Some clips on the first show:
End of headlines and intro (off archive.org):
Newsom interview:
Sports and closer:
https://x.com/Elex_Michaelson/status/1983072152854356118
Desk seem to be, as observed on LocalNewsTalk, from Brian Stelter’s CNN+ show in a different arrangement:
Good to see CNN have a program coming from LA.
Tbf she does host Inside Politics every weekday, so it’s not as if she’s just a bit player. Not like, say, Phil Mattingly, who fills in for Jake Tapper now and again and otherwise seems to have been sidelined.
As part of a bold ad deal, T-Mobile’s logo will turn up often on CNN’s digital screens when CNN reporters and correspondents deliver live reportage from outside the studio, a sign that the telecom giant’s nascent “SuperMobile” service, tailored for business users who want quick, reliable connections and privacy safeguards, has helped establish the connection between journalists and audience.
For the first time ever, CNNI’s NYE coverage is screened on the US feed all day.
Last year it only began at 2.45pm ET. Breakout programming in 2024 and prior.
Good to see CNN stars in for breaking news. No Anderson or Jake though.
There’s something about Wolf anchoring breaking news though. He’s the best at it.
Considering they are the highest paid I would be hauling their arses in.
Jen Psaki was in for a special The Briefing, which no doubt she is on the lower chain of Cable TV, Brett Bair was on Fox., CNn get your bloody biggest “stars” in.
Many of them broadcast from home like Maddow anyway.
Psaki was in studio
(Possibly paywalled. Really good article, anyway)
When it pulls out the stops, CNN’s reporting on the Middle East is unparalleled. In the wake of the brutal murder by the Saudi Arabian state of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, CNN broke scoop after scoop on the slaying—especially on how Turkish intelligence had pieced together his murder and realised that the orders must have come from the top. It was forensic public interest reporting, and rightly recognised as such.
Not everything that comes out of that region hits that standard, alas. Increasingly, CNN’s output from the Middle East raises eyebrows—both inside and outside the broadcaster—in terms of its tone, its tenor, and particularly who is involved in producing it.
One recent standout is “CNN Creators”, a format launched with great fanfare as “the first show to be anchored out of the network’s brand new, state-of-the-art facility within Media City Qatar, in Doha” … The launch video looked more like second-tier influencer content produced for a sponsor in exchange for a freebie. “Hey, we’re here,” one [presenter] shouts cheerfully at the start, as the four hosts squeeze into shot for a selfie. “Welcome to…” they say before another jumps cheerfully into frame wearing a Qatar hat. Hard-hitting it is not.
So we’re complaing about one set of sponsored programming, but no complaints about the years of the weekend being taken up by hours and hours of ‘Hey look at Africa we’re not a Third World Place Anymore’. Some of those countries aren’t democracies.
Although if we’re being honest, even if Netflix wins, CNN would still be brought by PSKY.
Because Netflix has no intention of acquiring linear cable nets.
It’ll be Bari In the Morning, Bari Central, The Bari Room, Bari OutFront, Bari 360, and Up Late with Bari. It’ll be great /s.
The Bari Weiss Show with Bari Weiss (special guest: Bari Weiss).
Tbf I don’t know that there was ever any indication that Paramount wanted CNN on its own. I think it was more that they wanted Warner and saw an opportunity to skew CNN politically whilst they were at it. Of course it’s not yet a done deal and anything could happen. (I expect at least one regulator to block it)
Hard to believe really.
