Shuffling the Deck Chairs at CNN

When Brooke Baldwin announced that she was leaving CNN, it was expected that the network was looking to shuffle around its anchors.

CNN announced a new dayside line-up and it is as follows:

Laura Jarrett and Christine Romans will continue to anchor Early Start from 5-6 am.

 John Berman and Brianna Keilar will anchor New Day from 6-9 am, weekdays.  Keilar most recently anchored CNN Right Now from 1-3pm weekdays.  Prior to that, she was CNN’s White House correspondent during the Obama Administration.  Berman has been co-anchor of New Day for the last two and a half years.

 Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto will continue to anchor CNN Newsroom from 9-11 am.

 Kate Bolduan will continue to anchor At this Hour from 11am-noon.

 John King will continue to anchor Inside Politics with John King weekdays from noon-1pm.  The network’s chief national correspondent, he will also continue to have a key role in all political coverage.

 Ana Cabrera, who has anchored CNN’s weekend newscasts for the last four years, will now anchor CNN Newsroom weekdays from 1-2 pm.

 Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell will now anchor CNN’s afternoon Newsroom coverage from 2-4 pm.  Camerota has anchored CNN’s morning program, New Day, for the last six years, the longest tenure of any weekday morning show anchor in recent CNN history, and, along with Berman, has led CNN to its largest audiences ever in the morning. Blackwell has anchored CNN’s Weekend New Day for the last nine years. 

Brianna Keilar’s star has been rising at CNN for some time and now she is the latest to get a crack at hosting the morning show.

CNN boss Jeff Zucker has remade and blown up the morning newscast at CNN too many times to count. Despite spending millions of dollars, the show has never gained traction in the ratings.

 Keilar now gets a shot of making it work.

Good luck with that.