It is hosted by Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil, Nate Burleson, and Vladimir Duthiers from studios at One Astor Plaza in Times Square, the headquarters of network parent company Paramount Global.

[1] By many accounts, the second incarnation of CBS This Morning (CTM), which replaced The Early Show in 2012 and focused much more on hard news compared to its competition or its recent predecessors, was the most successful of these attempts in many years.

[2] CTM grew its audience in each of its first five years on the air, and came within a million viewers of Today during the November 2016 sweeps period.

[1] The program's audience began to erode thereafter, with CTM also being affected by overall declines in linear television viewership which have depressed ratings for all broadcast network morning shows.

[1] Several subsequent shakeups, ultimately resulting in a co-anchor team of King, Tony Dokoupil, and Anthony Mason, did not affect the program's ratings trajectory.

[7] Along with the studio move, this led to speculation that CBS was seeking to revamp the program to be patterned after Good Morning America, which is also based in Times Square and has a former NFL player, Michael Strahan, among its cast.

The central anchor table remains in place, but more casual seating arrangements including sofas and armchairs, which were rarely seen on the main CTM set, are also used at times.

PT on KCBS-TV as of January 5, 2023; this is followed by an hour-long simulcast of the morning show of sister station KCAL-TV, and then the tape delayed west edition of the program at 7:00 am.