Posted on 10/16/2018 3:10:01 PM PDT by blam
CNN’s sister network, HLN, has axed top anchors Carol Costello, Ashleigh Banfield and Michaela Pereira as part of a complete programing overhaul, Fox News confirmed on Tuesday.
As first reported by Mediaite, CNN executives announced the changes during company-wide meetings at HLN headquarters in New York, Atlanta and Los Angeles.
HLN – formerly known as Headline News – has struggled to maintain an identity in recent years and has been plagued with constant rebranding and programming shakeups. The network once famous for its news ticker and constant updates eventually pivoted to true crime and investigative programing before adding a handful of live, CNN-style studio shows.
The latest change eliminates all live programming other than “Morning Express with Robin Meade” and the daytime show “On the Story.”
“Across America with Carol Costello,” “Crime & Justice with Ashleigh Banfield,” and “Michaela” will be terminated, with the namesake hosts leaving the network. The move leaves three prominent female anchors without current gigs after TheWrap reported earlier this year that CNN had “significantly fewer women serving in visible on-air roles than either Fox News or MSNBC.”
Meade’s flagship morning program will now air from 6 a.m. ET to noon, with “On the Story” airing from noon until 3 p.m. The network will then air taped programing exclusively for the remainder of the day without any live primetime shows. HLN will no longer have live production in Los Angeles or New York, as both remaining shows are housed in Atlanta.
HLN finished as the No. 49 most-watched primetime network on basic cable during the week of Oct. 8-14, behind networks such as Animal Plant, Oxygen, VH1 and the Lifetime Movie Network.
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Banfield could always look for gigs singing in bars.
Or not.
You be the judge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHDJrm8WATg
Think AT&T is interested in selling? Think they'd keep airing it if they sold it?
Wow. Old enough to remember when Headline News was just that: a 24-hour, headline news service with anchors like Don Harrison, Chuck Roberts, Lynne Russell and David Goodnow who played it straight and didn’t offer up a steady diet of liberal bias. Amazingly, the network had a lot more viewers back then.
Who knows? Maybe it’s time to try that again. Mr. Harrison died a number of years ago, but Lynne Russell and Chuck Roberts are still around. I guarantee they’d pull higher ratings (with a straight newscast) than the crap HLN has been airing for the last decade or so.
I watched 10 seconds of your link.
It was as good as any of her TV shows (what little I saw).
I’ve watched Robin Meade some and like her. Low key.
Wrong ages to start over
I kind of vote not. Might be ok in a dive bar in the Philippines but not much more.
That Michaela woman is hard to not shut your eyes to. She was on Robin’s show for a long time. They gave her a gig with a face that came out of the livestock pen. She stayed on a lot longer than I thought.
HLN is the true crime network in all but name.
Yes. Meade is the only one worth a damn.
Isn’t Ashleigh Canfield the name of the online dating service for adulterers?
Odd. She’s blonde but not terribly attractive.
Hooray!
My workplace insists on keeping the cafeteria TVs on this awful station, which I dubbed the Hateful Liberal Network. Carol Costello is the worst.
Never heard if HLN...........
Wow, there was a time, a long time ago, when I watched Headline News most mornings. How times change.
“LOL, well, they are at least keeping Robin Meade :)”
They would have been better off with Robin Byrd.
I think one of them used to team with Bud Abbott, otherwise I haven’t heard of any of them.
Lynn Russell was quite “the unit” back in the day. A good looking broad with a great rack.
Where is that picture of the CNN people with NPC faces? LOL.
Yes, I used to watch Headline News as well, in a previous life.
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