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.