Up to the Minute
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Up to the Minute is a CBS
overnight broadcast which offers hard news, features, interviews, weather, sports, business and commentary. Up to the Minute draws from the full resources of CBS News
, including the CBS Evening News
, Newspath, affiliate stations, the CBS Radio Network
and Reuters Television. It rebroadcasts selected stories from CBS Sunday Morning, 48 Hours, 60 Minutes
and Face the Nation
. The show is currently hosted by Betty Nguyen, although several anchors have filled in during the summer of 2010.
, premiered under the name CBS News Nightwatch in 1982, adopting its current name on March 30, 1992. It is broadcast from 2 AM to 3 AM ET, with rebroadcasts through 6 AM local time, depending on the station (though most CBS stations end Up to the Minute at 4:30 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 five minutes to as much as 1½ hours after the start of the newscast, due to local programming.
The show's graphics and set were traditionally 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 2006
, 2009, and then again in 2011
to match the current look from the CBS Evening News
. As of 2011, it, along with America's Next Top Model
, Big Brother, and Let's Make a Deal
remain the only four programs on the five major English-language broadcast television networks (not counting outsourced weekend children's programming lineups
) not airing in high definition
or at minimum, standard definition widescreen
. It is also the only non-HD or widescreen news program on the four major broadcast networks or three cable news channels.
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 newscast. NBC
currently programs the non-news Poker After Dark
and seasonal replays of its late night talk shows (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
in the winter and spring months, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
in the summer and fall months) in the overnight time slots; though, NBC did air their own late night newscast from the early 1980s until 1999. 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 show's computer consultant (1998 to present).
The previous full-time host, Michelle Gielan, departed in 2010. Several anchors filled in afterwards, notably Emily Smith, until Betty Nguyen
took over in October 2010.
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
overnight broadcast which offers hard news, features, interviews, weather, sports, business and commentary. Up to the Minute draws from the full resources of CBS News
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main...
, including the CBS Evening News
CBS Evening News
CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963....
, Newspath, affiliate stations, the CBS Radio Network
CBS Radio Network
The CBS Radio Network provides news, sports and other programming to more than 1,000 radio stations throughout the United States. The network is owned by CBS Corporation, and operated by CBS Radio ....
and Reuters Television. It rebroadcasts selected stories from CBS Sunday Morning, 48 Hours, 60 Minutes
60 Minutes
60 Minutes is an American television news magazine, which has run on CBS since 1968. The program was created by producer Don Hewitt who set it apart by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation....
and Face the Nation
Face the Nation
Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer is an American Sunday-morning political interview show which premiered on the CBS television network on November 7, 1954. It is one of the longest-running news programs in the history of television...
. The show is currently hosted by Betty Nguyen, although several anchors have filled in during the summer of 2010.
History
The series, then anchored by Charlie RoseCharlie Rose
Charles Peete "Charlie" Rose, Jr. is an American television talk show host and journalist. Since 1991 he has hosted Charlie Rose, an interview show distributed nationally by PBS since 1993...
, premiered under the name CBS News Nightwatch in 1982, adopting its current name on March 30, 1992. It is broadcast from 2 AM to 3 AM ET, with rebroadcasts through 6 AM local time, depending on the station (though most CBS stations end Up to the Minute at 4:30 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 five minutes to as much as 1½ hours after the start of the newscast, due to local programming.
The show's graphics and set were traditionally 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 2006
2006 in television
2006 in television may refer to:*2006 in American television*2006 in Australian television*2006 in British television*2006 in Canadian television*2006 in Japanese television...
, 2009, and then again in 2011
2011 in American television
The following is a list of events affecting American television in 2011. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings, as well as information about controversies and carriage disputes....
to match the current look from the CBS Evening News
CBS Evening News
CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963....
. As of 2011, it, along with America's Next Top Model
America's Next Top Model
America's Next Top Model is a reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of America's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry....
, Big Brother, and Let's Make a Deal
Let's Make a Deal
Let's Make a Deal is a television game show which originated in the United States and has since been produced in many countries throughout the world. The show is based around deals offered to members of the audience by the host. The traders usually have to weigh the possibility of an offer being...
remain the only four programs on the five major English-language broadcast television networks (not counting outsourced weekend children's programming lineups
Saturday morning cartoon
A Saturday morning cartoon is the colloquial term for the animated television programming that has typically been scheduled on Saturday mornings on the major American television networks from the 1960s to the present; the genre's peak in popularity mostly ended in the 1990s while the popularity of...
) not airing in high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
or at minimum, standard definition widescreen
Widescreen
Widescreen images are a variety of aspect ratios used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than the standard 1.37:1 Academy aspect ratio provided by 35mm film....
. It is also the only non-HD or widescreen news program on the four major broadcast networks or three cable news channels.
Its main competitor is ABC's
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
World News Now
World News Now
World News Now is an American overnight news program broadcast on American Broadcasting Company's television network. Its tone is often lighthearted, irreverent and humorous...
; compared to World News Now, which follows a more irreverent format, Up to the Minute is a more straightforward newscast. NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
currently programs the non-news Poker After Dark
Poker After Dark
Poker After Dark was an hour-long poker television program on NBC. The show made its debut on January 1, 2007, and was cancelled as another victim of the "Black Friday" criminal case due to the show's sponsorship by Full Tilt Poker, one of that case's defendants. on September 23, 2011 For its first...
and seasonal replays of its late night talk shows (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jimmy Fallon on NBC. The show premiered on March 2, 2009, as the third incarnation of the Late Night franchise originated by David Letterman....
in the winter and spring months, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jay Leno that initially aired from May 25, 1992 to May 29, 2009, and resumed production on March 1, 2010. The fourth incarnation of the Tonight Show franchise made its debut on May 25, 1992, three days following Johnny...
in the summer and fall months) in the overnight time slots; though, NBC did air their own late night newscast from the early 1980s until 1999. Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
has never carried any post-midnight programming on weekdays (although sister network Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...
does broadcast Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld
Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld
Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld is a late-night/early-morning satirical talk show on the Fox News Channel, airing at 3:00 am ET Tuesday through Saturday. The show features panelists and guests discussing the latest news in politics, pop culture, entertainment, business, sports, and religion...
overnights). Regular on-air contributors include John Quain, the show's computer consultant (1998 to present).
The previous full-time host, Michelle Gielan, departed in 2010. Several anchors filled in afterwards, notably Emily Smith, until Betty Nguyen
Betty Nguyen
Betty Nguyen is an American news anchor with CBS News. Nguyen joined CBS News on March 11, 2010. She anchors the The CBS Morning News and is a correspondent for The Early Show. -Life and career:...
took over in October 2010.
Anchors
| Tenure | Anchor |
|---|---|
| 1992 — 1993 | Russ Mitchell Russ Mitchell Russell Mitchell is an American journalist for CBS, anchor of the Early Show on Saturday, and weekend anchor of the CBS Evening News.-Early years:... |
| 1992 — 1993 | Monica Gayle Monica Gayle Monica Gayle is a television news anchor who anchors the 5, 6, 10pm news on Detroit's Fox affiliate WJBK. She previously worked with CBS News, anchoring the news programs Up to the Minute from April 1992 to 1993, and the CBS Morning News from August 1993 to May 1994... |
| 1993 — 1995 | Troy Roberts |
| 1993 — 1995 | Sharyl Attkisson Sharyl Attkisson Sharyl Attkisson is an investigative correspondent in the Washington bureau for CBS News. She has also substituted as anchor for the CBS Evening News.-Career:From 1990 to 1993, Attkisson was an anchor for CNN... |
| 1995 — 1998 | Rick Jackson |
| 1995 — 1998 | Nanette Hansen Nanette Hansen Nanette Hansen was a journalist with CBS, NBC, and CNBC. She co-hosted NBC's Early Today program from 1999 to 2004 with meteorologist Joe Witte. After leaving NBC, Hanson shifted careers to real estate, first with Corcoran Group Real Estate and currently with Sotheby's International Realty's East... |
| 1998 — 2000 | Mika Brzezinski Mika Brzezinski Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski is an American television news journalist at MSNBC. Brzezinski is co-host of MSNBC's weekday morning program Morning Joe, where she provides regular commentary and reads the news headlines for the program... |
| 2000 — March 10, 2006 | Melissa McDermott Melissa McDermott Melissa McDermott was a reporter for CBS News. She is best known for being an anchor of the overnight CBS newscast, Up to the Minute.-Biography:... |
| March 20, 2006 — March 18, 2009 | Meg Oliver Meg Oliver Megan Elisabeth Oliver is a reporter for ABC News. In March 2006, she became anchor of the overnight CBS newscast, Up to the Minute and remained in that position for three years.... |
| March 19, 2009 - June 17, 2010 | Michelle Gielan Michelle Gielan Michelle Gielan is an American broadcast journalist who is currently at CBS News and anchored the morning news programs CBS Morning News and Up to the Minute. Her last broadcast for CBS was Thursday, June 17, 2010. She is also a correspondent for CBS' The Early Show.-Career:Michelle joined CBS... |
| June 18, 2010 - August 20, 2010 | Emily Smith |
| October 2010 - Present | Betty Nguyen Betty Nguyen Betty Nguyen is an American news anchor with CBS News. Nguyen joined CBS News on March 11, 2010. She anchors the The CBS Morning News and is a correspondent for The Early Show. -Life and career:... |
External links
- Up To The Minute Official Website
- Up To The Minute at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...