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The Early Show

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"The Early Show" relaunches Monday morning with a full two hour broadcast. (Some stations did a shared first hour, part-national/part-local that was a hold-over from 'This Morning' in the mid- to late '90s).

The program has been broadcasting from the "CBS Evening News" set while construction takes place at the 5th Avenue studios.

Does anyone know if "The Early Show" will be broadcast in high-definition come Monday?
 
If the new Executive Producer, who once worked on ABC's "Good Morning America"
can't help this program's ratings, maybe CBS should consider getting out of the
"morning" competition, some of the stations affiliated with the network would
rather do "local news" or expand their current morning show, that could still
happen.
 
Isn't this about the 57th revamping of their AM slot since
Hughes Rudd did the CBS Morning News? There's probably
several executive producers with two or three tours of duty
by now.

Will this "all new" show still be live (normally) only in the
Eastern time zone?
 
tothedj said:
If the new Executive Producer, who once worked on ABC's "Good Morning America"
can't help this program's ratings, maybe CBS should consider getting out of the
"morning" competition, some of the stations affiliated with the network would
rather do "local news" or expand their current morning show, that could still
happen.
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Or, stop spending so much damn money revamping the show. This is CBS' third push of the 'reset button' at least. What's wrong with simply catering to the viewers 'The Early Show' has now, and building upon that? They're in third place, but it isn't like the show is unprofitable.
 
A few affilates (including WWL-TV New Orleans) have preempted the Early Show in favor of a local news show...and I suspect they will continue to do so.

In 1991, WAGA/Atlanta, then still a CBS station, dumped the show, then called "CBS This Morning", in favor of a local show, "Good Day Atlanta" (which WAGA continues today as a Fox O&O, and often beats the big three network morning shows). WAGA also preempted the first year of "This Morning" in 1986 as well.

I think CBS should cancel the "Early Show", and turn the time over to local affiliates, and assist the affiliates in creating local morning shows.
 
jal41 said:
I think CBS should cancel the "Early Show", and turn the time over to local affiliates, and assist the affiliates in creating local morning shows.
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What would WWJ TV (CBS O&O Channel 62 Detroit) do? They have no local news.
 
It will forever suffer under the curse of Captain Kangaroo...........
 
Amen, brother! Mom and Dad looked in on the Today show and we kids watched the Captain.

In hindsight, the Captain may have needed a little tweaking to stay on the network, but his popularity..and influence on childrens health...was extended via his PBS run.
 
As long as Les Moonves is in charge, The Early Show will never be cancelled. Because his wife, Julie Chen is one of the anchors. If they ever divorce or if he leaves CBS, then The Early Show may be in danger of getting the axe.
 
Outside of CBS-TV's prime time, has Les made any right decisions?
 
CBS has a problem because it's getting a poor lead-in in several big markets. On top of that, the network is doing the same show as the other networks. Do something different. Go hard news in the morning. You won't get hunge numbers, but you will make a profit and you'll earn some respect.
 
daveallen99 said:
Outside of CBS-TV's prime time, has Les made any right decisions?
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He chose the salad over the soup once. That's about it.

*rimshot*
 
NigelWick said:
On top of that, the network is doing the same show as the other networks. Do something different. Go hard news in the morning.
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CBS was probably at its best decades ago when it did an hour of hard news in the morning, most memorably with Hughes Rudd (we'll conveniently forget the Sally Quinn fiasco.) Problem these days is that there is stiff competition in that genre from CNN, HN, FNC and MSNBC, which didn't exist back then. The stark reality might be that there is simply not enough room for all three OTA network morning shows, and CBS simply needs to give up on the idea, or perhaps farm out the show to CNN.

The best CBS effort in the morning these days is not at 7am, but rather the half-hour at 4:30am anchored by Susan McGinnis. A solid meat and (Irish) potatoes newscast, mercifully free of silly frills and clutter.
 
I watched how KFMB-TV transitioned into the show trying to somewhat keep the identity with a top-of-the clock 7 a.m. news/weather leadin, and at best, it was thoroughly clumsy.

After their usual 7 a.m. leadin giving some local and national news headlines they went into a local/national commercial break that lasted exactly 8 minutes. Then suddenly they came back with Harry Smith. These long commercial breaks give the viewer the perfect opportunity to lose interest on whatever the leadin is going to be and start sampling the other channels, especially the independent TV stations (Fox 6 and the unaffilliated indie station) in town which run non-stop local news from 5 a.m.-9 p.m.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
The best CBS effort in the morning these days is not at 7am, but rather the half-hour at 4:30am anchored by Susan McGinnis. A solid meat and (Irish) potatoes newscast
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Guess I shouldn't have said anything. Susan McGinnis has been tossed to the curb by CBS. Her last day was Friday, 1/11.
 
CBS has had a morning show on their network since 1954, the year before Captain Kangaroo debuted. Its original host? Some guy named Cronkite. It tanked so badly against NBC's already well-established Today show that by the next year CBS had to put something on that they thought would be different, and the Captain was it. Of course, during the Captain's era, CBS still had a morning show that aired adjacent to it, which it reinvented and made over several times with different hosts and formats. Ever since CBS bumped the Captain for a 2-hour morning show in 1982, it has gone through at least 4 name changes and about a dozen different hosts or co-hosts.

It is unfortunate that mainstream media these days can't afford to take risks and find something to distinguish themselves from similar competition. When CBS has to compete not only with morning shows on the other two of the original three networks, each of whom can double up on CBS in terms of viewers, as well as local morning shows on many Fox network stations, which often outdraw CBS, plus hard-news morning shows on 4 different cable channels, one of whom actually beat CBS in viewership about a couple of years ago, they're going to have to find a way to get out of the 7-to-9 slot and let their stations go local, like a few cities already have.

Don't you hate it when CBS airs a musical performance on its Early Show the same time either Today, Good Morning America, or both, do?
 
In the Fort Myers market, CBS affiliate WINK TV airs news from 5-7 am. They then air news from 7-9 am on WXCW TV "CW 6" (which they operate under a SSA) against The Early Show. However, WINK still airs news at the :55, which they simulcast from WXCW.
 
I can't believe that this new version of The Early Show is still presented in SD. Both the Today Show and GMA both went HD long ago...why isn't The Early Show, especially since they just got brand a brand new studio and set? It makes no sense.
 
Sad thing is, I guess...is that I don't watch the morning shows on CBS, NBC, ABC, nor on the "news" cable channels. The only morning show I actually watch is the BBC World News on BBC America. It gives me what I want in the morning, NEWS. I don't care about seeing a 5 minute package on some actor's baby growing it's first tooth. I want news that is affecting the whole world, and not about what I should wear this summer when I go out!
 
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