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Cable News Stays Live for Syrian Airstrikes

Friday night is typically a quiet time for news but at 9 PM ET President Donald Trump addressed the nation and announced that the United States, alongside Great Britain and France, had launched air strikes against Syrian chemical weapons sites. With this, cable news sprung into action and went into […]


CNN Brings Weekday Anchors to Saturday for Newsy Day

Viewers tuning to CNN on Saturday might have been surprised to find Wolf Blitzer and his Situation Room inhabiting its usual weekday timeslot. It was indeed Saturday and not the early 2000s when The Situation Room regularly ran six days a week. Instead, CNN brought several of its weekday personalities […]


Cable News’s Day Gets Longer 1

With a seemingly nonstop cycle of breaking news, the cable news day has gotten longer with two networks making 11 PM coverage permanent. MSNBC starts the day at 5 AM with Morning Joe First Look. The night ends however at midnight after one hour of Brian Williams’s The 11th Hour. […]