ABC hires Amanpour for Sunday morning job

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Source: AP/Yahoo

NEW YORK – ABC News said it has hired Christiane Amanpour, one of CNN's best-known personalities for her international reporting over the past two decades, to host its Sunday morning political talk show.

Amanpour, who will start in August, replaces George Stephanopoulos. He left the show in December to take over as co-host of ABC's "Good Morning America."

Amanpour's hiring indicates a change in direction for a show that is concerned primarily with politics and domestic issues — like other Washington-based counterparts "Meet the Press" on NBC and "Face the Nation" on CBS.

"With Christiane, we have the opportunity to provide our audiences with something different on Sunday mornings," said ABC News President David Westin. "We will continue to provide the best in interviews about domestic politics and policies. But now we will add to that an international perspective."



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100318/ap_en_ot/us_tv_abc_amanpour

[WCGreen]

1. Cool...

[Mithreal]

2. +1

[aquart]

3. Oh, my word. Yikes.

Now if NBC would see the light and hire Maddow for Meet the Press....
I might actually set an alarm on Sundays.

[LuckyLib]

4. She's of the last "Journalists" at CNN to leave the sinking ship.

Amazing she held on that long. But then, ABC as a journalistic enterprise? Not so much.

[ginnyinWI]

7. glad to see it!

she was one of the few reasons to turn on that crappy news network anymore. glad she's out of there.

[yava]

18. She was an anti-war voice of reason on Iraq, almost the only on MSM

[alp227]

23. Peter Jennings was also pretty skeptical of that war wasn't he? eom

[xultar]

5. They gave Creepy Crawley and John King shows and she didn't get one on CNN

her show was on CNNI right.

CNN's loss.

[bondwooley]

6. I was just going to ask if she's leaving CNN or multitasking. I guess that answers it!

[Cha]

22. And, redstate.com, erick erickson, is joining john king. nt

[Turborama]

29. Her show is on nightly on CNN International

And I mean EVERY night of the week.

http://edition.cnn.com/CNNI/Programs/amanpour/

Having just one episode shown once a week on CNN USA must have really pissed her off. Especially when a non-journalist like John "Obsequious" King gets treated like some sort of super star.

[tularetom]

8. Sounds promising, hope she doesn't fall into the trap that so many of them do

Having to play nice so they can get A list political guests on their shows.

She doesn't have a DC press background, and she doesn't seem like the type to be impressed by the cocktail party circuit, so maybe she will be an honest journalist, and not a GOP sycophant.

Maybe there will finally be a Sunday morning show I can watch without puking or getting pissed. We'll see. They'll have to get rid of jokie roberts, I think.

[Windy]

9. excellent!!!!!!! Finally a true journalist!!!! nt

[tularetom]

10. dupey doo

[katmondoo]

11. I haven't watched Sunday talk shows in over a decade

This I will watch.

[BlueIdaho]

12. Wow - bold choice! I wish her well.

[progressoid]

13. Wonder how long before she says something to piss off her employers and she's "reassigned"

[UTUSN]

14. She would have been best as JENNINGS' replacement than Charlie-Diane

Although the Brits and other countries are closer to gauging the true worth of "anchors" by calling them what they really are: "Readers" and "Presenters".

[Optimistic]

15. A True Journalist

Amazing in these times that we see a true pro as the head of the signature program.

[Robb]

16. Good for her. I hope it's a fat, fat paycheck

...She's earned it. :thumbsup:

[otohara]

17. Excellent News

Bravo ABC -

[Union Yes]

19. She's always been a favorite of mine. Congrats to her.

[pundaint]

20. I'll watch, if it continues to be This week in Republican Talking Points, I'll stop again.

The other ones are all on stopped status too.

[pattmarty]

21. Gee, ABC finally did something right. Good pick.

[Jennicut]

24. One of the best. I watched her regularly on CNN. Good luck to her.

[Douglas Carpenter]

25. excellent!! a REAL journalist!!

[Loki]

26. Now put Rachel on Meet the Press

and we will have two intelligent women who can and will tell it like it is.

[tabasco]

27. A vast improvement.

Stephawhatever is a gutless weasel.

[cmd]

28. Fantastic

and I'm so glad to see so many other support her.

[gauguin57]

30. I am thrilled.

One of the few serious, fair, hard-nosed, take-no-crap, get-the-story journalists left in television news. I am thrilled ABC made this decision.

[Turborama]

31. Good news for America, bad news for the rest of the world.

As I mention above, her show is on nightly on CNN International

And I mean EVERY night of the week: http://edition.cnn.com/CNNI/Programs/amanpour /


Having just one episode shown once a week on CNN USA must have really pissed her off. Especially when a non-journalist like John "Obsequious" King gets treated like some sort of super star.