Tag: Chris Licht

"David arrived at CNN in tumultuous times and did a brilliant job stabilizing the company at a difficult moment."

Chris Licht added that "there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance" and that he was "sometimes on the wrong side of that."

"We had a lot of fun and a lot of battles together. Chris is going to have a lot of great chapters and hopefully some of those with us at Warner Bros."

“By expanding the range and depth of our programming lineup across multiple dayparts, we are strengthening our reporting excellence throughout the schedule..."

"It was suggested as well, that Licht might now be able to get a production assistants job on MSNBC's Morning Joe. Might."

"Why would you do that? What exactly does Brian Stelter know about running a major media news operation like CNN? If you want to call them a major media news operation."

"I’m bummed that it didn’t work out (with Chris Licht). But I will say that things are really good right now."

Olbermann pointed out that the network was supposed to launch Collins' new show this month, but the month is ending, and there is still no branding of the show.

"I would call him in and say 'You screwed up, shut your mouth, keep your head down, do the job I hired you for, and we’re going to put this behind us'.”

"You would have to clean out a rat's nest of dirty corruption within CNN."