In essence, ABC News-CNN would be an outside contractor to the ABC network.
Jamie Kellner, the chief executive of the AOL Time Warner unit that oversees CNN, the Turner Broadcasting System, said that would be done in a few months, when CNN would be given a new, street-side studio in the Time-Life building in New York.
The series is to premiere on Oct. 25 and to be broadcast before a studio audience at 10 p.m. Jonathan Klein, the president of CNN/U.S., said the series would be a "comedy show that's grounded in the news of the week".
Distinguishing his plan from The Journal's programming and from TV outlets like CNN, Mr. Sekoff said that user feedback would be a central feature.
A modest ratings victory over Fox News Channel during a war would be a nice morale booster for CNN, but not a huge one.
A recent USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll found that a Gore-Bush rematch, if held now, would be a dead heat.
"On CNN, they argued that unless Trump sold everything, there would be a conflict of interest.
Kerry said on CNN that it would be "exploring and testing … we do that with eyes absolutely wide open".
Clemens Wergin, of the German newspaper Die Welt, suggested on CNN that it would be better if Germany lost because if they won, it would intensify perceptions that the country was too powerful.
For when Mr Clinton admitted on CNN last month that he would be prepared to spend "a lot of money" to keep the station going in the face of Russian delays, he effectively wrote NASA a blank cheque.
