Former CNN Host Chris Cuomo Will Have a New Primetime Show on NewsNation

Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo returns to prime time television.

Cuomo hosts a primetime show for NewsNation, a cable news channel owned by local television giant Nexstar. The news was revealed on the channel Tuesday night in a 9 p.m. interview with NewsNation host Dan Abrams.

Cuomo’s show will premiere in the fall.

“I want to find a way to help people, I’m coming to newsNation and I want to build something special here,” Cuomo told Abrams. “I’ve decided that I can’t go back to what people see as ‘the big game.’ I think we need insurgent media, I think we need media that are not external and just try to line their pockets.”

Cuomo was fired by CNN in December after new details emerged about everything he did to help his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, respond to allegations of sexual harassment.

Earlier this month, he launched a comeback effort with a podcast called The Chris Cuomo Project. The premiere episode, which featured an interview with actor Sean Penn, also featured Cuomo’s first comments on CNN since his departure from the cable news channel, saying he would “never be an enemy”.

NewsNation, led by Michael Korn, former executive producer at ABC good morning america (Cuomo also worked at ABC News), trying to break into the crowded and bitterly partisan cable news space by promising “fact-based news” without any “prejudice.”

NewsNation launched as a programming block in 2020, with the entire channel changing its name in the past year. Before switching to cable news, it operated as a cable channel known as WGN America. Nexstar acquired it when it acquired Tribune’s television assets in 2019.

Abrams, who is also ABC News’ chief legal correspondent and a former MSNBC anchor and executive, joined the network’s prime-time show last year.

Nexstar executives say NewsNation is profitable, even though it averages less than 100,000 viewers this year.