Is evening news a thing of the past?

  A former CBS News correspondent said the half-hour nightly newscast on the big three television networks is “an idea whose time has come and gone.”
  CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric is rumored to be leaving her position soon amid a ratings slide in which her viewership has dropped to just over 5 million. Couric’s ABC and NBC competition boast 8.1 million and 7.5 million viewers respectively. Former CBS news correspondent Bernie Goldberg predicted Couric will exit the anchor chair no later than a few days after the presidential election.
  Goldberg, who won eight Emmy awards for his journalistic work at CBS and HBO, said nightly newscasts on ABC, CBS, and NBC have become practically obsolete.
  “Once upon a time if you wanted to watch world and national news on television, you had to be home, [on the] East [Coast] anyway, at 6:30 or 7:00 [p.m.],” said Goldberg. But these days, he continued, one can get the news practically any time, day or night, and on mediums such as the Internet and cell phones.
  www.onenewsnow.com, 5/3/08