He was the least likable of the three.  In a word, dull.
 

RadioActive wrote:

Well, that was fast. After replacing Scott Pelley - who went back to 60 Minutes - as anchor of The CBS Evening News since December 2017, Buffalo native Jeff Glor is out. Or he will be starting this summer. 

The Eye Network announced Monday that it had chosen longtime newsperson Norah O'Donnell as Glor's replacement. In an era when fewer and fewer are watching the 6:30 U.S. national newscasts, it's significant in three ways.

-CBS was the longtime ratings leader for many years, with legendary names like Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite in that coveted chair and it has an amazing heritage. 

-The show is permanently moving to Washington, the only network news program to originate from there. 

-And it's been a very long time since a woman has taken a permanent seat on a network nightly news show. (Connie Chung, Barbara Walters, Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer are the only other ones who come to mind.) 

CBS Evening News has fallen on very hard times in the last decade, always dead last at 6:30. NBC's Lester Holt and ABC's David Muir are neck and neck for the lead, and see-saw back and forth. But CBS is always third and not even in the running. Ironically, they bill themselves as the only real news show, eschewing a lot of the fluff of the other two.  Obviously, that's not working.

What does that tell you about what the remaining viewers of these shows want to see?

CBS News Unveils New 'Morning,' 'Evening' Anchors

Buffalo News: Tonawanda native Jeff Glor out as anchor of 'CBS Evening News'

Edward R. Murrow never anchored the CBS Evening News. It was Douglas Edwards from 1948 to 1962 and Walter Cronkite from 1962 to 1981. Then Dan Rather and, you know the rest...
 

Cliche: you never get a second chance to make a first impression. I was underwhelmed.

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