Paramount Layoffs Hit CBS News

“CBS Saturday Morning” is poised to become the first major casualty of the sweeping cuts hitting CBS News on Wednesday, The Post has learned.

The 28-year-old show, which airs nationwide on Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. ET, has been slated for a radical revamp by CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss and the network’s president Tom Cibrowski, sources close to the situation said.

Co-anchors Michelle Miller, Dana Jacobson and the show’s executive producer Brian Applegate have been informed and are on their way out, sources close to the situation said.

It couldn’t immediately be learned when the final episode will air, including whether the show will broadcast this coming Saturday. It was also unclear whether CBS will seek to revive the broadcast in another form.

Sources close to the situation noted that CBS’s new bosses Weiss and Cibrowski — who have been tapped by CBS owner Paramount Skydance to overhaul the Tiffany Network — decided that the show was “too expensive.”

Sources said CBS is also canceling “CBS Mornings Plus,” a show co-hosted by Adriana Diaz and Tony Dokoupil, who has been tipped as a leading candidate to host “CBS Evening News.” According to one source, Friday will be the last broadcast of the show.

CBS is also nixing “CBS Evening News Plus” — a streaming offshoot of “CBS Evening News,” whose co-anchor John Dickerson recently announced he is leaving the network at the end of the year. It is widely expected that his co-host Maurice DuBois will also exit.

CBS News is also closing its bureau in Johannesburg, South Africa. Senior foreign correspondent Deborah Patta, who was based in the office, has been let go, according to a source with knowledge of the matter.

The network also ousted Joelle Martinez, its Los Angeles bureau chief, and it gutted its Race and Culture unit, letting go of about eight or nine staffers.

All in all, CBS News endured less than 100 cuts on Wednesday, with more expected at a later date.