• New York Times, Friday, November 11, 2011 4:13 PM

TV personalities Charlie Rose and Gayle King will be joining CBS' "The Early Show"  as part of a complete revamp of the low-rated morning program, according to anonymous CBS staff members cited by Brian Stelter.

As far as we know, this is the first on-air job that King, now host of a morning talk show on OWN, has had outside the media kingdom of her BFF, Oprah Winfrey. She "will help lead the 8 a.m. hour, typically the softer hour for morning news shows," writes Stelter.

The two-hour program "will defy the gauzy conventions of morning television," by focusing on hard news and also using "a conversational approach like 'Morning Joe' on MSNBC and 'The View' on ABC."

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