{"id":6754,"date":"2025-08-18T09:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/6754\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T09:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:20:10","slug":"anxiety-builds-at-cbs-news-over-potential-moves-by-skydance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/6754\/","title":{"rendered":"Anxiety Builds at CBS News Over Potential Moves by Skydance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe journalists at CBS News<\/a> are eager to report out details of what might happen to their own workplace.<\/p>\n

\n\tStaffers at the unit, now part of Paramount Skydance<\/a>, are worried about the potential for a new round of layoffs, according to three people familiar with the news division, and are also curious about a possible new chapter for \u201cCBS Evening News<\/a>,\u201d which has seen its ratings drop noticeably since embracing a new, atypical format. <\/p>\n

\n\tCBS News declined to make executives available for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tLayoffs are indeed possible. Executives from Skydance signaled earlier this month during a meeting with reporters that they intended to follow through on previously announced plans to cut $2 billion in costs<\/a> from the company, which has suffered from longer-term downturns in traditional advertising and distribution revenue <\/a>as one-time TV viewers embrace streaming technology. Jeff Shell, the new president of Skydance, indicated those cuts and reductions should be disclosed by the company\u2019s next quarterly report to investors in November.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for \u201cCBS Evening News,\u201d executives are poised to experiment with a tweak to the current format, which relies on two anchors delivering news side by side. <\/p>\n

\n\tA person familiar with the matter suggests viewers will in weeks to come see a more frequent reliance on one of the anchors \u2014 John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois lead the program \u2014 being out on the road at major, breaking events. Just last week, Dickerson was on the ground in Alaska as U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met to discuss Russia\u2019s ongoing battle with Ukraine. Making use of both anchors in such fashion would put an authoritative person in the field and the studio, this person suggested, while giving the newscast the ability to deliver breaking news at the top of the broadcast.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat suggests a new wrinkle in the show\u2019s mission. The original concept behind this \u201cEvening News\u201d iteration was to emphasize more feature and enterprise reporting.<\/a> In its earliest weeks, even CBS News\u2019 Washington bureau veterans tried to examine the effects of Trump-era policies on people in places like Baltimore or Canada. And yet, critics complained that the show was at times giving short shrift to breaking headlines.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe format tweak could potentially give \u201cEvening News\u201d a shot of the latest headlines while still leaving some room for the distinct elements it brings to the mix.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeculation on \u201cEvening News\u201d has grown since the disclosure that its current executive producer, Guy Campanile, would leave the show and return to his former home, \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d<\/a> where he has long worked as a producer. One of the concepts behind the new \u201cEvening News\u201d was to adopt some of the spirit of \u201c60,\u201d which generates its own headlines by pursuing stories both tied to headlines and completely disconnected from them.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut evening-news audiences, accustomed to a format that has worn well for many decades, didn\u2019t bite. Approximately 3.74 million viewers watched \u201cCBS Evening News\u201d for the five-day period ended August 4, according to Nielsen. ABC\u2019s \u201cWorld News Tonight,\u201d which leads the category, captured an average of nearly 6.89 million, while NBC\u2019s \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d won an average of nearly 5.35 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tCBS News executives had hoped their new \u201cEvening News\u201d might pick up viewers as Tom Llamas picked up the reins<\/a> at NBC following a decision by Lester Holt to step away from the \u201cNightly\u201d role.<\/a> Instead, the CBS show has lost hundreds of thousands of viewers since moving away from the format that had been anchored by Norah O\u2019Donnell.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne potential candidate to take the \u201cEvening News\u201d reins behind the camera is said to be Kim Harvey, a veteran producer who has worked for CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC, along with CBS News. Harvey has logged time working on MSNBC town halls during the run up to the 2016 election, and with anchors that range from Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes to Bill O\u2019Reilly and Greta Van Susteren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The journalists at CBS News are eager to report out details of what might happen to their own…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[6926,6927,18,117,19,17,6928,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-6754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-cbs-evening-news","9":"tag-cbs-news","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-paramount-skydance","15":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}