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The Early Show
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The Early Show logo as of June 21, 2010
Presented byHarry Smith (2002–2010)
Chris Wragge (2011–presrnt)
Erica Hill (2011–presrnt)
Julie Chen (1999–present)
Jeff Glor (2011–present)
Marysol Castro (2011–present)
The Saturday Early Show
Jeff Glor (2011–present)
Rebecca Jarvis (2011–present)
Betty Nguyen (2011–present)
Lonnie Quinn (2006–present)
Country of originUnited States
No. of episodes2,942 (as of August 7, 2009)
Production
Executive producerZev Shalev
Running time120 minutes (two hours)
Production companyCBS News Productions
Original release
NetworkCBS
ReleaseNovember 1, 1999 –
present

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The Early Show is an American television morning news talk show broadcast by CBS from New York City. The program airs from 7 to 9 a.m. Monday through Friday, 8 to 10 a.m. Saturdays Eastern Time. It airs live on most affiliates in the Eastern and Central Time Zones, but is tape delayed in the Mountain and Pacific Time Zones. The Early Show features news pieces, weather, celebrity interviews and light entertainment. In some markets, the Saturday version may not air. Having premiered on November 1, 1999, it is the youngest of the major networks' morning shows, although CBS has made several attempts to program in the morning slot since 1954. The show airs as a division of CBS News.

The Early Show, like many of its predecessors, has traditionally run last in the ratings to its rivals, NBC's Today (only including Little League World Series) and ABC's Good Morning America. Much like NBC's The Today Show and The Tonight Show, the title The Early Show is analogous to that of CBS's late-night talk show, Late Show.

Before The Early Show

The 1950s

CBS has made several attempts at morning shows since 1954. First came The Morning Show (1954–1956), originally hosted by Walter Cronkite and very similar to The Today Show in fashion (it, too, ran for two hours from 7-9 a.m. ET until being reduced to one hour to accommodate the premiere of Captain Kangaroo in 1955). Additional hosts over the years included Jack Paar, John Henry Faulk, and Dick Van Dyke.

Next came Good Morning! with Will Rogers, Jr., which lasted 14 months before being replaced from April–December 1957 by The Morning Show, a variety program hosted by Jimmy Dean. The program aired from 7–7:45 a.m. ET followed by a 15-minute news broadcast until 8 a.m. with Stuart Novins under the CBS Morning News title, preceding Captain Kangaroo.[citation needed]

The 1960s and 1970s

1960s

CBS would not make any serious attempt to program against Today for eight years. On September 2, 1963, The CBS Morning News debuted, similar to its evening counterpart in the way that it was also a hard newscast featuring various hosts and correspondents from CBS News over the years. It started out as a half-hour broadcast anchored by Mike Wallace and airing Monday through Friday at 10:00 a.m. ET. Coincidentally, it replaced a CBS daytime magazine program called Calendar, which was hosted by Wallace's future 60 Minutes colleague Harry Reasoner. In August 1965, upon discovering that they could make more money airing reruns of I Love Lucy in the 10:00 a.m. slot, CBS moved the broadcast start time to 7:05 a.m. (although most affiliates carried it via tape delay at 7:30 a.m.). Wallace only lasted a year with the change in hours and eventually tired of the grind, leaving to cover Richard Nixon's comeback for CBS News. Wallace suggested Los Angeles newsman Joseph Benti as his replacement. [citation needed]

1970s

It was during Joseph Benti's run (through August 28, 1970) that the program became the first regularly-scheduled one-hour newscast ever on network television on March 31, 1969. Until 1981, it would precede Captain Kangaroo on the CBS morning schedule from 7:00-8:00 a.m. ET. The new hour format now featured John Hart reading the news from Washington and CBS News Moscow correspondent Hughes Rudd as an occasional contributor. After Hart replaced Benti as the main anchor in New York, the Washington anchor desk was assumed by Bernard Kalb until 1972, and by Nelson Benton for a year afterwards.[citation needed]

On August 6, 1973, after Hart left for NBC, in an effort to emulate The Today Show, Rudd was teamed up with former Washington Post reporter Sally Quinn. Unfortunately for CBS, within days the hugely-publicized pairing of what was dubbed by the press "the beauty and the grouch" (referring to Quinn and Rudd respectively) turned out to be a disaster. [citation needed] Quinn was gone after six months, leaving after the February 1, 1974 telecast. A much more experienced correspondent, Bruce Morton, later took over the Washington desk, remaining there until 1977. During that period, the newscast had evolved into a well-crafted package delivered in a straightforward manner, much like Cronkite's evening newscast. Despite the anchor turnover through the years, the broadcast had set a consistent tone which emphasized news and ideas over celebrity gossip or self-help tips. The anchor desk was subsequently shared by the team of Lesley Stahl and Richard Threlkeld, while Morton and Rudd returned to both feature reporting and commentary respectively. [citation needed]

The Morning era

On Sunday, January 28, 1979, CBS revamped the program, premiering Morning, which was titled in accordance to the day of the week (Monday Morning, Tuesday Morning, etc.). The weekday Morning series competed with Good Morning America and The Today Show. Originally it was anchored by Bob Schieffer, but Sunday Morning host Charles Kuralt took over the daily show as well in the fall of 1980. The program featured long pieces from CBS News bureaus, and many viewed it as a highbrow, classy newscast in the best CBS tradition. [citation needed] Despite critical acclaim, the show remained dead last in the ratings, and CBS was under more pressure from affiliates to present a more viable morning competitor. So on September 28, 1981, Morning dropped the days of the week from its title (except for Sunday Morning), and was extended to 90 minutes and added Diane Sawyer as co-host; in the process, Captain Kangaroo was reduced to a half-hour daily and pushed to an earlier time period (7:00 a.m.). [citation needed]

On January 18, 1982, again at the expense of Captain Kangaroo, Morning was lengthened to the same two-hour format that Today and GMA were utilizing. Along the way it reassumed the title of CBS Morning News. An understandably exhausted Kuralt was relieved of his duties on the weekday broadcasts in March 1982, at a time when a restructuring on the Evening News forced his popular On the Road segments to be gradually phased out. By this time management decided that morning news programming should be more competitive and hired Bill Kurtis, who was then anchoring WBBM-TV's highly-rated evening newscasts in Chicago, as Sawyer's co-host. [citation needed] The Sunday edition of Morning with Kuralt as host was kept; it remains on the air as of 2010 under its original title, CBS News Sunday Morning, now hosted by Charles Osgood.

The 1980s

By the fall of 1982, Captain Kangaroo had disappeared from the daily schedule and the new team of Kurtis and Sawyer were anchoring three hours of news in the morning, as they were also seen on the CBS Early Morning News an hour earlier. [citation needed]

Their teamwork helped boost the show's ratings, albeit briefly; George Merlis, a former GMA producer hired to revamp the broadcast, is also credited by most network insiders with nearly doubling viewership numbers by March 1983. The numbers continued to climb during the summer; during one week in August 1983 it passed The Today Show for the second place spot behind GMA, and was in closing distance behind the latter program for the #1 spot before it dropped back to third place again. After Merlis was relieved from his duties for his trouble, Sawyer, tired of the morning grind, left in the fall of 1984 to become the first female correspondent on 60 Minutes. [citation needed]

CBS News correspondents Jane Wallace and Meredith Vieira briefly alternated as interim co-host in an on-air try-out that lasted several months, but both were passed over for the permanent spot. Instead, CBS settled for former Miss America and NFL Today co-host Phyllis George, who was given a three-year contract following a mere two-week trial run. There was little chemistry between George and Kurtis onscreen and the show fared poorly. [citation needed] The low point of her very brief tenure came on May 14, 1985 during George's interview with false rape accuser Cathleen Crowell Webb and the man whom she had falsely accused, Gary Dotson. In an effort to get the two to make amends to each other, George made a simple suggestion: "How about a hug?" Both Webb and Dotson graciously refused. That infamous interview alienated audiences and was blasted by critics, helping to put an unpleasant close to George's television career at that point. A very unhappy Bill Kurtis subsequently departed from the show and resigned from CBS News in July, returning to Chicago and his old anchor spot at WBBM-TV. Once again Bob Schieffer served as a brief replacement. Phyllis George eventually left CBS for good that fall. [citation needed]

After some convulsions on the part of both CBS management (who blanched at paying three million dollars for someone to do nothing) and George, Forrest Sawyer and Maria Shriver made a grim effort to broadcast a respectable show for a year after that. CBS News management had other ideas in September 1986; they announced that the still-unsuccessful show would be put under the entertainment division as part of another drastic format change. Many employees were appalled; as medical correspondent Dr. Bob Arnot put it, "They shot it in the head." In the interim, Bruce Morton returned briefly to share the duties with Early Morning News anchor Faith Daniels until the new format was ready. [citation needed]

The Morning Program

On January 12, 1987, The Morning Program made its debut[1] hosted by actress Mariette Hartley and Rolland Smith, former longtime anchor at WCBS-TV in New York. Mark McEwen handled the weather, while Bob Saget did comedy bits; The show ran for 90 minutes behind a briefly-expanded 90-minute CBS Early Morning News, which had dropped "Early" from its title. However, The Morning Program, with its awkward mix of news, entertainment, and comedy, became the joke of the industry, receiving its worst reviews[2][3] and at one point plummeting to its lowest ratings in five years. The format was aborted and the time slot returned to the news division after a ten-and-a-half-month run. Hartley and Smith were dumped, while Saget left to star on the ABC sitcom, Full House. A longtime producer summed up this version of the program upon its demise by saying, "...everyone thought we had the lowest ratings you could have in the morning. The Morning Program proved us wrong".[3]

CBS This Morning

CBS This Morning made its debut on November 30, 1987, with hosts Harry Smith, former GMA news anchor Kathleen Sullivan, and Morning Program holdover Mark McEwen. Sullivan would be replaced by Paula Zahn on February 26, 1990. Beginning October 26, 1992, in an effort to stop affiliates from dropping the program, CBS allowed more participation from local stations (Most affiliates have their own early morning newscast, which precedes the national news). Despite a far more successful pairing in Smith, Paula Zahn, and weather anchor Mark McEwen, CBS This Morning remained stubbornly in third place. It was, however, far more competitive than any of its predecessors. A brand new set and live format introduced in October 1995 had little effect on the ratings. [citation needed]

This Morning

From June 17, 1996-August 1996 Harold Dow and Erin Moriarty anchored the show for seven weeks after Smith and Zahn left until the new format was in place. In August 1996, the show was revamped again, as simply This Morning. With Mark McEwen replacing Harry Smith as co-anchor, and Jane Robelot who replaced Zahn, and news anchor Jose Diaz-Balart (succeeded by Cynthia Bowers and later Thalia Assuras, and finally Julie Chen), both anchors of the Morning News, with Craig Allen doing weather, premiered. A new system was created where many of the local stations aired their own newscast from 7 am to 8 am, with inserts from the national broadcast. Then from 8 am to 9 am, affiliates air the second-half of the national broadcast uninterrupted. Ratings went up slightly, and at one point the show even moved ahead of Good Morning America in 1998. But it was also a brief ratings success, and This Morning became the immediate predecessor to The Early Show. [citation needed]

In June 1999, Jane Robelot left the show after the show was being replaced by The Early Show. She held the job as anchor at CBS affiliate WGCL in Atlanta for three years after leaving the show. Thalia Assuras would be co-anchor for the following five months that remained for This Morning. Julie Chen would become the newsreader for the remaining five months. Mark McEwen left the show at the end of September 1999 to prepare for the launch of The Early Show and was replaced by Russ Mitchell for the remaining month of This Morning. October 29, 1999 was the final show for This Morning, bringing to the end twelve years of CBS This Morning. [citation needed]

The Early Show begins

Bryant Gumbel, Jane Clayson, Mark McEwen and Julie Chen (1999-2002)

The Early Show began on November 1, 1999 (around the time Viacom purchased CBS) when CBS executives successfully lured former Today Show host Bryant Gumbel to head up the broadcast, teamed with newcomer Jane Clayson. The show was completely revamped, and affiliates were asked to carry the two-hour broadcast in its entirety as the original This Morning format was abandoned. Mark McEwen once again did the weather, and Julie Chen read the news. Ratings were not encouraging, and were actually lower than the show it had replaced, CBS This Morning.[4] Gumbel left in 2002,[5] and shortly thereafter Clayson and McEwen were replaced. Clayson may be best known for her awkward confrontation with Early Show food and style contributor Martha Stewart during this period, described below.

Harry Smith, Hannah Storm, Julie Chen, Rene Syler and Dave Price (October 2002-December 2006)

The new team consisted of Chen, former Biography and CBS This Morning host Harry Smith, former NBC Sports commentator Hannah Storm, Rene Syler (a news anchor from KTVT, the CBS station in Dallas), and weatherman Dave Price. To keep affiliates happy, CBS went back to the local/national hybrid format.[6] The show also had a number of "correspondents" who do short segments on specific issues; Martha Stewart, Martha Quinn, Bobby Flay, and Bob Vila, among others, have been featured in this role. Susan Koeppen (2004-–) is the consumer correspondent.

Stewart's participation garnered headlines on June 25, 2002, due to her obsessively chopping vegetables for a salad while refusing to answer Clayson's questions regarding her stock fraud scandal – Stewart stopped contributing to the program after the appearance, which was immortalized in an NBC TV-movie of Stewart's life a few months later.

On October 30, 2006, The Early Show received a revamp, featuring new graphics (with a new blue and orange color scheme instead of blue and yellow) and music similar to those used on the CBS Evening News (which were also used starting in early October on Up to the Minute and the CBS Morning News). On December 4, 2006, it was announced that Rene Syler would leave the show by the end of the month (her last show was December 22).

Harry Smith, Hannah Storm, Julie Chen, Russ Mitchell and Dave Price (December 2006-December 2007)

On December 7, 2006, CBS News named Russ Mitchell the news anchor. On November 28, 2007, it was announced that Hannah Storm was leaving her co-anchor chair; her last day was December 7, 2007.

Harry Smith, Maggie Rodriguez, Julie Chen, Russ Mitchell and Dave Price (January 2008-January 2010)

On December 5, 2007, CBS announced that Maggie Rodriguez would succeed Storm as co-anchor. On January 7, 2008, The Early Show debuted a new set. During the month of December, The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric shared its studio/set with The Early Show. In addition, the show abandoned the aforementioned local/national hybrid format and replaced it with a national format, similar to its network competitors. The ratings for the series dropped with the institution of these changes. However, the gap between The Early Show and second-place GMA has remained virtually consistent as all three morning shows have seen similar ratings erosion.[7]

On April 16, The Early Show scored a coup with the broadcast of British pop music sensation Susan Boyle singing live for an American TV audience. Not surprisingly, The Early Show enjoyed a relatively successful May sweeps, racking up a 5 percent increase in year-to-year total viewers and remaining flat in the 25-to-54-year-old demographic, at a time when both NBC's Today Show and ABC's Good Morning America were shedding viewers to the tune of 3 and 4 percent respectively.[8][9]

Howard Kurtz's WaPo profile of CBS Early Show co-host Maggie Rodriguez says her addition to the program accounts for "an uptick in the ratings, lifting spirits at the broadcast." In recent months, Rodriguez has landed some high-profile interviews with the Caylee Anthony grandparents, Levi Johnston, and disgraced former Miami priest, Alberto Cutié. The scandal beat might not be her favorite, but Rodriguez understands that it's often what her audience gets excited about: "If I were to program a show for my viewing pleasure, I would make it all news", said Rodriguez. "But we're programming for all of America. We have to include Jon and Kate [Gosselin] — regardless of whether I personally care, they're on the cover of every magazine. You can't be so highbrow that you only cover hard news. I'm not a journalistic snob."

In addition to her morning show duties, the Miami transplant had also regularly been filling in as an anchor for CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.[10]

On January 13, 2010, CBS announced that news anchor Russ Mitchell would exit The Early Show at the end of the week, leaving a gap in the lineup for the perennially third-place CBS morning show. He became the national correspondent for CBS and would continue to be the anchor of the Sunday edition of the CBS Evening News.

Harry Smith, Maggie Rodriguez, Julie Chen, Dave Price and Erica Hill (January 2010-December 2010)

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The Early Show's HD Open Currently Used as of April 26, 2010

Harry Smith, Maggie Rodriguez anchor with weather forecasts presented by Dave Price, additional features by Julie Chen and news updates by Erica Hill.

Chris Wragge, Erica Hill, Jeff Glor, and Marysol Castro (January 2011-present)

Chris Wragge, Erica Hill anchor with weather forecasts presented by Marysol Castro, additional features by Julie Chen and news updates by Jeff Glor.

Rebecca Jarvis is the Business and Economics Correspondent for CBS News, but on weekends is the headline desk anchor, Betty Nguyen is a news anchor for CBS Morning News and fill-in for Erica Hill reading the day's headlines. Jennifer Ashton, M.D. is the medical correspondent and HealthWatch reporter, Susan Koeppen is the consumer correspondent and Bobby Flay is the resident chef. Ayla Brown-daughter of Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown—was named a special contributor in April 2010.

Hill and Jarvis are also the co-anchor and news anchor, respectively, for the Saturday edition of the program. Chris Wragge anchors alongside Hill, while Lonnie Quinn is the Saturday weather forecaster, as both work for WCBS in New York.

The Early Show began broadcasting in high definition on April 26, 2010, becoming the last morning network news/talk program to do so. The Evening News control room will be used, as construction is under way for The Early Show's new control room at the General Motors Building.[11] New graphics are now overlaid to accommodate added screen space, and are also used throughout other CBS News programs

Betty Nguyen fills in for Erica Hill when Jarvas is off.

Saturday edition

The Saturday edition of The Early Show premiered on September 13, 1997 as CBS Saturday Morning. It is anchored by Chris Wragge of WCBS and Erica Hill.[12] WCBS' chief weathercaster Lonnie Quinn serves as weather anchor of WCBS-TV , and Rebecca Jarvis serves as news anchor. The show features news and lifestyle segments, including two holdovers from the original CBS Saturday Morning: Chef on a Shoestring (a cooking segment) and The Second Cup Cafe (a music segment).

As of 2008, The Saturday Early Show no longer carries a separate name from the weekday edition, and is introduced simply as The Early Show. The program is broadcast live beginning at 8:00 a.m. ET on Saturday mornings from the GM Building on Fifth Avenue in New York City, across the street from Central Park. It airs at various times through the country on most CBS stations. However, depending on the time zone it may or may not air (some CBS affiliates skip the Saturday morning edition for local newscasts, and some push up the timeslot of the Saturday morning children's program block after the newscast if it ends before 9:00 a.m. in order to make up for it).

Unlike its competitors The Today Show and Good Morning America, The Early Show does not carry a Sunday edition, nor are there any plans for one in the near future, due to the continued success of CBS News Sunday Morning, which has a distinctly different format with long form journalism reports and in-depth interview segments.

Early Backstage

Introduced July 14, 2009, The Early Show's Web site features a daily blog called Early Backstage giving visitors a look at things not seen on the broadcast, such as after-the-show anchor antics, celebrity interviews and behind-the-scenes features. Early Backstage is hosted by Adam Wurtzel, also known as Adam the Audience Guy.

Ratings

CBS has been the perennial third-place finisher in the morning race since 1976, placing second only a few times in the past 30 years. CBS beat Good Morning America for second place the weeks of January 17, 1977 and December 28, 1998. The Today Show was in first place both times. However, CBS outrated The Today Show for second spot over a few weeks in 1984 when Jane Pauley was on maternity leave. At that time, Good Morning America was ranked #1.[13]

In 2007, CBS sought to change the 3rd place position of The Early Show in September 2007 by hiring Shelly Ross, former executive producer of GMA from 1999–2004. Significant changes were made to the program as Ross asserted her influence. For instance, the network no longer allows the frequent local station breaks that were previously allowed during the former broadcast as of January 7, 2008.[14] CBS reportedly views the removal of those breaks as vital to creating a national profile for the program. [citation needed]

However, some CBS affiliates continue to air the full program on another co-owned sister station and continue to air their local morning news; WWL-TV in New Orleans has never aired the Early Show or any of its previous versions, broadcasting all local newscasts instead, currently from 5am-9am. The Early Show now airs in New Orleans on MyNetworkTV sister station WUPL. Cincinnati's WKRC-TV airs the full show on the CBS station with an hour of all-local news on the co-owned CW channel. Salt Lake City's KUTV (which was formerly owned by the network until 2007) continues to pre-empt the program's first hour despite the network's insistence. [citation needed]

Industry insiders considered Ross' influence to be a serious threat and bring the profile of the show up to make the program a true competitor to NBC's Today and ABC's Good Morning America. After six months, Ross was fired from the position, after frequent feuds with staff, particularly Smith and Chen, who reportedly informed managemnt that either Ross would have to go or they would.[15]

In 2008, TV season, The Early Show is showing ratings strength with double-digit increases compared with a year earlier. Today has averaged 6 million viewers (up 6%) and a 2.2 in adults 25-54 (flat). ABC's Good Morning America has averaged 4.9 million (up 1%) and a 1.7 in adults aged 25–54 (flat). Early Show has averaged 3.5 million (up 20%) and a 1.3 in adults 25-54 (up 30%).[16]

For the fourth quarter of 2008 (9/22/08-12/28/08), The Early Show (2.92 million viewers) posted its best delivery among total viewers in three years (since 2.93m in 2005) and cut the gap with GMA by 578,000 viewers. The CBS broadcast is also in its closest competitive position to both GMA and Today in a decade in total viewers and the key news demographic of adults aged 25–54. [citation needed]

Total Viewers '08 Total Viewers '07 Change

  • The Early Show 2,920,000 2,780,000 +5%
  • Today 5,459,000 5,499,000 -1%
  • Good Morning America 4,508,000 4,946,000 -9%

Year-to-year, CBS' The Early Show cut the Total Viewer gap by 190,000 between 2nd place Good Morning America.[17]

  • Total Viewers: NBC: 5,820,000 / ABC: 4,522,000 / CBS: 3,213,000
  • Ages 25–54 rating: NBC: 2.1/15 / ABC: 1.7/11 / CBS: 1.2/8

On WBNS-TV 10 in Columbus, the first half-hour of The Early Show managed to surpass NBC's Today in ratings.[18] All three broadcasts increased viewership from the prior week.

  • Total Viewers: NBC: 5,700,000 / ABC: 4,600,000 / CBS: 3,100,000
  • Ages 25–54 Rating: NBC: 2.1 / ABC: 1.6 / CBS: 1.1[19]

Even as Smith, Chen and Rodriguez grow more comfortable after CBS's failed experiment with a four-anchor team, their program remains far behind its rivals. After the May sweeps, The Early Show boasted of a 5 percent increase in viewers, while Today dipped 3 percent and Good Morning America by 4 percent.[9]

Theme music

The debut theme for The Early Show' was a typical opener for an American morning news program. When the show reformatted with new hosts and set they used an instrumental version of Sting's 1999 hit, "Brand New Day" until late October 2006, when it was replaced by the CBS Evening News theme from James Horner. On January 7, 2008, CBS made an attempt to relaunch the show with new hosts and set plus an updated theme music that of the James Horner's composition. The theme was modified for a number of times since the reformat took launch.

International broadcasts

In Australia, The Early Show airs on Network Ten weekday mornings from 4.00am under the title "The CBS Early Show", with Fridays edition being held over to the following Monday. A national weather map of Australia is inserted during local affiliate cut-aways for weather. No local news is inserted, however. America's top 3 breakfast television programs air in Australia almost simultaneously, with NBC Today airing on the Seven Network at 4.00am and Good Morning America on Nine airing from 3.30 am. Unlike the above, The Early Show is not condensed or edited. It is, however, pre-empted in most regional areas for paid and religious programming.

Awards

In 2010, The Early Show was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for "Outstanding TV Journalism Segment" for the segment "Reverend’s Revelation: Minister Speaks Out About Being Transgender" during the 21st GLAAD Media Awards.[20]

See also

References

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  10. ^ "Maggie Rodriguez filling in for Katie Couric"
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  17. ^ By SteveK on Jan 15, 2009 05:26 PM (2009-01-15). "Morning Show Ratings: Week of Jan. 5 - mediabistro.com: TVNewser". mediabistro.com. Retrieved 2010-09-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/128391129
  19. ^ Ariens, Chris (2009-04-24). "Morning Show Ratings: Week of April 13 - mediabistro.com: TVNewser". mediabistro.com. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
  20. ^ "21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards - English Language Nominees". Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. 2010. Retrieved February 21, 2010.
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