 cbs morning news is an american early morning television news program cbs. the program features late-breaking news stories, weather forecasts, and sports highlights. it is anchored by anne marie green, who also serves as anchor of cbs's overnight news program up to the minute. the program is broadcast live at 4:00 a.m. eastern time (airing in the early timeslot to accommodate cbs stations that start their local morning newscasts at 4:30 a.m.), and is transmitted in a continuous half-hour tape delayed loop until 10:00 a.m. et, when cbs this morning begins in the pacific time zone. the program usually airs as a lead-in to local morning newscasts on most cbs stations, although in the few markets where the cbs station does not produce a morning newscast, it may air in a two- to three-hour loop immediately before the start of cbs this morning. the show is updated for any breaking news occurring before 7:00 a.m. et, while stations throughout the network will join cbs this morning in all time zones past that time at their local discretion or network orders for live coverage. ==history== ===background=== the cbs morning news title was originally used as the name of a predecessor to the network's current morning news program, cbs this morning. 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 nbc's today. walter cronkite and sportscaster jim mckay both anchored the original cbs morning news at one time. when cbs reformatted the early morning broadcast, the cbs morning news became a pre-dawn 30-minute news broadcast. ===cbs early morning news/current morning news format=== right|thumb|150px|cbs morning news title card while under the leadership of susan mcginnis (2002-08). the program first aired in it
1980s_American_television_series 1982_American_television_series_debuts 1990s_American_television_series 2000s_American_television_series 2010s_American_television_series American_news_television_series CBS_News CBS_network_shows English-language_television_programming