CBS News Overhauls Its Morning Show

CBS News is completely overhauling "The Early Show" broadcast team.

Co-anchors Harry Smith and Maggie Rodriguez are out, along with weather forecaster Dave Price. The news of the shuffle came Tuesday from a person with knowledge of the discussions who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak on personnel issues.

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The morning news show's new anchor team will be Chris Wragge and Erica Hill, who have worked together anchoring CBS' Saturday-morning show. Hill is also the current news reader for the weekday version.

Jeff Glor, anchor of Saturday's "CBS Evening News" and a reporter on "The Early Show, will take over the news reader job on the morning show. Marysol Castro, formerly of ABC's "Good Morning America" weekend edition, will do the weather.

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"The Early Show" runs third in the network morning show competition behind NBC's "Today" show and ABC's "Good Morning America."

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