CNN Announces New CEO

By Ken Lund (Flickr: CNN Center, Atlanta, Georgia) [CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Discovery has officially announced the hiring of Chris Licht as CNN’s new chairman and chief executive officer.

The Hill reports:

Licht, a 20-year veteran of broadcast news, is the executive vice president of special programming at CBS. He has spearhead programs like “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and “CBS This Morning” as well as MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” during a previous stint with NBC Universal.

News of Licht’s hiring was first reported by Puck News over the weekend and announced on Monday by Discovery, which is the process of a merger with WarnerMedia, CNN’s parent company.

“I have known and admired Chris for more than 15 years and strongly believe he is the best person to lead CNN Global as part of Warner Bros. Discovery,” David Zaslav, incoming CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, said in a statement. “Chris is a dynamic and creative producer, an engaging and thoughtful journalist, and a true news person. He has more than two decades of broadcast experience across local, cable and national news. He has been in the field, in the control room and on the set. He is a highly principled individual who is trusted, hard-working and makes every organization stronger, more innovative, and more cohesive.”

Licht will succeed former CNN President Jeff Zucker, who resigned earlier this month after revealing in a memo to staff he had been having a romantic relationship with another top-level staffer at the network that he did not disclose to the company’s human resources department.

Discovery said it expects that Licht will start at CNN in early May once the acquisition of the cable news network is complete.



  1. Get real. It was previously announced Zucker would leave beginning of 2022. So why the lies now as to the why. Cover up. Trying to make CNN a real news source. Sorry but no one is buying it. Main Stream Media will not be trusted during this generation. You all lied covered up and corrupted the FBI/DOJ. YOU ALL. Destroyed Americans confidence in anything you all have to say.

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  2. Well let’s see how things unfold, Joe Biden “State Of The Union Address”, Joe’s opening comment. How many ways can I fxxx up the US ecomony as well as the world ecomony? Lets start with my major energy fxxx up”s, killing all energy pipelines, stop any new drilling and making Putin one of the richest mad man on the planet. this way he will have plenty of money for his wars against the US /EUROPE, this should make my friend putin ENERGY KING OF THE WORLD. this was not easy to accomplish , needed the help of many other stupid democrats to have this policy go into effect. After hunter received those millions from Russia had to think of some way to return his gifts.And we promise to be one of Putin’s biggest oil purchasers love joe biden

  3. This is BS! This guy can no more “lead” CNN Global to be a real news organization than he could “lead” CBS. The Late Show? That is a piece of leftist trash that has no basis in reality. The CBS Morning Show? Another piece of liberal “reality” show that doesn’t know the truth from it’s own head! This guy will fail within 9 months!

    1. Trump failed 16 months ago.
      It is hard to believe that he left, unwillingly, the White House just 13 months ago.
      It’s like he never left.
      He is on TV everyday saying something important, to his core supporters, like Sleepy Old Joe stole his election.

  4. CNN sucks and will always suck. They lie so much that they don’t even recognize the truth. Bringing in another clown won’t change it. It needs to be blown up.

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