Thalia Assuras is a Canadian television journalist and media consultant .
20-478: CBS News Mornings is an American early-morning news broadcast presented weekdays on the CBS television network. The program features late-breaking news stories, national weather forecasts and sports highlights. Since October 7, 2024, the program has been anchored by Michael George. The program is broadcast live at 4:00 a.m. Eastern Time , preceding local news beginning at 4:30 a.m. on many CBS stations. It
40-646: A cable network that CBS launched in March 1997. She also worked as a national correspondent and later became anchor of the CBS Morning News in 1998. She then become co-anchor of The Saturday Early Show in 1999 and the CBS Evening News Saturday , also in 1999, alternating with Russ Mitchell . In a June 22, 1998 article in Maclean's , Assuras commented on her reason for moving to
60-551: A two-anchor format until Thalia Assuras was appointed as anchor of the CBS Morning News in 1998, at which point the program switched to a single-anchor format, which it has had ever since. In March 2009, when Michelle Gielan was named anchor of Up to the Minute , the CBS Morning News became integrated with the overnight news program, using the same anchors on both programs. In November 2010, CBS Morning News became
80-498: Is transmitted in a continuous half-hour broadcast delay loop until 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time, when CBS Mornings begin in the Pacific Time Zone . In the few markets where the station does not produce a morning newscast, it may air in a two- to three-hour loop immediately before the start of CBS Mornings . The show is updated for any breaking news occurring before 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time, while stations throughout
100-714: The CBS Early Morning News . It was a half-hour extension of the two-hour CBS Morning News which aired directly opposite Today . Bill Kurtis and Diane Sawyer originally anchored both the Early Morning News and the Morning News of that era. Sawyer departed both programs in mid-1984, to be named a correspondent for 60 Minutes later that year. In her absence, Kurtis was joined by a rotating series of co-hosts, principally Maria Shriver , Meredith Vieira and Jane Wallace . Kurtis anchored
120-745: The CBS Evening News ). Concurrently, Up to the Minute was replaced the same day by the CBS Overnight News. On March 11, 2020, the CBS Broadcast Center was temporarily closed after a number of CBS News staffers tested positive for COVID-19 . While CBS News did attempt to reopen the Broadcast Center with minimal crews following a thorough decontamination and cleaning, a second shutdown on March 18, along with directives by CBS News President Susan Zirinsky in
140-480: The CBS Morning News was updated to match the branding of CBS Mornings , which replaced CBS This Morning around the same time. On February 5, 2024, the program was retitled CBS News Mornings , in conjunction with a graphics update on CBS Mornings . The title itself was originally used by the CBS News streaming channel for its weekday 7:00 a.m. ET newswheel, which itself rebranded from CBSN AM in 2021;
160-591: The Early Morning News solo until March 1985, while co-anchoring the Morning News with Phyllis George until July of that year. Faith Daniels took over and would remain on the anchor desk, most of the time sharing the role with Forrest Sawyer (July to December 1985 and January to September 1987) and later Douglas Edwards and Charles Osgood , until Daniels left CBS to become anchor of competing early-morning newscast NBC News at Sunrise in 1990. The program would drop "Early" from its title in January 1987, assuming
180-504: The 7:00 hour then became a half-hour show titled CBS Morning News . News broadcast Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 254293009 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:45:08 GMT Thalia Assuras Assuras
200-600: The United States, saying "I wanted to live in a different country. And I wanted to work where you have all the tools you need on a story." In July 2009, Assuras left CBS after her contract with it expired. She later anchored energyNOW! , a half-hour weekly TV news-magazine and opinion program produced by the American Clean Skies Foundation ; it aired first on WJLA-TV and later on Bloomberg Television . After energyNOW! , she established
220-408: The first hour of NBC 's Today . Walter Cronkite and sportscaster Jim McKay both anchored the original CBS Morning News at one time. Joseph Benti became the anchor in 1969. Other anchors of the broadcast in this format included John Hart , Hughes Rudd , Sally Quinn , Richard Threlkeld , Lesley Stahl and Bruce Morton . The program first aired in its current format on October 4, 1982 as
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#1732790708274240-409: The first hour to accommodate their local morning newscasts. Osgood would remain anchor of the CBS Morning News until June 1992, paired with Victoria Corderi from 1990 to 1991, Giselle Fernández through February 1992, and then with Meredith Vieira for the remainder of Osgood's run as co-anchor. After Osgood left the program in 1992, the anchor turnover continued. The program continued to maintain
260-516: The following week, it became impossible to consistently produce the program under their normal standards, and as a result production of the CBS Morning News was temporarily suspended beginning on March 24, 2020, with a repeat of the CBS Evening News or local newscasts or programming taking its place. On August 31, 2020, nearly six months after the pandemic began, production of the CBS Morning News resumed with its primary anchor, Anne-Marie Green , anchoring from her home studio. On September 8, 2021,
280-744: The impact the journalism program had had on her: Assuras has worked for CITY-TV and Global Television , including a stint as reporter and weekend anchor for City Pulse from 1985 to 1988. She was the evening anchor at Global TV in 1989. From 1992 to 1993 she worked for CTV , anchoring Canada AM . She then moved to ABC , and in May 1993, joined Aaron Brown as co-anchor of World News Now and ABC World News This Morning . She shared that anchor desk with Boyd Matson , fellow Canadian Kevin Newman , and Mark Mullen before leaving ABC in January 1997. In 1997 she moved to CBS , first joining CBS Eye on People ,
300-476: The name previously used by the network's flagship morning broadcast , which had been cancelled and replaced by the critically panned news/entertainment/comedy show The Morning Program (which itself was cancelled after 10½ months in favor of the more traditional CBS This Morning ); the renamed CBS Morning News also briefly expanded into a 90-minute broadcast (6:00 to 7:30 a.m. local), although affiliates in several larger markets chose to preempt all or part of
320-576: The network will join CBS Mornings in all time zones past that time at their local discretion or network orders for live coverage. The CBS Morning News title was originally used as the name of a conventional morning news program that served as a predecessor to the network's current CBS Mornings . For most of the 1960s and 1970s, the program aired as a 60-minute hard news broadcast at 7:00 a.m., preceding Captain Kangaroo and airing opposite
340-580: The studio of the CBS Evening News , and Up to the Minute was moved to the Studio 57 facility, the same studio where CBS This Morning was also broadcast, until its cancellation on September 18, 2015. On September 21, 2015, the CBS Morning News relocated to the CBSN newsroom and adopted new graphics based on those of CBS This Morning (after having previously aligned itself with the branding of
360-490: The third and final early morning news program to begin broadcasting in high-definition television ; its counterpart, Up to the Minute , continued to be broadcast in standard-definition television until November 2012, when the program converted to high definition. In November 2012, production of the CBS Morning News and Up to the Minute relocated in the CBS Broadcast Center . The CBS Morning News moved to
380-534: The wake of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television resulted in dramatic changes to many of CBS News's programs and operations. CBSN had itself experienced major issues in both producing a normal schedule, with its operations largely being outsourced temporarily to its CBS Television Stations , and with producing programs for CBS News. While CBS News did attempt to produce the CBS Morning News with limited staff and graphics from its Washington, D.C. bureau
400-583: Was born in London, Ontario to parents who immigrated from Tripoli, Greece , after World War II . She attended London Central Secondary School , and remained in London to attend the University of Western Ontario , pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree. She graduated in 1980, then entered the graduate program in journalism and earned her master's degree in 1981. Twenty-one years later she commented on
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