I wanted to get your thoughts on the recent news about HLN? imho, i'm not surprised by the news that was announced. Also CNN can add the HLN ratings to its CNN this morning show that will air on both CNN and HLN starting on 12/6 and combine them or leave them separate. This might be a desperate move by CNN to air the same morning show on 2 channels to better compete with morning Joe and Fox and Friends, ratings wise.
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Here are a few articles about this subject for reference. The one from Yahoo contains Chris Licht's full message to his employees following the axing of HLN's live programming and lays out the plan for several other areas of the business:
www.yahoo.com
HLN Layoffs Make Headline News: Read Chris Licht’s Memo
The former CNN Headline News channel will cease live programming, sending Robin Meade and her staff packing in the latest Warner Bros. Discovery layoffs.
Personally, it's been nearly a few decades since I switched on HLN. Back when it was "Headline News" and was just a vehicle for delivering the day's top stories in relatively short and easily digestible snippets along with the occasional human interest story (especially in the morning hours), I appreciated it. It was straight news with no opinion or commentary, delivered stories in a somewhat brief, rapid-fire manner and when considering content to show in a public setting especially, it was usually a safe bet as again, it was just "Headline News" and not polarizing. Once "HLN" changed to airing things like crime dramas and even some tv shows (HLN aired a marathon of The West Wing over Thanksgiving weekend), I had little reason to tune in.
My question is, will they ultimately spin it off or shut it down altogether at some point?
My question is, will they ultimately spin it off or shut it down altogether at some point?
i could see WBD ending HLN and rebrand it to a 24/7 version of Adult Swim to get all of the Adult Swim content off of Cartoon Network or move most of the WBD sports properties over to HLN as "Warner Sports Net" (but i think they would just do that to just TNT instead).
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