''Amanpour & Company'' is a late-night global-affairs interview television program hosted by
Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Maria Heideh AmanpourStated on ''Finding Your Roots'', 22 January 2019 (; fa, کریستیان امانپور, Kristiane Amānpur; born 12 January 1958) is a British-Iranian journalist and television host. Amanpour is the Chief ...
. The hour-long show premiered on
PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcasting, public broadcaster and Non-commercial activity, non-commercial, Terrestrial television, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly fu ...
on September 10, 2018, as an expanded version of the
CNN International
CNN International (CNNI, simply branded on-air as CNN) is an international television channel that is owned by CNN Global. CNN International carries news-related programming worldwide; it cooperates with sister network CNN's national and inter ...
show ''
Amanpour
''Amanpour'' (stylized as ''Amanpour.'') is a global affairs interview television program hosted by British-Iranian journalist Christiane Amanpour, airing weeknights
6pm GMT/ 1pm ET & 7PM CET on CNN International.
The program is also aired on ...
'', augmented with interviews by correspondents at the
WNET
WNET (channel 13), branded on-air as "Thirteen" (stylized as "THIRTEEN"), is a primary PBS member television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, United States, serving the New York City area. Owned by The WNET Group (formerly known as the ...
studios in New York.
History
Following the removal of ''
Charlie Rose
Charles Peete Rose Jr. (born January 5, 1942) is an American former television journalist and talk show host. From 1991 to 2017, he was the host and executive producer of the talk show '' Charlie Rose'' on PBS and Bloomberg LP.
Rose also co-an ...
'' in December 2017 after
the eponymous host's sexual harassment scandal,
CNN
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the M ...
offered Amanpour to PBS to air in its place. The CNN International show aired in its exact same 30-minute format minus the CNN branding and commercials from December 2017 until September 2018 as ''Amanpour on PBS''. From shortly after PBS picked up the show, plans were in the works for an expanded PBS version of the program. The result was ''Amanpour & Company'' which was announced in May 2018 with an expanded one-hour running time and a third interview block conducted by correspondents from WNET in New York. Correspondent
Alicia Menendez
Alicia Jacobsen Menendez ( ; born July 2, 1983)[Walter Isaacson
Walter Seff Isaacson (born May 20, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and professor. He has been the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C., the chair and CEO of CNN, ...]
*
Michel Martin
Michel McQueen Martin is an American journalist and correspondent for National Public Radio and WNET. After ten years in print journalism, Martin has become best known for her radio and television news broadcasting on national topics.
Background ...
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Hari Sreenivasan
Hariharan "Hari" Sreenivasan, born in 1974, is an American broadcast journalist.
Biography
Sreenivasan was born in Mumbai, India, around 1974.[Ana Cabrera
Ana Cabrera (born May 13, 1982) is an American journalist working in television news. From 2013 to 2022, she worked as a reporter and anchor for CNN.][Alicia Menendez
Alicia Jacobsen Menendez ( ; born July 2, 1983)][MSNBC
MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and political ...]
)
References
External links
Official website
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PBS original programming
2018 American television series debuts
2010s American television talk shows
2020s American television talk shows
English-language television shows
2010s American late-night television series