Norah O’Donnell appears in front of a hard pivot for ‘CBS Evening News’

Norah O’Donnell’s exit from “CBS Evening News” on Thursday evening was not what the audience might have expected. And the successor program that CBS wants to radiate in its place on Monday will have a similar quality.

O’Donnell said goodbye to the viewers of the long -term program for a surprising cameo by Oprah Winfrey, who celebrated the anchor and showed many highlights of her term. O’Donnell thanked the audience for the greeting “Hard News with Heart In Your Homes” and was surrounded by colleagues and family when the show’s credits began to roll. On Monday: A completely revised edition of the program that tries to break many visual relationships with the days when Walter Cronkite and Dan told the nation, which was most important at the end of their day.

CBS will start a new “evening messages”, which is more based on a group of CO frames than on a single person. One of the goals is to give the national program with the appearance and sensitivity of the local news programs that see the viewers of CBS stations in the USA, an allusion to the fact about their headlines and information from streaming and digital sources preserved than in the past.

The similarities are already obvious. The graphics used in “CBS Evening News” on Thursday evening looked exactly like that for the broadcast of the local news from New York WCBS, which was preceded by O’Donnell’s last round. During O’Donnell’s last broadcast, a segment concentrated on the WCBS meteorologist Lonnie Quinn, who is supposed to play an important role in the new edition of the program.

“CBS Evening News” has been in third place behind ABCS “World News Tonight” and NBCS “NBC Nightly News” for years. O’Donnell has not changed that, but give it the following: The show last week won an average of 5.037 million viewers – slightly higher than the standard of the program – in the middle of major changes in the nation. And she has never questioned her journalism or a story that created criticism of unfair or imprecise criticism – despite several hard pieces that examined sexual assault in the military. She also secured an interview with Pope Francis, not the simplest “get” in the shop.

In their place, CBS will start an “evening news” under the direction of John Dickerson and Maurice Dubois. Quinn adds the weather and Margaret Brennan, who increase their tasks as a moderator of “Face the Nation” to offer Washington and politics perspective. The new format will help to achieve a goal that is advertised by Senior CBS and Paramount Global Executives for months: bring the news teams from CBS News and the CBS Local Stations together. The maneuver takes place because Paramount is under extreme pressure to reduce millions of dollars from its operating costs. More is expected to take place as soon as the SkyDance Media company is taken over, which are currently expected later this year. Spectators of the new “evening news” will probably not see Dickerson and Dubois so much on site, a duty that is increasingly met by a correspondent that covers the area in which an important message breaks.

Anyone’s assumption remains whether the audience will flow to this.

The attraction of the evening messages in every network results from the desire for a reliable wrapping of the most important events and stories of the day. The hot talk alarm of your cable news colleagues is missing in the shows, although in recent years, Chyron has been crept into the graphics mix in recent years. The shows offer a stable port for pharmaceutical advertisers who are still one of the greatest supporters of linear television. Of course, the evening news does not attract young spectators like a “ink fishing game” binge on Netflix Might, but they still correct millions of people over the course of an hour. And maybe there is a nervous look in less than thirty minutes if you have seen a single host policy, culture, overseas and a little pop culture in juggling policy, culture, stories from overseas and a little pop culture.

The risk of CBS in the next week is that the viewers who have faced O’Donnell – and Jeff Glor, Anthony Mason, Scott Pelley, Katie Couric and Bob Schieffer – are not expected more from the same something else.

O’Donnell has more work to do. It will take on high -ranking correspondent tasks that you work for large interviews and do company work that will end up on CBS news platforms. At a moment when many of the nation’s big television news underlining the financial pressure underlining CNN and NBC messages on Thursday, layoffs may have exposed to the better job.