TRUMP EFFECT: CNN ‘Will Axe Top Stars in Massive Layoffs As Ratings Tank, MSNBC To Be Sold

Couldn’t happen to a more vile gang of demons. Breaking up the Democrat media syndicate, and the Trump gifts just keep on a comin’.

RELATED: Chris Wallace will leave CNN 3 years after defecting from ‘Fox News Sunday’

No Trump bump: MSNBC hemorrhaging viewers since Election Day, sheds more than half of primetime audience: ‘It’s a stale product no one will want to listen to going forward,’ Curtis Houck says

MSNBC ratings collapse:

Joy Reid – down 54.6%
Ari Melber – down 49.6%
Chris Hayes – down 47.2%
Alex Wagner – down 53.6%
Morning Joe – down 39.6%
Stephanie Ruhle – down 67%
Andrea Mitchell – down 39.7%

https://t.co/MwnpkM791w

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 12, 2024

Comcast is putting MSNBC up for sale.
CNN just announced massive layoffs coming.

Maybe the new owners will figure out that lying non-stop to your audience is a lousy business model. pic.twitter.com/XRSE15aGWQ

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) November 12, 2024

If you'd listened to MSNBC last Tuesday, you'd think that your vote for any Republican candidate this election season was rooted in "anti-blackness."

The Kool-Aid of mandatory liberal hegemony turned pretty bitter for MSNBC & CNN.

MSNBC sale imminent. Wonder what @elonmusk is… https://t.co/Zn2vMTeNQZ pic.twitter.com/mmWeVek0HH

— Sarah Parshall Perry (@SarahPPerry) November 12, 2024

CNN ‘will axe top stars in layoffs that’ll see hundreds fired as ratings continue to tank’

By Alex hammer, DailyMail. 12 November 2024

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CNN is planning to wield the axe on some of its high-paid staff after dismal election ratings that cap off a disastrous period for the cable news network.

According to an explosive new report from Puck, network executives will unleash sweeping lay-offs in a bid to save the network’s flailing reputation.

It comes after the departure of stalwart Chris Wallace, and amid reports senior stars like Wolf Blitzer and Jake Tapper have both been denied raises.
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There is no mention of who may be on the chopping block.

The highest paid stars include Anderson Cooper – who rakes in $20million a year – Erin Burnett ($6million) and rising star Kaitlan Collins ($3million).
The rumblings, first reported by Puck News, come as stars like Anderson Cooper continue to take home salaries of $20million despite waning ratings

The rumblings, first reported by Puck News, come as stars like Anderson Cooper continue to take home salaries of $20million despite waning ratings

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‘In the next few months, I’m told, CNN will implement another round of layoffs that will impact hundreds of employees across the organization,’ reporter Dylan Byers wrote Friday, referencing CNN’s recent 100-person layoff seen over the summer.

The fresh round of firings, the insiders said, will be more geared toward the production side of things.

As a result, reporters and correspondents will be required to cover their slack, they said – describing how on-air workers will be ‘asked to assume more of the responsibilities once handled by teams of producers and production assistants.’

Byers wrote: ‘Redundant assignments will be nixed, and various divisions will be reduced or even eliminated.

‘Some of the on-air talent are also likely to be affected,’ he went on to reveal.

Sources who spoke to the reporter, who worked at CNN for three years before founding Puck, added how the looming layoffs are part of an overarching plan – one that puts a premium on the station’s digital platforms.

The man behind it, they said, is none other than new CEO Mark Thompson – the former New York Times boss brought in to overhaul the network under its Warner Bros. Discovery parent.

The old BBC boss filled the position left by then-languishing leader Chris Licht this past August, and since then, ratings have fallen more than 20 percent.