By: Mario Mancini
Chris Cuomo has been struggling to remain relevant since he stepped down from CNN. While he has flopped as a podcaster, his new cable TV is soon to go live and his fellow reporters are not happy, as the new network is basing their existence about Cuomo.
In Early August TJV reported:
“Cuomo revealed his comeback bid on Dan Abrams’ NewsNation show Tuesday night. The news marked the first time Cuomo has appeared on TV since being canned from CNN last year over his role in advising his older brother, then-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo”.
NewsNation is an American subscription television network owned by the Nexstar Media Group, and is the company’s only wholly owned, national cable-originated television channel. The channel runs a mixture of entertainment programming (consisting of comedy and drama series, and theatrical feature films) for most of the broadcast day and a straight-news format during the evening and overnight hours, and also on weekday mornings.
The rank and file at his new network are not thrilled, that the“This is going to be like SiriusXM — with Chris instead of Howard Stern,” one source griped. entire network has become centered around Cuomo.
NY Post reported:
Employees at NewsNation — launched less than two years ago, with ratings that are a tiny fraction of CNN’s — are likewise bristling over a recent request to plug Cuomo’s new show at the bottom of their email signatures, sources told On the Money.
The reporters have compared to push to SiriusXM pushing one time relevant, now washed up, over paid radio star Howard Stern.
“This is going to be like SiriusXM — with Chris instead of Howard Stern,” one source griped.
NY Post inside reporting continued
“It’s all about Chris,” said another apoplectic source. “Can you believe they are asking employees to all plug Chris and not their own shows?”
The Post claims: Staffers for anchor Ashleigh Banfield — who hosts the 10 p.m. hour and who was among NewsNation’s first big hires with a resume that boasted stints at CNN and MSNBC — are particularly peeved, according to insiders.
“She was meant to be the Rachel Maddow of the network,” according to the source, comparing Banfield to the MSNBC star. “Now here comes Chris, the big swinging d–k.”
The network has high hopes for Chris Cuomo, which is strange considering even in his CNN hay day, Fox News routinely destroyed Cuomo in the ratings, and the show was never really that popular.
The network has also built Chris Cuomo a fancy new studio in NYC, while other shows broadcast from Connecticut, while the headquarters are in Chicago, as NewsNation used to be superstation WGN.
“The network has high hopes for the partisan fake news Democrat talking point reading hack, I can’t see why, nobody wants to watch DNC media, period”, a local media figure told TJVNews
