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The Early Show
Presented byWeekday Edition
Erica Hill (2011–present)
Chris Wragge (2011–present)
Jeff Glor (2011–present)
Marysol Castro (2011–present)
The Saturday Early Show
Russ Mitchell (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 producerBatt Humphreys
Running time120 minutes (two hours)
Production companyCBS News Productions
Original release
NetworkCBS
ReleaseNovember 1, 1999 –
present

The Early Show is an American television morning news talk show broadcast by CBS from New York City. The program airs live from 7 to 9 a.m. Eastern Time Monday through Friday; most affiliates in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones air the show on tape-delay from 7 to 9 a.m. local time. The Saturday edition airs live from 8 to 10 a.m. Eastern Time, but a number of affiliates air it later on tape-delay. 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 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, The 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

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]

The 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 1980s

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. Charles Kuralt hosted Sundays while Bob Schieffer hosted the rest of the week; 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]

The CBS Morning News

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 The 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 2011 under its original title, CBS News Sunday Morning, now hosted by Charles Osgood.

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]

Maria Shriver, who had joined CBS as a West Coast feature reporter in 1983, and Forrest Sawyer, new to the network, were named co-anchors of The CBS Morning News August 30, 1985. After a respectable year but still placed third in the ratings, Shriver and Sawyer made their last appearance on the show August 1, 1986, after CBS announced that the Morning News timeslot would leave control of the news division and be supervised by a newly created unit in the CBS Broadcast Group.[1] Prodded by network affiliates, CBS decided that an entertainment format might work better against Good Morning America and Today, and planning began for a new show that would come to be called The Morning Program.[2] Bruce Morton and Faith Daniels became the first in a string of substitutes to host Morning News until it left the air.[3]

"The CBS Morning News was simply shot dead," wrote Jonathan Alter in Newsweek. "Underappreciated coanchors Forrest Sawyer and Maria Shriver left the air with a classy farewell after the network's announcement that the perennially lagging show would be canceled by the end of the year."[4]

"Throughout the industry there is shock and derision for the way CBS has handled Morning News, so long its problem child," Tom Shales reported in The Washington Post. "Competitors are saying the Morning News fiasco is a symptom of a new disarray in CBS News, and some question whether current CBS News executives will all be able to ride out the storm."[5]

The Morning Program

On January 12, 1987, The Morning Program made its debut[6] hosted by actress Mariette Hartley and Rolland Smith, former longtime anchor at WCBS-TV in New York City. Radio personality 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[7][8] 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".[8]

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 team in Smith, Zahn and 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]

CBS News correspondents Harold Dow, Erin Moriarty, Edie Magnus, and Russ Mitchell anchored the show for seven weeks (June through August 1996) after Smith and Zahn left until the new format was in place; alternating every week or so. In August 1996, the show was revamped again, as simply This Morning, with McEwen (replacing Smith) and Jane Robelot (who replaced Zahn) as co-hosts, news anchor Jose Diaz-Balart (succeeded by Cynthia Bowers and later Thalia Assuras, and finally Julie Chen) and Craig Allen (of WCBS radio and then also of WCBS-TV in New York City) doing weather. 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-TV 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

Gumbel, Clayson, McEwen and 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.[9] Gumbel left in 2002,[10] 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.

Chen, Smith, Storm, Syler, and 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, who was pried away from New York Fox affiliate WNYW and also was at WCBS-TV for some time after joining The Early Show. To keep affiliates happy, CBS went back to the local/national hybrid format.[11] 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.

As previously mentioned, 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).

Smith, Storm, Chen, Mitchell and 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.

Smith, Rodriguez, Chen, Mitchell and 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.[12]

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.[13][14]

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.[15]

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.

Smith, Rodriguez, Chen, Price and Hill (January 2010-December 2010)

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

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 was be used, as construction was under way for The Early Show's new control room at the General Motors Building.[16] New graphics were now overlaid to accommodate added screen space, and were also used throughout other CBS News programs.

Hill, Wragge, Glor, and Castro (January 2011-present)

Erica Hill and Chris Wragge (who previously anchored the Saturday edition) have anchored the weekday Early Show since January 3, 2011. Marysol Castro became the show's new weather anchor, replacing Dave Price. Julie Chen remained a part of the team, presenting additional features with Jeff Glor as news anchor, replacing Erica Hill. Chen was the only member to stay with the program since its inception before leaving to host The Talk in late 2010.

On March 2011, The Early Show debuted a redesigned set. The new set included a new anchor desk backdrop, a new reporter area, and a blue color scheme.

Current on-air staff

Anchors

Former on-air staff

Anchors

News anchors

Weather anchors

Saturday edition

The Saturday edition of The Early Show premiered on September 13, 1997 as CBS Saturday Morning. Anchors for the program have included Russ Mitchell (1997-2007, 2011-present), Susan Molinari (1997-1998), Dawn Stensland (1998-1999), Thalia Assuras (1999-2002), Gretchen Carlson (2002-2005), Tracy Smith (2005-2007), Maggie Rodriguez (2007-2008), Jeff Glor (2007), and weather anchor Ira Joe Fisher (1999-2006).

Until the weekday shake-up at the end of 2010, it was anchored by Chris Wragge of WCBS and Erica Hill.[17] Beginning January 8, 2011 Russ Mitchell returned to co-anchor with Rebecca Jarvis while WCBS' chief weathercaster Lonnie Quinn will continue as weather anchor and CBS Morning News anchor Betty Nguyen 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). On Saturday, August 6, 2011 Jeff Glor, and Nancy Cordes guest anchored, and Elaine Quijano served as guest news anchor.

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).

The format allows for news and weather cut-ins; not all affiliates provide local coverage. Viewers at stations that do not provide coverage see informal conversation among the anchors during the news cut-ins and a series of graphics showing the weather in various cities during the weather cut-ins. Ira Joe Fisher and, initially, Lonnie Quinn, would read some of the forecast aloud while chatting with people in the audience outside the building. The graphics now run with bed music and no voice-over.

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.

Current Saturday on-air staff

Anchors

Former on-air staff

Anchors

Weather anchor

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.[18]

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.[19] CBS reportedly views the removal of those breaks as vital to creating a national profile for the program.

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, paired with The Daily Buzz. Cincinnati's WKRC-TV airs the full show on the CBS station with an hour of all-local news on their CW subchannel. Salt Lake City's KUTV (which was formerly owned by the network until 2007) continues to preempt the program's first hour despite the network's insistence.

Industry insiders considered Shelley 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 management that either Ross would have to go or they would.[20]

Despite the change in staff in 2011, the program remains mired in third place, averaging around 2-2.5 million average viewer figures per week[21]. The program has also faced pressure from management to take advantage of CBS News redefining itself more as a hard news organization after the end of the Katie Couric era, asking the program's staff to take advantage of stories presented on 60 Minutes and the CBS Evening News and expand on those stories in the morning timeslot rather than following the lead as defined by Today and GMA to the letter [22].

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. On June 27, 2011, CBS began using a slower-tempoed version of the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley theme for The Early Show. This theme was formerly used on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather between 1987 and 1991.

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 the Nine Network 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.[23]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Shriver, Sawyer Say Good-Bye"; Associated Press, August 1, 1986
  2. ^ Carmody, John, "The TV Column"; The Washington Post, September 29, 1987
  3. ^ Schwed, Mark, "Farewell for CBS Anchors"; United Press International, August 1, 1986
  4. ^ Alter, Jonathan, "Bad Days at Black Rock"; Newsweek, August 11, 1986
  5. ^ Shales, Tom, "On the Air; CBS and the Fallout Over 'Morning News'"; The Washington Post, July 31, 1986
  6. ^ DEBUT OF 'MORNING PROGRAM' ON CBS
  7. ^ The Morning Program CBS; Weekdays, 7:30-9 a.m. EST
  8. ^ a b CBS cancels its latest breakfast-time flop
  9. ^ "Gumbel's "The Early Show" Bombs in Ratings". cnsnews.com. 2000. Archived from the original on December 7, 2000. Retrieved 2000-03-31. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  10. ^ Gumbel leaving 'Early Show,' CBS
  11. ^ "Better Early Than Never". tvguide.com. 2006. Archived from the original on May 22, 2006. Retrieved 2006-03-30.
  12. ^ TV by the Numbers website
  13. ^ "The Zen Art of Early Show's Zev Shalev". The New York Observer. Observer.com. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
  14. ^ "Media Notes: Howard Kurtz on CBS 'Early Show' Co-Host Maggie Rodriguez". The Washington Post. July 13, 2009. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
  15. ^ "Maggie Rodriguez filling in for Katie Couric"
  16. ^ Ariens, Chris (2010-04-20). "CBS 'Early Show' to go HD Monday - mediabistro.com: TVNewser". mediabistro.com. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
  17. ^ Michele Greppi (2008-09-22). "CNN's Hill to Co-Anchor CBS' 'Early Show' on Saturdays". TV Week. Retrieved 2008-09-22.
  18. ^ "Good Morning America' drops to third in ratings". dodgeglobe.com. 1999-01-08.
  19. ^ NewsChannel 5.com - Nashville, Tennessee - NewsChannel 5 This Morning From 7-8AM To Air On Cable Channel
  20. ^ Gough, Paul. "Shelly Ross fired from CBS Early Show". The Hollywood Reporter. 6 March 2008.
  21. ^ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/03/17/%E2%80%9Cgood-morning-america%E2%80%9D-posts-largest-weekly-total-viewing-audience-in-4-years/86114
  22. ^ Ariens, Chris. "David Rhodes memo to CBS 'Early Show': 'Let's get with it'". 18 April 2011: TV Newser/Mediabistro.com. Retrieved 27 June 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  23. ^ "21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards - English Language Nominees". Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. 2010. Retrieved February 21, 2010.
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