Adriana Diaz and Kelly O'Grady named co-hosts of 'CBS Saturday Morning'

CBS News named seasoned anchor and analogous Adriana Diaz and concern writer Kelly O’Grady arsenic the caller co-hosts for “CBS Saturday Morning.”

The duo volition officially commencement this week, the part announced Friday. The erstwhile longtime co-hosts, Michelle Miller and Dana Jacobson, were fto spell successful a question of company-wide unit reductions successful October.

The cuts and changes astatine the play programme were successful the works earlier Bari Weiss arrived to statesman her relation arsenic exertion successful main of CBS News earlier that month.

Weiss has generated contention and atrocious publicity for the web with her last-minute determination to propulsion a “60 Minutes” communicative connected the Trump administration’s attraction of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants who were deported to El Salvador. Critics person besides been little than impressed with the revamp of “CBS Evening News” which began this week with caller anchor Tony Dokoupil.

Diaz and O’Grady volition besides alternate arsenic co-hosts of “CBS Mornings 24/7,” the regular programme connected the CBS News streaming platform, moving alongside featured big Vladimir Duthiers.

Diaz has been with CBS News since 2012. She has served arsenic a China-based analogous covering Asia, and aboriginal reported from Chicago. Her past anchor relation was connected “CBS Mornings Plus,” a short-lived one-hour programme that followed “CBS Mornings” successful respective markets, including Los Angeles.

Diaz, 42, besides had a stint arsenic anchor of “CBS Weekend News.” She is simply a predominant fill-in for “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King. Internally, Diaz is considered a imaginable successor to King, who is successful the last twelvemonth of her declaration with CBS News.

O’Grady, 34, a caller summation to CBS, joined the web successful 2024 arsenic a analogous for its MoneyWatch unit, wherever she reported connected the economy. She had been a analogous and fill-in anchor astatine Fox Business.

In summation to her co-host role, O’Grady volition proceed to screen business, exertion and the system for the network.