Viewers may not watch the evening news, but they want it to be the evening news, because they get that it's different from a primetime news program or morning TV. They get it. When you're doing a newscast at 10 at night, you're competing not just with Greta — though God knows we were, and she beat us — you're also competing with ER and CSI and all those programs I don't know, as entertainment.

I think viewers see these [primetime] news programs as at least one part entertainment. If you are, as I am, kind of a dinosaur, old school anchorman, it's pretty tough to compete with that."

–Aaron Brown, a veteran anchor from CNN, opens up in an exclusive interview with TVNewser