CBS News Debuts Rebranded Streaming Network With New Slate: Norah O’Donnell, Tony Dokoupil Host New Shows, Gayle King Anchors First ‘CBS Reports’

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CBS News is rebranding its streaming channels as CBS News Streaming Network, with a new slate of programming featuring more of the network’s broadcast talent, including a Person to Person series hosted by Norah O’Donnell and Gayle King tapped to anchor the first of new CBS Reports documentary projects.Other shows include new weekly series featuring others from the CBS Mornings franchise, including Tony Dokoupil, Tracy Smith, Lee Cowan, Michelle Miller, Dana Jacobson and Jeff Glor, as well Steve Hartman and Ben Tracy.

Live reports will come from a new 4,000-square-foot studio at the CBS Broadcast Center, with heavy use of LEDs and touchscreen monitors.

There also will be new graphics and music for the line up.Neeraj Khemlani and Wendy McMahon last year were named presidents and co-heads of a combined CBS News and Stations, and they have made a number of changes to bolster streaming across the divisions.Khemlani said that last year, when CBS President and CEO George Cheeks asked him and McMahon to head up the combined divisions, “we could start to envision how you bring this enormous reporting scale, across the board, together, with streaming as the tip of the spear.”“You start to say, ‘Imagine a new service that you can stream that has national and global streams, local news, content that you love from the most iconic franchises in the business, it comes really quite simple.”McMahon said that “as we start to shift, as we start to evolve, will more fully leverage our live breaking news capabilities across the entire CBS stations footprint,” with a user experience “that alerts you to special coverage to big moments as they are happening, and then enables you to move seamlessly in a frictionless fashion from national to