Former CNN Anchor Aaron Brown To Anchor PBS Show

April 28, 2008 2:36 p.m. EST

Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - Former CNN anchor Aaron Brown is returning to television, this time to join the PBS series "Wide Angle." His return ends a two-year absence from broadcast journalism.

Brown will anchor "Wide Angle" which is a weekly public affairs series with a global focus. The show will begin its seventh season on July 1.

Brown told the Associated Press that it is a chance to work in an environment where people think about making good TV and good journalism.

Brown left CNN in November of 2005 in a shake-up that gave his job to Anderson Cooper. He has been contractually barred from working in TV until last June. He has spent his time teaching at Arizona State University as its first Walter Cronkite Professor of Journalism.

Before joining CNN, Brown, 59, worked at ABC as a reporter on programs including "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings" and "Nightline." He also anchored "World News Tonight Saturday" and "World News Now."