a report by Alexandra Steigrad in the\u00a0New York Post<\/a>, CBS\u2019s flagship morning show,\u00a0CBS Mornings, \u201cwill likely be overhauled\u201d amid Tony Dokoupil\u2019s impending move to the network\u2019s evening news program. Dokoupil has filled one of the host chairs on CBS\u2019s morning program, formerly known as CBS This Morning, since 2019.<\/p>\nIn 2021, when the show rebranded to\u00a0CBS Mornings, Dokoupil and fellow co-host Gayle King were joined by CBS Sports NFL analyst Nate Burleson. The trio has stayed together ever since, though the show has always lagged behind the two stalwarts of morning television, ABC\u2019s Good Morning America and NBC\u2019s\u00a0Today, in the ratings.<\/p>\n
King, the longest tenured CBS morning host who began her run on the program in 2011, has a contract that expires in May, at which point network executives plan to remove her from the show. Steigrad reports that CBS executives would still like to find another role for King at the network.<\/p>\n
With both Dokoupil and King heading for the exits, it seems like a natural time for CBS to completely retool its morning show, which apparently will not include Nate Burleson.<\/p>\n
The former wide receiver has held down a weekday job on TV ever since joining the debut season of Good Morning Football on NFL Network in 2016. There, Burleson honed his craft for five years before taking on the decidedly different role of network morning show host in 2021. He\u2019s widely seen as one of the most versatile talents in all of television, having recently expanded outside of studio work to call a games on Netflix\u2019s Christmas Day NFL broadcast and during Nickelodeon\u2019s Slimetime altcasts.<\/p>\n
Burleson is one of the rare athletes that has successfully crossed over from sports media to general interest programming. Fox\u2019s Michael Strahan has similarly held down a hosting role on\u00a0Good Morning America while maintaining a prominent position on\u00a0Fox NFL Sunday.<\/p>\n
Per Steigrad, the\u00a0CBS Mornings overhaul won\u2019t happen in the \u201cnear term,\u201d though one would expect the show to look quite different one way or another when King\u2019s contract expires in less than six months. The shift will give Nate Burleson some flexibility to look at other weekday opportunities should he choose to do so.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, it\u2019s been an active day on the sports-personalities-on-morning-shows beat. Earlier on Tuesday,\u00a0Fox NFL Sunday host Curt Menefee announced he would be departing\u00a0Good Day New York<\/a> where he has hosted the past two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shakeup at CBS News is likely bringing an end to Nate Burleson\u2019s four-year run on the network\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,117699,60764,82073,514,26265,82,147592],"class_list":{"0":"post-336059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cbs-mornings","11":"tag-gayle-king","12":"tag-nate-burleson","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-nfl-on-cbs","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tony-dokoupil"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}