''CBS Overnight News'' is an American overnight

news broadcasting News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or the internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or televi ...

that is broadcast on CBS during the early morning hours each Monday through Friday. The program maintains a

infotainment Infotainment (a portmanteau of ''information'' and ''entertainment''), also called soft news as a way to distinguish it from serious journalism or hard news, is a type of media, usually television or online, that provides a combination of in ...

format, incorporating national, international and business news headlines; feature reports; interviews; national weather forecasts; sports highlights; and commentary. CBS has carried an overnight news block since 1982; it was known as ''CBS News Nightwatch'' until 1992 and then ''Up to the Minute'' until September 18, 2015. ''CBS Overnight News'' draws from the full resources of CBS News, including the ''

CBS Evening News The ''CBS Evening News'' is the flagship evening television news program of CBS News, the news division of the CBS television network in the United States. The ''CBS Evening News'' is a daily evening broadcast featuring news reports, feature s ...

'', '' CBS Mornings'', Newspath,

owned-and-operated station In the broadcasting industry, an owned-and-operated station (frequently abbreviated as an O&O) usually refers to a television or radio station owned by the network with which it is associated. This distinguishes such a station from an network af ...

and

network affiliate In the broadcasting industry (particularly in North America, and even more in the United States), a network affiliate or affiliated station is a local broadcaster, owned by a company other than the owner of the network, which carries some or a ...

of the

television network A television network or television broadcaster is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay television providers. Until the mid- ...

and Associated Press Television News. It also featured rebroadcasts of selected stories from ''

CBS News Sunday Morning ''CBS News Sunday Morning'' (normally shortened to ''Sunday Morning'' on the program itself since 2009) is an American news magazine television program that has aired on CBS since January 28, 1979. Created by Robert Northshield and original hos ...

'', '' 48 Hours'', ''

60 Minutes ''60 Minutes'' is an American television news magazine broadcast on the CBS television network. Debuting in 1968, the program was created by Don Hewitt and Bill Leonard, who chose to set it apart from other news programs by using a unique st ...

'' and ''

Face the Nation ''Face the Nation'' is a weekly news and morning public affairs program airing Sundays on the CBS radio and television network. Created by Frank Stanton in 1954, ''Face the Nation'' is one of the longest-running news programs in the history ...

''.

Overview

''CBS Overnight News'' broadcasts beginning at 2:00am ET and is transmitted in a continuous one-hour

broadcast delay In radio and television, broadcast delay is an intentional delay when broadcasting live material, technically referred to as a deferred live. Such a delay may be to prevent mistakes or unacceptable content from being broadcast. Longer delays las ...

loop until 8:00am ET when the ''

CBS Morning News The ''CBS Morning News'' is an American early-morning news broadcast presented weekdays on the CBS television network. The program features late-breaking news stories, national weather forecasts and sports highlights. Since 2013, it has been anc ...

'' – the network's early-morning news program – begins in certain areas of the Pacific Time Zone. (Most CBS stations air the ''CBS Morning News'' at 4:00 a.m. local time or earlier, depending on the start time of the station's local

breakfast television Breakfast television (Europe, Canada, and Australia) or morning show (United States) is a type of news or infotainment television programme that broadcasts live in the morning (typically scheduled between 5:00 and 10:00a.m., or if it is a l ...

). Most of the network's stations do not air the program's entire broadcast loop and preempt portions of it in order to air local programming (usually

infomercial An infomercial is a form of television commercial that resembles regular TV programming yet is intended to promote or sell a product, service or idea. It generally includes a toll-free telephone number or website. Most often used as a form of dir ...

or broadcast syndication) – 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 until the ''CBS Morning News'' begins. Some stations and affiliates, including CBS Television Stations, carry a rebroadcast of the ''

'' in the first half-hour they air or leading into their morning newscasts (except Sunday into Monday morning, when the Sunday edition of the '' CBS Weekend News'' is substituted). This scheduling began during the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified ...

in March 2020, due to the CBS Broadcast Center's circumstances at the time where all personnel was working remotely and the building was dark for deep disinfection, requiring the ''Morning News'' to go on a hiatus which has continued on into the summer. Its main competitor is ABC's '' World News Now'', which follows a more irreverent format than the more straightforward news style of CBS (

NBC The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, its headquarters ...

has not aired a late-night newscast since the cancellation of ''

NBC Nightside ''NBC Nightside'' (also known as ''NBC News Nightside'') is an American overnight news broadcasting program on NBC, that aired from 1991 to 1998. The program was produced in three half-hour segments. It usually aired live seven nights a week, and ...

'' in 1998, and locally-scheduled syndicated programming or NBC News Now's ''Top Story with

Tom Llamas Thomas Edward Llamas ( ; born July 2, 1979) is an American journalist who was the weekend anchor for '' World News Tonight'' on ABC from 2014 to 2021. Afterward, he left ABC News for rival NBC News, with his last ABC broadcast being on January ...

'' leads into '' Early Today'').

History

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 by Christopher Glenn, Felicia Jeter, Karen Stone and Harold Dow, who were later joined by Mary Jo West. In 1984, production of ''Nightwatch'' moved from

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the U ...

to Washington, D.C., at which time

Charlie Rose Charles Peete Rose Jr. (born January 5, 1942) is an American former television journalist and talk show host. From 1991 to 2017, he was the host and executive producer of the talk show '' Charlie Rose'' on PBS and Bloomberg LP. Rose also co- ...

(who later returned to CBS News as co-anchor of ''

CBS This Morning ''CBS This Morning'' (''CTM'') is an American morning television program that aired on CBS from November 30, 1987, to October 29, 1999, and again from January 9, 2012, to September 6, 2021. The program was aired from Monday through Saturday ...

'') and Lark McCarthy became the program's anchors. ''Nightwatchs 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.

''Up to the Minute''

CBS announced its decision to cancel ''CBS News Nightwatch'' in early 1992. Around this time, ABC and NBC were setting up their own late-night newscast programs ('' World News Now'' and ''

'', respectively; only ''World News Now'' is still on the air) and replaced it with a more traditional news program in the same vein as the other two, titled ''Up to the Minute'', on March 30, 1992. The program was originally anchored by

Russ Mitchell Russell Edward Mitchell (born March 25, 1960) is an American journalist best known for his career at CBS where he was anchor of ''The Early Show'' on Saturday, news anchor for ''The Early Show'' during the week, and weekend anchor of the '' C ...

and Monica Gayle, who both left the program in 1993 (Gayle subsequently became co-anchor of the ''CBS Morning News''), and were replaced by Troy 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 the

CBS Broadcast Center The CBS Broadcast Center is a television and radio production facility located in New York City. It is CBS's main East Coast production hub, similar to CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles as the West Coast hub. The Broadcast Center is one of tw ...

in New York, situated in front of a working newsroom used by the affiliate news service CBS Newspath. Regular on-air contributors to ''Up 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 of CBS News' daytime broadcasts, with components of the news division's early-1990s era graphics package being used on the program well past 2000. These graphics were updated in 2005, 2006, 2009, and then again in 2011 to match the current look of the ''

''. The newsroom behind the anchors was also covered by frosted-glass paneling, likely to hide the equally-outdated CBS News and ''Up to the Minute'' branding mounted along the walls. In March 2009, when Michelle Gielan was named anchor of ''Up to the Minute'', production of the program was integrated with the ''CBS Morning News'', with the same anchors being used on both programs. In November 2012, ''Up to the Minute'' became the last remaining news program on any of the Big Three TV Networks or major cable news channels to begin broadcasting in

high-definition television High-definition television (HD or HDTV) describes a television system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies. The term has been used since 1936; in more recent times, it refers to the ...

; at that time, production of the program was moved to Studio 57 at the

, the same studio space that is also home to ''

''. Until then, ''Up to the Minute'' had continued to broadcast in

standard-definition television Standard-definition television (SDTV, SD, often shortened to standard definition) is a television system which uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high or enhanced definition. "Standard" refers to it being the prevailing sp ...

(by comparison, the ''CBS Morning News'' had upgraded to HD two years earlier in November 2010).

''CBS Overnight News''

On June 25, 2015, ''

Newsday ''Newsday'' is an American daily newspaper that primarily serves Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, although it is also sold throughout the New York metropolitan area. The slogan of the newspaper is "Newsday, Your Eye on LI", and ...

'' reported that CBS News had decided to cancel ''Up to the Minute'' but planned on retaining the 3 a.m. timeslot for news programming. ''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 the ''CBS Overnight News'', a rebranding made primarily to be consistent with the rest of CBS News; in terms of content, the show is largely unchanged from its predecessor. The primary change is that there is no live anchor. Instead, the regular anchor from the previous day's ''CBS Weekend News'' (on Sunday night into Monday morning) and ''CBS Evening News'' (for the remainder of the week) "hosts" the program along with various fill-in CBS News correspondents via introducing stories rebroadcast from the West Coast final edition of the ''Evening News'' and additional content. The ''CBS Evening News'' branding remains on the story packages. The ''Overnight News'' room is staffed to accommodate breaking news at all times.

Anchors

(1992–1993; now with

WKYC WKYC (channel 3) is a television station in Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Tegna Inc. Its studios are located on Tom Beres Way (a section of Lakeside Avenue in Downtown Cleveland named after the stati ...

Cleveland Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U ...

) * Monica Gayle (1992–1993; later with

WJBK WJBK (channel 2) is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States, airing programming from the Fox network. Owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division, the station maintains studios and transmitter facilitie ...

Detroit Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at ...

; now retired) * Troy Roberts (1993–1995; now a correspondent for 48 Hours) *

Sharyl Attkisson Sharyl Attkisson (born 1961) is an American journalist and television correspondent. She hosts the Sinclair Broadcast Group TV show ''Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson''. Attkisson is a five-time Emmy Award winner, and a Radio Television Digit ...

(1993–1995; now with

WSYX WSYX (channel 6) is a television station in Columbus, Ohio, United States, affiliated with ABC, MyNetworkTV and Fox. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to TBD station WTTE (channel 28, owned by Cunningham ...

Columbus, Ohio Columbus () is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest, after Chicago, an ...

and special correspondent for

Sinclair Broadcast Group Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (SBG) is a publicly traded American telecommunications conglomerate that is controlled by the descendants of company founder Julian Sinclair Smith. Headquartered in the Baltimore suburb of Cockeysville, Maryland, ...

) * Nanette Hansen (1995–1998) * Mika Brzezinski (1997–2000; now with

MSNBC MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and politic ...

) * Melissa McDermott (2000 – March 10, 2006) * Meg Oliver (March 20, 2006 – March 20, 2009) * Michelle Gielan (March 23, 2009 – June 18, 2010) *

Betty Nguyen Betty Nguyen (born September 1, 1974) is an American news anchor, who is currently at WPIX in New York City. Nguyen has previously worked for NBC News, MSNBC, CBS News, and CNN. Career Nguyen began her career as a morning anchor and reporter ...

(June 21, 2010 – April 6, 2012; later with

NBC News NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC. The division operates under NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, a division of NBCUniversal, which is, in turn, a subsidiary of Comcast. The news division's ...

; now a morning co-anchor at WPIX-TV in

) * Terrell Brown (April 9, 2012 – January 18, 2013; now with

WLS-TV WLS-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, airing programming from the ABC network. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, the station maintains studios on North Stat ...

Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = List of sovereign states, Count ...

) * Anne-Marie Green (January 21, 2013 – September 18, 2015) * Jeff Glor (September 21, 2015 – May 2, 2016; December 5, 2017 – May 10, 2019) * Scott Pelley (September 22, 2015 – June 16, 2017) *

Elaine Quijano Elaine Cagas Quijano is an American television reporter. Formerly with CNN, she is now an anchor with CBS News. Early life and education Quijano is a second-generation Filipino American. She grew up in the Skokie and Morton Grove suburbs of C ...

(May 9, 2016 – June 1, 2020) * Anthony Mason (June 20, 2017 – December 1, 2017) * Norah O'Donnell (July 16, 2019 – present) * Jericka Duncan (December 7, 2020 – present)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:CBS Overnight News CBS original programming 1992 American television series debuts 1990s American late-night television series 2000s American late-night television series 2010s American late-night television series 2020s American late-night television series 1990s American television news shows 2000s American television news shows 2010s American television news shows 2020s American television news shows CBS News English-language television shows Television shows filmed in New York City