---
title: "Network News: Durability & Decline"
description: "As the economy improved in 2010, network broadcast news quietly went through an arduous period of change. The news division of one network, ABC, instituted sharp personnel cuts designed to accomplish a “fundamental transformation” in the way network news is produced.1 Another, CBS News, worked its way from financial losses back to break-even, while management continued to strengthen a depleted bench of correspondents and news producers. NBC prepared for new owners, the third such transition since NBC was founded in 1926, and if history is a guide, the change will alter the network more than most pre-sale analyses predicted."
date: "2011-03-19"
authors:
  - name: "Emily Guskin"
    job_title: "Guest Contributor"
  - name: "Tom Rosenstiel"
    job_title: "Guest Contributor"
  - name: "Paul Moore"
    job_title: "Guest Contributor"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2011/03/19/network-news-durability-decline/"
categories:
  - "State of the News Media (Project)"
---

# Network News: Durability & Decline