{"id":168060,"date":"2025-12-04T17:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168060\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:21:09","slug":"maurice-dubois-to-exit-cbs-news-amid-evening-news-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168060\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurice DuBois to Exit CBS News Amid Evening News Overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMaurice DuBois<\/a>, a TV anchor who has won notice for his unruffled delivery of even the most shocking headlines, will leave CBS News amid a larger overhaul of the unit\u2019s \u201cCBS Evening News\u201d<\/a> after a revamp of its format <\/a>spurred noticeable ratings declines.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuBois revealed his departure Thursday via a post on Instagram, noting that December 18 would be his last day at the Paramount Skydance<\/a> news division. He has spent 21 years at CBS-owned properties, primarily making a name for himself as an anchor at WCBS, the company\u2019s New York flagship. <\/p>\n

\n\tJohn Dickerson, the co-anchor of the current edition of \u201cCBS Evening News<\/a>,\u201d announced his intention in October to leave CBS News His \u201cEvening News.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tSuch anchor departures, made without the naming of a replacement, are quite unorthodox, but CBS News is not operating in typical times. Paramount Skydance has set a non-traditional executive, opinion journalist Bari Weiss, as the unit\u2019s editor in chief, <\/a>and the exit of both men will give her a chance to put her stamp on the news division. And yet, Weiss has made outreach to several top TV journalists in recent weeks, according to people familiar with the matter, only to discovery that they are locked into contracts at other companies. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s no secret that \u201cEvening News\u201d has suffered in the ratings<\/a>\u00a0since executives at CBS News tried to focus less heavily on breaking headlines. Dickerson and DuBois made for an unorthodox pairing, with the latter offering smooth delivery and the former serving as more of a kinetic on-screen presence.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCBS Evening News\u201d won an average of nearly 4.26 million for the five-day period ending November 28, compared with 6.24 million for \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d and 8.27 million for ABC\u2019s \u201cWorld News Tonight.\u201d Among viewers between the ages of 25 and 54, the demographic most desired by advertisers,\u201dEvening News\u201d lured an average of 427,000, compared with 918,000 for \u201cNightly\u201d and 1.03 million for \u201cWorld.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThere are many who have wondered whether DuBois would be able to return to WCBS. His long run there and connection with viewers would be assets. And yet, Paramount has been whittling away at its employee base as it works to cut costs. Other top local anchors are departing, including Jim Donovan of Philadelphia\u2019s KYW and Elliott Rodriguez at WFOR in Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maurice DuBois, a TV anchor who has won notice for his unruffled delivery of even the most shocking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[109276,109277,156,109278,111,139,69,68338,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-168060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-cbs-evening-news","9":"tag-cbs-news-24-7","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-maurice-dubois","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-paramount-skydance","16":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}