NYT: NBC Names Ex-Producer to Head News Unit
By JACQUES STEINBERG
Published: November 30, 2005
Nearly a year after shepherding the handoff from Tom Brokaw to Brian Williams as the executive producer of "NBC Nightly News," Steve Capus was promoted yesterday to president of the network's news division.
Mr. Capus assumes his job, in which he will oversee not only NBC News but also the MSNBC cable channel and Web site, at a moment of rapid transformation in broadcast news and in television over all. As its flagship broadcast, "Nightly News," steadily loses viewers because of other electronic media and the changing patterns of people's lives, NBC News, like other news divisions, has been forced to adapt.
Its most notable innovation so far was announced by Mr. Capus earlier this month: NBC became the first broadcast network to make its early-evening newscast available later each night, at no charge, on the Internet. Soon, the network expects to offer similar online versions of "Today" and "Meet the Press," and is already providing news updates to cellphone customers of Verizon, Sprint and AT&T, among others....
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The new president of CBS News, Sean McManus, announced that he was replacing the executive producer of the network's evening newscast, Jim Murphy, with Rome Hartman, a veteran producer who has worked on "60 Minutes" for more than a decade.
The selection of Mr. Hartman provides the strongest indication yet that in rethinking the "CBS Evening News," Mr. McManus intends it to have a heavy dose of hard news. Before Mr. McManus's appointment, Leslie Moonves, chairman of CBS, had spoken openly of his desire that the network's flagship newscast be more entertaining, and had even consulted with executives from the entertainment side of the company on its recasting....
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/30/arts/television/30nbc.html
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