Instruct: Given a question, retrieve relevant passages that can help answer the question.
Query: Who was the first host of The Early Show on CBS?
The Early Show began on November 1, 1999 (around the time when Viacom, a former CBS division, had purchased the network) when CBS executives successfully lured former Today host Bryant Gumbel to head up the broadcast, teamed with ABC News correspondent Jane Clayson. Unlike with This Morning, CBS asked its affiliates to carry the two-hour program in its entirety. Julie Chen read the news, while Mark McEwen of Live By Request, the sole holdover from This Morning, did the weather. Initial ratings were not encouraging, and were actually lower than those of This Morning.[11][12] Gumbel left on May 17, 2002,[13] and shortly thereafter Clayson and McEwen were replaced.
Barry was not the original choice to host, due to his past involvement in the 1950s quiz show scandals. As a result, Allen Ludden hosted the first two pilots for CBS. Barry hosted the local KTLA series in 1971, but CBS was still hesitant to let him host the network run in 1972. Tom Kennedy, Wink Martindale, and Ludden were the three top choices to host, but each was already committed to other shows (Kennedy was tied to "Split Second" for ABC, Ludden had just started hosting a revival of "Password", and Martindale was to host "Gambit" which was to premiere the same day as "Joker" on CBS). They even offered it to Dennis James, who had originally been the favorite to land the host job for the upcoming Mark Goodson–Bill Todman Productions' game show "The New Price Is Right". When CBS agreed to a weekday daytime version of "The New Price Is Right", Vice President of Daytime Programming B. Donald "Bud" Grant wanted 15-year "Truth or Consequences" host Bob Barker to host "New Price" instead of James. Barker originally said he would gladly host "Joker", but Grant convinced him to take the hosting role on "Price" instead. With no alternatives after Grant pushed Barker to "The New Price Is Right" (a position he would hold for 35 years) and James was hired by Goodson to host a nighttime syndicated version of the same program, Barry was given the green light to host. Barry's contract, however, was only for sixty-five episodes (thirteen weeks, a standard run for a daytime game show).
On October 28, 2002, The Early Show overhauled its hosting staff. The new team consisted of Chen, Harry Smith (former host of Biography and CBS This Morning), Hannah Storm (former commentator for NBC Sports), Rene Syler (who joined the program after serving as a news anchor at CBS' owned-and-operated station KTVT in Dallas), and weatherman Dave Price (joining the program after a run as a morning meteorologist at New York City Fox O&O WNYW), who also worked at WCBS-TV for some time after joining The Early Show. To keep affiliates happy, CBS went back to the local/national hybrid format originated on CBS This Morning in 1997.[16] The program also had a number of "correspondents" who conducted short segments on specific issues, including Martha Stewart (until not long after the aforementioned segment with Jane Clayson), Martha Quinn, Bobby Flay and Bob Vila, among others. In 2004, Susan Koeppen became the program's consumer correspondent.
Paar got his first tastes of television in the early 1950s, appearing as a comic on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and hosting two game shows, "Up To Paar" (1952) and "Bank on the Stars" (1953), before hosting "The Morning Show" (1954) on CBS. He guest-starred twice in 1958 on Polly Bergen's short-lived NBC comedy/variety show, "The Polly Bergen Show".
The pageant aired on CBS from 1963 until 2002, and for many years was known for having a CBS game show host as pageant host. John Charles Daly hosted the show from 1963–1966, Bob Barker from 1967 (he was not a regular for the CBS network until 1972 when he became host of "The Price Is Right" which he hosted until 2007) until 1987 (at which point he quit in a dispute over fur coats), Alan Thicke in 1988, Dick Clark from 1989 to 1993, and Bob Goen from 1994 to 1996. The show's highest ratings were in the early 1980s, when it regularly topped the Nielsen ratings. Viewership dropped sharply from the 1990s to the 2000s, from an estimated viewership of 20 million to an average of 7 million from 2000–2001. In 2002, owner Donald Trump brokered a new deal with NBC, giving them half-ownership of the Miss USA, Miss Universe and Miss Teen USA and moving them to NBC on an initial five-year contract. The pageants were first shown on NBC in 2003.
On November 10, 2011, King secured a deal with CBS to host "CBS This Morning", the replacement of "The Early Show", beginning on January 9, 2012. As a result, "The Gayle King Show" ended on November 17, 2011.
The debut theme for The Early Show was a typical opener for an American morning news program. When the show reformatted with new hosts and set, an instrumental version of the same-titled track from Sting's 1999 hit album, "Brand New Day" until late October 2006, when it was replaced by a variant of the James Horner theme originally composed that year for the CBS Evening News. On January 7, 2008, as part of CBS's attempt to relaunch the show with new hosts and set, an updated version of Horner's composition was introduced; the theme was modified a number of times after the format change. On June 27, 2011, The Early Show began using a slower-tempoed version of the CBS Evening News theme by Trivers-Myers Music (the original version of which was first used on the evening news program from 1987 to 1991, before being revived in 2011 upon Scott Pelley taking over as anchor of the broadcast).
Maria Shriver, who had joined CBS as a West Coast feature reporter in 1983, and Forrest Sawyer, new to the network, were named co-anchors of The CBS Morning News on August 30, 1985. After a respectable year albeit still placing third in the ratings, Shriver and Sawyer made their last appearance on the program on August 1, 1986, after CBS announced that the early morning timeslot would leave control of the news division, to be replaced by a new show produced by a newly created unit in the CBS Broadcast Group.[2] Prodded by network affiliates, CBS decided that an entertainment format might work better against Good Morning America and Today, and planning began for a new show that would come to be called The Morning Program.[3] Bruce Morton and Faith Daniels became the first in a string of substitutes to host Morning News until it left the air.[4]
James was a regular substitute host for Monty Hall on "Let's Make a Deal" beginning in January 1972, when he caught the attention of Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, who were putting together "The New Price Is Right" for syndication; the new format would incorporate the original format from 1956–1965 with elements from "Let's Make a Deal". James and Goodson co-hosted a promotional film, selling stations on the 1972 revival of the show, which was originally hosted by James's fellow TV pioneer Bill Cullen. CBS (at the time re-entering the game show market after four years without any) agreed to pick up a daytime version of the show, but insisted on "Truth or Consequences" host Bob Barker as host. Barker took the daytime show, which he hosted until 2007, while James hosted a weekly version for the syndicated market, which aired in the "access period" leading into prime time and was thus known as "the nighttime "Price Is Right"". On the nighttime "Price Is Right", James was reunited with another DuMont Television Network host, Johnny Olson, who served as announcer. James hosted the weekly show from 1972–77, and also filled in for Barker during four daytime episodes in December 1974, becoming the first substitute host of the CBS version. James's departure from the nighttime show in 1977 marked the end of his game show career.
The Saturday edition of The Early Show traces its beginnings to the September 13, 1997 premiere of CBS News Saturday Morning, originally anchored by Russ Mitchell and former New York congresswoman Susan Molinari, who left in 1998; a succession of co-hosts appeared alongside Mitchell for the remainder of his first tenure with the program: Dawn Stensland (1998–1999), Thalia Assuras (1999–2002), Gretchen Carlson (2002–2005), Tracy Smith (2005–2007). Jeff Glor and Chris Wragge rotated as co-hosts alongside Maggie Rodriguez in 2007.
Letterman had offered the "Late Late" spot to Garry Shandling, a former permanent guest host of "The Tonight Show" but Shandling turned the offer down in favour of "The Larry Sanders Show" (NBC had previously approached Shandling about succeeding Letterman on "Late Night" but he had also declined that offer). He also offered the slot to "Later" host Bob Costas who also declined.
Letterman then insisted on Snyder despite CBS wanting a younger host with a comedy background and a more traditional late night talk variety format. In 1998, the network reportedly reasserted its desire for a host who could attract a younger demographic and asked Worldwide Pants not to renew Snyder's contract when it expired in September 1999, though other reports portray the decision to leave as Snyder's decision, with Snyder informing management that he wished to depart before his contract ended, as early as January 1999. Snyder would return to CBS to guest-host some episodes of the "Late Show" while Letterman recuperated from heart surgery in 2000.
CBS instead tapped a trio of noted television veterans for the weekday editions of "This Morning": "Early Show" holdover Erica Hill, Gayle King and Charlie Rose. Licht describes Rose, who previously hosted CBS's former overnight news program "CBS News Nightwatch" (which was replaced by "Up to the Minute" and later "CBS Overnight News") in the 1980s, and has also served as a part-time correspondent for occasional segments since 2008 on the long-running newsmagazine "60 Minutes", as "an incredible interviewer."
Bill Reiter is a writer and sports personality for CBS Sports. He is best known for hosting "Reiter Than You", CBS Sports' first live primetime digital television show. His early work reporting on LeBron James during Lebron's first season with the Miami Heat also distinguished Fox Sports and its early NBA coverage. Reiter currently hosts "Reiter Than You" as well as "Reiter's Block" and is the national columnist for CBSSports.com.
The Late Late Show is an American late-night television talk and variety show on CBS. It first aired in January 1995, with host Tom Snyder, followed by Craig Kilborn and Craig Ferguson. It is currently hosted by James Corden. The show originates from CBS Television City in Los Angeles.
In early 1972, Mark Goodson and Bill Todman began shopping a modernized revival of "The Price Is Right" to stations, with Dennis James as host. CBS expressed interest in the series, on one condition: instead of James, Barker would be installed as host. After some initial resistance, Barker instead offered to host another upcoming CBS game show, Jack Barry's "The Joker's Wild" (which had difficulty finding a host and was scheduled to debut the same day as "Price") to allow James to host "Price", but CBS rejected this proposal. The eventual compromise that was struck led to Barker hosting the daytime "Price" on CBS, James hosting the weekly nighttime "Price" in syndication, and Jack Barry himself (first on a trial basis, then eventually permanently) hosting "Joker".
While Brent Musburger did host most of CBS' NBA Finals pregame and halftime programs, Pat O'Brien hosted a pregame show during the earlier rounds of the playoffs called "The Basketball Show". O'Brien, working with analyst Bill Raftery, also hosted the "Prudential At The Half". When Musburger left CBS Sports in April 1990, O'Brien took over the NBA Finals (the last that CBS did) hosting duties full-time. In 1988 and 1989, Pat O'Brien filled-in for Brent Musburger (who was busy covering the College World Series for CBS) as the NBA Finals anchor for Game 2.CBS broadcast a Christmas Day game each year from to with the exception of .
On January 18, 1982, again at the expense of Captain Kangaroo, Morning was expanded to the same two-hour format that Today and GMA were utilizing. Along the way it reassumed the title of The CBS Morning News (not to be confused with CBS's earlier morning newscast, the CBS Early Morning News, later retitled as the CBS Morning News). Kuralt was replaced on the weekday broadcasts in March 1982. By this time management decided that morning news programming should be more competitive and hired Bill Kurtis, anchor of the highly rated evening newscasts at WBBM-TV in Chicago, as Sawyer's co-host. The Sunday edition of Morning, with Kuralt as host, was kept; it remains on the air under its original title, CBS News Sunday Morning (now hosted by Jane Pauley).
In 2009, Wurtzel was selected through a nationwide search to host the 3-hour Game Show Network live game show GSN Live. Already the Audience Warm-Up and Plaza Producer for CBS's The Early Show, this attention led Wurtzel to be named Backstage Correspondent for CBS's Early Backstage segments.
CBS picked up a new version of the show entitled "Million Dollar Password", hosted by Regis Philbin, which premiered on June 1, 2008 and ran for 12 episodes over two seasons. The series was taped in New York, and was the second million-dollar game show that Philbin has hosted (the first being the American network version "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"). The first season taped at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York City, and the second season was taped at the CBS Radford studios in Los Angeles.
The first iteration of the project was hosted by Alex Boylan. He traveled around the world without any money and was aided in his quest by a social networking site created for this purpose. Alex was accompanied by Zsolt Luka who directed, filmed and edited the series on an ongoing basis. Executive Produced by Alex Boylan, Burton Roberts and Co-Executive Produced by Andrew Bishop, the first production season started on Sep 18, 2007, from midtown Manhattan and a kick-off on the CBS Early Show morning talk show, and ended back in New York City on the same program on February 23, 2008. During the production there were bi-weekly live on-air feeds to the Early Show from the field, but there was no formal affiliation between CBS and ATWFF.
In 1973, he moved to the United States and worked for NBC as host of a new game show, "The Wizard of Odds." A year later Trebek hosted the popular Merrill Heatter-Bob Quigley game show, "High Rollers," which had two incarnations on NBC (1974–76 and 1978–80), and an accompanying syndicated season (1975–76). In between stints as host of "High Rollers," Trebek hosted the short-lived CBS game show "Double Dare" (not to be confused with the 1986 Nickelodeon game show of the same name). "Double Dare" turned out to be his only game show with the CBS network (he returned to CBS in 1994 to host Pillsbury Bake-Off until 1998), and the first show he hosted for what was then Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions, as well as the second season of the syndicated series "The $128,000 Question," which taped in Toronto.
Julie Suzanne Chen (born January 6, 1970) is an American television personality, news anchor, and producer for CBS. She has been the host of the U.S. version of the CBS reality-television program "Big Brother" since its debut in July 2000 and is the longest-serving host of any country's version of the show. She was a co-host and the moderator of the CBS daytime show "The Talk" for eight seasons. Previously, she was a co-anchor of "The Early Show" on CBS.
On October 28, 2002, Smith returned to the CBS morning show, by that point renamed "The Early Show". He hosted the program for eight years before CBS announced that Smith and co-anchors Maggie Rodriguez and Dave Price would leave the show at the end of 2010. His last day on the show was December 31, 2010. By that point, Smith had spent a total of seventeen years on a CBS morning show. Upon leaving the program, Smith became a Senior Correspondent for CBS News and substitute anchor for the "CBS Evening News", "Face the Nation", and "CBS News Sunday Morning". In addition to his television assignments, Smith delivered a daily "Harry Smith Reporting" editorial for the CBS Radio Network.
In 1982, the weekday version was extended to a full two hours and restored its previous CBS Morning News title, later to be replaced by short-lived The Morning Program in 1987. The Sunday version, however, survived, and retains its original format. Long after the daily editions ended, the Sunday edition's opening sequence continued to display all seven days of the week until the early 2000s. On January 25, 2004, CBS News Sunday Morning celebrated its 25th anniversary with clips and highlights from the show's first quarter-century on the air. Host Charles Osgood showed clips from former host Charles Kuralt.
Robert Earle (born January 5, 1926 in Baldwin, New York) is a former host of "G.E. College Bowl," an American game show that was broadcast first by CBS, later by NBC. Earle was the second host of the show, succeeding Allen Ludden, who left the show in 1962 to host "Password." Earle hosted "College Bowl" during its entire NBC run, from 1962 to 1970.