HLN to Launch New Evening News Show June 4th…
HLN announced a new evening news show to launch on June 4th…
HLN REVS UP NIGHTLY NEWS WITH LAUNCH OF EVENING EXPRESS, HOSTED BY RYAN SMITH, MONDAY, JUNE 4
Nationally Syndicated Radio Host and Best-Selling Financial Expert Clark Howard and CNN Journalist Isha Sesay Join New Show Airing 5-7 p.m. ET
NEW YORK, NY, May 22, 2012—HLN launches a new destination for news and information with Evening Express, hosted by Ryan Smith, beginning Monday, June 4. This new addition to HLN’s schedule will air weeknights, 5-7 p.m. ET, and feature HLN’s popular personal finance expert Clark Howard, and CNN’s Isha Sesay, it was announced by Scot Safon, Executive Vice President and General Manager, HLN. Evening Express will be based at the network’s global headquarters in Atlanta.
“HLN is excited to offer our viewers an evening news program that centers on the news and information they’ll discuss around the dinner table,” said Safon. “The format and tone of Evening Express was inspired by our hit show Morning Express with Robin Meade. Viewers tell us all the time that they love how Robin and the Morning Express team start their day on HLN, and now Ryan, Clark and Isha will be welcoming them home in the evening.”
Evening Express will provide an energetic, inspirational and solutions-oriented look at the day’s news, accompanied by deeper discussions and reporting on stories and issues that resonate in the American household, including parenting, education, health, personal finance and relationships.Evening Express will also have a deep a social footprint, engaging with viewers and users on all platforms. In tandem with its June 4 launch, the show’s digital extensions will include Facebook (Facebook.com/EveningExpressHLN), Twitter (@EveningExp) and a dedicated blog on HLN’s recently launched web site, HLNtv.com (HLNtv.com/EveningExpress) that will feature distinctive angles on the stories of the day. Evening Express hosts can also be followed at @ryansmithtv, @IshaSesayCNN and @ClarkHoward.
Smith, a familiar HLN on-air presence in 2011 as a result of his reporting during the Casey Anthony and Conrad Murray trials, was a member of the Morning Express team and host of programming during InSession on truTV. A sports and entertainment lawyer with a degree from Columbia Law School, Smith covers a wide variety of news stories and has a personal interest in health and wellness issues.
Howard is one of HLN’s most popular personalities, with a wildly successful nationally syndicated radio program and personal finance website in addition to his regular appearances on HLN weekends and Morning Express with Robin Meade. In 2011, his book, “Clark Howard’s Living Large in Lean Times,” spent 21 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, his third to make that list. With the launch of Evening Express, the personal finance guru will now bring his expert advice to viewers later in the day, answering specific consumer questions and providing information that is applicable and actionable to a wide spectrum of the audience.
Sesay is well known to CNN audiences for her work as an anchor for CNN International, hosting the daily news program CNN NewsCenter and weekly program BackStory, and serving as the nightly “360 Bulletin” correspondent on Anderson Cooper 360°. In addition, she files reports for African Voices and Inside Africa, CNN International’s award-winning, weekly program dedicated to providing viewers with an inside look of Africa. On HLN’s Evening Express, she will bring her strong reporting skills and a point of view informed by her experience covering news stories from across the globe.
CNN veteran Angie Massie is the Executive Producer of Evening Express. Katherine Green is Senior Vice President and Managing Editor, HLN. Steve Rosenberg is Director of Dayside Programming, HLN.
May 22, 2012 at 7:04 am
“Inspirational”?
Why not do the show on the banks of the river Jordan?
May 22, 2012 at 7:54 am
It’s nice to see that HLN is putting something in place of the seemingly temporary “HLN Special Report” and the ever changing “Prime News,” both hosted by past-CourtTVer Vinnie Politan.
May 22, 2012 at 8:56 am
What is it about Isha Sesay? What’s her cred, what’s her reporting experience? She seems to be everywhere. When Blitzer was on for about 20 hours a week, it was way too much, but at least we knew what he did before and where he’s coming from. Looks like this girl will have even more airtime than Wolf. I watch CNNI on occasion and I’ve seen her there, but she’s really in the lower league when compared to the likes of Hala Gorani, Jim Clancy or Michael Holmes. Can’t understand why they’re so fascinated with her.
May 22, 2012 at 8:27 pm
@donnie hopefully this means she’ll remain on HLN. I think they only use her on AC360 to bring in an Int. audience for when it airs on CNNI
Also,
it’s too bad years ago CNN couldn’t take the scheduling model of HLN and do it for CNN. Having an American Morning and Evening to bookend CNN newsroom then go into special primetime franchises/shows would’ve helped establish a structure.
June 4, 2012 at 3:50 pm
Evening Express is no more than a repeat of Morning Express and nowhere as fun and as nice to watch as it was tuning into Vinnie Politan…Vinnie had a special way of interacting with his audience and adding the expertise of lawyers and guests that talked about hot topics of the day…I will miss him and, after one viewing of the new format, I will no longer be a fan…
June 5, 2012 at 8:42 pm
I really enjoyed Vinnie Politan and his reporting. I watched the new HLN evening express and it didn’t do it for me.
June 7, 2012 at 6:05 am
It’s really hard for me to believe that HLN would take off Vinnie Politan for this piece of fluff that we really don’t want to see. BRING BACK VINNIE POLITAN!!!!!
June 20, 2012 at 5:08 pm
I want Vinnie Politan back too. Where is he now? I dont like the new show
June 28, 2012 at 2:48 pm
bring vinnie politan back evening express sucks i won,t even watch it miss u vinnie
August 16, 2012 at 4:23 pm
Vinnie was the best. I am sure viewership MUST be down now.