NEW YORK - Standing in front of a video board displaying a fast-moving rundown of stories ranging from the Taliban to Suri Cruise, Katie Couric began her first night as anchor of the "CBS Evening News" on Tuesday.
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"Hi, everyone," she said. "I'm very happy to be with you tonight."
Couric quickly introduced a story about the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
A voiceover recorded by CBS News legend Walter Cronkite, whose tenure as evening news anchor ended in 1981, introduced Couric, and then she sat down to begin the newscast.
Tuesday capped a tumultuous two years for network evening newscasts. For more than two decades, the networks had been the TV homes of Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather. Now, Couric will compete against Brian Williams at the top-rated NBC "Nightly News" and Charles Gibson at ABC's "World News."http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/ap/adfe8c7a-fae1-4327-b08f-8c87844c4b93.widec.jpg&imgrefurl=http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13893341/&h=434&w=298&sz=17&hl=en&start=10&tbnid=80_TwE6YgPLv9M:&tbnh=123&tbnw=84&prev=/images%3Fq%3DKatie-Couric%26svnum%3D30%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN
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