By Brian Stelter, NCS
(NCS) — As CBS News plots an overhaul of its morning present, Gayle King has renewed her contract to stay on the community, a spokesperson confirmed Wednesday.
“I’m excited about continuing at ‘CBS Mornings.’ As always, I’m open to new adventures here and ready to go,” King mentioned in a press release.
The contract renewal retains one of many community’s finest-recognized stars in place at a time of super upheaval at CBS and within the tv trade writ giant.
CBS News, a unit of Paramount, has new management; editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has been brainstorming how one can reinvigorate the third-place morning present, in response to folks acquainted with the matter.
And Paramount has struck a deal to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, together with NCS, foreshadowing a potential merger of NCS and CBS News someday sooner or later.
Paramount is pursuing regulatory approval of the deal and hoping to finish the method within the third quarter of this 12 months.
Last fall, shortly after Weiss arrived, Variety journal cast doubt about King’s future on “CBS Mornings,” this system she has helmed since 2012.
Variety mentioned she was “expected to depart” the present and “may shift to a different role at the news division,” doubtlessly with “a deal to produce her own programming for the network.”
CBS disputed the report on the time. And on Wednesday, King alluded to it in her assertion, saying that “rumors of my demise were inaccurate and greatly exaggerated.”
“CBS News is my longtime home,” King continued, “and I am committed to our mission.”
Weiss touted the information by sharing King’s quote in a put up on X. She additionally mentioned in a remark to the Wall Street Journal, which broke the contract renewal information, that King and CBS will work collectively on “new, enterprising projects that bring her talents to new audiences.”
King and Nate Burleson co-host the weekday morning present, joined by featured host Vladimir Duthiers and different CBS journalists.
King and Burleson’s morning colleague Tony Dokoupil lately shifted to nights as the brand new anchor of the “CBS Evening News.”
In the mornings, CBS News president Tom Cibrowski mentioned Wednesday, King and Burleson “are fantastic partners on the show and morning TV is more vibrant than ever. We are excited to continue to evolve ‘CBS Mornings’ and can’t wait for what’s to come.”
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