Titled CBS News Saturday Morning, the program was originally anchored by Russ Mitchell and former New York congresswoman Susan Molinari, who left in 1998, followed by Dawn Stensland-Mendte in 1998–1999.

Weather anchors Ira Joe Fisher and, initially, Lonnie Quinn, would provide voiceovers for some of the forecasts, while chatting with people in the audience outside the studio's building; afterward, the graphics ran only set to music.

After Glor was named anchor of the Sunday edition of the CBS Evening News, the program started using various male correspondents, including Anthony Mason, Chip Reid, Jim Axelrod, Maurice DuBois, James Brown, Byron Pitts, Ben Tracy, Charles Osgood, Lee Cowan, Major Garrett, Seth Doane, John Dickerson, John Miller and Tony Dokoupil, rotating every other Saturday.

Eventually Mason became the permanent Saturday anchor, initially alongside Jarvis, then Vinita Nair, Alex Wagner, and later both Michelle Miller and Dana Jacobson.

[4] Like the weekend editions of other network morning shows, the program retained a greater focus on human-interest pieces than on weekdays, though it still concentrates primarily on the news of the day during the first half-hour.

[5] An exception to the usual Saturday format occurred on February 2, 2013 (the day before Super Bowl XLVII), when the weekday anchor team hosted from New Orleans (where the game was held at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome), an edition that was branded as simply CBS This Morning (instead of CBS This Morning Saturday) and was formatted similarly to the weekday program, including "EyeOpener" segments at the top of both hours.

[7] Despite the name and studio change, the program otherwise maintains the same format as it had for most of its run as CBS This Morning Saturday, and Glor, Jacobson and Miller remain hosts.