CBS rebrands The Early Show to CBS This Morning on January 9th, 2012

[Mediafrog+]

The CBS affiliate here in Nashville already has local news from 4:00 to 7:00 a.m. on the main channel, with one more hour from 7:00 to 8:00 a.m. on the subchannel. If they were to go all the way to 9:00 a.m., that would give them FIVE hours of local news in the morning! Wouldn't that be a record? Does anyone stay on the air for FIVE hours with local news in the mornings?

FOX O&O KRIV in Houston does SIX hours, 4-10a.

 

[ShawtyBlack_ATL]

CBS Atlanta has news from 5am-7am, then again from 9am-10am. They got rid of news @ noon.

 

[firepoint525]

The CBS affiliate here in Nashville already has local news from 4:00 to 7:00 a.m. on the main channel, with one more hour from 7:00 to 8:00 a.m. on the subchannel. If they were to go all the way to 9:00 a.m., that would give them FIVE hours of local news in the morning! Wouldn't that be a record? Does anyone stay on the air for FIVE hours with local news in the mornings?

Here in Phoenix, KTVK (independent) and KSAZ (Fox) both air 5.5 hours of news from 4:30am to 10:00am.

The CBS affiliate here in Nashville already has local news from 4:00 to 7:00 a.m. on the main channel, with one more hour from 7:00 to 8:00 a.m. on the subchannel. If they were to go all the way to 9:00 a.m., that would give them FIVE hours of local news in the morning! Wouldn't that be a record? Does anyone stay on the air for FIVE hours with local news in the mornings?

FOX O&O KRIV in Houston does SIX hours, 4-10a.

Okay, well that's two Foxes and an indy, but still none of the "big three."

 

[WMC2006]

My favorite joke from the Bob Saget Roast:

Bob Saget walks into a bar.
The bartender asks; "What'll you have?"
Saget replies; "I'll have a Bob Saget."
Bartender asks; "How do you make a Bob Saget?"
Saget replies; "You give me a shot. I suck at it for eight years. Then you give me a hundred million dollars.

In the early 90s, Saget was the hardest working man on tv (or on ABC anyway), hosting two shows, AFV and Full House, simultaneously. Later, in the early 2000s, that title went to Tom Bergeron, who was doing AFV (and still is) and Hollywood Squares and occasionally filling in for Charles Gibson on Good Morning America.

 

[TroyG]

Okay, well that's two Foxes and an indy.

You can also count KRON-TV in San Francisco. The MyTV affiliate(Formerly NBC)does 6 hours of news in the morning from 4-10am. Well, I'm guessing people needs to be informed what's going on overnight while they slept before they can go to work.

 

[formeraa]

WWL-tv in New Orleans does 4 hours (5am to 9am) on its main channel. It is a CBS affiliate. It has preempted the CBS Morning News/This Morning/Early Show/whatever the current name is for years.

 

[TroyG]

Well, today on Dr. Phil... The New Hosts of "CBS This Morning", Charlie Rose, Gayle King, and Erica Hill will talk about the scheduled debut on Monday, as the show will originate at CBS' West 57th Street studio in New York. Rose would remain The Host/EP of his namesake talk show over on PBS (Which is produced by WNET, Bloomberg TV, and Charlie Rose Productions. Rose would have a lighter work schedule. (He's 69). And King had to give up complete connections with her OWN-TV show, Harpo Productions, and her boss.

 

[Wright County Guy]

Is the Saturday version also becoming "This Morning"?

 

[WMC2006]

And King had to give up complete connections with her OWN-TV show, Harpo Productions, and her boss.

I believe she had a to give up a radio show as well.

 

[PTBoardOp94]

Let me run this past myself.

Charlie Rose is going to be doing two daily shows but still working less.

Gayle King is leaving what had to be a cozy gig at OWN to sit next to Charlie Rose every morning.

I don't see how this can be anything but a flop ???

 

[Biffstunt]

Call me crazy, but I liked the pairing of Chris Wragge and Erica Hill. Not sure how they could have done more to promote it, but it drew me away from "Today" for the first time in ages. Now...I'm back to Today even though Matt Lauer is the only reason I'm still watching.

 

[Mario500]

The changes planned for the morning news broadcasts from CBS may not be enough to get me interested. I would watch only if the news presenters and news reporters are not allowed to let their personal feelings affect their work.

 

[firepoint525]

Gayle King is leaving what had to be a cozy gig at OWN to sit next to Charlie Rose every morning.

I'm sure that Oprah will take her back if she doesn't make it on CBS.

 

[WMC2006]

Gayle King is leaving what had to be a cozy gig at OWN to sit next to Charlie Rose every morning.

From what Gayle told David Letterman a week or two ago, Charlie Rose is doing the 7-8 hour, she is doing 8-9, and Erica is on both hours. I don't think Charlie and Gayle will be together on both hours, at least that's the impression I got. And I don't normally do impressions.

 

[Eat The Snow]

Charlie Rose I like.
Gayle King I've never seen in action.
Erica Hill I cannot stand.

But I'll give it a chance on Monday. Beats watching those loudmouths Ann Curry and Lara Spencer.

 

[pab]

From what Gayle told David Letterman a week or two ago, Charlie Rose is doing the 7-8 hour, she is doing 8-9, and Erica is on both hours. I don't think Charlie and Gayle will be together on both hours, at least that's the impression I got. And I don't normally do impressions.

That would make sense. In the old days, the "Today" show considered the 7 AM hour to be the "hard news" hour, and the 8 AM hour was more laid back. Charlie Rose for the hard hour and Gayle King for the laid back might work.

 

[formeraa]

I would watch only if the news presenters and news reporters are not allowed to let their personal feelings affect their work.

I guess you don't watch much "news" these days!

 

[Eat The Snow]

Having just seen the debut of the 21st century edition of CBS This Morning, I must say I found it to be refreshingly well-done.
No talking all over one another or going over the top anyplace or spending three minutes with everybody asking about each others' weekends.
It's a news show and that first hour was news, news, news. Erica Hill surprised me by reigning in the sarcasm and the emoting while I've been a Charlie Rose lover since his days hosting The CBS News Nightwatch. A true gentleman, he.
Once Gayle King showed up at 8:00, it lightened up but I suspect many of us knew that would be the case in that hour.
It was very nice for me when their final piece was an interview with my idol Dick Van Dyke, who referenced his hosting of CBS' morning show in the mid-1950s.
I won't go out of my way to have my dial tuned to CBS each morning from 7 to 9, but if I'm up and about, I'll take this over Today and Good Morning America and Headline Express, etc.

 

[justpassingthough]

The perennial third place finisher CBS is a true testament to how people are creatures of habit. NBC's primetime line-up has sucked for so long, while CBS is continually the #1 or #2 network in the country, yet they still can't get anyone to watch their morning news (and Dave still trails Jay or its a toss up- especially when considering how few people are actually watching NBC during primetime).

So there is either a CBS Marketing department deficiency that doesn't draw eyes to CBS This Morning, or people are so stuck in their "news" viewing habits that you're always an NBC, ABC, CBS or local news watcher.

 

[brian4]

The perennial third place finisher CBS is a true testament to how people are creatures of habit. NBC's primetime line-up has sucked for so long, while CBS is continually the #1 or #2 network in the country, yet they still can't get anyone to watch their morning news (and Dave still trails Jay or its a toss up- especially when considering how few people are actually watching NBC during primetime).

So there is either a CBS Marketing department deficiency that doesn't draw eyes to CBS This Morning, or people are so stuck in their "news" viewing habits that you're always an NBC, ABC, CBS or local news watcher.

Excellent point. I've always thought that CBS isn't doing something right, when their Primetime is always at the top and early morning is at the bottom. Something that they also don't push: they've been #1 in daytime (Soaps and Gameshows) for the last 23 years. Sure, the genre(s) are losing steam and viewers but a win's a win.