Discovery Inc. names 'Colbert' producer Chris Licht as the new boss of CNN
Licht’s rise in the news business came when Zucker was chief executive at NBC before it was acquired by Comcast.“He’s grounded in journalism,” Capus said. “They could have looked in a lot of different directions. He has a good track record. He will stick to the fundamentals of journalism, production and how to maintain relevance to the audience.”
The budding broadcaster later moved to WNBC in New York and eventually joined MSNBC, where he was executive producer of “Scarborough Country,” the prime-time show with former Florida Rep. Joe Scarborough.in 2007, Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were moved into the morning time period, with Licht at the helm in the control room. The conversation-driven Beltway-focused program has been a must-watch for political insiders ever since.
On April 28, 2010, the weekend of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, he suffered a brain aneurysm. Brzezinski contacted then-Vice President Joe Biden — who had survived two brain aneurysms — to find the best doctors to treat Licht. “I won’t say that it slowed Chris down,” said Scarborough. “It rounded off a few sharp edges that we all have.”“Maybe he is more Zen when he goes home at night,” said a CBS colleague who was not authorized to comment publicly. “But he’s a guy who knows what he wants, and he wants it done the way he wants it.”
Licht moved to “The Late Show” in 2016 after Colbert floundered in his first year as successor to David Letterman. Helped by the rising interest in news after the election of Donald Trump to the White House, the show rose to the top of the ratings in late night.
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