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CNN is zeroing in on Gayle King and Charles Barkley to host a weekly primetime show for the network, as chairman and CEO Chris Licht aims to revitalize the ratings-challenged nighttime lineup.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Nexstar Media has spent months assembling a massive roster of TV stations; acquring TV’s CW network; and building the NewsNation cable-news oulet. Now comes the hard part: Getting Madison Avenue to buy ads across all of it. The nation’s largest owner of local TV outlets is ready to make its pitch to advertisers and has already scheduled a presentation for media buyers in New York for April 25. The goal, says Michael Strober, the company’s chief revenue officer, is to showcase the company’s reach among both national and local media. “We can bring local and national to our clients in ways that have never been replicated across the country,” he says in an interview. “The CW, NewsNation, TheHill, Nexstar Digital and over 200 local stations — that to me is our differentiator in the marketplace.”

Alec Baldwin's attorney, Alex Spiro, told First Judicial District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer at a Thursday hearing in New Mexico that his legal team, as part of its discovery, wanted to see the gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Except there's one problem — Spiro said the state destroyed the gun.«The court, I don't think, is aware at this point, but I think I should tell the court that the firearm in this case was destroyed by the state,» Spiro said during the virtual hearing.

CNN will launch its new dayside lineup in April as CNN News Central, an effort to highlight its newsgathering and coverage of breaking stories and events.

Fox News dominated its rivals in February viewership and landed the top ten shows in total viewers and a key demographic.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor CNN may be getting ready to take a new swing at fixing its long-running 9 p.m. problem. On Tuesday, CNN is slated to air a new show in that hour called “CNN Prime,” which is described with a logline that says, “Join CNN’s top anchors for special events and unique conversations about the issues that matter the most.” On Wednesday, audiences can join “CNN’s Don Lemon for a special one-on-one interview with a top newsmaker” as part of the hour’s attractions. Both the show title and the programming descriptions are on display in interactive schedules that subscribers to cable and satellite services can call up to examine programming options. On Thursday, CNN is set to offer a “CNN Town Hall.” A spokesperson for CNN did not respond to a query seeking additional comment, and it could not be immediately learned if executives view “CNN Prime” as something of an experiment or a new and permanent addition to the network’s line-up.

Chris Cuomo says CNN has done him wrong.

Zack Sharf Chris Cuomo revealed on a new episode of the “Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci” podcast that he “was going to kill everybody including [himself]” after CNN fired him in 2021. Cuomo and CNN parted ways after the anchor got caught up in the sexual-harassment scandal that engulfed his brother, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo. CNN found that Chris Cuomo aided his brother’s team of officials on the matter, and he was ousted as a result. Cuomo has long maintained that CNN knew of the counsel he was offering his brother. “I had to accept [my firing] because I was going to kill everybody including myself,” Cuomo told Scaramucci. “Things can consume you. Italians are so passionate. There is damage that is relatable, there is damage that is un-relatable to people that I have to deal with, that I am working on.”

Chris Cuomo is opening up about his mental health struggles since getting fired from CNN. Back in 2021, the Cuomo Prime Time hos

The executive producer of CNN This Morning is departing the show and moving to the 11 PM hour of CNN Tonight hosted by Laura Coates.

Elizabeth Vargas is the latest news veteran to join Nexstar’s NewsNation, with plans to launch a weekday news program on April 3.

Former CNN and NBCUniversal boss Jeff Zucker, private equity firm RedBird Capital Partners and Abu Dhabi-based International Media Investments have formalized plans for a joint venture.

Michael Bass, EVP of programming at CNN, is leaving the network at the end of the year.

CNN’s Jake Tapper will return to his daytime show after the midterms after filling the 9 PM ET primetime slot on the network.

Jeff Zucker, who left WarnerMedia last February just before its merger with Discovery, is in discussions with RedBird Capital to lead a $1 billion sports investment fund backed by the private equity outfit.

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Howard Stern has compared Kanye West to Adolf Hitler following the rapper's antisemitic outbursts. On Wednesday’s episode of The Howard Stern Show, the radio presenter spoke on the rapper’s recent tirade against members of the Jewish community. Kanye has faced backlash after writing on Twitter that he would go “death con 3 on Jewish people”, misreferencing the United States military term DEFCON 3.

Zack Sharf Howard Stern lashed out at Kanye West during the Oct. 19 episode of his SiriusXM radio show (via Mediaite). West has courted controversy in recent weeks for making antisemitic statements, most recently in an interview with Chris Cuomo where the rapper cited the “Jewish underground media mafia.” Stern compared West to Hitler and criticized his defenders who cite mental health issues as the source of West’s antisemitic behavior. “I almost don’t want to give any energy to this Kanye West character,” Stern said. “I don’t know much about Kanye West. I’m not big into the rap scene, but, he is, you know — I’m really tired of people excusing his behavior, by saying, ‘Well, he’s just mentally ill.'”

Kanye West has said that he doesn’t believe in the term “anti-Semitism”, claiming that it’s “not factual” and in turn has denied accusations of racism against him.The rapper’s comments come after a tumultuous few weeks which began when he wore a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt at a Paris fashion week show.Since then he’s sparked multiple controversies including claiming that George Floyd died by taking Fentanyl.Before that Ye said that he would go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE”, whom he claims have a link with Black people (“I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because Black people are actually Jew also,” he wrote). An ex-staffer at TMZ has also claimed that the rapper once praised “Hitler and the Nazis” during an interview with the site..@ChrisCuomo counters Ye's antisemitc comments: "I know you are intelligent and understand that when you target people because of their faith, other people may do so the same… We don't want to tolerate that.#CUOMO pic.twitter.com/mdTem0TXau— NewsNation (@NewsNation) October 18, 2022Over the weekend West hit out at Pete Davidson on the Drink Champs podcast in which he alleged that the former boyfriend of his ex-wife Kim Kardashian was a heroin addict.

The first night of Jake Tapper’s stint as host of CNN Tonight, featuring a heavily promoted interview with President Joe Biden, drew an average of 854,000 viewers in the 9 PM ET hour, according to Nielsen numbers.

Jake Tapper will interview Joe Biden on CNN Tonight on Tuesday, which marks the start of Tapper’s stint as anchor of the show through the midterms.