CBS Names Jeff Glor Its Evening News Anchor<br />CBS named Jeff Glor as its new evening news anchor on Wednesday, ending a five-month search after Scott Pelley’s departure from “CBS Evening News.”<br />Mr. Glor’s appointment, which will be effective later this year, is the latest example of news executives turning to in-house talent<br />who don’t have outsize public personas — or command the highest salaries in the news business — for the evening anchor role.<br />David Rhodes, CBS News’s president, praised Mr. Glor’s “enormously strong work in the field,” and the fact<br />that he’s “kind of done every job here.” Mr. Glor has been with the network since 2007 and has hosted the weekend edition of “CBS Evening News<br />Mr. Pelley, 60, remains a correspondent for “60 Minutes.”<br />The CBS evening newscast has long been mired in third place behind NBC and ABC, and it will be up to Mr. Glor, 42, to turn things around.<br />For the current season, “CBS Evening News” is averaging 6.2 million viewers, with 1.3<br />million viewers in the all-important 25-to-54-year-old bracket, according to Nielsen.
