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CNN to Cut Costs, Lay Off Staff by Year’s End: ‘These Changes Will Not Be Easy’
- Thread starter Mikey Radio
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How would that happen? CNN isn't a terrestrial news network (i.e., carried on broadcast TV, aside from individual stories carried on its affiliates). Would it fall in some way under the FCC's purview? Or perhaps antitrust laws? I honestly don't know.
The feds would not allow NewsCorp to own two cable news networks. It would be anticompetitive.
actually, the feds seemed to not care when HLN was still Headline News and CNN it's sister station and both were cable news channels in the prime years of cable news.
They were not competitors but sister stations.
Fox News buying CNN is a whole different ballgame.
Like Citadel—ABC Radio and Entercom—CBS Radio, Warner Bros. Discovery was a Reverse Morris Trust set up by the selling party (in this case, AT&T, which rid itself of a lot of debt and saddled WBD with it).
Citadel collapsed after their stock plummeted and was subsequently delisted. Audacy is trying to avoid that same fate as we speak.
It’s something the DOJ would have to look over; more specifically, revenue and potential antitrust concerns. A good example is when the newly merged NBCUniversal sold off NewsWorld International (which Universal had vis-a-vis USA Networks) because of the MSNBC joint venture with Microsoft.
Ana Cabrera moves from CNN to NBC News.
Yikes! As a side note, @frankberry any idea why none of these links to Variety articles are 'clickable' on the RD site?
I'm not sure. Perhaps because there isn't a "www" in the link. I'll ask around.
Oddly it is now clickable when you quote it.
It's also extremely unrealistic. Way too costly for News Corp.
Longtime CNN Executive Producer Javi Morgado Exiting Network
Morgado, who joined CNN 11 years ago, most recently led At This Hour with Kate Bolduan and previously spent six and a half years in charge of CNN New Day.
www.adweek.com
Javi Morgado exits CNN.
CNN to move their LA area offices to Burbank.
Jon Adler and Barbara Starr leave CNN.
CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr Leaving After 21 Years
Starr has made repeated trips to Iraq, Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa, where she has been embedded with U.S. troops during her time at CNN.
www.adweek.com
Some of the departures are part of the Warner discovery restructure.
CNN is serious about getting into comedy | Semafor
Chris Licht is exploring hiring a comedian to host one of CNN's prime time shows; “They’re looking for their version of John Oliver,” one television news insider says.
www.semafor.com
Note CNN is proposing the idea but in general it's a ploy to put attention on HBO Max.
Gotta love how these grandiose ideas get floated around by networks in the hope of getting attention and in the end, a traditional show hosted by either a talking head or an existing anchor will be what is launched. (Remember when CBS openly considered having Jon Stewart anchoring the Evening News? Or NBC moving Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski to co-host Meet The Press? Exactly.)CNN is serious about getting into comedy | Semafor
Chris Licht is exploring hiring a comedian to host one of CNN's prime time shows; “They’re looking for their version of John Oliver,” one television news insider says.
Note CNN is proposing the idea but in general it's a ploy to put attention on HBO Max.
And why in the wide wide world of sports would Bill Maher want that? He gets paid absurdly good money for a weekly show with no language restrictions and it’s not even the best comedy-news show on HBO.
Many radio stations have tried hiring a comedian to do a morning show.CNN is serious about getting into comedy | Semafor
Chris Licht is exploring hiring a comedian to host one of CNN's prime time shows; “They’re looking for their version of John Oliver,” one television news insider says.
Note CNN is proposing the idea but in general it's a ploy to put attention on HBO Max.
It does not work.
Comedians don't improvise or do things spontaneously. They prepare bits or scenes, and try them at shows where mostly they do tried and proven skits and jokes. If the new bit works, they add it, maybe putting to rest an old one that is no longer topical.
But comedians can't do several hours a day as they are used to doing 60 to 90 minutes, and repeating those 60 to 90 minutes in each and every venue they work over and over. Since the crowd at a paid venue is different every night, and the city location changes every few days or weeks, there is no way a comedian, unless they have a dozen writers and practice for hours a day, can do a daily TV show.
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