Campbell Brown Joins CNN
by Marisa Guthrie -- Broadcasting & Cable, 7/23/2007 4:52:00 AM
Campbell Brown will join CNN on September 1. But the former Weekend Today anchor, who bid farewell to viewers on Sunday’s show, cannot appear on CNN until November.
NBC wanted to keep her, said Jon Klein, president of CNN/U.S., “this is one of the provisos that they insisted on to let her go otherwise we would have loved to have her on the air sooner.”
Brown’s delayed start time will be further complicated by her pregnancy. She is due to give birth to her first child in December. (Brown, 39, is married to Dan Senor, 35, a Republican strategist and analyst for Fox News.)
Brown, who got her start at NBC News as a political reporter, says she hopes to be back at work on CNN in time for the presidential primaries in February.
What neither Klein nor Brown would say during a conference call with reporters on Monday is exactly what Brown will be doing at CNN.
“She’s going to be anchoring a show. It’s going to air in the evenings and we’re going to be announcing the specific time period shortly,” said Klein adding that her show will be “a lively look at events that are happening at the moment. It will be talk focused. It will have many different elements.”
Speculation has swirled for weeks that the struggling Paula Zahn Now, which airs at 8 p.m. ET, would be replaced with a Brown fronted show. Klein refused to discuss Zahn’s future at CNN. He said everyone at the network who will be affected by the primetime schedule change is “up to speed” but then later seemed to infer that maybe everyone is not actually up to speed.
“We have an obligation to the people who we work with to disclose this in the right manner,” he said, “and that means not having to read it in the paper before they are told face to face.”
He also said that the weeks and months before Brown’s debut would be an “opportunity” to “experiment” with different formats in primetime.
Brown’s NBC News contract expires Thursday, she said. She was not offered her own show on NBC’s cable arm MSNBC as part of a bid by the network to keep her. Her decision to leave NBC for CNN presented “a rare opportunity to build a show from scratch,” she said.
“For me to stay at NBC would have been to stay in what was a pretty comfortable role for me. I get that what I’m doing carries risk,” she added. “I wanted to take this risk. I felt it was time for a change.”
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keep roland.......give campbell the same gracious send
off you gave to aaron brown.no bull no bias no brain.
that seems to be the norm.at cnn managment.
d,j,bainbridge - 4/10/2009 3:13:29 AM EDT -
Campbell Brown is an idiot and CNN has lost all credibility. I now equate CNN to the Enquirer! I cannot believe the ridiculous agruments are coming out of the foolish mouth of Campbell Brown. It is clear that she has an agenda and if anything her actions may backfire! BO is nothing but an eloquent speaker who is in it for the fan fair! McCain is so much more a man and so is Palin for that matter! If BO was running on the other ticket CNN would have their hands full with all kinds of "dirt". Of course this is all over-looked. Who questions what kind of father BO would be if he, heaven forbid, gets into the White house????
Diane Hubbard - 9/7/2008 12:47:00 AM EDT -
I LOVE Campbell Brown and the job she does!! She is one of the very FEW people who keep it totally unbiased, and asks the tough questions of everyone regardless of what party they are!
Keep up the great work Campbell!!
Mark Smith - 9/7/2008 12:44:00 AM EDT -
CNN is on at the gym when I go and unfortunately I have to look at Campbell Brown. If only she could see how ridiculous she appears as she gets worked up about Palin. It is clear that she feels threatened by Palin and is trying her best to find fault in this incredible woman. I am so turned off by Campell, Campbell's segment, and CNN. I have lost all respect for the media. I feel that I can no longer trust one microgram of what is reported by the very liberal press. Thank God for Sean Hanity!!!
Diane - 9/7/2008 12:34:00 AM EDT -
WHOM MAY I ASK IS CAMPBELL BROWN RATHER WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS? HER COMMENTS ARE ALL NEGATIVE AS FAR AS SARAH PALIN. SHE GOES SO FAR AS TO MENTION THAT PEOPLE ARE MAKING A ROCK STAR OF HER..ODDLY FOR THE PAST YEAR OR SO, CNN IS NOT BOTHERED BY THE FACT THAT THE PUBLIC HAVE MADE A ROCK STAR OF OBAMA WITH THEIR HELP
CAMPBELL BROWN IS DOWNRIGHT IGNORANT, IF POSSIBLE. MORE SO THAN OTHER CNN EMPLOYEES..
CNN IS CARRYING ON IN A DISPICABLE FASHION, FAVORING OBAMA AND CUTTING UP McCAIN NOW HIS VP.. BIOS BIOS TO A FAULT.. WHY SO CONCERNED ABOUT PALIN FOR VP?? WHEN YOU ARE NOT CONCERNED ABOUT OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT... RIGHT WHAT IF McCAIN DIES IS YOUR DEFENSE!!.BUT WHAT IF OBAMA "YOUR ROCK STAR" IS VOTED IN.. AS INEXPERIENCED AS HE IS AS PRESIDENT, NOT VP BUT PRESIDENT!!....CNN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR TEARING DOWN CLINTON WHILE FAVORING OBAMA. NOW THEY ARE DOING THE SAME TO PALIN..IS IT RACE OR IS IT GENDER? ONE THING FOR SURE IT IS DISGUSTING.. CNN AND CAMPBELL BROWN HAVE FAR TOO MUCH TO SAY, ATTEMPTING TO SWAY THE PUBLIC, AS IF WE DON''''T HAVE A MIND OF OUR OWN, HOW DEMEANING...WOW
SANDRA LEA - 9/5/2008 11:08:00 PM EDT
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