Morning Newscasts

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When will the network early morning newscasts (Early Today, America This Morning, and the CBS Morning News) move up to 4:00am ET so that local stations on the east coast can start their local newscasts at 4:30am? Many stations in the Central and Pacific time zones have started this because they can air the network early newscasts at 4:00 or earlier. I assumed once the New York stations wanted this, that would move up the network's newscasts.

[Dave Lampstein 6]

Not every station is in the position to add a newscast that early...

[bostonmediaguy 123]

I assumed once the New York stations wanted this, that would move up the network's newscasts.

 

What makes you think New York stations want to do this?

[StudioTech 13]

There's already a 4:30a newscast available on Ch. 11.

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What makes you think New York stations want to do this?

 

It's just a trend that continues across the country like it did in the late 80s/early 90s when stations started doing hourlong newscasts at 6:00am bumping up the early morning network news to 5:30am ET. Then a few years later they expanded with 90 minute newscasts and the network shows went to 5:00am ET. By the late 90s/early 2000s, many stations in small and large markets air a full 2 hour morning newscast from 5-7am. But that wasn't enough and some began expanding to 4:30am and in some markets even 4:00am.

 

The early network newscasts will make the move at some point when they start being pre-empted by local newscasts at 4:30am. The Central/Mountain/Pacific zones can already air them as early as 3:30am.

[bostonmediaguy 123]

I haven't seen any indication that 4:30am newscasts have even moderate viewership on the east coast.

[TrfRptr 3]

I haven't seen any indication that 4:30am newscasts have even moderate viewership on the east coast.

 

Let alone New York.