Dale Roe writes about television for the Austin American-Statesman.
He's worked at the American-Statesman for 10 years and has written family movie and video game reviews as well as watched lots of TV. Dale directs, writes and performs with Austin's Gag Reflex comedy ensemble, is a freelance illustrator and has contributed stories and reviews to Macworld magazine. He lives in Round Rock with his wife, two children and a dog named Apollo who barks whenever he hears another dog bark on television.
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By Dale Roe
| Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 11:11 AM
Charles Gibson, the anchor of ABC’s “World News” since 2006, will retire at the end of this year. Diane Sawyer will fill his “World News” position beginning January, 2010.
Gibson, who co-anchored both “Good Morning America” and ABC’s “Primetime” prior to his nightly news assignment, hopes to continue contributing to ABC News.
Sawyer served as co-anchor on those same shows and currently co-anchors the network’s morning news program with Robin Roberts.
Read ABC’s story on Gibson’s retirement by clicking here.
Read the e-mail messages Gibson and ABC News President David Westin sent to the network’s staff today by clicking here.
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By native Texan
September 2, 2009 2:32 PM | Link to this
Started downhill after Peter Jennings left... now, ABC news will be just background noise...Sawyer in no way, shape or form can even come close to the reporting skills of Jennings. The great ones are gone.
By takealook
September 2, 2009 2:15 PM | Link to this
take a look at all the hate we have to muck thru every day because people are so politcal. it is so sad. I thought Charlie Gibson was a great anchor. Geez people, if you have nothing positive to say just keep it to yourself. Posting negative rants only makes the poster look bad. & makes the world sigh. When will it ever get better? Never at this rate.
Lay down your hate people. God is watching
By keith
September 2, 2009 1:55 PM | Link to this
Yeah should have done a better job with a replacement for Peter Jennings.....Gibson is stale compared to Brian Williams.....but to touch on the post comments, my comments are clean and regularly NEVER show up on this style of the comment tool....AAS has two seperate setups for comments, and should have just one, so I have equated my problems to your system not being up to par and 'eating' comments
By Dale Roe
September 2, 2009 1:51 PM | Link to this
Readers; A gentle reminder … if your comments are not getting posted, it's probably because we have a strict policy against publishing personal attacks against other commenters. We want to present everyone's opinions, but we can't do so if they violate our policy. If you can limit your opinions to the topic and fight the urge to insult other commenters, we'll post 'em right up. Thanks! --Dale.
By dennisl59
September 2, 2009 1:22 PM | Link to this
ABC should have just named Robert Gibbs from the White House. All the State Controlled Media just repeat the Marxist Administration talking points and Big Lies anyway. In my opinion.
By Bobby
September 2, 2009 12:01 PM | Link to this
YAY! This is great news. Charlie Gibson is dry and boring and has been a poorly-chosen replacement for the amazing Peter Jennings.
By Bob
September 2, 2009 11:53 AM | Link to this
Big Deal! One State Run Media Hack is leaving only to be replaced by another State Rub Media Hack. Both are biased liberal elitists who look down their noses to a smaller and smaller number of viewers who are skeptical of their lies.