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Chris Licht (Christopher Andrew Licht) was born on 22 October, 1971 in Switzerland, is an American television newsman and producer (born 1971). Discover Chris Licht's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 52 years old?
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Chris Licht Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Chris Licht's Wife?
His wife is Jenny Blanco (m. 2006)
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Chris Licht Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Chris Licht worth at the age of 52 years old? Chris Licht’s income source is mostly from being a successful television. He is from United States. We have estimated Chris Licht's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Christopher Andrew Licht (born October 22, 1971) is an American television newsman and producer.
He is best known as the showrunner and executive producer of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, as well as CBS's executive vice president of special programming.
He is also known for having launched Morning Joe on MSNBC, and the reboot of CBS This Morning.
From May 2022 to June 2023 he was the chairman and CEO of CNN.
Licht was born in Switzerland, to Susan Mary (Kneeland) and Dr. Peter David Licht of Newtown, Connecticut.
He graduated from Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism and political science.
Licht and Blanco began dating while both were on assignment at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
In 2005, he joined MSNBC as the executive producer for Scarborough Country and later was the founding executive producer of Morning Joe, which he and host Joe Scarborough helped create prior to its launch in 2007.
They married in April 2006 at the L'Auberge Del Mar, in Del Mar, California.
On April 28, 2010, Licht suffered a near-fatal cerebral hemorrhage while driving in Washington, D.C. He later wrote a book about the resulting experience, What I Learned When I Almost Died: How a Maniac TV Producer Put Down His BlackBerry and Started to Live His Life, which was published in 2011.
Joe Biden, the then-vice president and a survivor of an aneurysm himself, cold-called Dr. Vivek Deshmukh, a highly recommended neurosurgeon, to ask him to take care of Licht.
He joined CBS in 2011 and was named vice president of programming at CBS News.
Licht was the executive producer of CBS This Morning starting when the show launched in 2012, and later joined The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2016.
While in charge of CBS This Morning, he was credited with making the show unexpectedly successful, giving CBS its most competitive place in the morning show race in almost 30 years.
This success occurred partly because Licht allowed the show's hosts Gayle King, Charlie Rose, and Norah O'Donnell, to talk freely about news events and about themselves.
A month after he was named executive producer and showrunner of The Late Show, the show saw its largest weekly audience since February 19 of that year.
As executive producer, he focused on management issues that host Stephen Colbert had previously handled, as well as shortening the opening credits and adding a comedy sketch immediately before them.
After the abrupt resignation of CNN president Jeff Zucker in February 2022, Licht was named his successor on February 26, 2022.
On his first day as chairman and CEO of CNN, Licht sent a memo to all employees saying, "Sadly too many people have lost trust in the news media. I think we can be a beacon in regaining that trust by being an organization that exemplifies the best characteristics in journalism: fearlessly speaking truth to power, challenging the status quo, questioning ‘group-think’ and educating viewers and readers with straightforward facts and insightful commentary, while always being respectful of differing viewpoints. First and foremost, we should, and we will be advocates for truth."
One such method involves limiting CNN's use of the term "breaking news" to stories that have a significant importance.
Licht has expressed a desire to change negative perceptions of CNN among Republicans.
The Washington Post described the moves "as the latest evidence of a shift to a less politically charged tone under new leader Chris Licht."
Licht was fired as CNN's president and CEO in June 2023 after The Atlantic revealed that employees had become unhappy with him over actions taken during his tenure.
While Licht was executive producer of CBS This Morning, the series won a Peabody Award and three Emmy Awards (one Daytime Emmy Award and two News & Documentary Emmy Awards).
In 2014, one of the TV news control rooms at the Newhouse Studio and Innovation Center was named in his honor.
Licht began his career at KNBC in Los Angeles around the time of the O. J. Simpson trial.
He also worked with local NBC affiliates in LA and San Francisco markets.
As CBS This Morning's executive producer, he was co-nominated for three Emmy Awards in 2015: one for Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast, one for Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast, and one for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast.
The following year, the series won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast for a story on fraud at compounding pharmacies, which he co-executive produced with Steve Capus.
As of 2017, Licht lived in Manhattan with his wife, Jenny Blanco, and their two sons.
Blanco worked at CNN for several years as a producer for Anderson Cooper and then as a director of talent recruiting and development.