CNN boss Chris Licht guts HLN amid cost-cutting bloodbath

NY Post ^ | December 1, 2022 | By Alexandra Steigrad

[Oldeconomybuyer]

CNN boss Chris Licht has gutted sister network HLN, terminating all live programming as part of ongoing layoffs and budget cuts.

Licht slashed HLN’s “Morning Express with Robin Meade,” as well as “Weekend Express,” he announced in a memo to CNN’s remaining staff on Thursday.

Meade and HLN’s live news programming staffers will be among those fired.

Also getting their pink slips Thursday were prominent CNN correspondents Alison Kosik, Martin Savidge, Alex Field, Mary Ann Fox and Chris Cillizza, according to Variety.

CNN declined to comment on the overall number of job cuts when reached by The Post.

Licht is also expected to unveil details of a new daytime lineup for CNN in the coming days, as sources wondered about the futures of high-salaried anchors like Briana Keiler, John Berman, Chris Wallace, Kasie Hunt and Audie Cornish.

[nwrep]

Wow, hottie Lynn Russell from the 1990s.

[joshua c]

yeah but they have eyes too

[gloryblaze]

I checked and her salary was ... sit down ... 3 million.

[Taxman]

So doth mine!

[joshua c]

replace robin meade with don lemon?

clearly they are going after a specific demographic

[dirtymac]

New lineup will include dancing clowns, just different costumes

[FreedomPoster]

I had a nice chat with her a couple years ago at a local Veterans Day event. I think it fair to call her a conservative and that she is horrified at what CNN had become.

[Prince of Space]

$3 million…to read the news off a teleprompter? 😖

[ontap]

It’s fun to behold!!!

[raccoonradio]

And CNNplus lasted a few days or something

“The news you need is on right now” is a typical slogan of stations/networks like this (that’s New Eng Cable News I think) but with phones, tablets, computers who needs such a channel? There are other sources.

I believe Fox has a similar headline channel which also is, or was, on satellite radio as a simulcast.

Left leaning CNN who USED to have the likes of Fredo Cuomo. HLN used to have Nancy
(dis)Grace, till 2016

[bigbob]

Yep, which means she was highly compensated and HLN doesn’t pull in much revenue. They could replace her with some big-titted bimbo right out of college for probably 20% of Meade’s salary.

[csvset]

Bidenomics !

[entropy12]

Robin Meade on HLN is a lefty & woke news reader.

[martin_fierro]

[for-q-clinton]

So will HLN be forensic files 24x7? lol

[RedMonqey]

Yeah but in a younger, perkier package.

[Eleutheria5]

I can’t wait to see them on the streets with signs saying:

Will Lie for Food

or

Objective Journalist, Please Help

or how about

Disabled by TDS and White Supremacists. Please Give

[Rummyfan]

Also getting their pink slips Thursday were prominent CNN correspondents Alison Kosik, Martin Savidge, Alex Field, Mary Ann Fox and Chris Cillizza, according to Variety.

Actually I'm surprised I don't see Jim Acosta's name here.

[Rummyfan]

Licht is also expected to unveil details of a new daytime lineup for CNN in the coming days, as sources wondered about the futures of high-salaried anchors like Briana Keiler, John Berman, Chris Wallace, Kasie Hunt and Audie Cornish.

Chris Wallace? Perish the thought ! /sarcasm

[Eleutheria5]

Wallace should have stayed on FNC, where his lack of talent was at least amusing.