ABC Evening News

I use to watch ABC World News but switch to. Sheppard Smith with MSNBC. I switched because World New Tonight has TOO MANY COMMERCIALS. Unfortunately, he was cancelled. I switched back to World News for now. Muir tells a news story and switch to commercial, then tells another then goes to commercial. I love watching the news show but too commercials is leading me to start watching NBC. Don't understand why so MANY commercials so close together. I know that commercials are needed but it can be not so close together. I think you get more commercials than you do actual news. Hoping for more news s.

Since David Muir has taken over, you can chart how things have shifted, seeming narcissistically to feature more and more of Muir.

He eats up the first two or three minutes doing nothing but summarizing -- sometimes more than once -- news stories you're going to watch, to the degree that he often literally reports the same thing. (You can switch channels and they're already actually reporting.) Then he's got to interject himself into the news story again by interviewing the correspondent.

If you break down the 18 or 19 minutes of news in between the insufferable and repetitious commercials for pharmaceuticals and home products, there's very little content here anymore. They hit a couple of major events, then do a long segment on the weather, and then wrap it up with some saccharine feel good story about some suburban white kid who had a lemonade stand or something.

And Muir himself is harder to follow, from his weird haircut (I thought Jimmy Fallon was the goofiest on TV in this regard) to his sticky lips that the microphone picks up and makes disgusting.

The glory days where the news was done by thoughtful anchors and the content was rich are long gone. This is more like Muir's blog come to life.

We have always liked David Muir news program but wonder why it is necessary to repeat the headlines at least three times during the program. It is too repetitive and done every day. Our memory is fine and can't help but think we could get a good more info if it was not done,

We will NOT stop celebrating Christmas. As the Government wants us too. We don't care about the fear you try to put in us with your scary predictions. We are FREE AMERICANS AND WILL MAKE OUR OWN DECISIONS. NOT THE GOVERNMENT.

"ABC News" was always highly informative in the evening with the now late and great Peter Jennings. The network was always on top of things in events, though from time to time the network would focus much on international and foreign affair issues. The reporting and interviewing was always top notch from people like Charles Gibson, John Stossel, and Elizabeth Vargas, and the legendary Barbara Walters and Hugh Downs were unbeatable. Yet the most traditional and best was Peter Jennings it was sad he passed so young, Peter always told the news in a traditional manner with such a smooth and calm voice and he was always a hard working newsman and anchor. And ABC is probably the most conservative of the big three certainly more to the right than NBC or CBS.