Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/network-television-stations-shuffle-new-anchors Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript This week, Katie Couric left NBC's "Today" show to anchor the "CBS Evening News," and Charlie Gibson left his morning anchor spot to sit at ABC's "World News Tonight" desk. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JEFFREY BROWN: ABC News is looking for a little peace and quiet after a tumultuous and sad year. Tonight”: PETER JENNINGS, Former Host, "ABC World News Finally this evening, a brief note about change. JEFFREY BROWN: First came the announcement of Peter Jennings' lung cancer and his death last August. ANNOUNCER: This is "World News Tonight" with Bob Woodruff and Elizabeth Vargas. JEFFREY BROWN: In January, ABC debuted a dual-anchor format, featuring two young stars of the news division. But barely a month later, co-anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were grievously wounded in Iraq.Woodruff's co-anchor, Elizabeth Vargas, carried on without him. But with her impending maternity leave and the program's viewership down by nearly one million over the last year, ABC News made a change last week. Tonight”: ELIZABETH VARGAS, Former Co-Anchor, "World News This is my last broadcast as co-anchor of "World News Tonight."CHARLES GIBSON, Host, "World News Tonight": Good evening. On Memorial Day… JEFFREY BROWN: On Monday, Charles Gibson became anchor of the program after spending much of the last 20 years co-hosting "Good Morning America." CHARLES GIBSON: The critical thing is that we just get back to cruising speed, that we be able to do what this news division does very well without having to look over our shoulders all the time. JEFFREY BROWN: The 63-year-old Gibson brings nearly 40 years' experience to the broadcast. Come the fall, he'll compete with another morning veteran making the move to the night: Katie Couric.The "Today Show" co-anchor's 15-year tenure at the helm of the NBC News ratings and financial juggernaut ended this morning with a three-hour tribute. Couric is now heading to CBS News and its evening anchor's chair.The perennial third-place evening news has shown life of late, adding viewers under the regency of veteran CBS hand Bob Schieffer, who has guided the broadcast for 15 months since Dan Rather's departure. Couric, who will earn a reported $13 million a year, is taking off the month of June before reporting to work at CBS, in anticipation of re-launching the "CBS Evening News" in the fall.