“This really caps a tumultuous year for CNN that has seen shrinking profits, programming mistakes and really low employee morale,” CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy said on his own network Wednesday. Zaslav promised CNN staff a thorough search for Licht’s replacement. Discovery - accepted some of the blame for the network’s turmoil over the past year, and he appointed a four-person interim leadership team. The executive who hired and fired Licht - David Zaslav, the CEO of CNN parent company Warner Bros. Licht, 51, was informed of his ouster Wednesday morning, and it was announced to the staff at the daily editorial meeting - the same place where Licht had said two days earlier that he would “fight like hell” to earn the trust of those around him. NEW YORK (AP) - The chief executive CNN pushed out of a job on Wednesday faced mounting problems in his first year leading the struggling network: viewership and profits were declining, programming blunders were growing and the network’s journalists were losing confidence by the day.Ĭhris Licht’s very bad year culminated in a damning magazine profile last week, and just a few days later his tumultuous 13-month tenure was over.

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