History
The series, then anchored by Charlie Rose, premiered under the name CBS News Nightwatch in 1982, adopting its current name on March 30, 1992. It is broadcast from 2 to 3 a.m. ET, with rebroadcasts through 6 a.m. local time, depending on the station (though most CBS stations end Up to the Minute at 4:00 a.m. with the CBS Morning News airing after it). However, the majority of CBS stations do not air the program in its entirety and join the program in progress anywhere from five minutes to as much as 1½ hours after the start of the newscast, due to local programming.
The broadcast's graphics and set were often several years behind that of the daytime broadcasts, with early-1990s era CBS graphics being used well past the year 2000. These graphics were updated in 2005, 2006, 2009, and then again in 2011 to match the current look from the CBS Evening News. Until late November 2012, it was the final news program on the four major broadcast networks or three cable news channels to remain in standard definition 4:3. It finally made the switch at that time with the move of the program to CBS This Morning's Studio 57, leaving Big Brother, Let's Make a Deal and the Cookie Jar TV lineup the only three programs on the CBS schedule not to convert to HD.
Its main competitor is ABC's World News Now; compared to World News Now, which follows a more irreverent format, Up to the Minute is a more straightforward news broadcast. NBC currently airs rebroadcasts of the fourth hour of Today and sister network CNBC's financial talk show Mad Money in the overnight time slots; though, NBC did air their own late night newscasts (NBC News Overnight from 1982 until 1983, and NBC Nightside from 1991 until 1998). Fox has never carried any post-midnight programming on weekdays (although sister network Fox News Channel does broadcast Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld overnights). Regular on-air contributors include John Quain, the broadcast's computer consultant (1998 to present).
Betty Nguyen began anchoring the broadcast in 2010 until April 2012. Since her departure, Terrell Brown has taken her position as anchor of Up to the Minute.
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