“Republicans Are Back On The Air” On CNN, Cheers Warner Bros. Discovery Chief David Zaslav
deadline.com“Republicans are back on the air. Republicans weren’t on the air,” on CNN, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav told a media conference Thursday as he said the storied brand is moving to become less of an “advocacy network” under new leadership. “During the McCarthy hearings, for those four days, we had 75 Republicans on the air, 41 went on us before they want on Fox [News].
And the reason is, as I’ve said, and Chris [CNN chief Chris Licht] has too, to a number of them, they are not going to get one more vote on Fox News.
They’ve already got that.” He was referring to successive votes over four days in January as the GOP struggled to unite its ranks to reach a victory for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Zaslav’s comments at the MoffettNathanson conference were a broad overview of the last year since Discovery acquired Warner Media, but CNN has been one of Zaslav’s biggest pivots.
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