Tuesday, July 19, 2005
CNN Scrapping 2 Saturday Morning Business Shows
Source: New York Daily News CNN is pulling the plug on biz shows again.Two Saturday morning personal finance programs, "Dolans Unscripted" and "The Turnaround," will be history in a matter of weeks - and won't be replaced with money programs.
A third Saturday morning financial show, real estate program "Open House" will remain on the air and will get an additional weekend airing.
In a big retreat from business news, CNN shuttered sister financial channel CNNfn last year. It will replace its weekend biz shows with general news programs, which will be hosted by CNN weekend anchors Betty Nguyen, Tony Harris and Fredericka Whitfield.
CNN U.S. president Jon Klein noted that financial reporting will continue on a new three-hour daily program called "The Situation Room," set to debut Aug. 8.
Turnaround" host Ali Velshi, and Jack Cafferty, anchor of "In The Money," another
CNN weekend business show, will contribute to the afternoon show."We're not backing away from business coverage, we are finding new and better ways to showcase it," Klein told the Daily News.
The two shows, which went on the air earlier this year, pre-dated Klein. MORE
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