“The Content May Be More Important” Than The Anchor, Andrew Heyward Says

The focus of Andrew Heyward‘s Evening News revamping “has been more about new ways to present information than about who the permanent anchor should be,” TV Guide reports. “The importance of a new anchor may be overstated.”

“It hasn’t been as serious a shift as you’d expect,” Heyward told Stephen Battaglio. “It suggests that as mighty as icons the evening-news anchors are, the content may be more important.” Producers will be doing some off-air “experiments” this summer..