CBS HIRING A.M. CO-HOST.Byline: Valerie Kuklenski Staff Writer Bryant and Jane were a great morning team on NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. , and CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. hopes to rekindle that magic. However, it won't be Jane Pauley bantering with Bryant Gumbel on his new morning program, ``The Early Show,'' but instead ABC News Los Angeles correspondent Jane Clayson. A source close to negotiations said CBS plans to announce Clayson's hiring as co-anchor on Tuesday in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Clayson, 32, reportedly had been offered the program's news reader position with potential to move into the co-anchor chair at a later date, but ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. blocked that deal with a contract clause allowing it to match any other employer's proposal. CBS then offered Clayson the co-host job, which ABC did not match. ``The Early Show,'' debuting Nov. 1, is the latest in CBS' many attempts to challenge longtime ratings leader ``Today'' on NBC, which Gumbel left in 1997 after 15 years. Like ``Today'' and ABC's ``Good Morning America Good Morning America is a weekday morning news show that is broadcast on the ABC television network. The show was adapted from The Morning Exchange, a morning show created by and airing on the ABC affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio, and was launched nationally as ,'' ``The Early Show'' will combine news, interviews and features, and will be telecast from a New York street-level studio with the curious looking on from outside. At ABC, Clayson covered Bob Dole's presidential campaign, the Heaven's Gate cult suicide and the O.J. Simpson civil trial for ``World News Tonight,'' ``Good Morning America'' and other news shows. Before joining the ABC News, Clayson reported breaking national stories such as the Atlanta Olympic Park bombing and the crash of TWA Flight 800 for NewsOne, the network's affiliate news service. She also was a reporter and anchor for seven years at KSL KSL - Knowledge Systems Laboratory Television in Salt Lake City. |
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