CNN’s Laura Coates Jumps to CAA After UTA Exit (EXCLUSIVE)
22.08.2023 - 16:41
/ variety.com
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor CNN anchor Laura Coates has moved to CAA for representation, a move that could signal a new era of influence for the talent-agency giant at the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed news outlet. In a broad overhaul of CNN’s schedule, Coates was recently named to anchor a new 11 p.m.
hour at CNN, “Laura Coates Live,” where she will follow Abby Philip, who will hold forth at 10. CAA also represents Erin Burnett, who anchors CNN’s 7 p.m. hour.
All told, CAA will represent two of five of the anchors who appear during CNN’s schedule between 7 p.m. to midnight., which usually represent some of the network’s most-watched hours. In years past, that distinction was held by rival agency UTA, which represents Anderson Cooper, Jake Tapper, Don Lemon and Alisyn Camerota.
Camerota, who had been anchoring CNN’s late evenings in recent months, has been moved to work on long-form projects. Lemon, who parted ways acrimoniously with CNN earlier this year, had been moved out of primetime to a new morning concept that proved difficult to maintain. The moves show just how quickly programming changes at a network can recalibrate behind-the-scenes relationships.
CNN, which is grappling with viewership declines, is putting new — and in many cases — younger — anchors in some key positions. A good portion of them are represented by CAA. Manu Raju, the CNN congressional correspondent, is taking over the weekend broadcast of CNN’s “Inside Politics,” which had previously been led by Abby Philip.
Phil Mattingly, a former CNN White House correspondent, is taking over as co-anchor of “CNN This Morning” opposite Poppy Harlow. CAA also represents others at CNN, including Wolf Blitzer and Brianna Keilar. To be sure, UTA has one of
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