NEW YORK -- More changes are in the air for CNN's morning and primetime programming, with two American Morning co-hosts leaving the show and the channel naming new executive producers for Anderson Cooper 360 and Paula Zahn Now. Miles O'Brien, who had been co-anchoring an afternoon news program on the network, will join Soledad O'Brien as co-host of American Morning. O'Brien replaces Bill Hemmer, who will leave CNN on June 17. Jack Cafferty, a former local journalist who had been working on American Morning, shifts to Wolf Blitzer's new afternoon news program, The Situation Room. Meanwhile, CNN has tapped veteran news producers Victor Neufeld and David Doss to run some of its primetime programming. Neufeld, executive producer of CBS' The Early Show, who also has run ABC's "20/20" and PrimeTime Thursday, will be senior executive producer of Paula Zahn Now. Doss, who has been executive producer of PrimeTime Thursday and NBC Nightly News, will fill the same role on Paula Zahn Now.
NEW YORK -- Veteran ABC News executive Victor Neufeld is leaving the network after 30 years to join CBS News' Early Show as the number two executive on the show, CBS announced Wednesday. Neufeld will report to Early Show senior executive producer Michael Bass. He succeeds Lynne Pitts on the eye network's morning news program; Pitts moved on to a post on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather last month. Neufeld has spent the past 3 1/2 years overseeing ABC's newsmagazines 20/20, and Primetime Thursday. He previously served 13 years as executive producer of 20/20. "I want to try something different," Neufeld said. " It's time to start a new chapter." He said he relished the challenge of trying to elevate Early Show, which lags its NBC and ABC competition.
- 8/21/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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