Sentence examples for anchor format from inspiring English sources

Tuesday's announcement was, among other things, an admission that a rotating anchor format is not preferable for an extended period of time.

PBS announced on Tuesday that Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff would take over the nightly newscast in September, putting an end to the rotating anchor format that has been in effect for several years.

But it's probably no surprise that Fox doesn't seem to get political humor, since its Half-Hour News Hour, which aired two pilot episodes a few weeks ago and is gearing up for a full series launch next month, appears intent on not being particularly amusing or innovative, following a Saturday Night Live "Weekend Update" anchor format with an added laugh track.

But in September the program will be retitled "PBS News Hour and return to a two-anchor format, which it had until 1995, when Robert MacNeil left.

That seems to be the calculation that CBS made with the debut of its new four-anchor format yesterday on "The Early Show".

PAGE C1 'NEWSHOUR' GETS MAKEOVER "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," the long-running PBS program, will be retitled "PBS News Hour and move to a two-anchor format, nudging it toward the day when Mr. Lehrer decides to retire.

Not only has WNBC jettisoned its 5 p.m. newscast, with the rationale that fewer people are home at that time to watch it, but the solo-anchor format for Mr. Scarborough will rely more heavily on news than on the typical local formula of news, sports and weather.

Arledge decided to implement a three-anchor format for the program.

The president who had hired me was gone and the new guy made no bones about his distaste for the show's four-anchor format.

Under Goldston, "Nightline," which once seemed perpetually destined for the chopping block, adopted a more populist tone and switched to a multi-anchor format.

The new show, to be broadcast at 8 30 p.m. Fridays, will replace "Need to Know," a news magazine that went through numerous anchors and format changes in its three years on the air.