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World Service,24 Apr 2023,26 mins

US TV news hosts dropped

World Business Report

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The right-wing TV host, Tucker Carlson, leaves Fox News, while another prominent American broadcaster, Don Lemon, is fired by CNN. Roger Hearing finds out what's behind the moves and what it means for the networks. We get the latest on Disney's newest round of job and spending cuts. And we hear just how much of a toll Russia's war in Ukraine and Western sanctions are having on the country's economy as the head of the country’s state owned bank VTB, suggests stakes in state owned companies could be sold in a new privatisation drive. (Picture: People pass by a promo of Fox News host Tucker Carlson on the News Corporation building in New York, U.S., March 13, 2019. Credit: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/ File Photo)

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