Amanpour Gets Nightly Show on CNN International

ATLANTA,
November 24: Veteran CNN foreign correspondent Christiane Amanpour is set to
anchor a nightly program on CNN International, which is retooling its lineup.

The program
will begin in the second quarter of 2009, joining several other new offerings
that the network has already started to show in the noon to 6 p.m. time slot. An edited version of the Amanpour hour is slated to
air on the weekends on CNN in the U.S.

Tony Maddox,
the executive VP and managing director of CNN International, said: "Our
thinking was we wanted a big, the biggest, name to hub our international prime
time, and when it comes to global international superstars that list pretty
much begins and ends with Christiane Amanpour."

Amanpour has
been with CNN for 25 years, reporting
on major crises on-location from many of the world's hotspots, including Iraq,
Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia,
Rwanda, the Balkans and the U.S. during Hurricane Katrina.

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski