Posted on 06/13/2018 2:52:55 PM PDT by davikkm
CNN president Jeff Zucker has renewed his contract with the news network through the 2020 presidential election, according to a new report. “I’ve learned that the veteran broadcast executive, who has served as president of Time Warner’s cable news channel since 2013, signed a new deal several months ago that will keep him at CNN through the 2020 election,” writes Joe Pompeo of Vanity Fair.
Reports of Zucker’s contract extension follows the approval of AT&T’s $85.4 billion takeover of Time Warner, the parent company of CNN.
As Breitbart News Economics and Finance Editor John Carney wrote Tuesday, the decision by Judge Richard Leon is widely regarded as a major “setback” for Makan Delrahim, a Trump’s appointee leading the Justice Department’s antitrust division.
CNN, whose anti-Trump coverage has earned the scorn of the President and his supporters, did not place a single program in the top 25 in the month of May. Nielsen Media Research reported the network’s ratings suffered a major collapse in May as the Fox News Channel dominated the cable news wars. Of all the major news networks, CNN experienced the biggest drop in primetime viewership, down a full 25 percent in May.
Zucker came under fire in December amid revelations he and other NBC executives knew of Matt Lauer’s sexual misconduct. During a 2008 Friars Club roast, Zucker joked about Lauer, “It’s just good to see Matt up here and not under my desk. “I don’t want to say Matt is a germophobe, but he’s the only guy I know who uses Purell both before and after he masturbates.”
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So CNN decided to suck for a few more years.
As usual with Democrats, the greater the failure, the greater the reward.
Failure isjust a resume builder for liberals.
Ironic that this renewal happens after judge rules AT&T and Time
Warner can merge.
BTW, I don’t like this merger.
ATT should fire him-low ratings.
It was done before the merger. Here is a quote from another article,
“For what it’s worth, I’m told that AT&T executives were made aware of the Zucker deal at the time it was brokered—by Time Warner C.E.O. Jeff Bewkes and Turner C.E.O. John Martin—and that they were supportive. (CNN didn’t have a comment.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/jeff-zucker-renews-at-cnn-through-the-2020-election
For the record, once the merger went throgh... That means it’s irrelevant. AT&T can still replace him. All it means is AT&T will have to pay him.
And the champagne corks are flying at Fox...
Attack, attack, attack!.
Drive the marxists from the field back under the rocks they climbed out from under!.
This should insure Trumps reelection.
Great news. He will drive CNN even deeper into the ground. Keep digging Jeff. Jim Acosta is right there beside you shoveling away.
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