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 International standard-definition and high-definition feeds (the SD feed of CNN/US switched to a widescreen letterbox screen format on January 11, 2011). "World One" was dropped from CNN/U.S. just a few months later to allow the addition of an extra hour of "American Morning" which has been replaced with "Early Start". As of August 2014, following the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, a permanent simulcast of CNNI's block of "Newsroom" with Rosemary Church and Errol Barnett was added to the late-night lineup of CNN/U.S., serving as a lead-in to "Early Start". In late 2015, John Vause and anchor Isha Sesay began to anchor