'CBS Mornings' is leaving its Times Square studio amid Paramount cost-cutting

Faced with shrinking ratings and revenue, CBS News is moving its greeting programme retired of its Times Square Studio.

Later this year, “CBS Mornings” volition caput backmost to the quality division’s broadcast halfway connected the West Side of Manhattan, according to 2 radical acquainted with the plans who were not authorized to remark publicly.

The program, co-hosted by Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil and Nate Burleson, has broadcast from a installation connected Broadway since September 2021. The determination from the CBS Broadcast Center to the abstraction erstwhile location to MTV’s “Total Request Live” coincided with a caller sanction and breezier code for the programme formerly called “CBS This Morning.”

A typical for CBS News declined comment. The planned determination was archetypal reported by the New York Post.

“CBS Mornings” is the 2nd programme readying a departure from Times Square. ABC’s “Good Morning America,” located successful a workplace crossed the thoroughfare from the CBS space, is moving to Disney’s caller New York office successful Lower Manhattan successful June.

Both CBS and ABC moved their greeting programs to Times Square successful an effort to lucifer NBC’s “Today,” which launched a street-level workplace successful Rockefeller Plaza successful 1994.

Tourists from astir the state stitchery extracurricular the NBC workplace each morning. “Today” ratings perennially sprout up successful December aft the Christmas histrion successful Rockefeller Plaza goes up.

Neither ABC oregon CBS person been capable to make the aforesaid benignant of enthusiasm astatine their workplace sites.

For CBS, the retreat from Times Square comes astatine a clip erstwhile the quality part faces a fig of challenges.

The web is progressive successful a ineligible conflict with President Trump, who filed a $20-billion suit against the web implicit a 2024 “60 Minutes” interrogation with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump claims the interrogation was deceptively edited to marque Harris look much coherent and decisive. CBS has denied immoderate wrongdoing and asked that the suit beryllium dismissed.

The suit has muddied CBS genitor Paramount Global’s program for an $8-billion merger with Skydance Media. The quality part has fought Paramount Global Chairwoman Shari Redstone’s tendency to settee the lawsuit truthful the woody tin determination forward.

The web is besides seeing its caller iteration of the “CBS Evening News” conflict successful the ratings. The programme led bytwo co-anchors, John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois, is drafting astir 4 cardinal viewers, making it a distant 3rd down “ABC World News Tonight With David Muir” and “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt.”

On Tuesday, “CBS Evening News” was topped successful the ratings by “Special Report With Bret Baier” connected Fox News, which is lone disposable successful homes with wage TV.

“CBS Mornings” improved its stock of greeting viewers successful caller years but has been incapable to ascent retired of 3rd spot down ABC and NBC. Although the greeting programs stay the nett centers of the web quality divisions, they person each faced assemblage erosion arsenic consumers person moved distant from accepted TV.