The Best Hosts on CBS This Morning

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Updated May 15, 2024 17 items
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Vote up the best members of CBS This Morning.

CBS This Morning is a TV program that delves into national and international news headlines of the day. It originally aired between 1987 and 1999 with over 3,000 episodes during its initial run. It came back onto CBS in 2012 and has been on the air ever since. Many people tune in first thing in the morning to watch pre-recorded interviews and live in-studio segments to see what is going on in the world. There have been numerous CBS This Morning hosts over the years, and now, it's time to count them down by voting for your favorites. 

Who did you like watching when you flipped on the program after you made your morning bowl of cereal? Do you like the current line-up of hosts consisting of Gayle King, John Dickerson, and Norah O'Donnell? Bianna Golodryga is a more recent host who joined the line-up in 2018 but left in 2019. There have been plenty of other hosts and correspondents over the years who interviewed the biggest stars in the world and reported on the latest breaking events. 

The hosts on CBS This Morning had the important task of getting viewers ready for the day. This list goes through everyone who hosted the program, both old and new.

  • Harry Smith
    1
    Television producer, Actor, TV Journalist
    7 votes

    Anchor from 1987 to 1996

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  • John Dickerson
    2

    John Dickerson

    Journalist
    5 votes

    Co-anchor since 2018

  • Gayle King
    3
    5 votes

    Co-anchor since 2012

    Gayle King (born December 28, 1954) is an American television personality, journalist, and author, who is a chief anchor for CBS News and co-host of its flagship morning program CBS This Morning, a position she has held since its debut in 2012. She is also an editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine.
  • Kathleen Sullivan
    4

    Kathleen Sullivan

    Journalist, Actor, Presenter
    7 votes

    Anchor from 1987 to 1990

    This article is about the American journalist. For other persons with the same name, see Kathleen Sullivan (disambiguation) Kathleen Sullivan (born May 17, 1953) is an American television journalist. She was hired as CNN anchor by former president Reese Schonfeld in 1980. Her career has been involved in nearly every area of broadcasting. For more than ten years, Sullivan was a news anchor, working at CNN, ABC News and CBS News. She is a blogger for The Huffington Post.
  • Thalia Assuras
    5
    Journalist, Newsreader
    4 votes

    Anchor in 1999

    Thalia Assuras is a veteran television journalist and the principal of a consulting practice focused on media relations, media training, strategic planning and executive coaching.
  • Russ Mitchell
    6
    Journalist, Television producer, Actor
    3 votes

    Anchor in 1999

    Russell Edward "Russ" Mitchell (born March 25, 1960) is an American journalist best known for his career at CBS where he was anchor of The Early Show on Saturday, news anchor for The Early Show during the week, and weekend anchor of the CBS Evening News. In December 2011, it was announced that he would leave CBS to join WKYC in Cleveland, Ohio, as a lead anchor, starting in January 2012.
  • Charlie Rose
    7

    Charlie Rose

    Talk show host, Journalist, Television producer
    3 votes

    Co-host from 2012 to 2017

    Charles Peete Rose Jr. (born January 5, 1942) is an American television journalist and former talk show host. From 1991 to 2017, he was the host and executive producer of the talk show Charlie Rose on PBS and Bloomberg LP. Rose also co-anchored CBS This Morning from 2012 to 2017. Rose formerly substituted for the anchor of the CBS Evening News. Rose, along with Lara Logan, hosted the revived CBS classic Person to Person, a news program during which celebrities are interviewed in their homes, originally hosted from 1953 to 1961 by Edward R. Murrow.In November 2017, Rose's employment at CBS was terminated, and his eponymous show Charlie Rose on PBS was cancelled the day after The Washington Post published in-house allegations of sexual harassment.
  • Norah O'Donnell
    8
    Journalist
    3 votes

    Co-anchor since 2012

    Norah Morahan O’Donnell (born January 23, 1974) is an American television journalist and anchor of the CBS Evening News. She is the former co-anchor of CBS This Morning, Chief White House Correspondent for CBS News and the substitute host for CBS's Sunday morning show Face the Nation.
  • Bianna Golodryga
    9
    3 votes

    Co-host from 2018 to 2019

    Bianna Vitalievna Golodryga (Russian: Бианна Витальевна Голодрыга; b. 15 June 1978) is an American journalist who is currently serving as a contributor on CNN. She was previously the news and finance anchor at Yahoo! News. She was also previously co-anchor of the weekend edition of ABC's Good Morning America and a co-host of CBS This Morning.
  • Don Dahler
    10
    Journalist, Newsreader, Writer
    4 votes

    Special correspondent

    Don Dahler (born 1960) is an American journalist and writer. Dahler was employed by WCBS-TV in New York, where he was an anchor and reporter. Dahler is currently a correspondent for CBS News.
  • Erin Moriarty
    11
    Journalist, TV Journalist, Lawyer
    2 votes

    Interim anchor in 1996

    Erin F. Moriarty (born April 6, 1952) is an American television news reporter and correspondent. She works as a correspondent for 48 Hours Mystery. She has won national Emmy Awards several times.
  • Erica Hill
    12
    Journalist
    2 votes

    Co-host from January 2012 to July 2012

    Erica Ruth Hill-Yount (born July 20, 1976) is an American journalist who works for CNN. She serves as a primary substitute anchor and a correspondent. She co-anchored Weekend Today from 2012 to 2016, following work at CBS since 2008.
  • John Miller
    13

    John Miller

    Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence & Counterterrorism of the NYPD
    2 votes

    Senior correspondent

  • Mark McEwen
    14
    Screenwriter, Radio personality, Presenter
    2 votes

    Anchor from 1996 to 1999

    Mark McEwen (born September 16, 1954, in San Antonio, Texas) is an American TV and radio personality best known for being on the CBS network Morning show for 16 years. He's also known for his stint as the host of A&E's Live by Request, as well as a well known sub at Oviedo High School in Oviedo Florida and Lake Mary High School
  • Paula Zahn
    15
    Journalist, Television producer, Actor
    2 votes

    Anchor from 1990 to 1996

    Paula Ann Zahn (; born February 24, 1956) is an American journalist and newscaster who has been an anchor at ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, and CNN. She currently produces and hosts the true crime documentary series On the Case with Paula Zahn on the Investigation Discovery channel.
  • Harold Dow
    16
    Journalist, Newsreader
    2 votes

    Interim anchor in 1996

    Harold Dow (September 28, 1947 – August 21, 2010) was an American television news correspondent, journalist, and investigative reporter with CBS News.
  • Jane Robelot
    17
    Newsreader, TV Journalist
    2 votes

    Anchor from 1996 to 1999

    Jane Robelot (born October 9, 1960) was a co-anchor of CBS television's This Morning from 1996 to 1999. In the 1980s, she worked at WSPA-TV in Spartanburg, South Carolina, then at then-CBS-owned WCAU TV Philadelphia before moving to CBS. After working for CBS News, she was the primary anchor for WGCL-TV in Atlanta. A native of Greenville, South Carolina, where she graduated from Wade Hampton High School, and a graduate of Clemson University, she is currently the 4pm news anchor at WYFF-TV in Greenville, South Carolina. She is married and has one son.During her tenure at CBS, she won two national Emmy Awards. She also served as daytime co-host of the Nagano Olympics with Mark McEwen. Since returning to South Carolina, Robelot and her husband Mario DeCarvalho created Carolina Zoom Productions, a high-definition video company. At WYFF, Robelot worked on "Chronicle: Pauls' Gift" that dealt with a local man's sudden death and his role in saving three strangers. This was done with cooperation of the Greenville Hospital System and LifePoint, South Carolina's organ and tissue recovery agency. A TV special was planned along with public service announcements. The result was an increase in registrations for organ donations in the state along with national and international recognition. Robelot received a George Foster Peabody Award because of her efforts.