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Another Chance for "Sunday Morning" (formerly titled "CBS News Sunday Morning")

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Mario500

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Another Chance for "Sunday Morning" (formerly titled "CBS News Sunday Morning")

I had decided to give the program chance today after having lost interest in watching and/or hearing it on a regular basis a few months ago after learning that one of its subjects for this Sunday was something very interesting to me and something I felt was unlikely to be featured on any other TV program (it was about folks using certain phrases to justify their actions or blame other folks for their own actions).

I had no problems with the program this time while keeping in mind the idea that "Sunday Morning" is not really a news program, but an information, entertainment, and lifestyle program (this may be the reason why the "CBS News" part of its original title was removed from one of its title sequences a few years ago).

If I were in charge of the program, I would try to separate it from the brand of the news division of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and limit it to having only one news segment per week and ensure that Charles Osgood or any other host for it would not use such segments to express his or her personal feelings about the news he or she presents.
 
It's a SUNDAY news program. Sunday Morning is to the Evening News what the Sunday paper is to the daily paper. Maybe they didn't have Sunday papers down there in the CSA but they had features, comics, a magazine ... you know information, entertainment and lifestyle subjects.
 
If I get up early enough on a Sunday morning, I definitely tune in for it. I've always liked Charles Osgood and used to enjoy listening to "The Osgood File" on the radio, but there are no stations around me that carry it now.

I'm sure some may have known this, but "Sunday Morning" was originally one of six other CBS programs with "Morning" in the title when it premiered. "Monday Morning", etc. The weekday version ran from 7am-8am (EST), before "Captain Kangaroo'.
 
Mario500 said:
If I were in charge of the program, I would try to separate it from the brand of the news division of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and limit it to having only one news segment per week and ensure that Charles Osgood or any other host for it would not use such segments to express his or her personal feelings about the news he or she presents.
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This is the way it has been, for every show I've watched over the last 15 years (which is hardly every episode). The opening 10 minutes of the show includes a tease for the show's segments, then a 5-minute newscast usually featuring a package or Q&A with a CBS News correspondent. After that first commercial break, it is effectively an edition of "The New Yorker" or "Rolling Stone".

Commentary, by contributors such as Nancy Giles and Ben Stein clearly marked with a graphic on one of the screens over Charles Osgood's shoulder, and verbally at the end. "Commentary by Ben Stein.", Osgood typically says before giving a tease for an upcoming segment. It should be obvious that an album, product, or movie review will include opinion.

Furthermore, the show is still titled "CBS News Sunday Morning". Look at the title card showed at the end of the program. The program is colloquially called "Sunday Morning."
 
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