Jeff Zucker Expects to Leave CNN at Year-End

Jeff Blackburn, whose 22-year run at Amazon culminated in a role overseeing the company’s streaming efforts, has wrapped up his one-year sabbatical and announced his exit from the company.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThis Saturday-morning news show is supposed to look like the ones that precede it Monday through Friday. It doesn’t.Co-anchor Jeff Glor isn’t wearing a tie and his colleagues, Michelle Miller and Dana Jacobson, often join him in a weekend outing that seems cut from different cloth than the weekday version to which it is tied.

Steve Price will leave his position as Warrington Wolves head coach at the end of the season.The Australian informed the club's players of his intentions to depart once his contract expires at the end of the year earlier today.Price joined the club in 2018 and reached two major finals that year, though they ultimately lost in both.He was handed a new deal thereafter that took his contract through to the end of 2021 and a year later he lifted silverware as the Wolves won the Challenge Cup.Last

Crackle Plus, the portfolio of streaming networks including Crackle, Popcornflix and Truli, has named Sony veteran Jeff Meier head of programming.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorSavannah Guthrie’s next one-hour special won’t appear on any of NBC News’ best known properties, which include “Today” and “NBC Nightly News.”  And yet, it may be of more critical importance to the NBCUniversal-owned news organization than any in-depth report she’s presented in recent months.Guthrie will today kick off a week-long focus by NBC News on the mental health of young people during the pandemic, the first of what NBC News President Noah Oppenheim says

Ending speculation about his future leading the news network, CNN president Jeff Zucker signed on to the daily editorial call Feb. 4 and made his intentions clear.

EXCLUSIVE: WME and Anonymous Content have signed young actor Taylor Zakhar Perez, who is coming off of a breakout role on the Vince Marcello-helmed hit Netflix franchise The Kissing Booth.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorSuper Bowl ads typically offer a mirror on society, but on Sunday they provided a window to the future.Dozens of Super Bowl advertisers ignored the coronavirus pandemic that grips the nation, and looked instead to better times.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAfter driving “Thunder Road” for decades, Bruce Springsteen is taking a detour on Madison Avenue.The musician known as “The Boss” will command two minutes of commercial time in Super Bowl LV Sunday night, all part of a mammoth Jeep ad meant to reflect a national mood of coming together after four years of politics and polarization.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAT&T already a long list of “to-dos” when it comes to WarnerMedia, the big entertainment conglomerate it purchased for $85 billion in 2018.

Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN and head of WarnerMedia news and sports, will continue in that role through the end of 2021. Zucker said on CNN's morning editorial call that he will remain with the company through the end of his current contract, which runs through 2021, a CNN staffer who was on the call tells The Hollywood Reporter.Zucker added that he does expect to leave the company at the end of this year after his contract is up.

UPDATED, with additional comments from Zucker: Jeff Zucker told employees on Thursday that he will remain in his post overseeing CNN, ending speculation for now that he will exit.

Jeff Zucker told employees on Thursday that he will remain in his post overseeing CNN, ending speculation for now that he will exit, the network’s Brian Stelter reported.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFans who tune in to the Super Bowl this Sunday are already expecting to see two all-star quarterbacks. Some of them will glimpse three.Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady will command this Sunday’s broadcast, leading on-field strategy when the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers clash during CBS’ broadcast of Super Bowl LV.

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Jeff Bezos, who built Amazon from a modest online bookseller to one of a handful of the most valuable companies in the world, said he would step down from his role and transition to executive chair of the company.

The Office is being more actively streamed on Peacock than it was on Netflix, according to NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell.

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich’s memoir The Fact Of A Body is heading for the small screen after HBO put an adaptation in development.