WI: The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather & Bob Schieffer

What if in an effort to try to boost their slipping ratings in the late 1980s, CBS News made Bob Schieffer co-anchor with Dan Rather? With Rather in New York and Schieffer in Washington, D.C. (like Huntley and Brinkley on NBC). Would it have helped CBS News be more competitive with NBC and ABC in the years after Cronkite's retirement? Would Rather have been more receptive of co-anchoring with Bob Schieffer than he was with Connie Chung?
 
Bob Schiffer would have been better than Connie Chung. There would have been more chemistry and presumably would have lasted longer.
 
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