Prime of the Ticker: Former ABC Information and CNN anchor Aaron Brown handed away on Sunday, Dec. 29 at 76. Brown was greatest remembered for his protection of the Sept. 11 terror assaults, which additionally occurred to be his first day on the air. On Thursday, NewsNight anchor Abby Phillip paid tribute to Brown, whose 2001-2005 present shared the identical title and timeslot as hers. “What we do each night time, right here on this program, is attempt to emulate his excellence,” Philip mentioned.
Our tribute to the unique NewsNight anchor Aaron Brown, who died this week at 76. Could his reminiscence be a blessing. 🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/N5089oQXEz
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) January 3, 2025
The CNN household—and the information media household at giant—additionally mourned the passing of media government Dick Parsons in the course of the vacation interval. Parsons served because the chairman of TimeWarner, CNN’s former guardian firm, from 2002 to 2007 and was instrumental in turning the corporate round after its disastrous merger with AOL in 2000. He additionally briefly served as chairman of CBS in 2018. Parsons died on Dec. 26 at 76 years previous.
Excessive Occasions: CNN’s annual protection of the New 12 months’s Eve festivities from New York Metropolis’s Occasions Sq. delivered strong rankings for the community. In keeping with Nielsen, New 12 months’s Eve Reside with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen was the No. 1 program on cable tv from midnight till 12:30 a.m. with 3.7 million whole viewers and 1.358 million viewers within the Adults 25-54 demo. It was CNN’s greatest displaying in that point interval since 2021.
Blissful Days Forward: Fox Enterprise correspondent Madison Alworth closed out 2024 by getting engaged. She made the announcement whereas visitor internet hosting The Large Cash Present on Dec. 30. “I’m so joyful,” Alworth mentioned. “I don’t know what to say apart from I really feel so extremely blessed… he’s completely the most effective. I’m so thrilled.”
