Posted on 10/23/2020 5:37:09 PM PDT by Magnatron
CNN President Jeff Zucker survived plenty of corporate intrigue since telecom giant AT&T swallowed up the cable network’s parent company two years ago.
Now that is changing, leaving Mr. Zucker frustrated and his future at the cable news network in doubt.
Mr. Zucker, who has overseen CNN for seven years, felt blindsided by a recent restructuring carried out by parent WarnerMedia, and has had friction with its chief executive, Jason Kilar, according to people familiar with the situation.
The 55-year-old’s contract expires next year and he hasn’t committed to extending his deal in meetings with WarnerMedia brass and communications with CNN employees, the people say.
Asked about his future in a town hall video chat on Wednesday, Mr. Zucker said he loves his job, but added, “The industry is changing, our company is changing, so I have a lot to think about,” according to a recording of his remarks. He added, “I’ll do that at the right time.”
Mr. Zucker said he won’t make a decision on whether to stay at CNN until after the election.
If this election is Mr. Zucker’s last ride, he would leave CNN after transforming its role in the cable news landscape and becoming one of the most polarizing figures in media in the process. On his watch, the network, once accused of giving Donald Trump too much airtime during his first presidential run, has become a critic of the administration.
CNN ... is well behind ratings leader Fox News.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
-- Maureen Dowd, The Biggest Loser, New York Times Op-Ed, December 12, 2010
Great quote—AT & T should not just fire the guy. They should sue him for damages to their reputation!
Great quote—AT & T should not just fire the guy. They should sue him for damages to their reputation!
If there are any adults in charge at AT&T, they will recognize that almost the entire MSM is clustered on the left getting tiny market shares. Meanwhile Fox which has grown increasingly sloppy has the entire right all to itself.
Gee......ya think maybe CNN could get better ratings if they moved to the right?
He can become drinking buddies with Ted Turner.
He could go Toober wankin with his staff
Wow!... There's an example of understatement...
He almost took out NBC with his Conan/Leno deal (dumbest tv deal ever) and after that CNN hires him.
Unless they are going to fire eveyone, their is no point. I would fire everyone there but the cameramen and turn operations over to the Babalon Bee!
The irony is that for the last 4 years Zucker has built the news division around berating Trump 24/7. If Trump loses, CNN goes back to looking for missing Malaysian airliners 24/7 and boring the hell out of their 3 viewers.
It makes sense, but LS tells us that CNN is not funded by advertising, per se. It lives primarily on the political contributions of the Left, including the largesse of big corporations.
Not often you see CNN and ATT in the same sentence, nor the same article for that matter
ATT loves Zucker, hates Trump
I remember people wondering whether CNN would become more balanced when Zucker came aboard. Instead, the network lurched left. Let them collapse under the weight of their own stupidity and arrogance.
Cable system carriage fees are a key source of revenue.
“On his watch, the network, once accused of giving Donald Trump too much airtime during his first presidential run, has become a critic of the administration.”
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BULLCRAP.
CNN has never, ever been even one little bit, for Trump.
Ever.
Thanks, Rockingham. Yes, you’re right. It is indeed a mixed bag. Cable system carriage fees are huge, and it’s directly linked to consumer demand for certain stations.
There’s also an international dimension. My wife gets the NHK broadcast from Japan. And on the news programs, I’ve noticed they usually lead an American politics story with a short clip from our Lamestream media — and it’s almost always ABC News.
And that makes sense because Disney has a strong presence in Japan’s entertainment scene. Unless it’s a huge news story, NHK broadcasts the story two days later, probably because the rights to broadcast are prohibitively high to show it the next day.
CNN is the only American news broadcast station shown on national TV in many countries. And I wouldn’t be surprised if CNN works its film assets from Warner Media the same way as Disney. And now that CNN is owned by AT&T, there are all sorts of telecom contract deals and satellite links they can offer.
One key benefit of the Trump rallies is that a foreign news network can get cheap access to an exciting event that’s a natural human interest story. Maybe an outlet like Right Side Broadcasting Network can make some extra money providing those clips to foreign outlets. In fact the Trump rallies are a key way people in foreign nations get a glimpse of what average working people in America think.
It allows them to see behind the Silicon Curtain and Great Wall of Lies put up by the CNNs.
I think an inside look at how the media business really works is a best selling MAGA book in the making. There are commercial reasons why big media flock together to maintain the status quo and squelch the forces of freedom and truth.
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