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Prior this morning, we reported that Nightline anchor Bill Weir was once departing ABC Information for different pastures.
TVNewser beat us to the punch on the news that his new role is with CNN. But that’s handiest part of the story. A dependable supply linked to CNN tells Mediaite that Weir has been promised a show throughout the 9 p.m. ET hour — an hour that happens to be at the moment occupied by Piers Morgan.
According to our source, the small print and timing have not but been worked out (and we’re told it is going to likely take “many months”) but that Weir is anticipated to get both 1/2 or the entire 9 p.m. slot, meaning Morgan will both move time slots or, at easiest, scale back to a half of hour of airtime per evening. Another CNN supply tells us that Weir’s express will doubtless launch in “late evening” but our original supply insists that if that happens, the goal could be to test it out for an eventual transfer to the 9 p.m. hour.
Both manner, the British host, who’s change into related with his anti-gun fights, as of late, appears to be like to be shedding the whole 9 p.m. hour.
Weir was once in the past the anchor of ABC’s newsmagazine convey Nightline, and on Friday morning, ABC News chief Ben Sherwood announced that Weir used to be leaving “for every other chance in the news business.”
Past this month, FTVLive mentioned that CNN was once preparing to “dump” Piers Morgan, with Katie Couric allegedly being eyed as a substitute. That rumor plus Morgan’s declining ratings further fueled hypothesis that he might be planning an exit strategy from CNN.
We’ll have more right here as this story develops.
UPDATE: A spokesperson offers the following remark: “Invoice Weir was not delivered to CNN to switch Piers Morgan.”
