Jeff Zucker’s CNN Exit Adds New Tasks to WarnerMedia CEO Kilar’s Pile

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorViacomCBS swung to a profit in the fourth quarter, announcing results just before it unveiled a wide range of new details about the content it intends to show on the streaming-video hub Paramount Plus.

YouTube, which has faced fierce criticism for allowing inappropriate content into its kids service, has added new controls designed to help parents monitor streaming by tweens and teens

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.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorWarnerMedia wants to open its kids-content playground to bigger crowds.Known best for Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, two showcases for animation primarily aimed at young male viewers, the AT&T-backed entertainment conglomerate will launch a new preschool brand, Cartoonito, and work to bring more young girls and family viewing into its mix with new concepts that feature female protagonists as well as a weekend family block.Executives believe a ramp-up of

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCNN shook up its daytime schedule, unveiling a series of changes that will affect both its “New Day” morning program as well as its afternoon programming — the latest in a series of change at the nation’s big mainstream TV news outlets in the aftermath of the 2020 election.The WarnerMedia cable-news outlet intends to move early-afternoon anchor Brianna Keilar to co-host “New Day” with John Berman, pair morning host Alisyn Camerota with Victor Blackwell in the 2

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorLarry Kudlow spent nearly three years advising former President Donald Trump on economic policy. Now he’s taking to Fox Business Network, where he will get to comment as a new Commander-in-Chief is likely to dismantle much of what his predecessor wrought.Can he do so in an objective manner?“I’ve said good and bad things about Democrats and Republicans,” says Kudlow in an interview, noting that business-news viewers probably already know his philosophy.

Glastonbury Festival, have registered a new company called Holy Cow Events.A new private limited company was registered by Eavis and Dewey at Companies House and incorporated on February 8, subsequently spotted by a user on the forum eFestivals.com.Holy Cow’s registered office address is Worthy Farm, with the nature of the business listed as performing arts.It’s not yet known what the purpose of Holy Cow Events will be.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCNN is considering a new day for “New Day.”Executives have been mulling a move that would put Alisyn Camerota, the “New Day” co-anchor who has steered the program though the bulk of the Trump administration, to afternoons, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Bruce Springsteen’s reported arrest in November is causing consternation for the car manufacturer that paid the Boss big bucks to star in a patriotic Super Bowl Commercial.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe ESPN executive who helped oversee landmark sports-journalism projects like “O.J.: Made in America” and “The Last Dance”  will team up with Peter Chernin to launch a new content studioConnor Schell was ESPN’s top content executive until he left the Disney sports-media giant at the end of 2020 in a bid to pursue new ventures.

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.

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.

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.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorJeff Zucker, the TV executive who helped breathe new life and relevance into the CNN cable-news network, expects to leave the outlet when his contract lapses at the end of 2021.The executive told staffers of his decision in a meeting Thursday morning.“This organization has been thru a lot.

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 EditorWhen Cedric the Entertainer appeared in commercials for Bud Light about two decades ago, they “made me more famous than any TV show or movie,” he recalls.