Tony Dokoupil will be the presenter CBS Evening News Saturday night, directing the show two days before its scheduled debut, in the wake of the U.S. operation to rule Venezuela and capture its leader, Nicolás Maduro.
The show will be broadcast from the CBS station in San Francisco. Dokoupil will then be officially launched on Monday from the channel’s New York studios.
Dokoupil’s first week was scheduled to kick off in Miami as part of a 10-city, ten-day tour, before settling into the studio in New York. This tour, called Live from America, will resume at a later date, the network said.
The channel heavily promoted Dokoupil before his debut, particularly on social media, where he appeared in a video asserting that the show would be independent of his commercial ownership while denouncing instances where the press “missed the story.”
He said: “Because we took into account the views of advocates and not the average American. Either we put too much emphasis on the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you.”
On Friday, the network unveiled a set of “five simple principles” for broadcasting, including “We love America. And we make no apologies for saying it.”
He also responded to an Instagram comment that lamented the network’s loss of its “Tiffany shine” in the years following Walter Cronkite. “I can promise you that we will be more accountable and more transparent than Cronkite or anyone else of his era.”
