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[1999, TV Show]

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A morning mixture of news, features and weather, telecast from a Manhattan studio across from Central Park. The launch of `The Early Show' in 1999 marked Bryant Gumbel's return to the morning wars in a ratings battle against his old program, NBC's `Today,' as well as ABC's `Good Morning America.' With the exits of Gumbel, co-anchor Jane Clayson and weathercaster Mark McEwen in October 2002, CBS brought in the foursome of Harry Smith, Julie Chen, Hannah Storm and Rene Syler.
  • Early Bird Shelley Ross Fired From Show | Today's News: Our Take | 3/8/2008
    After just six months as Early Show's senior executive producer, Shelley Ross, has been dropped by CBS. Having turned around ABC's Good Morning America, things didn't fare as well at the Eye. Ross quickly became a controversial figure, seeing a rumored 21 staff departures, internal strife and general unhappiness all around. Her last day was March 6.Rick Kaplan, exec producer of the CBS Evening News, will take over temporarily, although his focus will shift to the morning program, including its 3:15 a.m. wake-up time. He told the Reporter, "[The Early Show's] built up some great momentum. Nobody wants the show to slow down or lose the energy that it's built up." Ross joined the show in the wake of another executive shake-up, so where this latest move will take the show will likely reveal itself in the early mornings to come. — Anna Dimond read more
  • Inside The Early Show's Latest Jump-start | The Biz | 1/4/2008
    CBS' The Early Show has gone through a lot of changes over the years, but it hasn't managed to significantly move the ratings needle against NBC's Today or ABC's Good Morning America. Another attempt to jump-start the program starts Jan. 7, when for the first time since the late 1990s the program will be carried in its entirety by all of the CBS affiliates. There's also a new addition to the anchor team as Maggie Rodriguez moves from the Saturday Early Show to join Harry Smith, Julie Chen, Dave Price and Russ Mitchell on weekday duty. Executive producer Shelley Ross brought The Biz up-to-date about the changes ahead.TVGuide.com: So set us straight on what will change in terms of the affiliates.Ross: [What will change are the] viewers in very important cities like Las Vegas, Nashville and Baltimore, which represent about 23 percent of our affiliates, won't get the full Early Show. They just get parts of it and they get local programming. They dip in and out of our show. To those... read more
  • Rodriguez Named Early Coanchor | Today's News: Our Take | 12/4/2007
    CBS News has named Maggie Rodriguez to replace Hannah Storm as coanchor of The Early Show. Rodriguez is getting a shot on the weekday show after impressing CBS News brass with her work as a fill-in and as coanchor of the The Saturday Early Show. "In the past six months, Maggie has proved to be a remarkably good fit in morning news," CBS News president Sean McManus said in a statement. Rodriguez was a veteran of local news in Miami and Los Angeles before joining the network earlier this year. She joins Early Show coanchors Harry Smith and Julie Chen on Jan. 7. — Stephen Battaglio read more
  • Hannah Storm Is Out at the CBS Early Show | Today's News: Our Take | 11/28/2007
    Hannah Storm is leaving her coanchor chair at CBS' The Early Show. The news division announced today that she will move into a new role at CBS News. A former sports reporter and studio host for NBC, Storm joined The Early Show in 2002, when the program moved to a multi-anchor format. A CBS News spokeswoman had no comment on whether Storm will be replaced. But the talk inside the news division is that execs are high on Maggie Rodriguez, a former Miami news anchor who has been coanchor of The Saturday Early Show since June 2007. It's likely she'll be moved over to the weekday program. — Stephen Battaglio read more
  • Ask Matt | 9/7/2007
    As a fan of your column, I know you dislike Big Brother, and I won't try to sway your opinion, but I have to say that I've been disappointed by how CBS has handled recent controversies about their reality shows like BB and Kid Nation. Every year I expect one or two contestants to be irksome and display some repugnant behavior, but as I'm sure you've heard, many contestants this season have been either vapid, racist, sexist, abusive or all of the above. Amber made deplorable comments about ... read more

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Premiered: November 01, 1999, on CBS
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Premise: A morning mixture of news, features and weather, telecast from a Manhattan studio across from Central Park. The launch of `The Early Show' in 1999 marked Bryant Gumbel's return to the morning wars in a ratings battle against his old program, NBC's `Today,' as well as ABC's `Good Morning America.' With the exits of Gumbel, co-anchor Jane Clayson and weathercaster Mark McEwen in October 2002, CBS brought in the foursome of Harry Smith, Julie Chen, Hannah Storm and Rene Syler.

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