19-04-2023, 12:47 PM
(19-04-2023, 02:41 AM)oscillon Wrote:(19-04-2023, 02:21 AM)EastCoast Wrote: I struggle to see how axing Laura Coates’ planned show saves on costs. The team already manages to handle two hours, including the current iteration where the 10pm and 11pm hours look and feel different. And it’s pretty darn shady to cancel a show you never premiered after releasing a press release on it.
CNN appears to favour the approach of "one dedicated team per show", so a different anchor might mean a different team as well and they might want to avoid that while retaining the overall approach.
IIRC when Cuomo was first suspended pretty much in the eleventh hour, it was the whole AC360 team who did the heavy lifting by prepping a second hour of their show in a limited amount of time instead, not the Cuomo Primetime team with Anderson as host.
Yup! That's how Domestic likes to do it. Poor AC360 team, having to do *gasp* TWO hours. They have an enormous team. But at International, teams handle multiple shows normally -- like the single OVN team handles FIVE shows into weekdays and often six shows on weekends.
The move to News Central did consolidate dayside teams. There were separate 9a-11a and 11a teams -- now just a single AM News Central team. And there were separate 1p and 2p-4p teams, now just a single PM News Central team.
Quote:If we think back to previous anchors who have departed the network, I can't think of one single goodbye where an entire team hasn't been thanked, or we've seen a photo on social media etc.. There will be money saved to cutting Laura Coates' show but surely Alisyn Camerota's team will need to be remunerated for programming an extra hour that includes paying guests of which both hours are very heavy reliant on.
CNN does NOT pay guests. CNN Contributors or CNN Analysts do get paid, but I don't think it's usually a paid per appearance type of thing. I'm sure contributor agreements will vary though...
But all non-contributor types are not paid.