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| Genre | Overnight news program |
| Directed by | Alfonso CascielloJames McGrath |
| Presented by | Jessi Mitchell (2025–present) |
| Opening theme | "CBS News Theme" by Antfood |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 23 |
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| Executive producer | Kevin Rochford |
| Producer | Matt McGarryNick Kasanzew |
| Production locations | New York City (1982–1984; 1992–2019; 2024–present Weekday Edition, 2019–2024 Monday Edition) Washington, D.C. (1984–1992 Weekday Edition, 2019–2024 Tuesday–Friday Edition) |
| Editor | Lorenzo Piccolo |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 60 minutes (aired in tape-delayed loop) |
| Production company | CBS News |
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| Network | CBS |
| Release | October 3, 1982 (1982-10-03) – present |
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| CBS Evening News CBS News Mornings CBS Mornings | |
CBS News Roundup is an American overnight news program broadcast byCBS News 24/7 andCBS. Airing during the early morning hours each Monday through Friday, the program is anchored by Jessi Mitchell.
CBS has carried an overnight news block since 1982; it was known asCBS News Nightwatch until 1992 and thenUp to the Minute until September 18, 2015. From then through May 28, 2024,Up to the Minute was replaced by theCBS Overnight News, which eschewed a dedicated anchor by largely repackaging segments from theCBS Evening News and other CBS News programming. On May 29, 2024, it was replaced by the CBS News 24/7-producedCBS News Roundup.
CBS News Roundup airs at 1:00 a.m. ET onCBS News 24/7, and is offered on the CBS broadcast network in a loop from 2:00 a.m. ET to 8:00 a.m. ET (whenCBS News Mornings – the network's early-morning news program – begins in certain areas of thePacific Time Zone. Most CBS stations airCBS News Mornings at 4:00 a.m. local time or earlier, depending on the start time of the station's localmorning show). Most of the network's stations do not air the program's entire broadcast loop and preempt portions of it to air local programming (usuallyinfomercials orsyndicated) – joining the program in progress anywhere from five minutes to as much as 1½ hours after the start of the program – with affiliates looping the show untilCBS News Mornings begins. Some stations and affiliates, includingCBS Television Stations, carry a rebroadcast of theCBS Evening News in the first half-hour they air or leading into their morning newscasts (except Sunday into Monday morning, when—except forKCNC—Face the Nation is substituted).
Its main competitor isABC'sWorld News Now, which follows a more irreverent format than the more straightforward news style of CBS (NBC has not aired a late-night newscast since the cancellation ofNBC Nightside in 1998, and locally scheduled syndicated programming or NBC News Now'sTop Story withTom Llamas leads intoEarly Today).
The program's history traces back to the launch of the network's first overnight news program,CBS News Nightwatch, which premiered on October 3, 1982; that program was originally anchored byChristopher Glenn, Felicia Jeter, Karen Stone andHarold Dow, who were later joined byMary Jo West. In 1984, production ofNightwatch moved fromNew York City toWashington, D.C., at which timeCharlie Rose (who later returned to CBS News as co-anchor ofCBS This Morning) and Lark McCarthy became the program's anchors.Nightwatch's format was a hybrid of a traditional newscast and an interview and debate show; during the original 1982 format, local affiliates had the option of inserting local news updates into the program.
CBS announced its decision to cancelCBS News Nightwatch in early 1992. Around this time, ABC and NBC were setting up their late-night newscast programs (World News Now andNBC Nightside, respectively; onlyWorld News Now is still on the air) and replaced it with a more traditional news program in the same vein as the other two, titledUp to the Minute, on March 30, 1992. The program was originally anchored byRuss Mitchell andMonica Gayle, who both left the program in 1993 (Gayle subsequently became co-anchor of theCBS Morning News), and were replaced byTroy Roberts, at which point the program switched to the single-anchor format which it used for the rest of its run; production of the newscast returned to theCBS Broadcast Center in New York, situated in front of a working newsroom used by the affiliate news service CBS Newspath. Regular on-air contributors toUp to the Minute included John Quain, who served as the program's technology consultant beginning in 1998.
The program's on-air graphics package and set were often several years behind that ofCBS News' daytime broadcasts, with components of the news division's early-1990s era graphics package being used on the program until 2005, when it began to follow the current look of theCBS Evening News. The newsroom behind the anchors was also covered by frosted-glass paneling, likely to hide the equally outdated CBS News andUp to the Minute branding mounted along the walls. In March 2009, when Michelle Gielan was named anchor ofUp to the Minute, production of the program was integrated with theCBS Morning News, with the same anchors being used on both programs.
In November 2012,Up to the Minute moved to Studio 57 at theCBS Broadcast Center, the same studio space that was also home toCBS This Morning. At that time, it became the last remaining news program on any of thebig three networks or major cable news channels to begin broadcasting inhigh-definition (by comparison, theCBS Morning News had upgraded to HD two years earlier in November 2010).
On June 25, 2015,Newsday reported that CBS News had decided to cancelUp to the Minute but planned on retaining the 3 a.m. timeslot for news programming.[1][2]Up to the Minute ended its run after 23 years on September 18, 2015. The program was replaced three days later on September 21 by theCBS Overnight News. In terms of content, the show was largely unchanged from its predecessor, except it no longer had a dedicated anchor. Much of the program now consisted of repackaged segments from theCBS Evening News, introduced by its anchor using footage from the earlier broadcast. Other segments were linked by CBS News correspondents in secondary studios.[3][4]
In April 2024, alongside the announced rebranding of theCBS News streaming network as CBS News 24/7, CBS announced a new late-night newscast known as theCBS News Roundup, which would premiere in June, and air on the service at 1:00 a.m. ET/10 p.m. PT.[5][6] The title is familiar toCBS News Radio listeners from its own daily evening newscast, theCBS World News Roundup.
TheRoundup premiered on May 29, 2024, also replacing theCBS Overnight News on the main network. When it debuted, Matt Pieper hosted on Mondays, and Shanelle Kaul for the remainder of the week. Since February 27, 2025, Jessi Mitchell has hosted every weekday. It is broadcast from Studio 57 (later Studio 55) at the CBS Broadcast Center, which had been the main home of the CBS News streaming network since 2022.
