CNN International & Domestic

Mediocre visual presentation has become a standard for CNN last few years, music, graphics, camera quality has all gone down, not to mention they are the only news channel left in 4:3. A real shame.

This new show is pointless, instead of a real news bulletin we get an hour of developing countries business, something that should be a weekly show.

Not to mention that Jim Clancy lost a weekday slot for this, CNN's most experienced presenter and one of it's faces. I don't see BBC doing this to Nick or Sky to Jeremy. Clearly CNN management has totally lost the plot, it's all about sponsorships and money...

Edit: Sorry, just strapped on screen. It's Rafael Romo.

Indeed. Here is his full profile:

http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/romo.rafael.html

CNN has some really nice incidental music between breaks and comebacks during World Report. I wonder if it just plays on a loop for thirty minutes from the top of the hour, and we just dip into it at random wherever it happens to be playing?

Anyway, back to the anchor questions: thanks for the link to Rafael Romo profile. Whilst browsing, tried to find Reggie Aqui's profile, and couldn't. Has he left CNNI?

Fionualla Sweeney tonight and tomorrow on the iDesk. Yippee! Really like Fionualla as a presenter. She is one of the best at CNN.

NEW YORK — George Stephanopoulos is returning to Sunday mornings at ABC News, replacing Christiane Amanpour as host of the political talk show "This Week."

ABC said Tuesday that Stephanopoulos, who returns Jan. 8, will remain as host of "Good Morning America," although likely on a four-day schedule.

Amanpour, meanwhile, enters an unusual job-sharing role where she will become ABC's global affairs anchor, contributing to prime-time shows on world news, while also being host of a daily show on CNN International.

"This role is groundbreaking, bold and very different," Amanpour said. "I am thrilled and honored."

Critics wondered from the start whether the Iranian-born Amanpour, a veteran foreign correspondent for CNN, was a good fit for a panel show dominated by American politics. It hasn't budged from third place behind NBC's "Meet the Press" and a resurgent "Face the Nation" on CBS, with the ABC show down 1 percent in ratings from last year.

Amanpour's reporting connections in the Middle East served ABC News particularly well during the Arab spring, and she scored an exclusive interview with then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in February.

But the dawning of an American election year seemed to serve her competitors, old Washington hands Bob Schieffer at CBS and David Gregory at NBC, better.

The Sunday morning show was much stronger in the ratings behind Stephanopoulos, who was host from 2002 to 2010. ABC moved him to New York and "Good Morning America," which has done well in the ratings by teaming him with Robin Roberts.

Amanpour said she was looking forward to getting back out to do more international reporting and speaking to a worldwide audience on CNN, where she worked for more than two decades.

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Christine Amanpour returning to CNN (International) after she leaves ABC's 'This Week'. Apparently she'll have a new 'daily' show on CNNi, while continuing as a 'Global Affairs anchor' at ABC.