• Ad Age, Thursday, July 13, 2006 12:15 PM

His comeback took a mere three weeks. Former CBS anchor Dan Rather and Mark Cuban's HDNet announced Rather will produce and host a weekly news program, "Dan Rather Reports," beginning in October, Ad Age reports. The hour-long show will feature news reports, interviews and investigative pieces and "won't be the corporate news or short-segment news you find on broadcast or cable networks," Cuban says. "This is journalism." While Rather stepped down as anchor of "CBS Evening News" in March 2005, he continued to contribute to "60 Minutes." He left CBS in June, five months before his contract expired. Rather says the Tiffany Network offered him an office, but not much else, so he departed. The newsman made it clear he wanted do real work, not sit around waiting out a contract. Now, "as a team player, I intend to give Mark and HDNet all of the hard work, loyalty and fearless, high-quality reporting possible," Rather says.

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