Chris Licht
American television newsman and producer
Christopher Andrew Licht (born October 22, 1971) is an American television newsman and producer. He is best known as the showrunner and executive producer of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, as well as CBS's executive vice president of special programming. He is also known for having launched Morning Joe on MSNBC, and the reboot of CBS This Morning. From May 2022 to June 2023 he was the chairman and CEO of CNN.
Early life and education
Licht was born in Switzerland, to Susan Mary (Kneeland) and Dr. Peter David Licht of Newtown, Connecticut. He graduated from Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism and political science. In 2014, one of the TV news control rooms at the Newhouse Studio and Innovation Center was named in his honor.
Career
Licht began his career at KNBC in Los Angeles around the time of the O. J. Simpson trial. He also worked with local NBC affiliates in LA and San Francisco markets.
In 2005, he joined MSNBC as the executive producer for Scarborough Country and later was the founding executive producer of Morning Joe, which he and host Joe Scarborough helped create prior to its launch in 2007.
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