What will happen to WORLD NEWS TONIGHT?

[Buried Alien]

Now that Peter Jennings has passed away, what will happen to WORLD NEWS TONIGHT? This has been one of television news' best programs during the past 25 years. Will ABC continue it?


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[Inkthinker]

News programs in general have become pretty poor... I expect that whatever they do, it will result in "news" that consists of more fluff and entertainment-oriented news (whether that means celebrity gossip or just entertaining events like watching a plane burn or a car chase), and less of that boring stuff like politics and legislature and world events unrelated to juicy footage of disasters or explosions.

Fear not, your government is watching out for you, and has certainly NOT been corrupted in any way. Look, closeup footage of a puppy!! And might the air you breathe be KILLING YOU?!?! Find out tonight!

[Deathstroke]

It'll become a pale imitation of itself and not be worth the effort. Like the other National news broadcasts.

[Jared]

Ratings for all all three nightly news shows have declined over the last few years, but they're not so low that network would cancel it. There was (and perhaps still is) consideration of massivly retooling the CBS
show after Rather left, with Schaefer just being a place-holder, but that hasn't happened yet.

I remember a few months back the news that Jennings had lung cancer. Was he still broadcasting these last few weeks? I imagine ABC has got to be pretty taken aback by the suddeness of this.

[Dennis K]

Such doom and gloom over the fate of the network evening news, and for what? Brian Williams has succesfully replaced the much respected Tom Brokaw and NBC has moved on. CBS has replaced the "controversial" (how I hate that word) Dan Rather with Bob Schieffer (still interim I believe) and CBS has moved on. Now while the situation at ABC is different than the other two networks, the result will be the same, a permanent replacement will be found and ABC will move on.

[DDM]

I remember a few months back the news that Jennings had lung cancer. Was he still broadcasting these last few weeks? I imagine ABC has got to be pretty taken aback by the suddeness of this.

Jennings' lung cancer was in the advance stages. He had begun chemotherapy when he had gone on hiatus on ABC. He had not returned since.

[ArtemisXWP]

Its too bad that GMA is getting such good reviews lately. Charles Gibson is the only one I could see possibly filling his shoes.
He has that comfort/trust level thats needed for a broadcaster IMHO.

Sad times..

AXWP