With "Evening News" co-anchors Maurice DuBois and John Dickerson leaving , CBS has wasted no time in naming their replacement: Tony Dokoupil, the network's morning show co-host, will become solo anchor of the venerable weeknight newscast starting Jan. 5.

Dokoupil, who was widely expected to get the job, broke the news himself on Wednesday's edition of "CBS Mornings," saying, "It's a really important show at an important time [and] has a massively important history — the most storied, battle-scarred program in television news."

Counting interim anchors, along with legends like Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather , Dokoupil, becomes the 12th anchor of the broadcast — a commanding TV news presence during the Cronkite years, and a distant also-ran in recent ones.

In a statement, CBS said, "

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