Overview
- Maurice DuBois announced on Instagram that his final CBS Evening News broadcast will be Dec. 18, closing a 21-year run with CBS properties.
- His departure follows co-anchor John Dickerson’s October exit announcement, leaving the program without its current anchors heading into 2026 as CBS has not named successors.
- The co-anchor experiment and a shift toward long-form, correspondent-led pieces did not reverse ratings declines, with recent averages around 4.26 million viewers and 427,000 in adults 25–54, trailing ABC and NBC.
- Bari Weiss has been preparing an overhaul and has reached out to top TV journalists, but many targets are under contract elsewhere, and the selection would be her first major talent decision.
- CBS News president Tom Cibrowski praised DuBois and said details on the show’s next chapter are coming as the Skydance–Paramount restructuring intensifies pressure for a reset.