Saturday Edition
The Saturday edition of The Early Show premiered on September 13, 1997 as CBS News Saturday Morning. As of 2008, The Saturday Early Show no longer carried a separate name from the weekday edition, and was introduced simply as The Early Show. The program was broadcast live beginning at 7:00 a.m. ET/6:00 a.m. CT on Saturday mornings from the GM Building on Fifth Avenue in New York City, across the street from Central Park. It aired at various times through the country on most CBS stations. However, depending on the time zone it did or did not air (some CBS affiliates skipped the Saturday morning edition for local newscasts, and some pushed up the timeslot of the Saturday morning children's program block after the newscast if it ended before 9:00 a.m. in order to make up for it).
The format allowed for news and weather cut-ins; not all affiliates provided local coverage. Viewers at stations that did not provide coverage saw informal conversation among the anchors during the news cut-ins and a series of graphics showing the weather in various cities during the weather cut-ins. Ira Joe Fisher and, initially, Lonnie Quinn, would read some of the forecast aloud while chatting with people in the audience outside the building. The graphics ran with bed music and no voice-over.
Until the weekday shake-up at the end of 2010, it was anchored by Chris Wragge of WCBS and Erica Hill. Beginning January 8, 2011 Russ Mitchell returned to co-anchor with Rebecca Jarvis while WCBS' chief weathercaster Lonnie Quinn continued as weather anchor and CBS Morning News anchor Betty Nguyen served as news anchor and coanchored one Saturday a month.
Anchors for the program have included Russ Mitchell (1997–2007, 2011), Susan Molinari (1997–1998), Dawn Stensland (1998–1999), Thalia Assuras (1999–2002), Gretchen Carlson (2002–2005), Tracy Smith (2005–2007), Maggie Rodriguez (2007–2008), Jeff Glor (2007), Chris Wragge, (2007–2010) Erica Hill (2008–2010) and weather anchor Ira Joe Fisher (1999–2006)
Unlike its competitors The Today Show and Good Morning America, The Early Show did not carry a Sunday edition, nor were there any plans for one in the near future, due to the continued success of CBS News Sunday Morning, which has a distinctly different format with long form journalism reports and in-depth interview segments.
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