Revolving Door Roundup: Brian Williams to Helm Election Night Coverage on Prime Video

Prime Election Day: Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service has officially thrown its hat into news coverage. As Puck’s Dylan Byers reported weeks ago, Prime Video has struck a deal with former NBC News anchor Brian Williams to helm special election night coverage that will free to watch for Prime Video subscribers. Election Night with Brian Williams will stream on Prime Video beginning at 5 p.m. ET on Nov. 5. Williams, who last helmed The 11th Hour on MSNBC before stepping down in 2021, will be joined by prominent guest contributors who will share real-time poll results and commentary while referencing third-party news sources across all political affiliations. The special will be produced by Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner, with Jonathan Wald as executive producer and showrunner and Weiss also serving as director.

Signing Off: CBS News 24/7 anchor John Dickerson signed off from his streaming news show The Daily Report with John Dickerson on Tuesday night. He’s not moving far away, though. Following the presidential election, he’ll be one of the soon-to-be-revamped CBS Evening News co-anchors. At the end of his final streaming broadcast, Dickerson paid tribute to his behind-the-scenes colleagues, saying: “Thank you for working so hard to get it right. Thank you for the honor of allowing me to associate my name with your work.” In the interim, CBS News’ Lindsey Reiser will take over Dickerson’s duties on The Daily Report. Watch Dickerson’s sign-off below:

Job Cuts: The contraction within the news media industry continues as both the BBC and NBCUniversal News Group announced layoffs within their respective news divisions this week. A total of 130 positions from BBC’s news and current affairs departments will be eliminated, according to the PressGazette. Impacted programs include the long-running BBC News Channel interview program Hardtalk, which has been cancelled; BBC Click, which shifts from a TV format to a digital one; and the Asian Network’s news service, which loses its signature news programs.

Over at NBCU, Semafor’s Maxwell Tani reports that the news division and CNBC saw layoffs this week. A CNBC representative tells TVNewser that the number of layoffs was constricted to “single digits” and were part of a natural realignment aimed at focusing on business priorities while investing and hiring in areas that offered continued growth.

Growth Opportunities: Sticking with CNBC, the network announced the new weekend show Millennial Money, which sprouted from its personal finance digital platform, Make It. The digital video series graduates to CNBC’s weekend lineup on Sundays at 5 p.m. ET and will be hosted by Ashton Jackson. “Chances are, you’re probably curious about how much money people make in a certain field or how much other people are dedicating to their savings—you just don’t know how to ask,” Jackson wrote in a social media post teasing the new show.

New Addition: CNN announced Monday that Ben Hunte is joining the network as an anchor and correspondent on CNN International. Based in Atlanta, Hunte will host CNN Newsroom on weekends for morning audiences in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, afternoon viewers in Asia, and late-night audiences in the U.S. He will also work across CNN programming as a correspondent, focusing on social justice and LGBTQ issues. Hunte was most recently a global correspondent for Vice News based in London.

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