CBS News Sunday Morning

CBS News Sunday Morning is an American television news magazine program created by Robert Northshield and original host Charles Kuralt. The program has aired continuously since January 28, 1979, on the CBS Television Network, airing in the Eastern US on Sunday from 9:00 to 10:30 A.M. The current host of the show is Charles Osgood, who took over from Kuralt upon his retirement on April 3, 1994, and has since surpassed Kuralt's tenure as host.

The program was originally conceived to be a broadcast version of a Sunday newspaper magazine section, most typified by the Sunday New York Times Magazine. The format was conceived as the Sunday equivalent of the CBS Morning News, which following Sunday Morning's debut was retitled to reflect each day of the week, such as Monday Morning, Tuesday Morning, etc. (the Sunday edition, long after these daily editions ended, continued to display all seven days of the week in the opening sequence into the early 2000s). The weekday broadcasts, which emphasized hard news as opposed to Sunday Morning's focus on features, were originally anchored by Bob Schieffer (Kuralt eventually took over the daily role, and was for a short time joined by Diane Sawyer as co-host). However, the weekday show's then-limited 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. ET air time (the long-running Captain Kangaroo was entrenched in the 8 o'clock hour) hampered its ability to compete with NBC's and ABC's rival two-hour morning shows, though it expanded to an hour and a half in 1981. The Sunday version, however, survived, and remains in its original form. The CBS weekday program, now a full two hours on the East Coast, is now known as CBS This Morning. On Sunday, May 17, 2009, the program began airing in high-definition.