Anderson Cooper shakes its representation in an important way, wrapping the longtime UTA agency for CAA, learned Thewrap.
“According to his television status, the status of the list of news, the journalist of CNN Anchor and” 60 minutes “will be directly relocated by the CEO of Creative Artists Agency Bryan,”, according to Variety.
CAA refused to comment when contacted by Thewrap.
Cooper’s move occurs in the middle of difficult times for distribution and cable information, because both are facing the growing pressure of increasingly dominant streaming platforms. This pressure led certain media companies to make drastic movements concerning their cable and diffusion properties.
For example, Nbcuniversal transforms its properties of new cables in a separate company called slope. The company, which will be listed on the stock market and autonomous, will include CNBC, MSNBC, USA Network, Oxygen, E!, Syfy, Golf Channel and Digital Assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, Golfnow and Sportsengine.
More relevant for Cooper’s jobs, Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN parent company, divides its global linear network and its studios and streaming companies in mid-201.
Studios and streaming business will include Warner Bros. Television Group, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, DC Studios, HBO and HBO Max, Warner Bros. Games, Tours, Retail and Experiences, as well as studio production facilities in Burbank and Leavedden.
Global Networks will include Anderson CNN’s employer, TNT Sports in the United States, Discovery, the best free channels across Europe, Discovery + and Bleacher Report (B / R). He will keep a 20% stake in studios and streaming activities to help the company unwinding and in what could predict the more rough to come for its constituent networks, should take the majority of $ 37 billion in WBD raw debt.
