While many who work in TV news strive to make it to the network one day, CBS News Correspondent Jamie Yuccas is going the other way.

The network announced that Yuccas has been named one of the anchors of the local morning news franchise that is expected to launch this fall on KCAL-TV and the CBS News Los Angeles streaming channel.

Yuccas will anchor the 7:00-10:00 AM, PT portion of KCAL’s planned seven-hour, 4:00-11:00 AM, PT, block of local newscasts.

The announcement was made today by Wendy McMahon, president and co-head, CBS News and Stations, and Joel Vilmenay, president and general manager of CBS News and Stations’ local businesses in Los Angeles.

Yuccas will continue to serve as a CBS News correspondent and will still appear as a guest co-host on CBS MORNINGS, CBS News’ national morning news program.  

When she assumes her new role with KCAL, Yuccas will remain at the CBS Broadcast Center in Studio City, Calif., which serves as the home of KCAL, sister station KCBS-TV, and the CBS News West Coast Bureau – where she has been based since 2017.

  “Creating a hybrid role that is perfectly aligned with Jamie’s experience and strengths as a journalist and storyteller represents a seminal moment in the continuing unification of our local-to-global news organization,” McMahon said. “Neeraj and I love the notion of having someone with Jamie’s range of talents play a significant role in the launch of our morning news franchise in Southern California, and also continue to report for all of our CBS News broadcasts and platforms. This truly is a best-of-all-worlds opportunity for both Jamie and CBS.”

 “It has been a privilege to spend the last several years as a CBS News correspondent, reporting on stories of national and international importance, and I’m thrilled to have a chance to broaden my work as an anchor here in Los Angeles, a city I know and love. I am grateful to Wendy, Neeraj, Joel, Mike (Dello Stritto, vice president and news director, CBS Los Angeles) and the incredibly collaborative team at CBS News and Stations who worked together to create a new kind of role that I’m confident will strengthen our ability to tell those meaningful stories and further connect our CBS community of journalists. I can’t wait to get started.”