Stressing the Web, ‘NewsHour’ Begins an Overhaul.

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It has been a tough 19 months for “NewsHour” as it has dealt with a severe budget shortfall as well as the prolonged absence of Mr. Lehrer last year, after an emergency aortic valve replacement. But Mr. Lehrer returned reinvigorated. Instead of stepping down, as some had expected, he pushed for what has been the program’s biggest overhaul since 1995, when Robert MacNeil retired as the co-anchor. And PBS hopes the changes will attract new audiences, whether on air or online.

Beginning Dec. 7, Mr. Lehrer’s name will not be on the program, for the first time since 1976. Instead it is being renamed “PBS NewsHour,” which prompted a new streamlined logo and graphics. Mr. Lehrer will have a regular co-anchor; on the first program it will be Ms. Ifill, but Judy Woodruff and Jeffrey Brown are in the rotation. A new correspondent, Hari Sreenivasan, formerly of CBS News, will begin reading a news summary each night.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/business/media/30pbs.html?th&emc=th

[Better Today]

1. Unless they quit giving RW jerks un-contested and un-fact-checked

time..., well, I won't be returning any time soon.

[FrenchieCat]

2. Judy Woodruff, CNN rethread. Couldn't stand her than,

and I don't really care for her now.

Think I'll stick with DVRing BBC.....cause there are not other real news available to Americans in America, it would seem.