Monday, January 27, 2025

All-New CBS Evening News Launches Tonight


CBS Evening News is returning to its New York City roots as the network reimagines its legacy broadcast in a modern era.

After more than five years in Washington, D.C., with Norah O'Donnell at the desk, the weeknight broadcast is moving back to the CBS Broadcast Center's historic Studio 47 in Manhattan, where Dan Rather led the show for 24 years.

CBS veterans John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois were tapped to succeed O'Donnell as co-anchors of the new CBS Evening News, which premieres on Monday, Jan. 27. But the duo will be part of a regular ensemble that also includes political insight from Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan and immersive weather reports from chief weathercaster Lonnie Quinn.

John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois Tapped to Co-Anchor Reimagined CBS Evening News Broadcast

PEOPLE spoke with the new reporting crew ahead of the show's launch to get the inside scoop on the return to the Big Apple, the revamp of Studio 47 and the players who will bring the show to life with a bold new format each evening.

The network used CBS Evening News' latest transition as an opportunity to refocus its storytelling approach and make high-tech upgrades to the studio, which has been out of commission and operating as a workspace since 2016.

"People have the news all day in their pockets, and we’re not trying to compete with that," Dickerson, 56, tells PEOPLE of the team's vision. "What we can share is the perspective that comes from the deep reporting that our correspondents do."

He adds: "That’s a CBS News strength — our experienced correspondents and the people working on the show who have spent their lives trying to figure out how to make a complicated world understandable."

While nightly newscasts have historically been structured as a series of packaged segments presented by a lead anchor at the desk, CBS Evening News — under the direction of incoming executive producer Guy Campanile and supervising producer Bill Owens — will put less weight on the talent in the studio and more emphasis on the stories that Dickerson and DuBois explore in live time with correspondents around the world.

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