The program's history traces back to the launch of the network's first overnight news program,
CBS News Nightwatch, which premiered on October 3, 1982; that program was originally anchored by
Christopher Glenn, Felicia Jeter, Karen Stone and
Harold Dow, who were later joined by
Mary Jo West. In 1984, production of
Nightwatch moved from
New York City to
Washington, D.C., at which time
Charlie Rose (who later returned to
CBS News as co-anchor of
CBS This Morning) and Lark McCarthy became the program's anchors.
Nightwatch's format was a hybrid of a traditional newscast and an interview and debate show; during the original 1982 format, local affiliates had the option of inserting local news updates into the program.
Up to the Minute CBS announced its decision to cancel
CBS News Nightwatch in early 1992. Around this time, ABC and NBC were setting up their late-night newscast programs (
World News Now and
NBC Nightside, respectively; only
World News Now is still on the air) and replaced it with a more traditional news program in the same vein as the other two, titled
Up to the Minute, on March 30, 1992. The program was originally anchored by
Russ Mitchell and
Monica Gayle, who both left the program in 1993 (Gayle subsequently became co-anchor of the
CBS Morning News), and were replaced by
Troy Roberts, at which point the program switched to the single-anchor format which it used for the rest of its run; production of the newscast returned to the
CBS Broadcast Center in New York, situated in front of a working newsroom used by the affiliate news service CBS Newspath. Regular on-air contributors to
Up to the Minute included John Quain, who served as the program's technology consultant beginning in 1998. The program's on-air graphics package and set were often several years behind that of CBS News' daytime broadcasts, with components of the news division's early-1990s era graphics package being used on the program until 2005, when it began to follow the current look of the
CBS Evening News. The newsroom behind the anchors was also covered by frosted-glass paneling, likely to hide the equally outdated CBS News and
Up to the Minute branding mounted along the walls. In March 2009, when Michelle Gielan was named anchor of
Up to the Minute, production of the program was integrated with the
CBS Morning News, with the same anchors being used on both programs. In November 2012,
Up to the Minute moved to Studio 57 at the CBS Broadcast Center, the same studio space that was also home to
CBS This Morning. At that time, it became the last remaining news program on any of the
big three networks or major cable news channels to begin broadcasting in
high-definition (by comparison, the
CBS Morning News had upgraded to HD two years earlier in November 2010).
CBS Overnight News On June 25, 2015,
Newsday reported that CBS News had decided to cancel
Up to the Minute but planned on retaining the 3 a.m. timeslot for news programming.
Up to the Minute ended its run after 23 years on September 18, 2015. The program was replaced three days later on September 21 by the
CBS Overnight News. In terms of content, the show was largely unchanged from its predecessor, except it no longer had a dedicated anchor. Much of the program now consisted of repackaged segments from the
CBS Evening News, introduced by its anchor using footage from the earlier broadcast. Other segments were linked by CBS News correspondents in secondary studios.
CBS News Roundup In April 2024, alongside the announced rebranding of the CBS News streaming network as CBS News 24/7, CBS announced a new late-night newscast known as the
CBS News Roundup, which would premiere in June, and air on the service at 1:00 a.m. ET/10 p.m. PT. The title is familiar to
CBS News Radio listeners from its own daily morning newscast, the
CBS World News Roundup. The
Roundup premiered on May 29, 2024, also replacing the
CBS Overnight News on the main network. When it debuted, Matt Pieper hosted on Mondays, and Shanelle Kaul for the remainder of the week. Since February 27, 2025, Jessi Mitchell has hosted every weekday. It is broadcast from Studio 57 at the CBS Broadcast Center, which had been the main home of the CBS News streaming network since 2022. ==Anchors==