Posted on 02/06/2024 7:20:46 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Ratings-challenged CNN canceled its scandal-scarred morning news show in a massive shakeup, the cable network announced Monday.
“CNN This Morning” — launched in November 2022 with a trio of hosts that included Don Lemon before he was fired — will no longer air from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m., CNN boss Mark Thompson said in a memo to staff.
The show’s current co-anchors, Poppy Harlow and Phil Mattingly, will be reassigned, and the network will abandon producing the morning show in New York City — with the 50-person staff that worked on “CNN This Morning” from its glittering Hudson Yards studio asked to reapply for jobs.
The “CNN This Morning” brand will continue under a new format with Kasie Hunt, the former MSNBC reporter, anchoring the show from Washington, DC., from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m., according to CNN.
“They are doubling down on all things politics,” a source close to the situation told The Post on Monday.
A second network insider said the decision was most likely cost-related as Thompson tries build up a digital operation while stopping the bleeding of flagging viewership across the network.
“Primetime anchors are freaked out,” the insider added.
“Nobody is assuming they are safe.”
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Who and Who?
what did it axe them?
Well, bye.
Off to the Poppy fields.
Jimmy crack corn....
Poppy Harlow is a pretty good porn name, so.....
In before Powers Boothe, but then OTOH Powers doesn’t even know who these people are.
Poppy, we hardly knew ye
Poopy Harlot gets The Big Goodbye.
Maybe they can revive the CNN plus streaming service?
Bring back Chris Cuomo for him to spew out his wit and wisdom?
I’m guessing Poppy is no Chet Huntley.
Sounds like season three of “Succession.”
Poppy? Cornpop’s daughter?
Was Cornpop really Cornpoppy and a not so tough girl rather than a bad dude as the ‘dent likes to say?
There goes my morning schedule lol never heard of them
If an unseen morning show falls in a forest does it make a sound?
This Poppy chic should be able to transition from Presstitute to Prostitute or Porn Start pretty easily.
Katharine Harlow is her name given her by her parents.
Using a nickname professionally paid off for her. I don’t get it but she’s risen high in her chosen profession with that name.
Who????…hope I can sleep…
So is Magic Johnson
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