ABC handoff's old news
Diane Sawyer added what is likely to be the final entry on her resume last week when she got the nod to succeed Charles Gibson as anchor of the network's flagship "World News" nightly newscast in January. It's a momentous shift for ABC, of course, from a male to a femme voice, but it's hardly a generational handoff. At 63, Sawyer is but three years younger than Gibson, who took the helm of the broadcast in May 2006 in the tumultuous period that followed the death of Peter Jennings. There's no...

ABC News: Gibson retiring, Sawyer will be anchor: PHOTO
NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Gibson , who provided a steadying hand to a World News broadcast reeling from tragedy, will retire at the end of the year and ABC News appointed Diane Sawyer on Wednesday to replace him in January.

ABC's Gibson to Step Down; Sawyer Will Replace Him
Charles Gibson , the anchor of ABC ’s “World News,” is stepping down from the position at the end of this year. Diane Sawyer , the longtime “Good Morning America” host, will be his replacement. She will start in January. Mr. Gibson made the decision after long conversations with the president of ABC News, David Westin , the network said. “World News” has been finishing second in the ratings behind NBC ’s “Nightly News” with Brian...

Abc - Wholl Replace Sawyer On Gma: PHOTO
While ABC's decision to assign the World News anchor position to Diane Sawyer come January, when Charles Gibson steps down, may have solved one problem, it may have created a more serious one -- filling Sawyer's place on Good Morning America, the New York Times observed today (Friday). It noted that GMA "is by far the most profitable program in the news division," bringing in an estimated $50 million a year, even though it routinely places second behind NBC's Today. In an interview with the...

ABC Anchor Charlie Gibson To Step Down
Charles Gibson is retiring as at the end of the year and Diane Sawyer will replace him in January as anchor of ABC's "World News," the network said. Gibson, 66, said he had been planning to retire at the end of 2007 but events compelled him to stay. He was named anchor following the death of Peter Jennings and the wartime injury of Bob Woodruff in 2006. He's been at ABC News for 35 years and says he plans to continue as an occasional contributor. Sawyer's elevation means that, with Katie Couric...

Sudden Change Creates Holes for ABC News
The decision to put Diane Sawyer into Charles Gibson’s old job was not unexpected. But the timing may have thrown ABC for a loop. David Westin, the president of ABC News, characterized Mr. Gibson’s decision to step down as entirely his own, after they held conversations that extended through the summer. Mr. Westin added in an interview that if he had had his way, none of this would be happening. He said he had tried to talk Mr. Gibson out of the decision and had also given him time...

Diane Sawyer Says Goodbye to Good Morning America
This just in! Diane Sawyer is leaving ABC’s Good Morning America to replace World News anchor Charles Gibson who is stepping down at the end of this year. Sawyer will take over in January. In a recent statement, ABC News President David Westin said that Sawyer “is the right person to succeed Charlie and build on what he has accomplished. She has an outstanding and varied career in television journalism, beginning with her role as a State Department correspondent and continuing at 60...

Abc - Sawyer To Replace Gibson As Abc Anchor: PHOTO
Charles Gibson will step down as anchor of ABC's World News in January and be replaced by his onetime Good Morning America and Primetime co-host Diane Sawyer, ABC News President David Westin announced today (Wednesday). In a message to colleagues, Gibson said that he had planned to step down in 2007. "But with Peter [Jennings's] illness, Bob [Woodruff's] injuries, and Elizabeth [Vargas's] Pregnancy, the job at World News came open in May of 2006, and David asked me to step in as anchor. It was...

Why Diane Sawyer should reject the ABC World News anchor slot.
The nightly news broadcasts produced by CBS, NBC, and ABC may have become irrelevant to smart news consumers, yet the nation's dailies continue to pretend it matters who anchors the broadcasts. Yesterday's announcement that in four months Diane Sawyer will

Why Diane Sawyer should reject the ABC World News anchor slot.
The nightly news broadcasts produced by CBS, NBC, and ABC may have become irrelevant to smart news consumers, yet the nation's dailies continue to pretend it matters who anchors the broadcasts. Yesterday's announcement that in four months Diane Sawyer will

Diane Sawyer in as new ABC News Anchor
Charlie Gibson announced his pending retirement from ABC News a few days ago. ABC News President David Westin immediately moved to name Diane Sawyer as his replacement. Gibson is reportedly livid about the decision.

Diane Sawyer anchors her status on ABC: PHOTO
Diane Sawyer had twice been passed over for the job of anchoring ABC's evening news broadcast, first after the death of Peter Jennings, and then following the abrupt end of the Bob Woodruff-Elizabeth Vargas pairing that led the network to put the avuncular Charles Gibson in the anchor chair.

Diane Sawyer to Anchor 'World News': Media Reactions
Here's a sampling of how the news of Charlie Gibson 's retirement and Diane Sawyer 's new position looked across the written media: • LA Times' Matea Gold : The ascension of Sawyer cements her standing as ABC's top news personality and means that for the first time, there will be two women anchoring the networks' flagship evening news programs. But as she joins NBC's Brian Williams and CBS' Katie Couric in the top echelon of broadcast news, Sawyer faces the challenge of making her mark in...

Diane Sawyer to Anchor 'World News': 'Another Nail in the Coffin of the Old Boys' Network'
Anyone predicting a Diane Sawyer - Katie Couric "cat fight" come January "needs to get a life," says Connie Chung . "It's a chauvinistic question," explains Chung, 63, Dan Rather 's co-anchor on "CBS Evening News" for about a minute and a half in the early '90s. "The question should be, 'How will Diane do against Brian [Williams] and Katie?'" "Good Morning America's" Sawyer, 63, will replace retirement-bound Charlie Gibson , 66, as anchor of "ABC World News" beginning in January, ABC announced...

ABC's Diane Sawyer: From 'Good Morning America' to 'World News Tonight'
MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) -- The recent passing of broadcast-journalism giants Walter Cronkite and Don Hewitt has had many remembering the history of network news. It seems likely, however, that the two CBS News vets, who were present at the creation, would have wanted to report on its future, especially given today's news that "ABC World News Tonight" has named Diane Sawyer to take over for anchor Charlie Gibson this January. With "CBS Evening News" helmed by Katie Couric, for the first time two...

Replacing Diane Sawyer
With Diane Sawyer set to replace Charlie Gibson on World News in January, her old show, Good Morning America , will be rudderless without, as one staffer called her, its "supernova." The New York Times reports that Good Morning America is still the major Moneymaker for ABC News, although it's finished second behind NBC's Today Show for more than a decade. Still, tens of millions of dollars are riding on Sawyer's replacement. ABC will conduct a broad search to find Sawyer's replacement. Possible...

Diane Sawyer: Through the Years
Sawyer was just announced as Charles Gibson’s successor as anchor of World News . From her young win at America’s Junior Miss pageant to memorable interviews with Michael Jackson and George W. Bush, VIEW OUR GALLERY of the journalist’s life.

Gibson -Livid' Over Diane Sawyer Replacing Him: PHOTO
September 3, 2009 (ChattahBox)— After three years at the helm of ABC’s evening news cast, World News, and many years before that as Good Morning America’s co-host, Charlie Gibson is retiring, with Diane Sawyer to succeed him as head anchor for the prized network job. But, Gibson made no reference to Sawyer in his departing statement, although he worked closely with her for a decade. And a source close to Gibson said he was “livid” that Sawyer was replacing him....

Gibson Retires, Sawyer to 'World News': The Ratings
With Diane Sawyer 's shift from mornings to evenings come January, we wanted to see how the ratings stacked up for both ABC dayparts against the competition: • Season-to-date (Sept. 22, 2008 - August 23, 2009), #2 morning broadcast "Good Morning America" is averaging 4.351 million Total Viewers, down 4% during the same period last year (4.534 million). The #1 morning show, NBC's "Today," leads GMA by 25% (1,086,000) in Total Viewers, up from a 23% (1,029,000) lead during the same period...

ABC News: Gibson retiring, Sawyer will be anchor
Charles Gibson is retiring at the end of the year and Diane Sawyer will replace him in January as anchor of ABC's "World News," the network said Wednesday. Gibson, 66, said he had been planning to retire at the end of 2007 but events compelled him to stay. He was named anchor following the death of Peter Jennings and the wartime injury of Bob Woodruff in 2006. He's been at ABC News for 35 years and says he plans to continue as an occasional contributor. Sawyer's elevation means that, with Katie...

Sawyer to replace Gibson at ABC
ABC's "World News" anchor Charlie Gibson is retiring -- and will be replaced by "Good Morning America" anchor Diane Sawyer in January. ABC has now confirmed the move. Sawyer, 63, now becomes the second woman to anchor an evening newscast-- joining Katie Couric, who's been anchoring the "CBS Evening News" since September 2006. Gibson, 66, has anchored "World News" since May 2006, when he replaced Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff, who'd been severely injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq four months...

Breaking: Charlie Gibson To Step Down from ABC 'World News', Diane Sawyer to Anchor Broadcast
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...

Diane Sawyer to Become ABC's Evening News Anchor, Filling Charles Gibson's Spot: PHOTO
When Diane Sawyer was approached last Thursday about taking over for Charlie Gibson as ABC's evening news anchor, her first words were about her friend and former broadcast partner.

Sawyer to take over as anchor of ABC evening news
Women will anchor two of the three major network evening newscasts - the premier jobs in the TV news business - as Diane Sawyer replaces Charles Gibson , who is retiring from ABC at the end of the year. Until Katie Couric became " CBS Evening News " anchor in September 2006, no woman had held the job done by broadcast legends like Walter Cronkite , Peter Jennings , Tom Brokaw , Chet Huntley , David Brinkley and Dan Rather alone. Barbara Walters , Connie Chung and Elizabeth Vargas have done it...

ABC's Diane Sawyer Will Replace Charles Gibson
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