (1991–2006) James Horner (2006–2011) Joel Beckerman (2016–2022) John Trivers, Elizabeth Myers and Alan Pasqua, arranged by Antfood (2022–2025)
Composers	John Trivers, Elizabeth Myers and Alan Pasqua (1987; 2022; 2025)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	72
No. of episodes	16,400+
Production
Executive producers	Guy Campanile (since January 27, 2025)
Producer	Bill Owens (since January 27, 2025)
Production locations	New York City (1941–2019, since 2025 (Weekday and Weekend Editions); 2019–2020 and since 2024 (Weekend Editions); 2020–2024 (Sunday Editions)) Chicago (2020–2024 (Saturday Editions)) Washington, D.C. (2019–2025 (Weekday Edition))
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	15 minutes (1941–1963) 30 minutes (since 1963)
Production company	CBS News Productions
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	July 1, 1941 (1941-07-01) – present
Related
CBS News Mornings CBS News Roundup CBS Mornings Competitors: NBC Nightly News ABC World News Tonight PBS News Hour
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The CBS Evening News is the flagship evening television news program of CBS News, the news division of the CBS television network in the United States. The CBS Evening News is a daily evening broadcast featuring news reports, feature stories and interviews by CBS News correspondents and reporters covering events around the world. Since 2025, the program has had more of a news magazine-styled format, with a larger focus on long-form stories. The program has been broadcast since July 1, 1941, under the original title CBS Television News, eventually adopting its existing title in 1963.

Since January 27, 2025, the flagship nightly broadcast has been co-anchored by John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City. Previous weeknight anchors have included Douglas Edwards, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Connie Chung, Bob Schieffer, Russ Mitchell, Katie Couric, Harry Smith, Scott Pelley, Anthony Mason, Jeff Glor, and Norah O'Donnell.

Saturday and Sunday broadcasts of the CBS Evening News began in February 1966. On May 2, 2016, CBS announced that the weekend edition would be rebranded, effective May 7, 2016, as the CBS Weekend News. Weekend newscasts originate from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City, and are anchored by Jericka Duncan. From 2016 to 2020, the CBS Weekend News was anchored by Reena Ninan on Saturday and Elaine Quijano on Sunday. By the summer of 2020, Ninan and Quijano were replaced by Major Garrett and Jamie Yuccas. In December 2020, Adriana Diaz and Jericka Duncan were announced to be the new weekend anchors; Diaz left the program in 2024.

The weeknight edition of the CBS Evening News airs live at 6:30 pm in the Eastern Time Zone and 5:30 pm in the Central Time Zone, and is tape delayed for the Mountain Time Zone. A "Western Edition", with updated segments covering breaking news stories, airs previously recorded^[1] at 6:30 pm for most stations in the Pacific Time Zone and 5:30 pm in the Alaska Time Zone and on tape delay in the Hawaii–Aleutian Time Zone.^[2] At midnight Eastern, the Western Edition is posted on the website for CBS News and their YouTube channel.^[3] The Western Edition additionally airs along with the weekend versions on CBS News 24/7.

As of April 11, 2024, CBS Evening News remains in third place of the three major television news programs, with around 4,969,000 total viewers.^[4]