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Maybe if he actually pushed back on the blatant lies and misinformation. And it’s not remotely childish to point out the SecDef has zero qualifications for the role. That hardly makes him unique in this regime, to be sure. But someone who never was in a command position and has expertise you could fit in a thimble should be scrutinized, not treated like a buddy at a bar.

It's already being reported that Bari Weiss arranged it, to no one's surprise.

I would rather have PBS's rules than CBS's. There's another rule with PBS's values... "I am not in the entertainment business."

Not sure that's fair... . ...to New Coke.

WXFL, Tampa, 1984 late news open:

The Telemundo Center in Miami, as seen during the special report (09:21)

The lead of a news network is doing exactly what he should be, an extensive live interview with the US Secretary of War, or former Fox host if you're childish, who is fresh out of overseing an important and consequential military event.

I will remind people that being able to rely on tax dollar instead of corporate dollars are a lot more consistent and means that you don't have to be focused on entertainment.

Along with a new anchor and format (that will last just as long as new Coke), CBS also updated their values from a 38 page hand book to a simple five. Meanwhile, PBS has had the same values/guidelines since Robert MacNeil was doing the show for half an hour.

The last logo was very good. This would look decent if the network's name matched in font.

Another new look coming on Monday…

Nice of Maurice to add a bit of Murrow at the end. Good luck to those two.

CBS Evening News at one time, we can collectively agree, was the ratings juggernaut back during the days of Walter Cronkite. Cronkite's most notable competition was The Huntley-Brinkley Report, co-hosted by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, and that program would be renamed to what we know today as NBC Nightly News. ABC Evening News became ABC World News Tonight when Roone Arledge was brought in to give ABC a major ratings turnaround. After Cronkite left CBS in 1981, it seems that CBS gave up on being competitive against ABC and NBC, as evidenced by CBS Evening News remaining stuck in last place behind ABC World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News, as well as CBS Mornings (also carried names like CBS Early Show and CBS This Morning, which CBS has struggled to make up its mind with a long-term morning show branding) remaining stuck in last place behind ABC Good Morning America and NBC Today. Although CBS had a notable exception during the 1998-99 period when CTM had a short-lived ratings surge and GMA had the pairing of Lisa McRee and Kevin Newman that proved to be a ratings disaster, and management at CBS seeming to also embrace the "status quo" and "lack of patience" mindsets. I'd hope CBS management would break free of those mindsets, and embrace giving Tony Dokoupil time to prove himself.

Honestly, I'm surprised smaller broadcasters such as Graham, Hearst, Morgan Murphy, and others haven't spoken out in opposition to this deal.

It's the end of an era at WPIX, as Jim Culter is no longer doing the voiceover for news opens, for the first time since (i think) the early 2000s.

Dokoupil, anchoring the CBS Evening News two nights before his scheduled launch, is doing a long live interview with former Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth. It feels like two frat bros hanging out, complete with Dokoupil gleefully repeating Hegseth's "Mauro effed around and found out" line. The interview was so long that it had two commercial breaks during it.

Actually, I got another retirement... the amazing, legendary Beau Weaver. The voice of Good Day Sacramento, WPLG in my market of Miami, KDVR Denver, and others is retiring and was featured on GDS as a result.

The more I look at it, the more I like it. Especially the "Evening News" in CBS' original and iconic font. It communicates, tradition, resilience, heretage and experience. Basically, this might communicate the program to prospective viewers in a way that might make a splash.