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)
  • CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell (2019–present)
  • Weekends:
  • CBS Weekend News (2016–present)
GenreNews program
Created byDon Hewitt
Directed by
  • Brian Nalesnik
  • Alison Hawley
Presented by
Narrated byJoe Cipriano
Theme music composer
ComposersJohn Trivers, Elizabeth Myers and Alan Pasqua (1987)
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons72
Production
Executive producerAdam Verdugo (2022–present)[1]
Production locations
  • New York City (1941–2019 Weekday and Weekend Editions, 2019–2020 Weekend Editions, 2020–present Sunday Editions)
  • Chicago (2020-present Saturday Editions)
  • Washington, D.C. (2019–present Weekday Editions)
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time15 minutes (1941–1963)
30 minutes (1963–present)
Production companyCBS News Productions
Original release
NetworkCBS
ReleaseJuly 1, 1941 (1941-07-01) –
present
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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. The program has been broadcast since July 1, 1941, under the original title CBS Television News, eventually adopting its current title in 1963.

Since July 15, 2019, the nightly broadcast has been anchored by Norah O'Donnell and has been titled CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell; since December 2, 2019, the newscast has originated from CBS News' bureau in Washington, D.C.[2] Previous weeknight anchors have included Douglas Edwards, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Connie Chung, Bob Schieffer, Katie Couric, Scott Pelley, and Jeff Glor.

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 were 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, it was announced that Adriana Diaz and Jericka Duncan would be the new weekend anchors.

The weeknight edition of the CBS Evening News airs live at 6:30 p.m. in the Eastern and 5:30 p.m. in the Central Time Zones and is tape delayed for the Mountain Time Zone. A "Western Edition", with updated segments covering breaking news stories, airs pre-recorded[3] at 6:30 p.m. for most stations in the Pacific Time Zone and 5:30 p.m. in the Alaska time zone and on tape delay in the Hawaii–Aleutian Time Zone.[4] At midnight Eastern, the Western Edition is posted on the website for CBS News and their YouTube channel.[5] The Western Edition additionally airs along with the weekend versions on CBS News' streaming channel.

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.[6]

  1. ^ Brian Steinberg (June 10, 2022). "CBS Names Adam Verdugo Executive Producer, 'CBS Evening News'". Variety. Retrieved April 20, 2023.
  2. ^ "CBS News announces anchor changes at 'CBS This Morning' and 'CBS Evening News'". CBS News. May 7, 2019. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  3. ^ This program will air a live west coast edition in the event of a major breaking news story or if the anchor originates that day's broadcast from a CBS West Coast affiliate, most commonly in Los Angeles
  4. ^ Alagot, Calvin "CBS Evening News Gives The West Coast Some Love", LA Weekly, March 4, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
  5. ^ "CBS Evening News | Full Episodes". YouTube. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
  6. ^ https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/week-of-march-25-and-q1-2024-evening-news-ratings-world-news-tonight-remains-dominant/

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