When ABC settled on the Vargas/Woodruff duo as Peter Jennings’ successors, “network officials had never even seen them sitting side by side behind the anchor desk,” Matea Gold reports. While they have “frequently served as substitute hosts of the evening newscast, they had not done so together in the studio — and the network didn’t even bother taping a test broadcast to study what such a show would look like.”
“We’ve both been, in the last several months, very much two ships passing in the night, communicating via e-mail, and I expect that to continue,” Vargas said yesterday, adding with a laugh: “Well, Bob, it’s been nice seeing you.” More…
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