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| Genre | Early-morning news program |
| Presented by | Michael George (Early) Errol Barnett (7 a.m.) (for past anchors,see section) |
| Theme music composer | Rick Patterson, Ron Walz & Neal Fox (1991–2006) James Horner (2006–2011) James Trivers, Elizabeth Myers & Alan James Pasqua (2011–2016) Joel Beckerman (2016–2021) Antfood (2021–present) |
| Opening theme | "CBS News Theme," by Trivers-Myers Music (2011–2015) "CBS This Morning Theme" (2015–2021) "Abblasen" (2021–present) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Shawna Thomas |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | approx. 23 minutes |
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| Network | CBS |
| Release | October 4, 1982 (1982-10-04) – present |
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| CBS Evening News CBS News Roundup CBS Mornings | |
CBS News Mornings (formerlyCBS Morning News) is an American early-morningnews broadcast presented weekdays on the CBS television network. The program features late-breaking news stories, national weather forecasts and sports highlights. Since October 7, 2024, the program has been anchored by Michael George during (early editions) 4 a.m. ET andErrol Barnett at 7 a.m. ET.
The program is broadcast live at 4:00 a.m.Eastern Time, precedinglocal news beginning at 4:30 a.m. on many CBS stations. It is transmitted in a continuous half-hourbroadcast delay loop until 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time, whenCBS Mornings begin in thePacific Time Zone. In the few markets where the station does not produce a morning newscast, it may air in a two- to three-hour loop immediately before the start ofCBS Mornings. Some CBS stations (such asWAKA inMontgomery, Alabama, which still does not air it today) were forced to pre-empt the program when they implemented it less than two months earlier. The show is updated for any breaking news occurring before 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time, while stations throughout the network will joinCBS Mornings in all time zones past that time at their local discretion or network orders for live coverage.
TheCBS Morning News title was originally used as the name of a conventional morning news program that served as a predecessor to the network's currentCBS Mornings. For most of the 1960s and 1970s, the program aired as a 60-minute hard news broadcast at 7:00 a.m., precedingCaptain Kangaroo and airing opposite the first hour ofNBC'sToday.Walter Cronkite and sportscasterJim McKay both anchored the originalCBS Morning News at one time.Joseph Benti became the anchor in 1969. Other anchors of the broadcast in this format includedJohn Hart,Hughes Rudd,Sally Quinn,Richard Threlkeld,Lesley Stahl andBruce Morton.
The program first aired in its current format on October 4, 1982 as theCBS Early Morning News. It was a half-hour extension of the two-hourCBS Morning News which aired directly oppositeToday.Bill Kurtis andDiane Sawyer originally anchored both theEarly Morning News and theMorning News of that era. Sawyer departed both programs in mid-1984, to be named a correspondent for60 Minutes later that year. In her absence, Kurtis was joined by a rotating series of co-hosts, principallyMaria Shriver,Meredith Vieira andJane Wallace.
Kurtis anchored theEarly Morning News solo until March 1985, while co-anchoring theMorning News withPhyllis George until July of that year.Faith Daniels took over and would remain on the anchor desk, most of the time sharing the role withForrest Sawyer (July to December 1985 and January to September 1987) and laterDouglas Edwards andCharles Osgood, until Daniels left CBS to become anchor of competing early-morning newscastNBC News at Sunrise in 1990. The program would drop "Early" from its title in January 1987, assuming the name previously used by the network's flagshipmorning broadcast, which had been cancelled and replaced by the critically panned news/entertainment/comedy showThe Morning Program (which itself was cancelled after 10½ months in favor of the more traditionalCBS This Morning); the renamedCBS Morning News also briefly expanded into a 90-minute broadcast (6:00 to 7:30 a.m. local), although affiliates in several larger markets chose to preempt all or part of the first hour to accommodate their local morning newscasts.
Osgood would remain anchor of theCBS Morning News until June 1992, paired withVictoria Corderi from 1990 to 1991,Giselle Fernández through February 1992, and then withMeredith Vieira for the remainder of Osgood's run as co-anchor. After Osgood left the program in 1992, the anchor turnover continued. The program continued to maintain a two-anchor format untilThalia Assuras was appointed as anchor of theCBS Morning News in 1998, at which point the program switched to a single-anchor format, which it has had ever since. In March 2009, when Michelle Gielan was named anchor ofUp to the Minute, theCBS Morning News became integrated with the overnight news program, using the same anchors on both programs.
In November 2010,CBS Morning News became the third and final early morning news program to begin broadcasting inhigh-definition television; its counterpart,Up to the Minute, continued to be broadcast instandard-definition television until November 2012, when the program converted to high definition. In November 2012, production of theCBS Morning News andUp to the Minute relocated in theCBS Broadcast Center. TheCBS Morning News moved to the studio of theCBS Evening News, andUp to the Minute was moved to the Studio 57 facility, the same studio whereCBS This Morning was also broadcast, until its cancellation on September 18, 2015.
On September 21, 2015, theCBS Morning News relocated to theCBSN newsroom and adopted new graphics based on those ofCBS This Morning (after having previously aligned itself with the branding of theCBS Evening News). Concurrently,Up to the Minute was replaced the same day by theCBS Overnight News.[1]
On March 11, 2020, the CBS Broadcast Center was temporarily closed after a number of CBS News staffers tested positive forCOVID-19. While CBS News did attempt to reopen the Broadcast Center with minimal crews following a thorough decontamination and cleaning, a second shutdown on March 18, along with directives by CBS News PresidentSusan Zirinsky in the wake of theimpact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television resulted in dramatic changes to many of CBS News's programs and operations. CBSN had itself experienced major issues in both producing a normal schedule, with its operations largely being outsourced temporarily to itsCBS Television Stations, and with producing programs for CBS News.
While CBS News did attempt to produce theCBS Morning News with limited staff and graphics from its Washington, D.C. bureau the following week, it became impossible to consistently produce the program under their normal standards, and as a result production of theCBS Morning News was temporarily suspended beginning on March 24, 2020, with a repeat of theCBS Evening News or local newscasts or programming taking its place. On August 31, 2020, nearly six months after the pandemic began, production of theCBS Morning News resumed with its primary anchor,Anne-Marie Green, anchoring from her home studio.
On September 8, 2021, theCBS Morning News was updated to match the branding ofCBS Mornings, which replacedCBS This Morning around the same time.[2] On February 5, 2024, in conjunction with updated graphics adopted byCBS Mornings, the program was retitledCBS News Mornings. The title was originally used by the CBS News streaming channel for its weekday 7:00 a.m. ET newswheel, which itself rebranded fromCBSN AM in 2021; the 7:00 hour then became a half-hour show titledCBS Morning News now anchored byErrol Barnett.[3]
