Charles "Charlie" Gibson (born March 9, 1943) is an American broadcast television
anchor and journalist. He was the anchor for World News with Charles Gibson, the flag-
ship evening newscast by the ABC News division of the ABC television network, from
2006-2009. He became anchor on May 29, 2006, when the program was known as ABC World
News Tonight. He also anchors the ABC News five p.m. (Eastern Time) Information Network
weekday newscast on ABC News Radio.
During Gibson's tenure, World News beat NBC Nightly News, anchored by Brian Williams,
in the program ratings during 2007, the first time in several years. The two programs
have now been in a dead heat[citation needed], taking turns at the top of the ratings
among household viewers and the 25.54 age group prized by advertisers. Katie Couric's
CBS Evening News remained a distant third.
Gibson previously co-anchored ABC News's Good Morning America, a breakfast television
news and talk show, for a span of nineteen years; first from February 1987 to May 1998,
then again from January 1999 to June 2006, co-hosting the show with Joan Lunden and
Diane Sawyer, respectively.
On September 2, 2009, ABC News announced that Gibson would retire from World News in
January 2010, to be replaced by Diane Sawyer, a veteran ABC News journalist and a co-
anchor of Good Morning America since 1999. Sawyer's debut broadcast occurred earlier
than first announced, on December 21, 2009.
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