ABC Execs May Move Charlie To WNT Full-Time (But How Would Diane Feel?)

ABC still won’t say what’s going to happen when Elizabeth Vargas goes on maternity leave. But the New York Times has an idea:

“Under one scenario being given serious consideration within the executive suite of ABC News, Charles Gibson, the longtime anchor of ‘Good Morning America,’ would leave that program permanently to become a full-time co-anchor of ‘World News Tonight,’ said one person who has been directly apprised of the plan but was not authorized to disclose it. Ms. Vargas, under that proposal, would rejoin Mr. Gibson after her leave, and Mr. Woodruff, whose recovery is slow but progressing, would begin to contribute to the program as his health improves, eventually, perhaps, as a third co-anchor.”

But if Gibson leaves, it is not clear how long Diane Sawyer would stay on GMA…