“Out with the Old” facing TV-news anchors and correspondents, reports Variety
According to Variety, for TV-news outlets, “2025 is shaping up to be a year of out with the old and in with the….who?”
Variety states that with the economics of newsgathering less certain “as info-hounds move to streaming and social media for their early facts, traditional TV-news venues have been parting ways with veteran anchors and correspondents. Whether the decisions are mutual or unilateral, amicable or adverse, they will leave places such as NBC News, MSNBC, Fox News, CBS News and CNN with fewer of some of their most recognizable faces at a point in the business cycle when viewership tends to narrow.
“Hoda Kotb is taking a final lap this week at NBC’s “Today,” after deciding to leave the show and spend more time with her young children. Andrea Mitchell will this month sign off from the MSNBC program she has anchored since 2008, opting to work her reporting roles more heavily. Norah O’Donnell will leave “CBS Evening News” at about the same time and take on a new special correspondent role. Jeff Glor, a central part of CBS News’ Saturday-morning program, left the network in September amid layoffs. Before the end of 2024, CNN bid farewell to both Chris Wallace and Alisyn Camerota. Fox News’ Neil Cavuto, one of the few anchors whose time at the Fox Corp. owned outlet dates to its 1996 launch, said in late December he was leaving.”
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PHOTO: Kotb
