NewsNation Expands Morning News to Four Hours With New Duo
variety.comBrian Steinberg Senior TV Editor In NewsNation, New York City isn’t the de facto location for a morning-news program. On Monday, the Nexstar Media-backed cable-news outlet expands its Chicago-based “Morning in America” to four hours and adds Markie Martin, formerly the network’s Dallas correspondent, as a co-anchor alongside Adrienne Bankert.
There is some precedent for such a format. Robin Meade succeeded at it for 20 years by holding forth from Atlanta on behalf of HLN.
Her program, “Morning Express,” was canceled earlier this year by Warner Bros. Discovery in a cost-cutting maneuver. “I grew up in small-town Oklahoma, and often felt that national news networks catered more toward big-city lives,” says Martin in a recent interview. “I think our content lines up with what every American cares about on a daily basis.” Martin arrived in the Windy City for her new assignment just about a week ago, and was in need of furniture for her new apartment.
She joins Bankert, who came to NewsNation in 2021 after a stint as a national correspondent for ABC News. “I like to say we are having brunch,” says Bankert. “Breakfast is pretty quick for Americans and, obvoiusly, there’s not toing to be people who wtach all four hours, quite typically, but we will have soemthing for everybody.
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