CNN Aims to Find New Roosts for Some CNN+ Anchors
variety.comBrian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCNN+ is gone, but some of the big-name anchors who were hired for the service appear to be sticking around for a while.Chris Licht, the new chairman and CEO at the Warner Bros.
Discovery news operation, gave indications at a town hall meeting on Thursday that he intended to find places for some of the popular names that were lured to the company with the promise of new programs for CNN.+ The subscription-based streaming service was scuttled abruptly by the company’s new parent after it completed its acquisition of WarnerMedia from AT&T.
Three people familiar with the conversations at the meeting said Licht indicated he wanted to find places for Chris Wallace, the one-time Fox News anchor, and Audie Cornish, the NPR veteran, appearing in parts of the company’s portfolio.
He also said Kasie Hunt, who was hired from NBC News, has been appearing in current CNN programming. CNN declined to make executives available for comment.Licht’s words suggest that parts of CNN+ will live on, even if Warner Bros.
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