• Broadcating & Cable, Friday, January 20, 2006 11:30 AM

CBS News has got serious problems. Bob Schieffer has performed splendidly during the post-Rather era while his network searches for a full-time anchor for CBS Evening News, but he will not stay long, he says, and besides, he is not CBS's anchor of the future. It's not yet clear who is--Katie Couric apparently remains on CBS's short list-- but one thing has just been clarified by CBS News head Sean McManus: the network will probably abandon any effort to install a multi-anchor team. McManus wants a single face, and he's persuaded network CEO Les Moonves that strategy makes sense. At the same time, he's spewed some canned blather at the TV Critics Association confab, saying the new focus of CBS News is to "try to break more stories, have better correspondents, put on a program that puts the world's news in [better] context." Can one imagine a network exec wanting anything else?

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