The CBS Evening News is set to undergo a series of changes in early 2025. One of them includes a streaming addition hosted by John Dickerson.
CBS Evening News Plus will launch in January as a half-hour program after the conclusion of the regular nightly network newscast. It will stream on CBS News 24/7, and will also air terrestrially on CBS owned-and-operated stations in local markets like Los Angeles, Miami, and San Francisco, among others.
The program will be hosted by John Dickerson who, along with Margaret Brennan and Maurice DuBois, will all serve as anchors of the newscast when current host Norah O’Donnell exits the anchor chair next month. O’Donnell’s final show will be on Friday, January 24th, with CBS Evening News Plus beginning on Monday, January 27th.
“John has a command of distilling news and storylines for diverse audiences amid a firehose of information and headlines,” CBS News President Wendy McMahon said. “These capabilities will fuel a lot of what we’ll see nightly on CBS Evening News Plus.”
The move to add a streaming component for prominent shows from CBS isn’t unprecedented. In September, CBS Mornings Plus, a streaming component of the network’s morning show anchored by Tony Dokoupil and Adriana Diaz debuted.
CBS Evening News is currently well behind both nightly newscasts from ABC News and NBC News in the network ratings. Both ABC World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News average audiences above 6 million viewers, while CBS is routinely in the 4 million viewer range.
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