CBS 'Early Show' Exec: Why Maggie Rodriguez and Harry Smith Had to Go

Obviously if things were quote-unquote ‘working’ we wouldn’t make changes,” David Friedman tells THR.

CBS News is cleaning house at the Early Show. The program, which has languished in third place behind NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America, will install new co-hosts Chris Wragge and Erica Hill, with Jeff Glor and Marysol Castro joining the show as news reader and weather anchor, respectively.