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​This week on "Sunday Morning" (Sept. 25)

“Celebrating Charlie”

We are devoting this week’s broadcast of “Sunday Morning” to honoring our longtime host, Emmy- and Peabody Award-winner Charles Osgood, who is leaving the anchor seat after 22 years. We’ll hear from Charles’ colleagues and some of his biggest fans; revisit several of his most memorable stories; and share some musical highlights.

          
WATCH THE COMPLETE BROADCAST:
09/25/16 “Celebrating Charlie” (VIDEO)

     
ALMANAC:
Charles Osgood, Baltimore boy | Watch Video
Tracy Smith on the life story of the veteran CBS News anchor, while Charles Osgood -- baseball fan, newspaper delivery boy, and music student -- returns to the city of his youth, Baltimore, Md., in a report originally broadcast in 2005.

       
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 Charles Osgood tribute: Scott Pelley, David Muir and Lester Holt (Video)
The network news anchors from CBS, ABC and NBC pay homage to a broadcast trailblazer.  

     
NEWSMAN:
Charles Osgood: A broadcast journalist's journey | Watch Video
Rita Braver on the work of the intrepid radio and TV journalist.

      
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 Charles Osgood tribute: “CBS This Morning,” “Today,” “GMA” (Video)
The morning news anchors from CBS, NBC and ABC pay homage to the host of CBS’ long-running “Sunday Morning.”

     
CLASSIC OSGOOD STORY:
 Keith Haring: How a furtive artist invaded the art world | Watch Video
In this 1982 profile Charles Osgood meets the graffiti artist whose paintings took Soho by storm.

     
CLASSIC OSGOOD STORY:
 Tony Bennett and the art of friendship | Watch Video
In this story originally broadcast on November 7, 2003, the singer-painter talks to Charles Osgood about his mentor and friend, the artist Everett Raymond Kinstler.

         
MUSIC: 
Charles Osgood, music man | Watch Video
For the past 22 years, “Sunday Morning” didn’t need a house band. We had Charles Osgood, who was his own accompanist, on the piano or the banjo. Anthony Mason reports on the anchor’s musical proclivities.

WEB EXTRA: The U.S. Army Band and Chorus perform “Gallant Men” (Video)

      
COLLEAGUES: 
“Sunday Morning” contributors’ tributes to Charles Osgood | Watch Video
David Edelstein, Bill Flanagan, Nancy Giles, David Pogue, Faith Salie and Ben Stein pay homage to our departing host.  

WEB EXTRA VIDEOS: Watch extended comments by each of our contributors: Edelstein, Flanagan, Giles, PogueSalie​ and Stein​. 

        
LITERATURE:
 Charles Osgood: Poet-in-residence (VIDEO)
Straight from the news, his subjects he’d choose: Martha Teichner with an ode to CBS News’ resident wit and poet laureate, Charles Osgood.

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 Charles Osgood tribute: David Letterman (Video)
The legendary late-night host pays homage to another broadcast legend.  

     
FASHION:
 An Osgood trademark: The bow tie (VIDEO)
If clothes make the man, then the bow tie is essential to Charles Osgood. Mo Rocca finds out how the “Sunday Morning” host tied the knot with his signature sartorial accessory.

         
FAMILY:
At home with Charles Osgood | Watch Video
Lee Cowan visits the CBS News veteran at his abodes -- in New York, and the south of France.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Charles Osgood reflects on his career
The veteran CBS Newsman talks with Lee Cowan about the joy he has experienced in his work.

       
MOMENTS IN TIME:
The French Chef (Video)
Bill Geist remembers Charles Osgood’s time in the kitchen with Julia Child.

       
TECHNOLOGY: 
The cluttering of TV screens (Video)
Charles Osgood on the proliferation of information that blocks viewers’ views of TV news.

     
TRIBUTE:
 Ted Koppel’s poem for Charles Osgood | Watch Video
One veteran broadcast journalist honors another

     
MUSIC:
 Charles Osgood and the Boston Pops (Video)
The “Sunday Morning” host performs “So Long (It’s Been Good to Know You)“ with members of the Boston Pops.  

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: The Boston Pops play “Brazil”
Members of the Boston Pops Orchestra perform Ary Barroso’s classic “Brazil.”

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: “Sunday Morning” theme by the Boston Pops
Members of the Boston Pops perform Gottfried Reiche’s “Ablassen,” the theme song of CBS’ “Sunday Morning.”

        
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 Charles Osgood tribute: Stephen Colbert, James Corden, Les Moonves (Video)
Three pillars of CBS - the hosts of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “The Late Late Show with James Corden” and the chief executive officer of CBS Corporation Les Moonves - pay homage to a broadcast legend.  

       
PASSING THE BATON: Charles Osgood announces Jane Pauley as his successor on “Sunday Morning” | Watch Video
The departing host of the long-running Sunday morning news program names the third host in “Sunday Morning”’s history. 

    
NATURE:
Chesapeake Bay (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday morning at the mouth of the Patuxent River along Chesapeake Bay’s western shore, not far from Charles Osgood’s boyhood home in Baltimore. Videographer: Carl Mrozek.

WEB EXTRA: Charles Osgood tribute: Vin Scully (Video)
The legendary L.A. Dodgers announcer pays homage to another broadcast legend.

WEB EXTRA: Charles Osgood tribute: Alan Alda (Video)
The actor-director offers words of praise of the veteran CBS Newsman.

WEB EXTRA: Charles Osgood tribute: Joe Torre (Video)
The baseball great pays homage to a great baseball fan: Veteran CBS Newsman Charles Osgood.


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