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American Morning

American Morning is an American morning television news program that aired on CNN from September 12, 2001, to December 30, 2011. American Morning debuted with anchors Paula Zahn and Anderson Cooper on the day after the September 11 attacks, five months earlier than planned, replacing CNN Early Edition and CNN Live This Morning.

Cooper was replaced by Bill Hemmer in February 2002. The show's next permanent co-anchors were Soledad O'Brien and Miles O'Brien, who fronted the show from 2003 to 2007. They were replaced by John Roberts and Kiran Chetry due to poor ratings. After Roberts and Chetry left in 2011, the show did not have a permanent anchor team and was shelved by CNN at the end of the year. American Morning was replaced by two new programs, Early Start and Starting Point.

American Morning was last hosted by Ali Velshi, Christine Romans and Carol Costello. Others who appeared regularly were Rob Marciano with the weather, Sunny Hostin on legal news, and CNN senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta as well as Elizabeth Cohen with health-related reports.

American Morning maintained a stronger focus on political, domestic and global stories than many U.S. morning shows, as demonstrated by its slogan "the most news in the morning," although it did have segments related to celebrities and entertainment news. There are usually more scripted segments on American Morning than on other morning shows. The program mainly aimed to attract viewers who prefer a more straightforward morning show, without the amount of anchor banter found on the competition. Its main competitors were Fox News' Fox & Friends and MSNBC's Morning Joe.

American Morning aired live every weekday from 6 to 9 am EST. After years of operating from a streetside studio at the 1271 Avenue of the Americas in New York City, the show moved north to an indoor set at the CNN studios in the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle which was shared with the HLN show Showbiz Tonight. In October 2006, AM received a redesigned set, along with new music and graphics.

On September 26, 2007, American Morning began broadcasting in high-definition television.

Originally AM aired from 7 am to 10 am. After the cancellation of CNN Daybreak in November 2005, the program was expanded to four hours, 6 am to 10 am. However, the air time was reduced in October 2006 to 6 am to 9 am, after the expansion of CNN Newsroom.

American Morning originally premiered on September 12, 2001. Paula Zahn began anchoring the program five months early due to the 9/11 attacks which had occurred the previous morning. Jack Cafferty and Anderson Cooper joined her as co-hosts and helped deliver news on the attacks.

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