CBS Evening News

*CBS Evening News*
CBS Evening News
Also known as	Weekdays:; CBS Television News (1941–1950); Douglas Edwards with the News (1950–1962); Walter Cronkite with the News (1962–1963); CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell (2019–present); Weekends:; CBS Weekend News (2016–present);
Genre	News program
Created by	Don Hewitt
Directed by	Brian Nalesnik; Alison Hawley;
Presented by	Weekdays:; Norah O'Donnell; Saturdays:; Adriana Diaz; Sundays:; Jericka Duncan; (See former anchors);
Narrated by	Joe Cipriano
Theme music composer	Walt Levinsky (1982–1987); John Trivers, Elizabeth Myers and Alan Pasqua (1987–1991; 2011–2016; 2022-present); Rick Patterson, Ron Walz and Neal Fox (1991–2006); James Horner (2006–2011); Joel Beckerman (2016–2022); Antfood (2022–present);
Composer	Antfood (2022–present)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	72
Production
Executive producer	Adam Verdugo (2022–present)
Production locations	New York City (1941–2019 Weekday and Weekend Editions, 2019–2020 Weekend Editions, 2020–present Sunday Editions); Chicago (2020-present Saturday Editions); Washington, D.C. (2019–present Weekday Editions);
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	15 minutes (1941–1963); 30 minutes (1963–present)
Production company	CBS News Productions
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	July 1, 1941 –; present
Related
	CBS Morning News; CBS Overnight News; CBS Mornings; Competitors:; NBC Nightly News; ABC World News Tonight;

The CBS Evening News is the flagship evening television news program of CBS News, the news division of the CBS television network in the United States. The CBS Evening News is a daily evening broadcast featuring news reports, feature stories and interviews by CBS News correspondents and reporters covering events around the world. The program has been broadcast since July 1, 1941, under the original title CBS Television News, eventually adopting its current title in 1963.

Since July 15, 2019, the nightly broadcast has been anchored by Norah O'Donnell and has been titled CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell; since December 2, 2019, the newscast has originated from CBS News' bureau in Washington, D.C. Previous weeknight anchors have included Douglas Edwards, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Connie Chung, Bob Schieffer, Katie Couric, Scott Pelley, and Jeff Glor.

Saturday and Sunday broadcasts of the CBS Evening News began in February 1966. On May 2, 2016, CBS announced that the weekend edition would be rebranded, effective May 7, 2016, as the CBS Weekend News. Weekend newscasts originate from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City and were anchored by Reena Ninan on Saturday and Elaine Quijano on Sunday. By the summer of 2020 Ninan and Quijano were replaced by Major Garrett and Jamie Yuccas. In December 2020, it was announced that Adriana Diaz and Jericka Duncan would be the new weekend anchors.

The weeknight edition of the CBS Evening News airs live at 6:30 p.m. in the Eastern and 5:30 p.m. in the Central Time Zones and is tape delayed for the Mountain Time Zone. A "Western Edition", with updated segments covering breaking news stories, airs pre-recorded at 6:30 p.m. for most stations the Pacific Time Zone and 5:30 p.m. in the Alaska time zone and on tape delay in the Hawaii–Aleutian Time Zone. At midnight Eastern, the Western Edition is posted on the website for CBS News and their YouTube channel.

As of March 4, 2019, CBS Evening News remains in third place of the three major television news programs, with 6,309,000 total viewers.

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