
When Katie Couric took over the "CBS Evening News" in 2006, CBS had Walter Cronkite, the network’s legendary newsman, record her introduction. When Cronkite died last July, Couric made a point of saying they would keep the voiceover as part of the broadcast.
That changed on Monday, with actor Morgan Freeman’s voice replacing Cronkite’s.
The Obama Media Blitz made its latest tour stop at the “Late Show with David Letterman” yesterday, taping the program right around the same time Fox News host Glenn Beck was airing his faux interview with president.
Here are the highlights in case you missed them.
Catch up on all the top schmooze, as Ester gives her own outrageous take on the week at TheWrap. In this episode: Kate Gosselin joins "The View" (she replaces right wing preggo loudmouth Elisabeth Hasselbeck); Chris Brown sentenced to picking up trash (isn't that what started the fight with Rihanna in the first place?!), George Clooney's next film, "Men Who Stare at Goats" (what is it, a West Virginia love story?) and, of course, Michael Jackson's concrete funeral. So sit your tookus down and watch ...
ABC News announced Wednesday that Charles Gibson, anchor of ABC’s “World News,” will retire at the end of the year.
Diane Sawyer, anchor of "Good Morning America," will replace him.
Gibson had served as “World News” anchor since May 2006.
The Kennedy assassination. The moon landing. The Nixon resignation.
Walter Cronkite had a few lifetimes’ worth of signature, career-defining, on-air moments during his 20-year career as host of the CBS Evening News. But what about the network anchors who came after Cronkite?