Analysis: From town halls to pandemic diaries, TV news hopes for a programming hit to emerge from its swirl of coverage By Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor The people who like to flash “breaking news” across your TV screen are also working on breaking new ground.
The swirl of the Trump White House had already set the nation’s news media at the apex of a cycle. Now, the spread of the coronavirus pandemic has been like an adrenaline shot on top of an adrenaline shot: every week, it seems, a TV-news outlet scraps an already established hour of programming to launch something entirely different.
Walt Disney’s ABC has gone so far as to cut its flagship late-night program, “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” to half an hour so viewers can get more news
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