• TV Week, Wednesday, August 16, 2006 11:45 AM

CNN will chop an hour off "American Morning" in mid-October to ease the load on co-anchors Soledad O'Brien and Miles O'Brien, reports TV Week. "I just don't want to burn the guys out. The O'Briens are only human," CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein says. Also, starting Labor Day, Heidi Collins and weekend man Tony Harris will become the main anchors of the 10 a.m.-to-noon weekday block, to be re-titled "CNN Newsroom." It's "a combination of lightening their load and the confidence we have in our team," Klein adds, referring to the Collins-Harris union. The changes in personnel and lineups come a week after CNN announced that longtime anchor Daryn Kagan is leaving the all-news network at the end of the month.

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