Tony Dokoupil I'll anchor CBS Evening News on Saturday night, helming the broadcast two days before his scheduled debut, following a US launch operation Venezuela and capture its leader Nicolás Maduro.
The show will air from the CBS station in San Francisco. The official presentation of Dokupil will take place on Monday at the network's New York studio.
Dokoupil's first week was to begin in Miami as part of a 10-city tour in ten days, before moving into a studio in New York. The tour, called Live from America, will begin later next week, the network said.
The network heavily promoted Dokoupil in the lead-up to his debut, especially on social media, where he appeared in a video, arguing that the broadcast would be independent of corporate ownership while condemning instances where the press “missed the story.”
He said: “Because we took into account the views of human rights activists, not the average American. Or we put too much emphasis on the analysis of scientists or elites, not you.”
Friday network presented the set “five simple principles” for broadcast, including “We love America. And we don't apologize for that.”
He also responded to an Instagram comment lamenting the network's loss of its “Tiffany's shine” in the years since Walter Cronkite. “I can promise you that we will be more accountable and more transparent than Cronkite or anyone else of his era.”
