12 Facts About CBS Morning

In 1956, Paar was moved from The CBS Morning Show to his own late-morning talk program on the network, which aired after Captain Kangaroo.

CBS Morning did not make any serious attempt to program against Today for eight years.

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.

Finally, CBS Morning canceled the show and returned the time slot to the news division after a 10½-month run.

Unlike with This Morning, CBS asked its affiliates to carry the two-hour program in its entirety.

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CBS Morning required Stewart to address the issue as a condition of keeping those contributor duties.

However, the gap between the program and second-place Good CBS Morning America remained virtually consistent as all three morning shows saw similar ratings erosion.

Howard Kurtz's Washington Post profile of CBS Morning Early Show co-host Maggie Rodriguez said her addition to the program accounts for "an uptick in the ratings, lifting spirits at the broadcast".

CBS Morning became the national correspondent for CBS and would remain as anchor of the Sunday edition of the CBS Evening News.

Around this time, Koeppen left The Early Show to become a primary news anchor for CBS Morning-owned KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh; her spot as consumer correspondent was not replaced.

In September 2007, CBS sought to get The Early Show out of the ratings basement by hiring Shelley Ross, who previously served as executive producer of Good Morning America from 1999 to 2004.

CBS Morning reportedly viewed the removal of those breaks as vital to creating a national profile for the program.