![]() The problem is he acts out on television about it. “I’m the more accomplished, smarter, more handsome brother. Cuomo said at a Jewish Community Relations Council of New York Dinner on May 9. “He has an anger against me because I’m the older brother,” Gov. The older Cuomo brother, who is weighing a possible presidential run in 2020, has a long history of playfully ribbing his younger brother in public. Andrew Cuomo, Chris Cuomo is used to being somewhat overshadowed by the other members of his famous family. “I cut him a lot of slack because he was 19 years old, but he was very competitive, super intense,” the family friend recalled fondly.Īs the son of one governor and the brother of another, New York Gov. A longtime friend of the Cuomo family described Chris as a young man, playing basketball in a casual league against staffers working for his father, then-New York Gov. (Industry analyst Andrew Tyndall said the move will weaken CNN’s morning programming, however.)Ĭuomo’s intensity, which shows up generally within a minute or two of any interview he does, has long been apparent to those who have been around him. “They have got to be making this deision because they think he can win the ratings war,” he said, calling it a “nice compliment” that CNN is putting Cuomo up against his friend, Hannity. ![]() Schlapp said that moving Cuomo to primetime is a savvy strategic move for CNN, a network he’s criticized in the past for being anti-Trump. ![]() So, it would not be surprising to see him succeed.” Sizing up Cuomo’s competition, Klein said, “The most successful primetime cable hosts try to make sense of a confusing world for their viewers. ![]() ring with arguably the two most popular and influential hosts in cable, Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow. “I am confident he will do very well,” he said.Īfter competing with Fox & Friends, perhaps the most consequential news show in cable television, and Morning Joe, Cuomo will get another massive test when he enters the 9 p.m. Jonathan Klein, the former head of CNN U.S., described Cuomo as “naturally aggressive” and “edgy,” with a combative interview style that works even better on primetime than first thing in the morning, when viewers are just waking up.Ĭuomo is “one of the best in the business,” said the lawyer Michael Avenatti, who represents adult film star Stormy Daniels (real name Stephanie Clifford) and has appeared frequently on CNN and MSNBC in recent months. At ABC News, Cuomo co-anchored 20/20 and was the network’s chief law and justice correspondent. “His intelligence and energy come through in every question he asks, in every subject he tackles, no matter how difficult,” said David Westin, who ran ABC News during Cuomo’s tenure and now anchors for Bloomberg TV. (Jake Tapper has also increased his stock during the Trump administration by taking a similar pose.) (CNN would not make Cuomo, Camerota or a network executive available for an interview.)Īs a reporter-turned-anchor who is comfortable calling balls and strikes (or, at least pushing back on what he deems hypocrisy), Cuomo is well-suited to the current media moment. While New Day hasn’t quite kept pace with the competition in the ratings (625,000 average total viewers last month, compared with more than one million for the competition), the show regularly makes news and is intended to be a more journalistic alternative to the two partisan punditry parties it goes up against. Zucker, a longtime denizen of morning television, gave Cuomo an important assignment co-anchoring the network’s morning show and going up against two titans of the time block - Fox & Friends and MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Zucker poached Cuomo from ABC News about a week after he took charge of the network in January 2013. Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN, also has a lot riding on the success of Cuomo’s show. Cuomo demo’d the show for a month earlier this year, which the network called a “special” but was seen as a tryout for a permanent spot. And, I think that’s good TV, and there’s nothing wrong with it, and I’ve never felt it was unfair.”įor Cuomo, moving from the morning show he co-hosts with Alisyn Camerota - New Day - to an hourly perch in the middle of CNN’s primetime block is a big opportunity for an anchor on the rise. “He doesn’t check his passion, and if his passion is ignited, he lets it go. “I like him, I respect him, he’s never been dishonest to me,” said Schlapp, who has appeared on Cuomo’s show for two years. A few weeks later, he sang Cuomo’s praises to The Hollywood Reporter. “My lord,” a visibly shocked Schlapp said at the end of the 26-minute-long segment.
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