When CBS broke in to announce the death of President George Bush they had to go out to the local news in LA. Does the New York bureau shut down on Friday night? Surprising as they have CBSN running 24/7.
The other networks broke in with anchors from New York, so they had on air anchors ready. I would think CBS could put an CBSN anchor on the network to make the announcement. To throw to a local CBS 2 anchor from LA seems strange for such big news.Bush was 94, and had been in failing health for years. And given that it was announced an hour or so ago, I doubt that CBS has too many viewers at this hour (about 1 AM ET as I write this). There'll be plenty of coverage in the morning, and I'll bet CBSN is covering it live.
Surprising as they have CBSN running 24/7.
I assume they will call in the lead anchors for Saturday morning.And in fact, I'm watching CBSN right now, and they're running live coverage from KHOU in Houston. So yes, it appears that CBS News New York is not anchoring this coverage tonight, that it's instead being handled by CBS stations.
NBC had Steve Kornacki from MSNBC, on last hour with the report. Chris Matthews called in to discuss the President's life. RIP, Bush 41.
You would think all of the networks have a plan for round-the-clock coverage of news.
Looking a little more... CBS News was the first of the Big 3 networks to air a special report for the death of Pres. Bush, at 12:04am ET. So it's not like they were scrambling to find someone who could get in front of a camera.
Linda Lopez anchored on ABC from what looked like a vacant newsroom at ABC in New York.
Nightline was live at 12:35.https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/george-bush-died-94-59538199
She wasn't in the Nightline studio, so that show was likely pre-taped as well.
You can hear her say, "Can you guys load the prompter" during the start of b-roll. They obviously were not prepared to come on live.Here's the video of the CBS News bulletin with Sharon Tay anchoring from the KCBS studio in LA.
https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2018/11/30/president-george-hw-bush-dies/
You can hear her say, "Can you guys load the prompter" during the start of b-roll. They obviously were not prepared to come on live.
She had that deer in the headlights look like they told her 20 seconds beforehand to get in the chair and be ready to go live the network is dark in New York.You're right, she clearly was stumbling through the script.
She had that deer in the headlights look like they told her 20 seconds beforehand to get in the chair and be ready to go live the network is dark in New York.
They also brought in the talking heads to help him out. Wolf was right there in the box a few minutes later.How often does big news break after midnight on Friday night? The senior most experienced national anchor in the studio at the time was Don Lemon at CNN. He didn't look too comfortable either.