CBS Names Jeff Glor Its Evening News Anchor

CBS Names Jeff Glor Its Evening News Anchor
CBS named Jeff Glor as its new evening news anchor on Wednesday, ending a five-month search after Scott Pelley’s departure from “CBS Evening News.”
Mr. Glor’s appointment, which will be effective later this year, is the latest example of news executives turning to in-house talent
who don’t have outsize public personas — or command the highest salaries in the news business — for the evening anchor role.
David Rhodes, CBS News’s president, praised Mr. Glor’s “enormously strong work in the field,” and the fact
that he’s “kind of done every job here.” Mr. Glor has been with the network since 2007 and has hosted the weekend edition of “CBS Evening News
Mr. Pelley, 60, remains a correspondent for “60 Minutes.”
The CBS evening newscast has long been mired in third place behind NBC and ABC, and it will be up to Mr. Glor, 42, to turn things around.
For the current season, “CBS Evening News” is averaging 6.2 million viewers, with 1.3
million viewers in the all-important 25-to-54-year-old bracket, according to Nielsen.