CBS news chairman stepping down
Source: AP-Excite
By DAVID BAUDER
NEW YORK (AP) — CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager, who has been running the network's news division along with "60 Minutes" for the past four years, said Thursday that he's stepping down from the chief executive role to concentrate on the newsmagazine.
His top deputy, CBS News President David Rhodes, will succeed him at the beginning of next year. CBS said it had extended Fager's contract to run "60 Minutes" until 2019.
While Fager didn't succeed in lifting the "CBS Evening News" and "CBS This Morning" out of third place in the ratings, he set each program in a clear thematic direction with a harder, more traditional news broadcast than its rivals. Fager installed Scott Pelley as the evening news anchor and recently hired former NBC News President Steve Capus to run the broadcast.
He also supervised the building of a new studio and launch of a new morning show with Charlie Rose, Norah O'Donnell and Gayle King as hosts. This month, CBS began a streaming news service to offer a cable news-like experience on the web.
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FILE - In this July 29, 2012 photo, Chairman of CBS News and executive producer of "60 Minutes" Jeff Fager, left, and President of CBS News David Rhodes participate in the CBS News and "CBS This Morning" TCA panel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Fager says he is leaving his role as chairman after four years to go back to his former full-time job as top producer at "60 Minutes." Fager said Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014, that Rhodes, will assume full control over the network's news division. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
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