Eat News 4745 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Radaronline reporting Elizabeth Vargas is leaving ABC after 22 years. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew 149 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 I bet nbc for dateline anchor replacing Lester. CBS for this morning or something at CNN Zane with Chris Cuomo Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192191 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nydem2015 52 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Or maybe the Today Show tho I wouldn’t bet on that. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192192 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wabceyewitness 818 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 She’s leaving in May. From her note to staff, sounds like this news leaked a little earlier than she hoped — she says she preferred to make the announcement after the holidays. ABC News president James Goldstein wrote a very nice note about her. I’m curious where she’ll end up. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192193 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nydem2015 52 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Elizabeth and Lester worked together at WBBM way back when in the late 80s and early 90s. Would be interesting if they co-anchored NBC Nightly News or Dateline tho I don’t see that happening. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192194 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Action Newsroom 1281 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 I've been a fan of her career since her days co-anchoring World News Tonight with Bob Woodruff; she definitely was great talent and will still be great wherever she goes. This will be the network's loss but they are proud to have had her for this long. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192195 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew 149 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Only way she goes to nbc is solo anchor dateline and become a special correspondent or Sunday today anchor if willie goes back to weekday today. CNN would be more of the choice for her Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192196 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew 149 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 I thought Lara Spencer would leave before Elizabeth. I wonder do they really need two anchors for 20/20? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfomspphl 490 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 She's been at ABC for more than 20 years? Good run. For whatever reason thought she jumped from NBC more like during the mid 2000s. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192208 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nydem2015 52 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Nope. Elizabeth joined ABC News in 1996 as the newsreader on Good Morning America. I still remember Elizabeth filling in for Bryant, Katie and the rapist on the Today Show. She's been at ABC for more than 20 years? Good run. For whatever reason thought she jumped from NBC more like during the mid 2000s. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192210 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianpr3 178 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 She and bob replaced peter but what happened to the show after bob was injured in war Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192217 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABC 7 Denver 1715 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 She and bob replaced peter but what happened to the show after bob was injured in war Charlie Gibson. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1955 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Charlie Gibson. Gibson was anchoring in the interim (remember he was still anchor of GMA) before the network appointed Vargas & Woodruff permanently. It wasn't until after Woodruff's injury, they ended up bringing back Gibson to anchor WNT permanently. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192226 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wabceyewitness 818 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 It was actually all a bit more complicated... Gibson and Vargas alternated the most in the weeks after Peter’s death. Gibson was offered the position, but under the condition that he anchor only until the end of 2007 and then hand the broadcast over to the team of Vargas and Woodruff. He refused that deal because he wanted to anchor throughout the 2008 presidential election. At that point, he decided he would just anchor GMA for the remainder of his contract and retire in 2007. At the same time, ABC pulled him from the WNT rotation and then had Vargas and Woodruff rotate and even tested them co-anchoring a few times. ABC then offered Vargas and Woodruff the job. Woodruff was injured weeks into it and Vargas announced she was pregnant. ABC then rotated in Gibson and Diane Sawyer to sit alongside Vargas to offer some stability again to the program (and because it was now February sweeps and the network needed familiar faces at the desk). That rotation lasted for a little while until Vargas became the de facto solo anchor of World News Tonight, although the program still beared her and Woodruff’s names. A few weeks down the line, WNT ratings slipped behind CBS for the first time in decades and the prospect of a Katie Couric-led CBS Evening News is on the horizon. ABC brass are panicking. May sweeps is approaching and so is the “upfront” season when networks sell themselves to advertisers. Gibson was then approached again to help right the ship. He made it clear this time that he would do it and serve until he was ready to leave and he would not do it as a co-anchor job — nothing against Vargas but for a 22 minute program with little room for banter, it didn’t make sense to him to have two anchors. As Vargas revealed last year in her 20/20 special that covered her battle with alcoholism, she was essentially fired from World News Tonight for the sinking ratings but allowed to leave under the guise of needing to rest due to her pregnancy and focus on her family. The job that ABC promised her would be there after she gave birth was no longer hers. Gibson then took over and, as he said would, left on his own terms in 2009. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192228 Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5577 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 As unstable as all of that was, I think they made the right decision. With neither co-anchor going to be around, permanently installing Gibson was the right choice. That said, I respect the risk they took in initially going with the co-anchors, and ultimately, none of their individual repurations suffered. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mooneyhill1 11 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 I like Elizabeth, she's a legendary tv female journalist, but after 22 years, she will leave ABC News. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192233 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountainave 606 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 Aside from her personal challenges, Elizabeth always struck me as a highly capable journalist and consummate professional. I always felt she was being underutilized as the once-a-week murder mystery anchor. Who knows if she preferred that, though. I thought she was excellent on GMA next to George during Robin's treatment and recovery. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192273 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorningNews 1448 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 Elizabeth was very strong on GMA as the primary fill in during Robin’s recovery. I almost forgot about that and how much I wanted her to be placed on the show in some permanent role following that. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192283 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wabceyewitness 818 Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 Amy Robach will replace Elizabeth Vargas, according to reports in Page Six and the LA Times on December 22. Page Six says Robach will juggle both "20/20" and "GMA". Also, FTV Live reports today that Vargas was pushed into retirement as part of Disney's cost-cutting measures. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192422 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountainave 606 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Where's Deborah Roberts in all of this? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVNewsJunkie15 66 Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Nope. Elizabeth joined ABC News in 1996 as the newsreader on Good Morning America. I still remember Elizabeth filling in for Bryant, Katie and the rapist on the Today Show. Who is the Rapist you are talking about? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192527 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorningNews 1448 Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Pretty sure that’s a reference to Matt Lauer. You know...the guy who is reported to have raped a colleague in his office in 2001 among other sexually offensive acts. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192549 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nydem2015 52 Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Yes. Exactly. Pretty sure that’s a reference to Matt Lauer. You know...the guy who is reported to have raped a colleague in his office in 2001 among other sexually offensive acts. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-192569 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daybreak 288 Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Elizabeth inks deal with A&E: http://deadline.com/2018/04/elizabeth-vargas-overall-deal-with-ae-networks-1202367384/ Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-201859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wabceyewitness 818 Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Elizabeth inks deal with A&E: http://deadline.com/2018/04/elizabeth-vargas-overall-deal-with-ae-networks-1202367384/ So she’ll still be part of the Disney/ABC family. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16152-vargas-leaving-abc/#findComment-201873 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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