Charles Osgood, who anchored �CBS Sunday Morning� for more than two decades, was host of the long-running radio program �The Osgood File� and was referred to as CBS News� poet-in-residence, has died. He was 91.

CBS reported that Osgood died Tuesday at his home in New Jersey and that the cause was dementia, according to his family.

Osgood was a broadcaster who could write essays and light verse as well as report hard news, and he worked radio and television with equal facility. He often signed off by telling listeners: �I�ll see you on the radio.�

Osgood took over �Sunday Morning� after the beloved Charles Kuralt retired in 1994. Osgood seemingly had an impossible act to follow, but with his folksy erudition and his slightly bookish, bow-tied style, he immediately clicked with viewers who continued to embrace the program as an unhurried TV magazine.

In 1967, he took a job as reporter on the CBS-owned New York news radio station. Then, one fateful weekend, he was summoned to fill in at the anchor desk for the TV network�s Saturday newscast. In 1971, he joined the CBS network.

(AP)