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By Paul J. Gough NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC News is expected to announce Wednesday that "Good Morning America" co-hosts Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson will fill in on "World News Tonight" with Elizabeth Vargas as Bob Woodruff recovers from injuries suffered in a bombing in Iraq. Sources said Sawyer and Gibson would figure into the initial plans for "World News Tonight," which ABC News recently remade as a dynamic and extended commitment to a daily Webcast and...
By Paul J. Gough NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Katie Couric on Thursday doused persistent rumors that she plans to jump NBC's "Today" to anchor the "CBS Evening News" -- or go anywhere else, for that matter. At least for the time being. Couric and the rest of the "Today" crew conducted a conference call with reporters to celebrate the morning show's 10 years at the top. But as rumors persist that CBS has been doing some heavy-duty wooing to bring Couric to the Tiffany Network,...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - ABC News on Monday named Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff as co-anchors to replace the late Peter Jennings on the network's "World News Tonight," marking a generational change that allows the network to compete more effectively against top-rated NBC news. ABC, No. 2 in the ratings but with a million fewer viewers than NBC in recent weeks, said the new anchor team will start work on January 3 in a revised co-anchor format that will frequently see Woodruff, 44,...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - CBS is trying to change the face of network news by luring Katie Couric, co-host of NBC's top-rated morning show "Today," to the evening news anchor seat vacated by Dan Rather, the Los Angeles Times said on Friday. Citing senior editorial staffers at both networks, the Times said newly installed CBS News President Sean McManus had determinedly wooed Couric in recent weeks to take over as permanent anchor of the CBS Evening News and that Couric was seriously...
By Paul J. Gough NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - When the network morning show ratings come out Thursday, it's all but certain that NBC's "Today" will win for the 500th straight week over rivals "Good Morning America" and "The Early Show." Preliminary figures from Nielsen Media Research show the gap between "Today" and ABC's "Good Morning America" last week was 375,000 viewers, though that could change in the final numbers. But on two days, the gap was much less, less than 40,000 Wednesday...
By Paul J. Gough NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - What began as a trickle of news about a power surge at a London Underground station Thursday quickly morphed into a fast-moving story that was far more sinister, causing cell phones to ring and BlackBerrys to buzz well before dawn on the East Coast for top television news producers, anchors and correspondents. The Big Three networks hastily scrapped their morning-show plans as they scrambled to react to the bombings that killed at least 37...
By Paul J. Gough NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - The American TV news media sprang into action before dawn Thursday as word came from across the Atlantic of a series of bombings in London. Fox News put initial reports about the explosions in London at 4:56 a.m. ET with anchor Donna Fiducia, and MSNBC was on the air with early news at 5 a.m. The cable news channels -- CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and even CNBC -- started providing wall-to-wall coverage, using a mixture of their own correspondents and...
