

And last year, NewsNation hired former Fox News correspondent and anchor Leland Vittert, who is a primetime host former CNN anchor Ashleigh Banfield, who hosts a primetime show and former ABC correspondent Ashleigh Bankert, who anchors a morning show. 6 committee witness) Chris Stirewalt, who in January 2021 was let go in what the network called a restructuring Stirewalt later said he was fired by Fox News for defending the Arizona call for Joe Biden during the 2020 election. In May, it hired ex-Fox News political editor (and recent Jan. slot.Ĭuomo isn’t the first cable news veteran that NewsNation has hired. CNN has yet to permanently fill Cuomo’s 9 p.m.

Last year, as the host’s reputation suffered, so did Cuomo Prime Time’s ratings, but the program’s lowest-rated month on record still averaged a total of 774,000 viewers.
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It’ll be an adjustment for Cuomo, whose CNN show in 2020-his last full year on the network-pulled an average of two million nightly viewers, according to the Washington Post. The channel, which bills itself as nonpartisan, launched in 2020 and has “seen on average around 50,000 viewers during its prime-time hours this year,” Axios reports. NewsNation is a 24/7 network owned by Nexstar Media Group, the largest owner of local TV stations in the country (and, as of last year, owner of The Hill).
