No CBS for Stewart.(FAST TRACK)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, April, 2005

If there were ever serious consideration of giving the CBS Evening News anchor chair, or one of the chairs, to comic Jon Stewart, the host of Comedy Central's Daily Show, Stewart put the kibosh on it on Access Hollywood last week. "That is not happening," Stewart says. "The news can use a lot of things, but I don't think I'm one of them, so I'll stick with what I'm doing.

So that is a definite no." CBS Chairman Les Moonves kept the Stewart rumor mill turning during the January press tour when he twice declined to rule out a role for Stewart on the Evening News, which CBS is looking to reformat to attract a younger audience, including perhaps a multi-anchor format.--J.E.