{"id":1722317,"date":"2022-11-02T20:33:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T00:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722317"},"modified":"2022-11-02T20:34:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T00:34:01","slug":"jake-tappers-primetime-slot-at-cnn-is-ending-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jake-tappers-primetime-slot-at-cnn-is-ending-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Tapper\u2019s Primetime Slot At CNN Is Ending: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjake-tappers-primetime-slot-at-cnn-is-ending-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722317&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>CNN\u2019s experiment moving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jake-tapper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jake Tapper<\/a> to the network\u2019s primetime lineup is coming to an end after he struggled to keep up with competitors in ratings during the time slot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of a special lineup, Jake agreed to anchor the 9p hour through the midterm elections,\u201d a CNN spokesperson said. \u201cAt the completion of that schedule, he\u2019ll be returning to his award-winning program The Lead. We will announce post-election plans for that time slot in the coming days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Semafor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/11\/02\/2022\/cnns-experiment-with-jake-tapper-in-primetime-is-coming-to-an-end\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that although Tapper had reportedly only agreed to do the show through November 11, \u201cthere had been some speculation that the network\u2019s lead Washington anchor could take over the slot permanently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Beast also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/jake-tappers-ratings-deficient-cnn-primetime-show-to-end-after-midterms?ref=scroll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that Tapper was potentially being viewed as a replacement for the time slot, which was vacated by Chris Cuomo, who was fired by the network during the course of an investigation into the help that he provided to his brother, then-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D), in navigating a sexual misconduct scandal.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that one of the problems that Tapper ran into was he \u201cwas not able to trump his time-slot competitors in ratings, often falling far behind competitors Alex Wagner Tonight and Hannity (on MSNBC and Fox News, respectively) in total viewers and alternating with the MSNBC host for second and third place in the key demographic of viewers ages 25 to 54.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tapper will now move back to his original 4 p.m. EST time slot after the brief stint at the 9 p.m. EST time slot.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Cuomo was fired when, during the course of the network\u2019s investigation, women came forward and accused him of sexual misconduct, including a \u201cyoung temporary ABC employee hoping for a full-time job,\u201d The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chris-cuomo-was-fired-after-cnn-learned-of-alleged-sex-assault-during-lunch-in-his-office-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>, and former ABC News executive producer Shelley Ross.<\/p>\n<p>Ross, who later became an executive producer at CBS News,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chris-cuomos-former-producer-accuses-him-of-sexual-harassment-lowering-one-hand-to-firmly-grab-and-squeeze-the-cheek-of-my-buttock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0that at a going-away party in 2005, Cuomo approached her \u201cand greeted me with a strong bear hug while lowering one hand to firmly grab and squeeze the cheek of my buttock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I can do this now that you\u2019re no longer my boss,\u2019 he said to me with a kind of cocky arrogance,\u201d Ross <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/woman-who-accused-chris-cuomo-of-sexual-misconduct-blasts-newsnation-for-hiring-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> in a New York Times op-ed. \u201c\u2018No you can\u2019t,\u2019 I said, pushing him off me at the chest while stepping back, revealing my husband, who had seen the entire episode at close range. We quickly left.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN\u2019s experiment moving Jake Tapper to the network\u2019s primetime lineup is coming to an end after he struggled to keep up with competitors in ratings during the time slot. \u201cAs part of a special lineup, Jake agreed to anchor the 9p hour through the midterm elections,\u201d a CNN spokesperson said. \u201cAt the completion of that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1722320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}