CNN anchor Poppy Harlow reportedly took a secret assembly at NBC after being axed from CNN This Morning amid a programming shakeup that has left her profession in limbo, RadarOnline.com has realized.
Puck studies that Harlow was noticed at NBC’s 30 Rock headquarters this week, the place she met with members of NBC Information management and on-air expertise.
Whereas insiders say there was no formal job dialogue and no provide made, the assembly has sparked rampant hypothesis a few attainable switch to CNN’s crosstown rival.
Because the Warner Bros. Discovery merger in 2022, quite a few expertise and executives — together with present MSNBC anchor Ana Cabrera, NBC correspondents Christine Romans, Chloe Melas, and Ryan Nobles, MSNBC content material technique S.V.P. Rebecca Kutler, Meet The Press government producer David Gelles, and At this time‘s Laura Jarrett, who co-authored a forthcoming youngsters’s ebook with Harlow — have left CNN for NBC.
As RadarOnline.com beforehand reported, Harlow’s future on the community was left “unsure” when CNN chairman and CEO Mark Thompson introduced plans final month to overtake the community’s complete slate of morning programming to reestablish viewership after rankings failed to satisfy the mark.
“What we’re saying immediately is a change in strategic path and never a mirrored image on the expertise, experience, and dedication,” a CNN spokesperson mentioned on the time.
Whereas her CNN This Morning co-anchor Phil Mattingly, who was mentioned to be “extensively admired” by his colleagues, rapidly secured a brand new function as chief home correspondent, Harlow reportedly has a “blended repute” on the community and remains to be pursuing her subsequent profession transfer.