`MONEYLINE' STAR QUITS CNN.Byline: Bill Carter The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Lou Dobbs Lou Dobbs (born September 24 1945), is the CNN anchor and managing editor for Lou Dobbs Tonight. He is also an editorial columnist and syndicated radio show host. Lou Dobbs Tonight attracts CNN's second-largest audience after Larry King Live , one of the most important executives and on-camera personalities for Cable News Network, is leaving CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. to start his own Web site, CNN announced Tuesday. The departure of Dobbs, an executive vice president of CNN and anchor of the financial news show ``Moneyline,'' ends what had become a somewhat rocky relationship. Staff members at CNN and at the network's spinoff cable channel for financial news, CNNfn, said Dobbs had what one executive labeled ``creative differences with management'' and clashed recently with Rick Kaplan Rick Kaplan, who served as President of CNN (1997-2000) and Senior Vice-President of ABC News (2003), was named President of MSNBC in February 2004. He was a long-time executive producer for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings before leaving for CNN. , the president of CNN, over the allocation of resources allocation of resources Apportionment of productive assets among different uses. The issue of resource allocation arises as societies seek to balance limited resources (capital, labour, land) against the various and often unlimited wants of their members. and preemptions of his program for breaking-news coverage. Losing Dobbs could have serious financial repercussions repercussions npl → répercussions fpl repercussions npl → Auswirkungen pl for CNN. ``Moneyline'' is the most lucrative show on the network in terms of advertising revenue. It reaches such a concentrated audience of wealthy investors that the network has been able to charge a higher price for ``Moneyline'' commercials than advertisers pay for any other program on CNN, two executives said. But Dobbs' influence went beyond ``Moneyline.'' He also was in charge of all the financial news coverage for the network. In addition, he was the president of CNNfn. Dobbs is leaving to start a Web site called Space.com, which will offer news and educational and fictional entertainment content about space, including science and business content. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (Color) DOBBS |
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