Jonathan Klein

Jonathan Klein was president of Cable News Network (CNN) for 6 years. He was fired in 2010. He was replaced by Ken Jautz, leader of CNN's sister network, CNN Headline News. Klein hired Eliot Spitzer as a talk show host. He fired Larry King and replaced him with Piers Morgan.[1] While at CNN, he tried to hire Keith Olbermann away from NBC's cable news channel MSNBC.[2] CNN exceutive Jim Walton did not want that, and it did not happen.[3]

References

  1. Brian Stelter (September 9, 2010). Jonathan Klein to leave CNN. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/jonathan-klein-to-leave-cnn/. 
  2. Danny Shea (1 February 2013). "Jon Klein: I Don't Regret Piers Morgan Hire, Keith Olbermann Could Have Helped CNN (VIDEO)". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  3. Gabriel Sherman (3 October 2010). "Chasing Fox". New York Media LLC. Retrieved 18 February 2015.