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, who concurrently anchored the CBS late-night news program ''

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'' until its cancellation in September 2015. The program is broadcast live at 4:00 a.m.

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, preceding local news beginning at 4:30 a.m. on many CBS stations. It is transmitted in a continuous half-hour broadcast delay loop until 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time, when ''

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'' begin in the Pacific 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 of ''CBS Mornings''. The show is updated for any breaking news occurring before 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time, while stations throughout the network will join ''CBS Mornings'' in all time zones past that time at their local discretion or network orders for live coverage.

History

Background

The ''CBS Morning News'' title was originally used as the name of a conventional morning news program that served as a predecessor to the network's current ''CBS Mornings''. For most of the 1960s and 1970s, the program aired as a 60-minute hard news broadcast at 7:00 a.m., preceding ''

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'' and airing opposite the first hour of

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's ''

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''.

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and sportscaster

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both anchored the original ''CBS Morning News'' at one time. Joseph Benti became the anchor in 1969. Other anchors of the broadcast in this format included John Hart, Hughes Rudd, Sally Quinn, Richard Threlkeld, Lesley Stahl and Bruce Morton.

''CBS Early Morning News''/current ''Morning News'' format

The program first aired in its current format on October 4, 1982 as the ''CBS Early Morning News''. It was a half-hour extension of the two-hour ''CBS Morning News'' which aired directly opposite ''Today''.

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and

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originally anchored both the ''Early Morning News'' and the ''Morning News'' of that era. Sawyer departed both programs in mid-1984, to be named a correspondent for '' 60 Minutes'' later that year. In her absence, Kurtis was joined by a rotating series of co-hosts, principally

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and Jane Wallace. Kurtis anchored the ''Early Morning News'' solo until March 1985, while co-anchoring the ''Morning News'' with

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until July of that year. Faith Daniels took over and would remain on the anchor desk, most of the time sharing the role with

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(July to December 1985 and January to September 1987) and later Douglas Edwards and

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, until Daniels left CBS to become anchor of competing early-morning newscast ''

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'' in 1990. Osgood would remain anchor of the ''CBS Morning News'' until June 1992, paired with Victoria Corderi from 1990 to 1991,

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through February 1992, and then with

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 until

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was appointed as anchor of the ''CBS 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 of ''Up to the Minute'', the ''CBS 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 in

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; its counterpart, ''Up to the Minute'', continued to be broadcast in standard-definition television until November 2012, when the program converted to high definition. In November 2012, production of the ''CBS Morning News'' and ''Up to the Minute'' relocated in the

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. The ''CBS Morning News'' moved to the studio of the ''

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'', and ''Up to the Minute'' was moved to the Studio 57 facility, the same studio where ''

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'' (predecessor of CBS Mornings) is also broadcast, until its cancellation on September 18, 2015. On September 21, 2015, the ''CBS Morning News'' debuted a new look, including a new logo and updated on-air graphics that are similar to those from the network's morning news program ''

''. In addition, production of the program moved to the newsroom of ''

'', where broadcasts of

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are also produced. Its long-running counterpart, ''Up to the Minute'', was replaced the same day by the ''

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''. On March 11, 2020, the CBS Broadcast Center was temporarily closed after a number of CBS News staffers tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019. 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 President

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in the wake of the

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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 its

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, and with producing programs for CBS News. While CBS News did attempt to produce the ''CBS 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 the ''CBS Morning News'' was temporarily suspended beginning on March 24, 2020, with a repeat of the ''CBS Evening News'' or local newscasts or programming taking its place. On August 31 of the same year, nearly six months after the pandemic began, production of the ''CBS Morning News'' resumed with its primary anchor,

, anchoring from her home studio.

On-air staff

Current

(2013–present)

Former

(1982–1985; now at

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) *

(1982–1984; now with

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) *

(rotating co-anchor; 1984–1985; now with

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) *

(rotating co-anchor; 1984–1985; main anchor; 1992–1993; later host of ''

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'' (2002-2013), then host of '' The Meredith Vieira Show'' (2014-2016)); now at

* Jane Wallace (rotating co-anchor; 1984–1985) * Faith Daniels (1985–1990; later with NBC as anchor of ''

'' and host of ''A Closer Look with Faith Daniels'') *

(July–December 1985 and January–September 1987; now with

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) * Douglas Edwards (1987) (deceased) *

(1987–1992; later became host of '' CBS News Sunday Morning'', now retired) * Victoria Corderi (1990–1991) *

(1991–1992) *

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(1992–1994; now with Fox News) * Monica Gayle (1993–1994; retired from

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) *

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(1994–1995; retired from

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in San Francisco) * Troy Roberts (1995–1996); still at CBS News * Jane Robelot (1995–1996; now at

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in Greenville, South Carolina) * Kristin Jeannette-Meyers (1996–1997) * Cynthia Bowers (1996–1998) *

(1998–1999) * Julie Chen (1999–October 2002; remains with CBS as host of '' Big Brother'') *

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(2000 – March 10, 2006) * Susan McGinnis (October 2002–January 2008) *

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(March 20, 2006 – March 20, 2009) * Michelle Gielan (March 23, 2009 – June 18, 2010) *

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

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in New York City) * Terrell Brown (2012–2013; now with

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in Chicago)

References

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