The fledgling cable TV network that has hired Chris Cuomo to host a primetime show this fall is already asking staffers to promote the disgraced anchor — and some aren’t happy about it.
Cuomo, whose old 9 p.m. CNN show “Cuomo Prime Time” averaged 1 million nightly viewers in its final year, is being heralded by the brass at NewsNation as a savior for the network — a message that’s provoking grumbling among the rank and file, sources told On the Money.
“This is going to be like SiriusXM — with Chris instead of Howard Stern,” one source griped.
Employees at NewsNation — launched less than two years ago, with ratings that are a tiny fraction of CNN’s — are likewise bristling over a recent request to plug Cuomo’s new show at the bottom of their email signatures, sources told On the Money.
“It’s all about Chris,” said another apoplectic source. “Can you believe they are asking employees to all plug Chris and not their own shows?”
The Cuomo email signature — which shows the 52-year-old talking head against a blue background with the plug “Coming this fall to NewsNation” — stands in contrast to the network’s typical email signatures, which depict all of its top anchors, sources said.
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