Posts Tagged ‘Maggie Rodriguez’

The feedback about the new anchor team on CBS’ “The Early Show” is filling up on the show’s Facebook page. Someone from the CBS morning news program posted this on the show’s page around 12:30pm today:

We appreciate that some of you in this forum miss the previous line-up. They are moving on to other challenges, and the new team is working hard to put on a great program every day. Thank you for following “The Early Show” on Facebook.

It didn’t take long for fans to add commentary — 99 at last count, some supporting the new anchors, but most writing things like, ” I have moved on to GMA now” and “I miss the old team with such great camaraderie..”

Earlier this month, Chris Wragge, Erica Hill, Marisol Castro and Jeff Glor replaced Harry Smith, Maggie Rodriguez and Dave Price. Fans have also set up a ‘Save The Current Early Show Team’ Facebook page, which boasts 1,400 likes and continues to update. By contrast, the show’s main Facebook page has more than 37,000 likes.

Maggie Rodriguez, who is a co-anchor of CBS’s “The Early Show” launched a video blog today. And Rodriguez, whose parents were born in Cuba, will deliver the vlog in Spanish.

The topic of the first video blog, “Children of the Recession,” coincides with this week’s network-wide series of special reports on CBS TV and on CBSNews.com.

CBS says Rodriguez’s vlogs will “provide a platform for free-flowing conversation with Latino viewers by encouraging online comments and questions.”

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• Related: Katie Couric‘s op-ed in USA Today on the “Lost Generation.”

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Already a hit on YouTube, “Britain’s Got Talent” contestant Susan Boyle made her American television debut this morning on CBS’ The Early Show. She talked with anchors Harry Smith and Maggie Rodriguez and sang a bit of “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Miserables – a performance that instantly turned her from reality show laughing stock to singing sensation. That performance, first seen Saturday night on Britain’s ITV, was uploaded to YouTube almost immediately.

When the segment aired this morning, Rodriguez announced the original video had been viewed 11 million times on YouTube. By 3:30pmET, it was nearing 13 million. And no doubt, thousands more have seen other versions of Boyle’s performance.

Several versions of the clips on YouTube have been disabled at the request of producers of “Britain’s Got Talent,” but we found a version. It’s after the jump. First, the backstory on Boyle in the clip below from CBS News:

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Also, the WSJ blog Digits, found out, the phrase “Susan Boyle” has been a top trend all day on Twitter, while someone has already created a Susan Boyle account, replying “thankyou for your support!” and “please follow me!”

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CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric has made her Twitter followers, (including us) aware that she is jetting off to LA at this hour where she will receive a Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism from the USC’s Annenberg School.

But, in what may be the highlight of the trip, she’ll be in the crowd for tonight’s American Idol taping.

Harry Smith will be filling in on the Evening News tonight while Maggie Rodriguez fills in tomorrow night.

In broadcasting, there are pesky commercial breaks that always seem to halt a good morning show conversation just as it’s getting good.

That’s not the case in Webcasting, as CBS’s Maggie Rodriguez revealed this morning.

Just after The Early Show wrapped up on TV, Rodriguez anchored the show’s first Webcast, Ask It Early. The weekly show, which will focus on personal finance for the time being, went about 21 minutes. Toward the end of the chat, Rodriguez said, “All right, let’s try to get off in the next 15 seconds so we can be out at 9:35… But we’ll go a little over, we can. It’s the Web.”

And they did. If you want to see the first Webcast, we’ve included it after the jump…

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This Thursday Maggie Rodriguez, co-anchor of CBS’ “The Early Show” will begin hosting the show’s first live, interactive Webcast. “Ask it Early” will begin at 9:15amET following the CBS TV morning show. Rodriguez will be joined by Early Show financial contributors Vera Gibbons and Ray Martin.

The Webcast, which will last approximately 10-20 minutes, will feature questions from the online audience. If you have a question, submit it to askitearly@cbs.com. The Webcast will remain available for on-demand viewing and will also be fed to CBS Radio affiliates for their own programming.