A New Boss For CNN (ratings, election, elect, program)

[Joe the Photog]

Multiple news sites are rporting that CNN will soon have a news boss to replace Jeff Zucker in CBS exec Chris Licht.

Licht will be named as soon as next week to the job, according to an executive familiar with the discussions who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak on personnel. The selection was first reported Saturday by the website Puck. He would not be able to take over until the deal giving CNN new corporate ownership gets federal approval, expected early this spring.

The new chief is executive vice president of special programming at CBS. Before taking over as executive producer at Colbert's “Late Show" in 2016, guiding it to the top of the ratings, Licht ran “CBS This Morning,” the network's morning news show.

Before that, he worked on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

CBS' Chris Licht expected to be named as new CNN chief

[wizrap]

We’ll see how it goes. I do admit they’re doing a good job covering Ukraine. We’ve been flipping back and forth between them and FOX, although when Jim Acosta came on, that warranted an automatic channel change.

Jim Acosta is just where I draw the line.

[USC1986]

Just another left wing partisan hack, just like the scumbag who was fired.