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CNN Dominates New Years Eve

Pearls may have been clutched over CNN’s drinking (on New Year’s Eve! the horror!), but the duo of ACĀ² was a hit with the cable news viewers. This was the second year with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen along with appearances by CNN correspondents around North America (notably Richard Quest […]


CNN Announces Champions for Change Special Event 1

CNN has announced that next week they will air Champions for Change, a special event that features CNN journalists working with people who are affecting change on issues close to the journalists’ hearts. The segments will air throughout the week during individual CNN shows and then air altogether during a […]


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 […]


CNN Finds Ratings Success with Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper

The ratings have been released for New Years Eve on cable news and CNN was the dominant force in total viewers and both the 25-54 and 18-49 year old demos. This was the first year with Andy Cohen (who was brought on after Kathy Griffin was fired), but the antics […]