CBS - SCHIEFER HOPING CBS WILL TREAT HIM AS NBC TREATED BROKAW

Bob Schiefer says that he is hoping CBS treats him the way NBC treated Tom Brokaw after he stepped down as anchor of NBC Nightly News. Schiefer, who disclosed to the Associated Press earlier this week that he plans to leave his post as weekly host of CBS's Face the Nation following the inauguration of a new president next January, told Broadcasting & Cable Thursday that he hoped he would always have some association with CBS. "Tom Brokaw is kind of my hero," Schieffer said. "He bowed out, and then he sill shows up from time to time when important stories are going on, and I think CBS will treat me in that same way." The network has frequently been criticized for effectively relegating former CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite to limbo after forcing him to retire in 1981.

01/02/2008