Posted on 09/02/2009 8:24:43 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
TVNewser has learned ABC News will announce today that Charlie Gibson will leave "World News" in January and that Diane Sawyer will be named the new anchor of the network's evening newscast.
Gibson has been the anchor of "World News" since May 2006, after the pairing of Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff was broken up when Woodruff was seriously wounded in an IED attack in Iraq.
Woodruff and Vargas were named co-anchors of the program in Dec. 2005 after the death of longtime anchor Peter Jennings.
DEVELOPING
> More: ABC News tells us Gibson is announcing his retirement from ABC News at which point Sawyer will take over the broadcast.
Click continued to read the emails from ABC News president David Westin: "Diane's presence will certainly be missed on Good Morning America. But we are fortunate that both Charlie and Diane will remain with their current broadcasts for the next four months.."
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And the chickification of the news continues...
Media Czar for Maobama?
FishFace is perfect. She’ll be down around Katie Couric’s numbers in no time!
Uh oh. What will Katie say now? Sawyer will likely keep the same viewership as Gibson, so Katie will lose the “I’m a woman” excuse for her low viewership.
She will be stuck with “I’m Katie Couric” as the only remaining excuse.
One clueless fool replacing another. No news here.
Diane Sawyer, the woman who slept her way to the top with Bill Paley of CBS.
Brian Williams is loving life.
Sawyer is a lush. Apparently, sobriety was not a job qualification.
Yes it does.
All of the alphabet networks will continue to lose audience until they mainstreaam their news. I do love how this puts the Perky One on an island!!!!!
Diane is always so cloying and annoying. But, by golly, she’s really, really good at it!
Good luck, Diane!
And, Charlie, we knew ye for too long!
Charlie’s a girl in man skin isn’t he-she?
In a few years, they will both be co-hosts on the view with Barbara Walters still calling the shots.
Another trophy for Palin’s wall.
I cannot stomach her. she will slide downward like perky katie.
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