EXCLUSIVEBehind the scenes, America's highest paid TV 星／主役にするs are sweating. There's 血 in the water... and all bets are off!
America's highest paid news 星／主役にするs are dropping like 飛行機で行くs - and those still standing have their 長，率いるs on a swivel.
That's によれば a high-level 網状組織 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある who spoke to the Daily Mail this week to 述べる the desperate 明言する／公表する of the once-glamorous 産業.?
The picture they painted was far from a pretty one - rife with 苦悩, 圧力, and vulnerability.??
Ratings are 落ちるing across the board and there have been?repeated 一連の会議、交渉／完成するs of layoffs, 述べるd by some as a 'five-alarm 解雇する／砲火／射撃'.
A parade major 人物／姿／数字s like NBC News' Lester Holt and CBS' Norah O'Donnell suddenly stepping away from their 高度に prized 職業s has only 追加するd 燃料 to the 解雇する／砲火／射撃, while Hoda Kotb left the Today show on NBC after 17 years.
'There is 不確定 everywhere in the 産業,' said the (n)役員／(a)執行力のある, speaking on 条件 of anonymity.
'With 錨，総合司会者 and programming changes, there are real worries at NBC News and CBS in particular.'
America's highest paid news 星／主役にするs are dropping like 飛行機で行くs, our source explained - and those still standing are 恐れるing for their 未来. Pictured, Norah O'Donnell 交替／補充s John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois manning CBS Evening News
'Craig Melvin is 明白に no Hoda,' the source said, pointing to Today's lukewarm ratings. 'He does not seem to be working.' The pair are pictured together on the 始める，決める of Today with Carson Daly and Dylan Dreyer
The source 述べるd how after the 出発 of 'icons like Hoda [Kotb] and Lester... their 交替／補充s are failing to fill those shoes. Lester was already 負かす／撃墜する by so much [to ABC], and now NBC is nervous after putting in [Tom] Llamas.'
Llamas - 賞賛するd as a 中心存在 of '正直さ' and 'journalistic excellence' by NBC News (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Janelle Rodriguez last week?- is 'much lesser known', the source went on, 追加するing that the same goes for Kotb's 交替／補充 Craig Melvin.?
'Craig Melvin is 明白に no Hoda ... he does not seem to be working.'?
Ratings 解放（する）d this week showed how NBC's morning show was overtaken by 競争相手 ABC's Good Morning America.
In some 一時的休止，執行延期 まっただ中に a １０年間s-long 競争 between the two, Today is （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing GMA in total テレビ視聴者s and the デモ for the first time in eight years.
Nightly has （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 ABC World News 多重の times in the 重要な デモ, 含むing 支援する-to-支援する Thursdays in February, 同様に as most recently on Friday, when Tom Llamas subbed in.
まっただ中に all this, FOX News appear to be bucking the 傾向. The Rupert Murdoch-owned 網状組織 just had its highest 率d January and February in history, and is （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing other broadcast 網状組織s.?
David Muir is ahead in the ratings with his World News Tonight.?
'There is 不確定 everywhere in the 産業,' the high-level (n)役員／(a)執行力のある, who spoke under the 条件 of anonymity, said. Seen here, Lester Holt's Nightly News 交替／補充, Tom Llamas
'Lester is already 負かす／撃墜する 1.5million years a night, and they're now looking at it like - "will this backfire,"' the source said of the 決定／判定勝ち（する） to 任命する／導入する Llamas as Lester Holt's 後継者, pointing to a 欠如（する） of 星／主役にする 力／強力にする
It'll be 負かす／撃墜する to Holt's 交替／補充, Tom Llamas, to 橋（渡しをする） the gap, as Holt defers his 義務s 単独で to Dateline.?
'Lester is already 負かす／撃墜する 1.5million テレビ視聴者s a night, and they're now looking at it like - "will this backfire?"'?
'And then you've?got CBS, which is under serious 圧力 from not only the 行政 but also [the 網状組織's 億万長者 owner] Shari Redstone,' the source went on.
A former CBS exec told the Mail how the 決定／判定勝ち（する） for 錨，総合司会者s Maurice DuBois and John Dickerson to co-host CBS Evening News was 存在 見解（をとる）d 'as a 災害' internally.?
'[CBS Evenings (n)役員／(a)執行力のある 生産者] 法案 Owens is also overstretched,' they 追加するd, echoing the other exec's opinion.
A?more magazine-style ニュース報道 brought by?DuBois and Dickerson - and 報道によれば 操るd by longtime 60 Minutes stalwart Owens - その上の raised eyebrows, noticeably different from famed 錨，総合司会者 Walter Cronkite's style in the 1960s and 1970s, the source said.
This deviation from tradition was also …を伴ってd by a その上の high-profile 出口 - the sudden?'辞職' of CBS 大統領 of 編集（者）の and Newsgathering?Adrienne Roark, just?seven months after she had 受託するd the position.
'And then you got CBS, which is under serious 圧力 from not only the 行政 but also owner Shari Redstone,' said the source?
At the time, a source familiar with the 事柄 （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that Roark had?現実に been 軍隊d out - after 存在 caught shopping for a new 職業.
CBS News and 駅／配置するs CEO Wendy McMahon became aware of the unsanctioned search and 報復するd, によれば an insider - showing the ruthless nature of the 産業.
'They brought 支援する former 大統領，／社長 Susan [Zirinsky] just to get rid of her,' the source 明らかにする／漏らすd.?
They 追加するd that McMahon, にもかかわらず 存在 CEO, does not have the 編集（者）の experience to lead such an outfit.
They 追加するd that McMahon - after bringing on CBS's Owens to help her out with struggling CBS Evenings - will likely lose her 職業 this year,?ahead of the planned $8billion 合併 between CBS parent 最高位の and Larry Ellison-支援するd Skydance.
いっそう少なく 上級の スタッフの一員s, 一方／合間, are said to be 'disillusioned' by the 合併 - 大部分は because their new boss would be 最高位の's Jeff 爆撃する, who was 追い出すd from his 地位，任命する as NBCUniversal's CEO in 2023 に引き続いて a years-long extramarital 事件／事情／状勢 with a スタッフの一員.?
爆撃する's philandering, however, was 報道によれば not what infuriated スタッフの一員s - instead, it was his 主張 to placate Donald Trump 支援する in October.
'Norah Donnell was in third place, and the ratings have gone 負かす／撃墜する even worse with the two 錨，総合司会者 判型,' the source said of CBS Evenings. CBS's Norah O'Donnell stepped 負かす／撃墜する toward the start of the year to make way for a so far flailing 実験の 判型
大統領 Trump is 告訴するing CBS, 需要・要求するing $20 billion and （人命などを）奪う，主張するing the 網状組織 deceptively edited a 60 Minutes interview with former 副大統領 Kamala Harris in an 試みる／企てる to 上げる her 選挙 prospects. CBS has 否定するd the 主張s.
The 事例／患者 is 現在進行中の and has left 最高位の heiress Redstone desperate to settle.
In the months since, sources have 述べるd the atmosphere at CBS as akin to a civil war.
Owens and McMahon - the two biggest 発言する／表明するs in CBS's newsroom - remain 納得させるd that withstanding the 圧力 is the only 選択.
This week, another 網状組織 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある, also speaking 不明な, told the Mail that CBS's struggles 茎・取り除く from the fact that 'no one there has 受託するd that linear TV [配達するd by 衛星 or cable] is in 拒絶する／低下する.
'They've really 焦点（を合わせる）d on broadcasting, but they 港／避難所't 拡大するd 井戸／弁護士席.'
The source also 示唆するd ABC News could soon be in for a rude awakening, considering its 欠如（する） of 星／主役にするs aside from 人物／姿／数字s like Muir.
The 訴訟 とじ込み／提出するd against CBS by Donald Trump in the wake of the 選挙 remains 現在進行中の, and has left 億万長者 最高位の heiress Shari Redstone desperate to settle?
!['[CBS Evenings Executive Producer] Bill Owens (pictured) is also overstretched and feeling the pressure with this lawsuit from Donald Trump ,' a separate source added](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/03/14/13/96195363-14495229-image-a-18_1741959204438.jpg)
'[CBS Evenings (n)役員／(a)執行力のある 生産者] 法案 Owens (pictured) is also overstretched and feeling the 圧力 with this 訴訟 from Donald Trump ,' a separate source 追加するd?
'ABC did not even have a 長，率いる of talent for years,' the (n)役員／(a)執行力のある said, 追加するing that, when compared with other 網状組織s: 'ABC's salaries are very hefty.'
'GMA3 is not there anymore - they don't have a （法廷の）裁判, meaning they can't 取って代わる talent,' the source said.
'No one is 取引，協定ing with it - I don't know what they're gonna do. All their 星／主役にするs also have 契約s that come up at the same time.'
マスコミ critic Steve Krakauer told the Mail that CBS's 評判 has been forever （名声などを）汚すd.
The former CNN, Fox News, and NBC 新聞記者／雑誌記者 descr ibed how CBS and other '遺産／遺物' マスコミ 出口s - 含むing CNN - are in 厳しい reputational difficulty after 現在のing politicized content as fact under the Biden 行政.
'The 商売／仕事 is still making good money and 利益（をあげる）s are still high, but there is nothing they can do to stop these natural 拒絶する／低下するs,' he said, weeks after CNN 問題／発行するd a 一連の layoffs within its bloated TV 分割.
'They could be doing the best, with perfect 編集（者）の, and every day, より小数の people are going to 見解（をとる） their content,'?Krakauer, now the (n)役員／(a)執行力のある 生産者 of the Megyn Kelly show, went on.
'They were already in trouble, but Trump has solidified the idea,' a separate source said of 遺産／遺物 マスコミ, まっただ中に the 大統領，／社長's 最近の scrutiny against such 駅／配置するs, 同様に as his （民事の）告訴s against ABC, NBC, and CBS
'And these 出口s are also not perfect 編集（者）の 製品s - they are 完全に unprepared for this Trump 2.0 時代 we're in.
'They were already in trouble, but Trump has solidified the idea,' he continued, referring to the 大統領，／社長's 最近の rhetoric bashing such 駅／配置するs, 同様に as his?（民事の）告訴s against ABC, NBC, and CBS and their 選挙 ニュース報道.
'出口s were 報告（する）／憶測ing on what they believed Trump was for the past eight y ears - and the 2024 選挙 results were a 完全にする 拒絶 of those ideas,' Krakauer said, でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れるing the 開発 as a 危機 'for the 商売／仕事 of news.'
'If your conceit is to tell people what's true, and to be 拒絶するd - that's a five alarm 解雇する／砲火／射撃,' he continued.
'And I think [these 遺産／遺物 駅／配置するs] see that.'
'CBS is about to be acquired by what is essentially a 投機・賭ける 資本／首都 会社／堅い - and when you have a piece of your 商売／仕事 losing money, that means more 削減（する）s,' he explained.
'The Trump 訴訟 too, is not a good look.
'CBS no longer 存在するs a year for now, unless it 改造するs,' he 結論するd. 'It's not long for this world.
'CBS no longer 存在するs a year for now, unless it 改造するs,' the source 追加するd . 'It's not long for this world.' Pictured, 報道によれば languishing leader Wendy McMahon, and her since 追い出すd 副 Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews
'There's still value to it, but it's going the wrong direction and there's nothing to do to stop it. And they've 現実に 加速するd their 拒絶する／低下する as an antagonist to the 行政.
'That worked the first time around - but in Trump 2.0, it's 存在 見解（をとる）d very 異なって: it's not gonna work anymore.'
He 追加するd:??'Aside from content, [遺産／遺物 駅／配置するs] need to 移転 their 商売／仕事 to a 数字表示式の model, which they are not 用意が出来ている to do.
'They are in the position of no longer 申し込む／申し出ing 客観的な news - which is not a good 商売／仕事 model.
'They don't want to 現在の themselves as opinion, unlike MSNBC, so they're now in a 堅い 位置／汚点／見つけ出す.'
マスコミ 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Oliver Darcy left CNN last year for what he felt to be greener pastures, starting nightly newsletter Status six months ago.
Outspoken Trump critic Jim Acosta also left CNN earlier this year, taking 発射s at the 大統領，／社長 on-空気／公表する in the 過程.
'I do feel like something 重要な has changed, 2024 was the 静める before the 嵐／襲撃する,' the source said of what's occurring. '2025 is the 嵐／襲撃する - now we're here.' Pictured, Jim Acosta, who 拒絶するd the idea of a new 契約 with CNN ahead of another Trump 大統領／総裁などの地位
The 大統領，／社長 has 脅すd to go after other 網状組織s 同様に, while taking 発射s at 明確な／細部 新聞記者／雑誌記者s. This 含むd a freshly 解雇する／砲火／射撃d Joy Reid, seen here weeping on the 勝利，勝つ With 黒人／ボイコット Women podcast after losing her 職業 at MSNBC
Longtime 会合，会う the 圧力（をかける） Moderator Chuck Todd left NBC News 同様に, taking his podcast with him.?< /p>
'There is a real 商売／仕事 in 独立した・無所属 マスコミ these days - it's obvious,' Krakauer said.
'There's a proven way to make money in 独立した・無所属 マスコミ. That lights another 解雇する／砲火／射撃 under 遺産／遺物 マスコミ 出口s. I do feel like something 重要な has changed, 2024 was the 静める before the 嵐／襲撃する. 2025 is the 嵐／襲撃する.'
一方／合間, Brendan Carr’s 連邦の Communications （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 is 開始 調査s into Verizon and Comcast - the parent company of NBC News and MSNBC - over the 合法性 of their 多様制, 公正，普通株主権 and 傾向 programs.
The 大統領，／社長 has 脅すd to go after other 網状組織s 同様に, while taking 発射s at 明確な／細部 新聞記者／雑誌記者s.?
This 含むd MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and a freshly 解雇する／砲火／射撃d Joy Reid, whom a separate (n)役員／(a)執行力のある at the 網状組織 said was 拒む，否認するd not for her ratings, but her contentious, opinionated content.
All the sources appeared to agree one one thing, though - that linear TV is on its last 脚s.
