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ABC News President James Goldston To Step Down

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ABC News President James Goldston To Step Down

ABC News President James Goldston announced that he would step down from his post on March 31. “It’s a really tough decision. I’ve loved every day of my 17 years at ABC News, but in recent times I’ve always assumed that after this extraordinary election cycle, which we’ve covered at a full...
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In this release James Goldston will step down from ABC News on March 31st.

ABC News President James Goldston announced that he would step down from his post on March 31.

“It’s a really tough decision. I’ve loved every day of my 17 years at ABC News, but in recent times I’ve always assumed that after this extraordinary election cycle, which we’ve covered at a full sprint for four years, it would be time for a change. After a great deal of reflection over the last few months, I’m ready for a new adventure,” Goldston wrote in a memo to employees.

Goldston has been with the network for 17 years, and head of the news division since 2014. No successor has been named. He said that Peter Rice, chairman of general entertainment content for Disney, had asked him to help with the search.
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Disney Continues Pursuit of New ABC News Chief

Disney's quest for a new ABC News chief continues as live news programming takes up more space in its overall programming mix.
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Disney’s search for a new leader for ABC News continues weeks after the company unexpectedly disclosed the former president, James Goldston, would leave the post.

Goldston’s last day came at the end of March and the company has yet to hone in on a candidate to replace him, according to four people familiar with parts of the search process. When ABC News heads like David Westin or Ben Sherwood left in years past, Disney identified a successor. That hasn’t been the case in the current matter.

Disney and ABC News declined to make executives available for comment.
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CBS News Veteran Kim Godwin Poised to Lead ABC News

Kim Godwin, a veteran of CBS News, is poised to become the next president of ABC News
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Disney has announced that Kim Godwin will be the next president at ABC News.

CBS News veteran Kim Godwin is expected to become the next president of ABC News, a move that would make her the first Black executive to lead a broadcast-network news division in the U.S.

Godwin has had an offer from Disney’s ABC for several weeks, according to a person familiar with the matter, but only in the last few days did CBS CEO George Cheeks agree to let the executive out of her contract. The decision, this person says, was not an easy one for CBS to make; the company wanted to keep Godwin on board. Godwin was recently given new responsibilities at CBS’ local stations, taking oversight of news operations there in the wake of the dismissal of executives Peter Dunn and David Friend amid a probe of allegations about their behavior.
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Network tv news has been on the verge of dying now for a few decades. Somehow it survives. As long as network tv survives, network news will survive. I don’t think this will last forever but I don’t think it is close to death either. I would expect the big three will maintain importance through the 2020’s.
 
Too much Network TV news such as three hours of Today, 3rd hour of GMA, CBS Newswatch, NBC Early Today and ABC World News Now on late nights.
 
TVCOOL said:
Too much Network TV news such as three hours of Today, 3rd hour of GMA, CBS Newswatch, NBC Early Today and ABC World News Now on late nights.
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That’s not too much news. It’s options for people at different times and on different networks.

Just because it’s there doesn’t mean you personally need to watch them.
 
seatownmedia said:
Network tv news has been on the verge of dying now for a few decades. Somehow it survives. As long as network tv survives, network news will survive. I don’t think this will last forever but I don’t think it is close to death either. I would expect the big three will maintain importance through the 2020’s.
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I find Network TV news utterly useless. They have spent half their allotted 30 minutes (minus commercials of which there are way too many) on one story even though that one story does not affect the majority of viewers. They tempt viewers with short takes of video-enticing stories then broadcast that same video as the entire story. In the second half of the program they allocate way too much time to commercials with just a hint of a headline (4 minutes of commercials then 15 seconds of "news"). I can do without it.
 
I agree. The last 15 minutes of these casts are just teases. They say these interesting stories are coming up but they are just 15-20 seconds with little or no additional information. Even my non-media brother notices this. It is disappointing but apparently works.
 
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