CNN announced some details on its two upcoming morning news shows, which we learn will be called Early Start and Starting Point.

Early Start will air from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. anchored by Ashleigh Banfield and Starting Point (for those who didn't get the early start, we suppose) will go from 7 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. with Soledad O'Brien. We hope the shows themselves are a bit more exciting than their names, which could only get more dull if they'd just named them Early Morning News Digest on CNN or No, No, Morning Joe's on MSNBC, Silly or something. (Actually that last one would be way more exciting.) Both should debut early in January.

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