Following FNC’s primetime news updates and MSNBC’s “Up To The Minute” briefs, CNN introduced one-minute primetime news cut-ins on Monday. They aired at 7:15, 7:45, 8:15, 8:45, and so on, hosted by HLN’s Erica Hill — but alas, not during Larry King Live. (What’s Happening At CNN has a screen grab.) “Why do there have to be ‘news’ cut-ins during ‘news’ programming?,” an e-mailer asks. I believe it’s because CNN’s primetime programs are moving away from round-ups of the day and toward the longer-form, HBO-style packages that Jon Klein is fond of…
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