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CNN Laying Off 300 employees

Don CT said:
That's not the problem. Trump talks plenty for them to have stories to debunk. It's cord cutters. I think it's having an effect on the whole industry. Or it's an AT&T move to cut costs.
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Heard the news about this on local radio the other day.

I thought about the POTUS fake news too but agree with the cord cutters.I was one of them .I dumped Comcast expanded channels back in 2012 which includes CNN,FOX News ,MSNBC, ESPN, ETC .My biggest gripe at the time was what ESPN charges per subscriber.Thats another whole topic.......

Does anybody have the latest cable ratings numbers.
 
WPPCProductions said:
Heard the news about this on local radio the other day.

I thought about the POTUS fake news too but agree with the cord cutters.I was one of them .I dumped Comcast expanded channels back in 2012 which includes CNN,FOX News ,MSNBC, ESPN, ETC .My biggest gripe at the time was what ESPN charges per subscriber.Thats another whole topic.......

Does anybody have the latest cable ratings numbers.
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Here is Wednesday.
https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/wednesday-cable-ratings-may-8-2019/
 
https://deadline.com/2019/05/trutv-layoffs-restructuring-warnermedia-1202623141/

And Now Warner Media is Laying off People from TruTV.

TruTV is laying off most of its marketing and programming staffers, who will receive severance packages as part of exit deals similar to those at other units of WarnerMedia. The company has been streamlining and consolidating since AT&T acquired Time Warner for $81 billion in 2018. The restructuring accelerated in February, when the federal government ended its pursuit of an antitrust lawsuit seeking to block the merger.

Deadline has confirmed the truTV departures are close to 50, or nearly 40% of the network’s workforce. The departments are not shutting down completely, with small programming and marketing teams to remain when the network team joins other New York divisions next week at WarnerMedia’s new HQ in Hudson Yards.
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Don CT said:
Here is Wednesday.
https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/wednesday-cable-ratings-may-8-2019/
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Thanks Don CT.Sports and reality shows on top.All not on my favorite TV shows list.Not my cup of tea for entertainment .I'm glad that I cut the cord for extended basic years ago.

WOW. CNN is nowhere on the charts.Today I noticed that where I get my blood draw for my doctors now has MSNBC on its TV's.They used too have CNN Health channel on there.This explains the layoffs at its health channel division. My doctors office just only have any of the local stations on their sets.
 
TheBigA said:
Now the president calls on the public to boycott AT&T

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/03/trump-att-cnn-coverage-1351599

Imagine if Obama had supported the ad boycotts at Fox.

Using the power of the government to control the press is unconstitutional.

Using the power of the government to financially attack public companies is illegal.
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People on the Left support political boycotts all the time. Ask Rush Limbaugh.

Trump has the same right to advocate for this as any other citizen.
He does not check his First Amendment rights at the White House door on the day he is sworn in.

Or does the fact that he just has a bigger megaphone bother you?

Nothing about what he has said constitutes "controlling the press".
The press is still free to report and to say whatever they wish, albeit perhaps
with a slightly smaller advertising base.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
People on the Left support political boycotts all the time. Ask Rush Limbaugh.

Trump has the same right to advocate for this as any other citizen.
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He is the president, and he runs the government. Having an opinion is one thing. Using the power of the government for personal political purposes is unconstitutional.

Plus he's wrong about CNN. They always have a Trump supporter among their panelists to offer his side of the discussion. That's more than either Fox or MSNBC. He just doesn't like them. It has nothing to do with the facts.
 
TheBigA said:
[The President is] wrong about CNN. They always have a Trump supporter among their panelists to offer his side of the discussion. That's more than either Fox or MSNBC. He just doesn't like them. It has nothing to do with the facts.
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Their "Trump supporters" or "conservatives" are either lukewarm or poseurs. You just don't recognize it.
 
JBraddock said:
Their "Trump supporters" or "conservatives" are either lukewarm or poseurs. You just don't recognize it.
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It doesn't matter. They present the other side, and it's costing them viewers. They'd get better ratings if they just did what MSNBC does.

He's doing the same thing Nixon did, except it's out in public. Targeting AT&T for no other reason than politics is illegal.
 
It was pointed out today that one of the witnesses in the DOJ's suit against the merger of AT&T and Time Warner was the current Attorney General, whose testimony was very critical of the actions of the DOJ and the president. He used the words "the president's public animus" against CNN. The DOJ lost that case, and hasn't appealed. Given the testimony filed last year, I doubt the DOJ will ever appeal. So apparently the AG doesn't approve of the president's continual attacks against CNN or the calling for an AT&T boycott to pressure CNN to produce coverage that is more favorable to him.
 
CNN International is cutting its last remaining daily program produced from Asia, CNN New Stream. At one time Asia was a big focus for CNN, there use to be a morning program produced in Hong Kong but was axed a few years for a 3 hour simulcast of CNN's US lineup of Anderson Cooper, Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon. Along with CNNI recently adding a simulcast of CNN US's Morning show to 6pm Hong Kong, another prime news period, With the focus of CNN's US programming being mostly of US politics, this current lineup likely has little interest to viewers in Asia.

CNN sent a letter out to several of its freelancers extending payments terms to Net 90, basically meaning freelancers will get paid 90 days after sending a invoice. I believe Net 30 and net 60 are a lot more common. CNN has a large number of freelancers. With many people living paycheck to paycheck this is going to have a very big impact on the freelancers and this will likely put into question to CNN's financial situation.
This is a blog post https://blog.freelancersunion.org/2019/05/29/no-cnn-net-90-is-not-a-reasonable-payment-term/ but you can see the letter here https://twitter.com/marcusdipaola/status/1133583324977483776
 
TheBigA said:
I doubt anyone has to worry about the financial solvency of AT&T.
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No but CNN international losing 10 million dollars a year https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/28/cnn-preparing-cuts-london-based-news-operation and CNN US's ratings being at a 3 year low is concerning. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2019/6/5/cnn-hits-three-year-low-in-the-ratings

It doesn't sound like CNN is changing direction from 24/7 Trump coverage even if it makes CNN's top talent unhappy. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2019/5/23/exclusive-jeff-zucker-takes-cnn-anchors-to-breakfast
 
bobjim45 said:
It doesn't sound like CNN is changing direction from 24/7 Trump coverage even if it makes CNN's top talent unhappy.
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Their problem isn't who they're covering. Their problem is how they're doing it. MSNBC is doing a better job, and the viewers know it. That's why MSNBC is doing so well. One wonders why Trump never mentions them.

But the fact is that CNN could go back to covering non-Trump stories, and I don't think it would improve their ratings, nor do I think it would improve their profitability. Cable news is suffering the same problem AM talk is facing. Aging demos and unwillingness of advertisers to support the programming. The bigger problem is that consumers are moving away from cable TV to OTT devices and ala carte channel choices. It's the same thing that's causing ESPN to lay off staff. It's why some other companies like Scripps Interactive are selling cable assets. So we all know that CNN is consolidating its operations, as all other cable companies are. The focus at AT&T is for assets such as HBO more than CNN. I'm sure someone at CNN is talking about creating some kind of subscriber content, because the future isn't great for ad supported channels.
 
TheBigA said:
One wonders why Trump never mentions them.
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One name: Jeff Zucker, they're both showmen, Jeff loves when Trump mentions CNN. The more Trump talks about certain CNN "reporters" the more airtime they get on CNN. The focus at CNN is entertainment more than journalistic integrity.

CNN did have success with its documentary/reality series (Anthony Bourdain...), those shows were able to help prime demo ratings. Most of CNN's cuts for the last few years have been to news gathering (news bureaus being closed or cut, news hours being replaced). News programming is very costly compared to airing opinion.
 
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https://deadline.com/2019/06/warner...keting-and-brand-strategy-officer-1202631178/

WarnerMedia is facing management changes along the way.

Molly Battin, previously EVP and head of communications and marketing at Turner, has been appointed Chief Corporate Marketing and Brand Strategy Officer at WarnerMedia.

In leading brand strategy and brand management across WarnerMedia, Battin will report to Keith Cocozza, EVP of Corporate Marketing and Communications. She and her team will be responsible for coordinated portfolio marketing, agency management, cross promotion planning, media production and presentation services.
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TheBigA said:
Now the president calls on the public to boycott AT&T because he doesn't like CNN

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/03/trump-att-cnn-coverage-1351599

BTW AT&T was a huge contributor to the Trump campaign in 2016

Imagine if Obama had publicly supported the ad boycotts at Fox.

Using the power of the government to control the press is unconstitutional.

Using the power of the government to financially attack public companies is illegal.
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Well said. You're 100% correct in your assessment. :cool:
 
Expressing the opinion that people should not watch a certain channel and that advertisers should not
place ads there is NOT controlling the press.

Controlling the press would involve things like yanking the broadcast license away from a TV station
that ran a story the government did not like (as happens in places like Venezuela). Or cutting off
electricity to the press plant of a newspaper. Or using prior restraint to prevent a story from being
published.

Trump verbally attacking CNN has not stopped them from airing any story they've wanted to broadcast,
so clearly he is not controlling them.
 
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