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Jimmy Kimmel Weighs In On ‘Tonight Show’ Talk In CNN Interview

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday March 21, 2013 @ 11:35am PDTTags: CNN, Jake Tapper, Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel

David Letterman hasn’t said anything yet about the latest rumors of the departure of his longtime rival Jay Leno from The Tonight Show and his likely replacement Jimmy Fallon. But the other late-night host, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview to run today that he thinks the Fallon move “makes perfect sense.” “NBC is looking to move on, because they did it once already. This would be the second time that this has happened,” Kimmel told Tapper. Kimmel, who’s been critical of Leno in the not so distant past, joked that he hoped the supposed moves are a result of him shifting to the 11:35 PM slot earlier this year. But he might be looking forward to facing Fallon for serious reasons: While debuting strong in its new slot January 8, Jimmy Kimmel Live hasn’t been able to overcome Leno in total viewership and only beat him on a few occasions in the key adults 18-49 demo. On average over his first 10 weeks in his new slot, Kimmel has been 81,000 18-49 viewers behind Leno while besting Letterman by 65,000 in the demo. Here’s Kimmel on CNN:

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CNN’s ‘The Lead With Jake Tapper’ Premieres Soft As Jeff Zucker Era Begins

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday March 19, 2013 @ 1:59pm PDTTags: CNN, Jake Tapper, Jeff Zucker, The Lead With Jake Tapper, TV Ratings

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wished Jake Tapper “good luck with your show” yesterday while appearing on the debut episode of The Lead With Jake Tapper. The new one-hour CNN show looks like it needs it: The premiere of the first new show under new boss Jeff Zucker drew 400,000 total viewers, finishing in third place among cable news shows in its 4 PM ET time slot. That’s less than half of the 1.102 million who watched Fox News Channel’s Your World With Neil Cavuto, and also down from the 479,000 who watched Martin Bashir’s daily show on MSNBC. In the key adults 25-54 demo, the show starring the former ABC News White House correspondent — who new boss Zucker has called the “face of the new CNN,” — drew 87,000 viewers compared to Cavuto’s 172,000 and Bashir’s 100,000. It also was beaten it in the slot by CNN sister station Headline News, which pulled in 779,000 total viewers and 21,000 in the new demo.

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Jeff Zucker Bullish On Debut Of ‘The Lead’, Calls Jake Tapper ‘Face Of New CNN’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday March 18, 2013 @ 8:37pm PDTTags: CNN, Jake Tapper, The Lead

At a launch party celebrating Jake Tapper‘s debut today on CNN‘s The Lead, network head Jeff Zucker called the former ABC reporter “the face of new … Read More »

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Jake Tapper’s New CNN Show ‘The Lead’ Set For March 18 Debut

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday March 6, 2013 @ 9:48am PSTTags: CNN, Jake Tapper, The Lead

CNN announced today that Jake Tapper‘s new weekday show The Lead will premiere at 4 PM on Monday March 18. In a statement, CNN said “the program will draw not only on Tapper’s deep knowledge of politics and national … Read More »

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Jake Tapper Says New CNN Show To Be Called ‘The Lead’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday February 12, 2013 @ 12:26pm PSTTags: CNN, Jake Tapper, The Lead

Nearly two months after Jake Tapper joined CNN, his upcoming weekday show finally has a name. “For those catching the new CNN promo that’s right our new show will be called The Lead,” the news network’s chief Washington correspondent today announced via Twitter. CNN has said the new show will air at 4 PM daily, but there still has been no announcement of when The Lead is actually debuting — all CNN will say is that it is premiering in March. Federico Quadrani has left MSNBC to serve as executive producer on the new show. The Lead will take an hour off Wolf Blitzer’s long-running The Situation Room when it debuts. Read More »

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ABC News’ Jake Tapper Moves To CNN

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday December 20, 2012 @ 1:57pm PSTTags: ABC News, CNN, Jake Tapper

ABC News’ Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper is joining CNN as the anchor of a new weekday program and chief Washington correspondent, the network said today. The as-yet unnamed show is to debut in 2013, said CNN. “With CNN’s impeccable reporting during the elections and the exciting changes in the works for the network, this is a perfect time to join the CNN team,” said Tapper in a statement released by CNN. “I am excited about the prospect of working with both the new leadership and some old friends and colleagues.” CNN, which Jeff Zucker takes over at the end of next month, ended up in third place in 2012 among cable news networks, behind both Fox News and MSNBC.

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