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''CBS Saturday Morning'' is a Saturday morning television program that broadcasts on the American television network,
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. It is currently anchored by
Michelle Miller Michelle Miller is a national correspondent for CBS News and currently serves as a co-host on ''CBS Saturday Morning''. She has also served as a substitute anchor on ''CBS Mornings'' and ''48 Hours on ID''. Early life Miller was born in Los Ang ...
,
Dana Jacobson Dana Jacobson (born November 5, 1971) is a host and correspondent for CBS News currently serving as a co host for ''CBS Saturday Morning''. She is also an anchor & reporter for CBS Sports and CBS Sports Network. She joined CBS News in 2015, 2 y ...
and
Jeff Glor Jeffrey Todd Glor (born July 12, 1975) is an American journalist, co-host of ''CBS Saturday Morning '' and a CBS News special correspondent. He had previously anchored the ''CBS Evening News'' from 2017 to 2019. Early life and education Glor was ...
. Although the program's name has changed several times throughout its existence to align with changes to its weekday counterpart, its format has evolved separately from, and more gradually compared to CBS' weekday morning programs.


Scheduling

The program airs live from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time, although local air times for the Saturday broadcast vary significantly from station to station, even within the same time zone. In some markets, the local CBS affiliate may opt to pre-empt the Saturday program – usually to carry extended weekend morning local newscasts – and may instead air it on a
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or a
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, or refuse to carry it at all. Most CBS affiliates in the Central Time Zone carry the Saturday edition live from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. Central Time, unlike its morning counterparts, which air their Saturday editions on a tape delay; it is the only morning program that airs live in both the Eastern and Central time zones, whereas the Saturday edition is aired on tape delay in the remaining time zones.


History


''CBS News Saturday Morning'' (1997–1999)

CBS debuted its first Saturday morning newscast on September 13, 1997, alongside the relaunch of its Saturday morning children's programming lineup as '' Think CBS Kids''. Titled ''CBS News Saturday Morning'', 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 ''CBS ...
and former New York congresswoman
Susan Molinari Susan Molinari (born March 27, 1958) is an American politician, company executive, journalist and lobbyist from New York. A member of the Republican Party, she sat in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1990 to 1997, representing Staten Island ...
, who left in 1998, followed by
Dawn Stensland-Mendte Dawn Stensland Mendte is an American television talk show host and news anchor working at WJLP-TV in Freehold, New Jersey, and on WPHT 1210 AM in Philadelphia. She is also a past anchor of CBS Saturday Morning. Stensland-Mendte has anchored ...
in 1998–1999. For its first year, the program was broadcast live one hour later than the Monday through Friday version of the original ''CBS This Morning'', starting at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time; however, it was based out of the same studio at the CBS Broadcast Center that was home to the weekday broadcast. The program moved to the 7:00 a.m. Eastern time slot (uniform with the weekday broadcast) in September 1998. Many CBS stations aired ''CBS News Saturday Morning''/''The Saturday Early Show'' in varying time slots; however, some affiliates opted to pre-empt the Saturday edition in favor of airing local morning newscasts, while some chose to carry the network's Saturday morning children's program block afterward if their newscast ended before 9:00 a.m. in order to make up for the pre-emption of the national program, something that remains the case with the current iteration of the program. By 1999, the program had launched a series of musical performances under the "Second Cup Café" banner (no relationship to the Canada-based
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café chain, which has had some American franchises from time to time), which continued through subsequent versions of the program.


''The Saturday Early Show'' (1999–2008)

Production of the Saturday edition moved to the General Motors Building in late 1999, when the weekday and Saturday programs were relaunched under ''
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'' brand. Russ Mitchell continued as co-host alongside
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(1999–2002),
Gretchen Carlson Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (born June 21, 1966) is an American broadcast journalist, author, and television personality. Carlson appeared as the host of numerous television programs, most notably on the Saturday edition of ''The Early Show'' on ...
(2002–2005), and Tracy Smith (2005–2007).
Jeff Glor Jeffrey Todd Glor (born July 12, 1975) is an American journalist, co-host of ''CBS Saturday Morning '' and a CBS News special correspondent. He had previously anchored the ''CBS Evening News'' from 2017 to 2019. Early life and education Glor was ...
and
Chris Wragge Christian P. Wragge ( ; born June 19, 1970) is an American news anchor. He is the co-anchor for New York's CBS2's ''News This Morning'' and CBS2's ''News at Noon'', alongside Mary Calvi. He was previously on WCBS's 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. ...
rotated as co-hosts alongside
Maggie Rodriguez Margarita Dania Rodriguez (born December 12, 1969) is a former co-anchor of the CBS television broadcast, ''The Early Show'', from December 2007 to December 2010. Rodriguez was also a substitute anchor for Katie Couric on ''The CBS Evening News'' ...
in 2007. In 2008, when Rodriguez moved to weekdays, correspondents
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 at ...
, Kelly Cobiella and Kelly Wallace filled in. The format allowed for news and weather cut-ins, however not every affiliate provided local updates, usually due to a lack of a staff normally assigned for a weekend (or at least, a Saturday) morning newscast on stations that did not offer local updates. Alternately, an informal conversation segment among the anchors appeared during the time allocated to the cut-ins, and graphical weather information for various U.S. cities during the weather cut-ins on stations that did not provide local updates. Weather anchors
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and, initially, Lonnie Quinn, would provide voiceovers for some of the forecasts, while chatting with people in the audience outside the studio's building; afterward, the graphics ran only set to music.


''The Early Show'' on Saturday (2008–2012)

In 2008, ''The Saturday Early Show'' began to be branded as simply ''The Early Show'', in line with the weekday edition. Around that time, the program began to be anchored by
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anchor Chris Wragge and Erica Hill, running until the weekday shake-up at the end of 2010. On January 8, 2011, Russ Mitchell returned to co-anchor with
Rebecca Jarvis Rebecca Ann Jarvis (born September 28, 1981) is an American journalist and investment banker. She is the chief business, economics, and technology correspondent for ABC News, the host, creator, and managing editor of ''Real Biz with Rebecca Jarvi ...
while WCBS-TV chief weathercaster Lonnie Quinn continued as weather anchor and ''CBS Morning News'' anchor Betty Nguyen served as news anchor, co-anchoring one Saturday a month.


''CBS This Morning Saturday'' (2012–2021)

The program relaunched as ''CBS This Morning Saturday'' on January 14, 2012, after the relaunch of the weekday program as the revived ''
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''. Although Russ Mitchell left the program, being replaced by Jeff Glor alongside the continuing Rebecca Jarvis, the Saturday edition did not initially see the same format changes as the weekday program, with Betty Nguyen initially continuing as the program's news anchor, and Lonnie Quinn as weather anchor until late 2012 (and weather segments continuing with substitute hosts until March 2013). Couches were also moved temporarily onto the main set where the hosts would introduce certain segments, while the weekday program's "EyeOpener" was not introduced to the Saturday edition until June 14, 2014. After Glor was named anchor of the Sunday edition of the ''
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'', the program started using various male correspondents, including Anthony Mason,
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, John Dickerson, John Miller and
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, rotating every other Saturday. Eventually Mason became the permanent Saturday anchor, initially alongside Jarvis, then
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, and later both
Michelle Miller Michelle Miller is a national correspondent for CBS News and currently serves as a co-host on ''CBS Saturday Morning''. She has also served as a substitute anchor on ''CBS Mornings'' and ''48 Hours on ID''. Early life Miller was born in Los Ang ...
and
Dana Jacobson Dana Jacobson (born November 5, 1971) is a host and correspondent for CBS News currently serving as a co host for ''CBS Saturday Morning''. She is also an anchor & reporter for CBS Sports and CBS Sports Network. She joined CBS News in 2015, 2 y ...
. Following a divisional restructuring in May 2019 that resulted in his departure from the ''CBS Evening News'', Glor rejoined ''CBS This Morning Saturday'' on June 22, 2019, replacing Mason who had moved to the weekday program. At that point, CBS News executives noted that the program was referred to internally as "SATMO" (as in "Saturday Morning"), possibly a holdover from the earliest iteration of the program. Like the weekend editions of other network morning shows, the program retained a greater focus on human-interest pieces than on weekdays, though it still concentrates primarily on the news of the day during the first half-hour. It has retained some of the common features of the morning show genre which were removed from the weekday show, though some with an atypical approach, including the aforementioned "Second Cup Café" music feature (later renamed "Saturday Sessions"), which has increasingly focused on
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artists. Cooking segments were eventually replaced by "The Dish", which features profiles of chefs and restaurateurs. An exception to the usual Saturday format occurred on February 2, 2013 (the day before
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), when the weekday anchor team hosted from
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), an edition that was branded as simply ''CBS This Morning'' (instead of ''CBS This Morning Saturday'') and was formatted similarly to the weekday program, including "EyeOpener" segments at the top of both hours.


''CBS Saturday Morning'' (2021–present)

On August 31, 2021, alongside the announcement of a revamped weekday morning program ''
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'', CBS announced that the Saturday program would be retitled ''CBS Saturday Morning'', effective September 18. (The September 11 edition, which followed the weekday relaunch on September 7, aired as ''CBS This Morning Saturday'', but was partially pre-empted in most areas by 9/11 memorial coverage.) As with the weekday program, production was relocated to the newly-christened Studio 1515 at
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' headquarters,
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in
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. Despite the name and studio change, the program otherwise maintains the same format as it had for most of its run as ''CBS This Morning Saturday'', and Glor, Jacobson and Miller remain hosts. Both the rebranded ''CBS Mornings'' and ''Saturday Morning'' tie in more closely with ''
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'', including use of the latter's sun logo and a version of the "
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" trumpet fanfare, alongside CBS' five note mnemonic by Antfood.


On-air staff


Current anchors

*
Michelle Miller Michelle Miller is a national correspondent for CBS News and currently serves as a co-host on ''CBS Saturday Morning''. She has also served as a substitute anchor on ''CBS Mornings'' and ''48 Hours on ID''. Early life Miller was born in Los Ang ...
(2018–present) *
Dana Jacobson Dana Jacobson (born November 5, 1971) is a host and correspondent for CBS News currently serving as a co host for ''CBS Saturday Morning''. She is also an anchor & reporter for CBS Sports and CBS Sports Network. She joined CBS News in 2015, 2 y ...
(2018–present) *
Jeff Glor Jeffrey Todd Glor (born July 12, 1975) is an American journalist, co-host of ''CBS Saturday Morning '' and a CBS News special correspondent. He had previously anchored the ''CBS Evening News'' from 2017 to 2019. Early life and education Glor was ...
(2007, 2012, 2019—present)


Former on-air staff


Anchors

*
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 ''CBS ...
(1997–2007 and 2011) *
Susan Molinari Susan Molinari (born March 27, 1958) is an American politician, company executive, journalist and lobbyist from New York. A member of the Republican Party, she sat in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1990 to 1997, representing Staten Island ...
(1997–1998) *
Dawn Stensland-Mendte Dawn Stensland Mendte is an American television talk show host and news anchor working at WJLP-TV in Freehold, New Jersey, and on WPHT 1210 AM in Philadelphia. She is also a past anchor of CBS Saturday Morning. Stensland-Mendte has anchored ...
(1998–1999) *
Thalia Assuras __NOTOC__ Thalia Assuras is a Canadian television journalist and media consultant. Early years Assuras was born in London, Ontario to parents who immigrated from Tripoli, Greece, after World War II. She attended London Central Secondary School, ...
(1999–2002) *
Gretchen Carlson Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (born June 21, 1966) is an American broadcast journalist, author, and television personality. Carlson appeared as the host of numerous television programs, most notably on the Saturday edition of ''The Early Show'' on ...
(2002–2005) * Tracy Smith (2005–2007) *
Maggie Rodriguez Margarita Dania Rodriguez (born December 12, 1969) is a former co-anchor of the CBS television broadcast, ''The Early Show'', from December 2007 to December 2010. Rodriguez was also a substitute anchor for Katie Couric on ''The CBS Evening News'' ...
(2007–2008) *
Chris Wragge Christian P. Wragge ( ; born June 19, 1970) is an American news anchor. He is the co-anchor for New York's CBS2's ''News This Morning'' and CBS2's ''News at Noon'', alongside Mary Calvi. He was previously on WCBS's 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. ...
(2007 and 2008–2010) * Kelly Wallace (2008) *
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(2008–2010) *
Rebecca Jarvis Rebecca Ann Jarvis (born September 28, 1981) is an American journalist and investment banker. She is the chief business, economics, and technology correspondent for ABC News, the host, creator, and managing editor of ''Real Biz with Rebecca Jarvi ...
(2010 and 2011–2013) (now at
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) *
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 at ...
(2010) (now at
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in New York City) * Anthony Mason (2012–2019) *
Vinita Nair Vinita Chandra Nair is an American television journalist currently working for an NBC News affiliate in Texas. Nair is the former co-host of ''CBS This Morning Saturday'' alongside Anthony Mason. She was replaced by Alex Wagner, starting with ...
(2013–2016) *
Alex Wagner Alexandra Swe Wagner (born November 27, 1977) is an American journalist. She is the host of both ''Alex Wagner Tonight ''on MSNBC and Netflix's '' The Mole'' reboot, as well as the author of ''FutureFace: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the ...
(2016–2018) (now co-host of
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's '' The Circus'')


News anchors

''Various substitute news anchors were used for the Saturday editions from 2005 to 2009''. * Tracy Smith (2002–2005) * Jeff Glor (2009–2010) * Rebecca Jarvis (2010) * Betty Nguyen (2010 and 2011–2012)


Weather anchors

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Ira Joe Fisher Ira Joe Fisher (born October 31, 1947, Salamanca, New York) is an American broadcaster, poet, and educator.. The winner of two regional Emmys, he currently presents Speaking Fearlessly seminars and teaches at UConn and Mercy College. He was the ...
(1999–2006) * Lonnie Quinn (2006–2012; now at
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in New York)


References


External links

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