With the announcement that she will
take Katie Couric's place on NBC's Today show, Meredith Vieira becomes one
of those rare personalities who has been employeed by all three major networks; ABC, CBS and NBC.
Vieira began her career in the newsroom of WCBS-TV in New York City. From there, she moved onto the network level as a reporter for the CBS Evening News and a contributor to newsmagazines 60 Minutes and West 57th Street. After a long stint at CBS Meredith moved to ABC as a reporter, but eventually changed careers and became one of the hosts on The View starting in 1997 (Good Lord! That show has been on for almost 10 years now!).
There are others who have jumped networks. For example, Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News was also on WCBS-TV in the late 80's and early 1990's before moving to NBC in 1993. Former 20/20 partners Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters both began their careers with NBC and then moved to ABC.
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4-09-2006 @ 11:32PM
Joel Keller said...
Meredith worked in other places before she got to New York. I'm too tired to look up her bio, but she definitely had other gigs before she got to WCBS. Which makes sense, considering she was almost 30 by the time she got there.
Oh, and the queen of the network jumpers has to be Connie Chung. She's been on CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN at various times. Now she does that terrible show with Maury Povich on MSNBC. The only place she has left is Fox News...
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4-10-2006 @ 2:22AM
tl said...
Connie Chung is the only person in broadcast history (male or female) to have substitute anchored all three network newscasts (NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, and World News Tonight) and all three network morning newscasts (Today, CBS This Morning and Good Morning America). She did all three as a substitute.
Connie did however permanently co-anchor the CBS Evening News from 1993-1995.
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