“Give It To Gibson”

…That’s the headline of J. Max Robins‘ Broadcasting & Cable column this week. He recognizes that choosing Charlie Gibson for the World News Tonight chair “bears potential fallout,” but doubts that his depature from GMA would significantly stall the morning show’s momentum. Here’s the column.

> An interesting side note: “ABC also has to keep in mind that whoever gets passed over is likely to find Dan Rather’s vacated chair at CBS Evening News quite interesting. [Bob] Woodruff‘s contract has less than a year to run, and he has his fans inside CBS…”

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