NEW YORK (AP) -- For a television news industry in a constant state of motion, Deborah Norville has been a model of stability. She began hosting the syndicated newsmagazine "Inside Edition" in 1995 and has remained there ever since.
Now that 30-year run is coming to a close.
Norville, 66, signs off today. She's planning to celebrate with a long vacation through Europe with her husband, and try something new when she gets back. She will host "The Perfect Line," a trivia show that begins airing this fall. No successor has been named at "Inside Edition."
"I'm very excited about the game show," she said. "It's fun, and who doesn't want to give away somebody else's money to people who are happy to take it?"
Three decades ago, Norville left CBS News for a genre largely dismissed as tabloid television. She's proud of telling stories that add value to the audience's lives: A company that makes a device to aid choking victims says it has traced a thousand uses to people who say they learned about it through an "Inside Edition" story.
During COVID, the show began broadcasting from her kitchen almost immediately and never stopped, as she built a makeshift studio in her New York-area home.
"We were a familiar presence during a time when everything else was topsy-turvy," she said, "and I think the bond with our audience was made even stronger then."
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FILE - Former NBC "Today" television program hosts Tom Brokaw, left, Jane Pauley, second left, Deborah Norville, center, and Katie Couric, right, with veteran weatherman Willard Scott, gather for a toast in New York's Rockefeller Center, Jan. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)FILE - Television journalist Deborah Norville arrives at the Fox Business Network's Launch Party, Oct. 24, 2007, in New York. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, File)FILE - Actor Dustin Hoffman and Allison Atlas talk with Deborah Norville, at right, while taping a spot on the NBC "Today Show" in New York, February 28, 1990. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)FILE - Deborah Norville arrives at the CBS, CW and Showtime Press Tour Party in Los Angeles, July 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)