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Atlanta Now Just BackOffice for CNN

Postby jon » Tue May 27, 2014 7:15 am

CNN anchors leaving Atlanta for New York
Staff, Atlanta Business Chronicle
May 23, 2014, 9:33am EDT
Updated: May 23, 2014, 10:40am EDT

CNN anchors are headed to the Big Apple.

TVNewswer reports Atlanta-based anchors Brooke Baldwin and Carol Costello will move their “CNN Newsroom” programs to New York in August. After that move, Atlanta will no longer be home to CNN’s weekday anchors. Those anchors will operate out of New York or Washington, D.C.

“Atlanta is, and always will be, a critical part of CNN Worldwide’s operations,” a CNN spokesperson told TVNewser. “It remains home to much of our programming and content, including the production for many of our shows, CNN’s worldwide newsgathering operations, CNN Digital, CNN International, CNN en Espanol, HLN and Newsource.”

As Atlanta Business Chronicle reported in January, the recent departure of Turner Broadcasting System Inc. CEO Phil Kent marked the beginning of a new day at Turner Broadcasting, a subsidiary of New York-based Time Warner Inc. For the first time in its history, none of the company’s top executives will be based in Atlanta. That is quite a change for the company that was founded in 1970 by Ted Turner, the visionary media entrepreneur from Atlanta.
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Re: Atlanta Now Just BackOffice for CNN

Postby hagopian » Tue May 27, 2014 11:59 am

The ratings for CNN are falling off a cliff. Maybe they want to be perceived as Big City and not Atlanta boys.

Who knows?

Either way, CNN, has a long way to go to grab significant share in Prime Time.

Anderson Cooper better pick it up - or he is going to be gone. His numbers just keep dropping.

I wonder if the continual pounding of one or two stories are starting to drive people away. CNN was way over the top with the Malaysian Flight 370 story - and after a while it was becoming tedious.

Whatever happens, it is going to be interesting.
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Re: Atlanta Now Just BackOffice for CNN

Postby slowhand » Tue May 27, 2014 12:32 pm

That's been their problem for more than 10 years now. They do well in the ratings whenever a major crisis happens that interests enough people who want wall to wall coverage. Other than that, the best rated programs are the farthest away from the kind of newscasts they are famous for.

Dunno how they are ever going to win back the kinds of numbers they enjoyed when their all news format was new to television.
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Re: Atlanta Now Just BackOffice for CNN

Postby hagopian » Tue May 27, 2014 12:39 pm

My take: with Fox and other competitors, CNN will never enjoy the hegemony it once did.
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