With a new book to promote, Hillary Clinton is preparing to re-enter the public eye. Her first stop: an interview with Jane Pauley on CBS Sunday Morning this coming weekend.
Jane Pauley: Mary Tyler Moore Was My Guide
Jane Pauley: “Mary Tyler Moore had shown up just when everything about women’s lives was about to change. Her show debuted in 1970, when I was 19, still in college and not imagining a career in television — or a career in anything. But two years after Mary first joyfully threw her tam hat up in the air and joined WJM-TV in Minneapolis, I began my television career in a city also ending in ’apolis.”
For the fifth time in six weeks, CBS Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley delivered more than 6 million viewers, topping the weekday morning shows by more than a million viewers.
Jane Pauley doesn’t plan to wear a bow tie, as her predecessor, Charles Osgood, famously did. But that’s about the only change coming to the long-running CBS broadcast as she takes over the anchor spot from Charles Osgood this Sunday. “I assure you I’m not coming in and shaking anything up,” says Pauley, explaining that, when Executive Producer Rand Morrison seemed to open the door to any tweaks she might propose, “I laughed and said, ‘Rand, it ain’t broke!’ “
Jane Pauley will take over for Charles Osgood as anchor of CBS Sunday Morning beginning with the show’s next broadcast on Oct. 9. The news was announced Sunday morning at the end of the show’s special tribute to the retiring Osgood.
Exclusives
Bob Schieffer broke some news during his annual Scheiffer Symposium on the News at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth on Wednesday — he revealed that longtime NBC journalist Jane Pauley is joining CBS as a contributor on CBS Sunday Morning.
NBC’s morning show brought back Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley for a one-day nostalgia turn as co-hosts today along with current host Matt Lauer. NBC hoped the trio’s easy camaraderie enticed viewers. After a well-publicized tumble last year, the show runs second in the ratings to ABC’s Good Morning America. Pauley, who does occasional reports for the show, left as host in 1989 while Gumbel gave way to Lauer in 1997.
Former NBC morning show anchors Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley will reunite with Matt Lauer on Dec. 30.
