CBS Morning News is the half-hour daily television broadcast from CBS News that airs following Up to the Minute. It airs from 4:30 to 5 a.m. in many markets and in some markets it airs at 4:00 a.m. (it is updated for the different time zones across the United States) and features late-breaking news stories, weather forecasts, and sports scores. Its current anchor is Michelle Gielan.
The original CBS Morning News began as a predecessor to CBS' cur...
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CBS Morning News is the half-hour daily television broadcast from CBS News that airs following Up to the Minute. It airs from 4:30 to 5 a.m. in many markets and in some markets it airs at 4:00 a.m. (it is updated for the different time zones across the United States) and features late-breaking news stories, weather forecasts, and sports scores. Its current anchor is Michelle Gielan.
The original CBS Morning News began as a predecessor to CBS' current Early Show. For most of the 1960s and 1970s the broadcast aired as a 60 minute hard news broadcast at 7 a.m., opposite Today on NBC and preceding Captain Kangaroo on CBS. When CBS re-formatted the early morning broadcast, the CBS Morning News became a pre-dawn 30 minute news broadcast. Walter Cronkite, and sportscaster Jim McKay while at CBS, both anchored the original CBS Morning News at one time.
The program first aired in its current format on October 4, 1982 as the CBS Early Morning News, with then-Morning News anchors Bill Kurtis and...
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