I can't imagine there is much of an audience for hardcore political chat at 5 in the morning. Perhaps the audience they are aiming for is affluent enough to make up for its small size? I suppose it's excusable right now as it's an election year... but after the inauguration? I can see another reshuffle happening at some point after that. Wolf is apparently retiring then (according to Puck, anyway).
I'd like to see CNNI get more love. I don't understand why the management are so obsessed with propping up the domestic channel, its ratings dwindling by the day, when they have another channel out there which reaches 400 million viewers, and is available in nearly every hotel room on the planet. It should be the dominant world news channel... but instead we get lumbered with endless domestic simulcasts (I'm sorry but the world does not need 2 hours of DC insider gossip each day) and dire sponsored shows like Inside Africa. No wonder so many CNNI people have left... the whole channel is such a missed opportunity.
