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Less than a year after taking over the anchor seat at CBS Evening News, John Dickerson revealed Monday that he was not only leaving the weeknight news broadcast within the next two months but that his time at the Tiffany Network was coming to an end after 16 years.

Dickerson’s departure comes as Bari Weiss, the network’s new “anti-woke” editor-in-chief , has been openly looking to revamp CBS News’ perennially third-place evening program – which has seen her courting Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier and CNN mainstay Anderson Cooper to take over the telecast.

His looming exit also represents the first high-profile talent exit from the network since media mogul David Ellison became parent company Paramount’s chairman following this past summer’s politically fraught $8 billion merger with Skydance. Weeks before the Trump administration approved the deal, Paramount paid Donald Trump $16 million to settle a “meritless” lawsuit over a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris.

“He’s a huge, huge loss,” one CBS News senior staffer told The Independent, while another network employee said it felt like the network “wanted him to fail.”