| CBS Mornings | |
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| Genre | Morning show |
| Directed by | Kelly Casse |
| Presented by | |
| Theme music composer | Gottfried Reiche Sam Oatts Antfood |
| Opening theme | "Abblasen" by Sam Oatts with CBS' five note jingle arranged by Antfood Eye Opener by Joel Beckerman Chris Maxwell and Phil Hernandez |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Shawna Thomas |
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| Camera setup | Multiple-camera setup |
| Running time | 120 minutes (including commercials) |
| Production company | CBS News |
| Original release | |
| Network | CBS |
| Release | September 7, 2021 (2021-09-07) – present |
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CBS Mornings is an Americanmorning television program which is broadcast onCBS. The program debuted on September 7, 2021, and airs live every weekday from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., EST. It is hosted byGayle King,Tony Dokoupil,Nate Burleson, and Features anchorVladimir Duthiers from studios atOne Astor Plaza inTimes Square, the headquarters of network parent companyParamount Global.[1]
It is the 11th distinct weekday morning news-features program format aired by CBS since 1954, and the 10th attempt to do so since CBS resumed programming in that time slot in 1963. It serves as a direct replacement for the second incarnation ofCBS This Morning.
As part of the new format, bothCBS Mornings and Saturday counterpartCBS Saturday Morning were tied more closely to the long-running weekend newsmagazineCBS Sunday Morning, including use of the latter's sun logo and "Abblasen" trumpet fanfare performed by Samuel Oatts, alongside CBS' five note jingle by Antfood, making it a partial revival of aprevious CBS weekday morning show format used from 1979 to 1982.[1]
CBS has aired a number of news, and occasionally variety, formats in the morning hours since 1954, but has rarely been able to mount an ongoing challenge to eitherToday onNBC, orGood Morning America onABC. From 1955 to 1982, these varied formats shared the morning timeslot on CBS with children's programCaptain Kangaroo, which may have affected CBS' ability to gain momentum in the time period.[1]
By many accounts, the second incarnation ofCBS This Morning (CTM), which replacedThe Early Show in 2012 and focused much more onhard news compared to its competition or its recent predecessors, was the most successful of these attempts in many years.[2]CTM grew its audience in each of its first five years on the air, and came within a million viewers ofToday during the November 2016 sweeps period.[3][4] However, after several years of stability with co-anchorsCharlie Rose,Gayle King andNorah O'Donnell, Rose was fired over multiple sexual harassment allegations in November 2017.[1] The program's audience began to erode thereafter, withCTM also being affected by overall declines in linear television viewership which have depressed ratings for all broadcast network morning shows.[1] Several subsequent shakeups, ultimately resulting in a co-anchor team of King,Tony Dokoupil, andAnthony Mason, did not affect the program's ratings trajectory.[3]
CBS announced in January 2021 that Shawna Thomas had been hired as the new executive producer ofCBS This Morning, filling a role that had been vacant for several months.[5] In May 2021, CBS announced that the program would relocate from theCBS Broadcast Center to a new studio at parent companyViacomCBS' headquarters atOne Astor Plaza inTimes Square, previously the longtime home ofMTV'sTotal Request Live.[6]
In early August, the network confirmed that retired NFL playerNate Burleson would join the program as a co-anchor, replacing Mason, who would move into a new role as a culture correspondent for the network.[7] Along with the studio move, this led to speculation that CBS was seeking to revamp the program to be patterned afterGood Morning America, which is also based in Times Square and has a former NFL player,Michael Strahan, among its cast.[7] However, executive producer Thomas denied that the program was moving towardssoft news.[6]
On August 31, CBS announced the reformattedCBS Mornings would debut with its new studio and anchor lineup on Tuesday, September 7, the day after Labor Day.[1]CBS Mornings debuted with a refreshed version of the set constructed for CBS'2020 election coverage, which originated from the same studio.[8] On March 27, 2023,Vladimir Duthiers was promoted to featured host.[citation needed]
In March 2025, it was reported thatCBS Mornings would vacate its Times Square studio and move back to the CBS Broadcast Center, sharing its studio with theCBS Evening News.[9]
CBS Mornings features many of the hallmarks of its predecessor,CBS This Morning, though with some adjustments. Graphics have been updated to use the unified CBS brand identity first introduced in late 2020. The "EyeOpener" segments have been retained at the start of each hour, but the 7:00 a.m. segment now serves as both a recap of the past day in news, and ateaser for segments to come on that morning's program. The central anchor table remains in place, but more casual seating arrangements including sofas and armchairs, which were rarely seen on the mainCTM set, are also used at times.[10] The reconfigured program retained the social media and YouTube channels created forCBS This Morning.
The program also features additional long-form features similar toCBS Sunday Morning, particularly in its second hour. This revised format had been tested withCBS This Morning beginning earlier in 2021.[1][3]
Unlike its competitors,Today andGood Morning America,CBS Mornings does not have an in-house staff meteorologist, a carryover from predecessorsThe Early Show andCBS This Morning, the former of which eliminated on-staff weathercasters for its weekday national weather segments in 2011. Instead, weather forecasts are provided byThe Weather Channel (via a partnership with CBS News established in March 2022)[11] withJim Cantore andStephanie Abrams most frequently appearing. Occasionally, John Elliott and Lonnie Quinn of WCBS-TV appear in-studio during major weather events when Weather Channel meteorologists are not available from theirAtlanta studios.
On September 4, 2024, CBS announced that it would introduce a third, 9:00 a.m. hour beginning September 30, known asCBS Mornings Plus. This hour is co-anchored by Tony Dokoupil andAdriana Diaz, and is carried primarily onCBS News 24/7 and selected CBS owned-and-operated stations. (Most other CBS stations continue to air local morning news and lifestyle shows or syndicated programming during that hour.)[12][13]
In Australia, a trimmed version (70 minutes excluding commercials) ofCBS Mornings currently airs on Paramount-ownedNetwork 10, along with regional affiliateSouthern Cross 10, on weekday mornings from 4:30 a.m. until 6:00 a.m. AEST, with the Friday edition held over to the following Monday. A national weather map of Australia is inserted during local affiliate station's cutaways for weather reports and forecasts, and commercial advertising was inserted during the cutaway for local news updates. Currently,CBS Mornings and NBC'sToday (seen on theSeven Network) are the only two American morning news programs broadcast on Australian free to air television, as theNine Network stopped showing ABC'sGood Morning America in July 2018.CBS Mornings is subject to preemption in regional areas for paid and religious programming. Unlike the Seven Network, Network 10 does not showCBS Saturday Morning.
In Los Angeles,CBS Mornings airs live with the east coast at 4:00 am. PT onKCBS-TV as of January 5, 2023; this is followed by an hour-long simulcast of the morning show of sister stationKCAL-TV, and then the tape delayed west edition of the program at 7:00 am.[14][15]
