A season of turnover
On Wednesday, Kim Godwin, an executive at CBS News, was named as the next president of ABC News, a rival network. She will replace James Goldston, and be the first Black woman to run a broadcast TV news division. As word of Godwin’s move went around, we also learned that Susan Zirinsky, her boss at CBS, would be stepping down. Zirinsky plans to stay at CBS in a production role, but she will be replaced atop the news division by two new hires Neeraj Khemlani, currently an executive at Hearst Newspapers, and Wendy McMahon, of ABC News. Between them, as the result of an internal restructuring, the two will oversee both news programming and local CBS TV stations. McMahon, who oversaw ABC’s local stations, was reported to have been in contention for the president job there; she and Godwin are now swapping companies. And McMahon was not the only high-profile leader to leave ABC News yesterday: Michael Corn, the senior executive producer of
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The job is a critical one at ABC and its parent company, Walt Disney Co. “GMA” generated $293.6 million in advertising in 2020, according to Kantar, a tracker of ad spending, compared with $357.6 million for NBC’s “Today” and $185.4 million for “CBS This Morning” on CBS. And the show has recently been expanding. In 2018, ABC News launched an afternoon extension of the program that, after a shaky start, has functioned as sort of a news update for midday viewers. In 2019, ABC expanded the hours of the show’s Saturday broadcast, part of a bid to get more stations to run the program across the U.S.
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Michael Corn is out at the ABC morning show.
“Michael Corn no longer works for ABC News,” an ABC News spokesperson told TVNewser.
An ABC News source tells us “everyone is stunned.” GMA has been the most-watched network morning broadcast for all of Corn’s tenure at the helm of show, which began in 2014. Before that, he was the executive producer of World News for three years, and had previously spent a decade at GMA as a producer.
The news of Corn’s departure comes just a day after two other big staffing changes were announced at the network: Kim Godwin was named the new president of ABC News, joining from CBS News; and Wendy McMahon, president of the ABC TV stations group, announced her departure effective immediately. TVNewser has learned McMahon is joining CBS to co-lead a combined CBS News and CBS TV stations group.
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