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CBS News correspondents Adriana Diaz and Kelly O’Grady are poised to turn into the co-hosts of “CBS Saturday Morning” during an ongoing shakeup on the community, The Post has discovered.
A source with data of the matter stated Monday the duo are in contract talks to grab the reins after former “CBS Saturday Morning” co-anchors Dana Jacobson and Michelle Miller wrapped up their ultimate show late final month.
The Post solely reported Jackson and Miller have been on the chopping block in late October, although their replacements are but to be formally introduced.
CBS News is poised to announce Kelly O’Grady as co-host of “CBS Saturday Morning.” CBS News
CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss is anticipated to make clear the adjustments during a Dec. 15 city corridor to employees, the place she will even lay out her imaginative and prescient for the community, a second source advised The Post.
Insiders stated O’Grady, a former Fox Business correspondent who got here to CBS late final 12 months, has impressed Weiss and CBS News president Tom Cibrowski.
Diaz began at CBS News in 2016 within the Beijing bureau earlier than transferring up the chain to anchor “CBS Weekend News” and the now-defunct “CBS Mornings Plus.”
O’Grady will be part of CBS News correspondent and anchor Adriana Diaz as co-host of “CBS Saturday Morning,” sources stated. Michele Crowe/CBS News
A rep for CBS News declined to remark.
One CBS source referred to as the hires a “smart move” as a result of each girls are sharpening their craft to in the future be thought of for larger anchoring gigs on the community.
“CBS needs to build its bench,” the individual added, noting that proper now, it’s “empty”.
The upheaval comes as CBS mum or dad Paramount Skydance has mandated roughly $3 billion in price cuts throughout the company.
CBS ousted co-anchors Dana Jacobson and Michelle Miller, because the community overhauls the weekend morning show. Michele Crowe/CBS News
“CBS Saturday Morning” noticed its first spherical of cuts in late October. Aside from axing the 2 anchors, the community additionally laid off its govt producer Brian Applegate, together with a host of staffers. In order to keep prices low, the 28-year-old show, which airs nationwide from 7 to 9 a.m. ET Saturdays, now shares manufacturing employees with “CBS Mornings.”
One insider stated this system was “costly” and that Miller and Jacobson have been “not cheap.” Exactly how a lot the duo have been bringing in couldn’t instantly be discovered, however two sources with data of CBS’ pay scale speculated that they have been bringing in over $1 million collectively — and that Diaz and O’Grady seemingly make a lot much less.
The community is anticipated to do a second batch of firings and announce a slew of adjustments within the coming days — together with asserting “CBS Mornings” co-anchor Tony Dokoupil as “CBS Evening News’” subsequent anchor, as first reported by The Post.
