Jim Acosta announced his new venture Tuesday — hours after signing off as a CNN anchor with an anti-Trump rant.
CNN made several changes to its lineup, including giving anchor Jake Tapper a new time slot and removing Jim Acosta from his morning show.
Acosta is the first big name to exit CNN in the changes being implemented by CEO Mark Thompson. Thompson last week also told staff that the company intends to lay off a couple hundred employees in a pivot to digital, with a new streaming service in the works.
Known for challenging Trump during his first administration and openly criticizing his actions, Acosta represented positions that CNN now seems to want to exclude from its network.
There is no word on what will happen to Jim Acosta, as Blitzer and Brown’s The Situation Room will take his place in the 10 a.m. ET slot. Tapper’s show will move to 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. ET, with a new show hosted by Hunt, called The Arena, getting the 4 p.m. ET slot.
The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown” will take over his timeslot, after he turned down a reported midnight-2 a.m. offer
Embattled CNN anchor Jim Acosta announced Tuesday that he is leaving the network — and took a parting shot at the Trump administration by urging viewers not to “give in to the lies” in a final on-air rant.
Longtime CNN anchor Jim Acosta departs from the network following internal disputes. His exit draws strong reactions from former President Donald Trump, who criticized Acosta's journalistic integrity.
Thompson, the former BBC and New York Times head honcho who was brought in by Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav to right the ship at CNN, may also shift pre-dawn anchor Kasie Hunt to the afternoons, according to the newsletter, written by former CNN media analyst Oliver Darcy.
The Situation Room is undergoing some renovations. TVLine has confirmed that Wolf Blitzer’s long-running CNN evening program is relocating to the network’s daytime schedule. As part of a larger overhaul at the cable network,
Jim Acosta was left off CNN’s new weekday programming lineup when it was announced on Thursday as the network says there are "active discussions" about a new role.