Abby Phillip will host at 10 p.m., filling the nearly year-old vacancy in Don Lemon's former slot, while Laura Coates will host at 11 p.m.
and reports that Coates would lose her temporary host role at 11 p.m. had left a lack of on-air diversity in the network’s most prominent hours.CNN also announced Monday that veteran anchor Alisyn Camerota, who has occasionally hosted the 10 p.m. hour, will now focus on long-form projects for the network. “Inside Politics” will now be hosted on Sundays by CNN’s chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju.
These programming changes will roll out over the next few weeks and months, a network spokesperson said. Phillip’s appointment fills a vacuum in CNN’s evening hours that had lingered since last year when Licht — newly appointed to run the network — made CNN’s morning show his top editorial priority. At a time when CNN’s 9 p.m. slot was still sitting vacant after the December 2021 firing of Chris Cuomo, Licht decided to move Lemon from 10 p.m. to the revamped “CNN This Morning” last fall.It was a move with calamitous results for both Lemon’s career and Licht’s.
During Licht’s tenure, CNN’s ratings declined significantly, though all cable news networks have faced challenges in retaining viewers who have increasingly pivoted to streaming programming or tuned out altogether. In the month of July, CNN averaged only 534,000 total viewers in prime time, well behind both Fox News and MSNBC. Across the entire day, the network averaged just 426,000 total viewers, well below MSNBC’s 723,000 and Fox News’ 1,071,000.
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