Chris Cuomo will join Nexstars NewsNation this fall, landing at the fledgling news outlet after his dismissal from CNN late last year.
The announcement came at the end of an hourlong interview with Dan Abrams on NewsNations Dan Abrams Live. The wide-ranging interview, his first since exiting CNN, covered his firing after the disclosure of the extent to which he advised his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, as he faced sexual harassment allegations.
I really believe that this outlet has a chance to reach who I call free agents — not right, not left, reasonable. Regular, open mind, open heart, willing to listen when someone disagrees, Cuomo said. Abrams sit down, taking place during the timeslot that Cuomo previously occupied at CNN, seemed designed to address his firing and other issues, including a claim of sexual assault, in advance of the NewsNation announcement.
NewsNation reaches a fraction of the audience of major cable networks — even of the viewership of the current 9 PM ET hour on CNN that has been filled with rotating hosts since Cuomos departure. According to Nielsen, NewsNation has averaged 50,000 viewers in primetime so far this year, compared to 2.4 million for Fox News, 1.2 million for MSNBC and 762,000 for CNN.
Still, NewsNation has drawn personalities like Abrams and Ashleigh Banfield, former personalities at major cable networks, while it has expanded its programming to other dayparts. The network launched in September, 2020, promoting itself as an objective news source in a primetime cable news lineup dominated by opinion hosts and analysis.
I want to build something special here, work with Dan, work with the team here, Cuomo said. We got great people who are really hungry to make a difference in ways that I think matter. I have decided that I cannot go back to what people see as the big game. I dont think I can make a difference there. I think we need insurgent media. We need outlets that arent fringe and are just trying to fill their pockets….I am going to do the job. I am going to where the news is, and I among to try very hard to be fair.
Cuomo was dismissed from CNN in December, following new revelations about the extent to which he advised his brother.
During the interview, Abrams also asked Cuomo about allegations of sexual assault. Shortly after Cuomos exit, The New York Times reported that the allegations, brought to the attention of CNN management, involved a sexual assault claim by a junior colleague at another network. At the time, Cuomo denied the allegations and called his dismissal an unwarranted termination.
Chris Cuomo Hits Back At CNN Smear Campaign With $125M Arbitration Demand
After months of legal anticipation following his December 2021 firing by Jeff Zucker, Chris Cuomo has just launched the official opening salvo in what looks to be protracted battle with CNN over not only $125 million in cash, but his character and family drama as well.
As a result of Turners indefensible choice to unceremoniously fire him, Cuomo has been damaged in countless ways, states a demand for arbitration filed Wednesday from Cuomos Freedman + Taitelman LLP and Clayman Rosenberg Kirshner & Linder LLP attorneys.
Cuomo has had his journalistic integrity unjustifiably smeared, making it difficult if not impossible for Cuomo to find similar work in the future and damaging him in amounts exceeding $125 million, which includes not only the remaining salary owed under the Agreement, but future wages lost as a result of CNNs efforts to destroy his reputation in violation of the Agreement, the filing adds. Cuomo now seeks to recover the full measure of his damages against Turner and CNN, it declares (read the filing here).
After months of legal anticipation following his December 2021 firing by Jeff Zucker, Chris Cuomo has just launched the official opening salvo in what looks to be protracted battle with CNN over not only $125 million in cash, but his character and family drama as well.
As a result of Turners indefensible choice to unceremoniously fire him, Cuomo has been damaged in countless ways, states a demand for arbitration filed Wednesday from Cuomos Freedman + Taitelman LLP and Clayman Rosenberg Kirshner & Linder LLP attorneys.
Cuomo has had his journalistic integrity unjustifiably smeared, making it difficult if not impossible for Cuomo to find similar work in the future and damaging him in amounts exceeding $125 million, which includes not only the remaining salary owed under the Agreement, but future wages lost as a result of CNNs efforts to destroy his reputation in violation of the Agreement, the filing adds. Cuomo now seeks to recover the full measure of his damages against Turner and CNN, it declares (read the filing here).
Legally unjustifiable breach of the Agreement was the complete failure by Zucker to abide by the terms of the Agreement by failing to instruct CNN employees not to disparage Cuomo. The Agreement requires that CNN make reasonable efforts to instruct its employees not to make any intentionally disparaging comments regarding [Cuomo] in the context of [Cuomos] business and professional activities. In fact, not only did Zucker and CNN fail to instruct CNN employees not to disparage Cuomo, as required by the Agreement, but they themselves openly disparaged Cuomo in violation of the Agreement, with Zucker leading the charge. Before Cuomo was terminated, Zucker at first claimed that he had been unaware of Cuomos discussions with Gov. Cuomos aides, when Zucker had done the same thing himself. After Cuomos termination, Zucker claimed that Cuomo had broken his word and that Cuomo misrepresented the extent of his support for his brother. Other CNN staff joined in the calculated campaign to smear Cuomo and destroy his reputation.
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