CBS News has named the senior broadcast producer, as well as seven senior producers and a director of production, for its upcoming morning program “CBS This Morning.” Tom Mazzarelli has been named senior broadcast producer foe the program. Mazzarelli had been a senior producer for “The Early Show.” Rick Jefferson has been named director of production for the program. Jefferson had been a manager of technical operations at MSNBC.

In addition to Mazzarelli, some of the “Early Show” and CBS holdovers include: Ryan Kadro, Bob Meyer, Kevin Rochford, Mosheh Oinounou and Sharon Hoffman.

The new additions include Eva Nordstrom, who joins CBS from Bloomberg TV and Rachel Weintraub Riegel, who was co-executive producer of “The Gayle King Show” on OWN. King is now a co-anchor of “CBS This Morning.”

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CBS News continues to staff up on the transformational “Early Show.”

TVNewser has learned the network has hired broadcast veteran Sharon Hoffman as a senior producer on the show. Hoffman has had stints at “Good Morning America,” WNET and NPR. The network has also hired John Peck as supervising producer. Peck joins from KIRO-TV, the CBS affiliate in Seattle where he was the morning show executive producer. CBS News programming VP Chris Licht had hired Peck at KNTV in San Jose/San Francisco when he was EP at the NBC O&O in the mid 2000′s. Also, Ryan Kadro has been promoted from supervising producer to senior producer.