CNN Daybreak CNN Daybreak CNN Daybreak is an American early morning news television program aired on CNN, anchored from New York by Carol Costello. It debuted on June 1, 1980, the same day CNN went live. The first program to air live weekdays on the network, it preceded "American Morning" at 5:00 a.m. ET. Similar to "First Look" on MSNBC, the program was based on covering the news stories of the morning without talk and analysis, usually with correspondents on location or taped stories from the previous evening. Until spring 2005, Daybreak was aired from the CNN Center in Atlanta. Costello then
CNN Center a former country club on Techwood Drive in Midtown Atlanta, sharing the facility with WTBS, which currently serves as the campus for nearly all other Turner networks and Turner Studios; the mansion facade also served as the logo for Turner's theatrical and home video arms during the 1990s. When CNN networks moved to the CNN Center on July 13, 1987, CNN Headline News (now known as HLN) was the first network to broadcast a show from it at 3.00 ET with its program # 96,915. Their sister channel started live programming at 6.00 p.m. ET of that day. On May