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| Genre | News program |
| Created by | Don Hewitt |
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| Narrated by | Joe Cipriano |
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| Composers | John Trivers, Elizabeth Myers and Alan Pasqua (1987) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 72 |
| No. of episodes | 16,400+ |
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| Executive producer | Carolyn Cremen (Interim 2024) Guy Campanile (effective January 6, 2025) |
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| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 15 minutes (1941–1963) 30 minutes (1963–present) |
| Production company | CBS News Productions |
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| Network | CBS |
| Release | July 1, 1941 – 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.
Beginning on July 15, 2019, the nightly broadcast has been anchored by Norah O'Donnell and has been titled CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell; starting on December 2, 2019, the newscast has originated from CBS News' bureau in Washington, D.C.[1] 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[2] 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.[3] At midnight Eastern, the Western Edition is posted on the website for CBS News and their YouTube channel.[4] 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.[5]
- ^ "CBS News announces anchor changes at 'CBS This Morning' and 'CBS Evening News'". CBS News. May 7, 2019. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
- ^ 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
- ^ Alagot, Calvin "CBS Evening News Gives The West Coast Some Love", LA Weekly, March 4, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
- ^ "CBS Evening News | Full Episodes". YouTube. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
- ^ "Week of March 25 and Q1 2024 Evening News Ratings". April 3, 2024.