Fager takes 'CBS Evening News' helm.(Jeffrey Fager new executive producer)

Broadcasting & Cable, February, 1996 by McClellan, Steve

New executive producer promises changes to broadcast, but 'no radical surgery' In the past month, The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather has added a new set and graphics. Last week the show got a new executive producer-- Jeffrey Fager, who had been the number-two producer at the newscast under executive producer Andrew Heyward, named president, CBS News, four weeks ago.

Now all the program needs is new viewers to boost it out of third place in its ratings battle with evening news leader ABC Worm News Tonight and NBC Nightly News. Easier said than done, according to Fager, who says he'll do some fine-tuning to the broadcast in the coming months, but no radical surgery. "In the months to come, you'll see us do some things to try to make the entire...

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