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The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hey, it's Friday. It's President's Day weekend. A lot to get to this hour. |
| 0:10.0 | This will make you feel good. They say there's never any good news. CNN is in big trouble and is going to be making massive cuts. |
| 0:18.9 | They've got to cut 50 million in costs immediately. |
| 0:22.1 | Actually, more than 50 million, but much more than 50 million. |
| 0:26.6 | CNN, very, very low ratings for a long, long time. |
| 0:30.8 | MSNBC does better than CNN, but MSNBC doesn't do that well. |
| 0:35.5 | And CNN really low ratings. |
| 0:37.3 | And it's always a few hundred |
| 0:38.2 | thousand people watching so there's going to be massive cuts 100 million 150 million but |
| 0:44.2 | the new CNN boss has been told to cut 50 million in on-air salaries so a lot of these anchors |
| 0:53.3 | are going to be taking huge cuts. |
| 0:54.8 | You know, Anderson Cooper gets $20 million a year. |
| 0:58.3 | I figure that gets cut in half right away. |
| 1:01.2 | And it's justified. |
| 1:03.9 | You know, he may be great at what he does, but it doesn't attract a lot of viewers. |
| 1:10.0 | You know, if you're Hannity and you're getting 3 million viewers a night, |
| 1:12.7 | and you're Anderson Cooper and you're getting 400,000, |
| 1:15.2 | why pay him so much? |
| 1:17.2 | Why hand him all that money? |
| 1:19.0 | So he'll be taking a big pay cut. |
| 1:21.4 | Wolf Blitzer earns about $15 million a year. |
| 1:26.3 | Could you imagine that? |
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