This article will inform readers about the personal information about Chris Licht and his wife, an American television newsman and producer.

Christopher Andrew Licht is an American television newsman and producer. Since May 2022, he is the chairman and CEO of CNN. 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.

Chris Licht was born on October 22, 1971, in Newtown, Newtown, Connecticut, United States. Licht was born to Susan Mary 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 Syracuse’s Dick Clark Studios and Alan Gerry Center for Media Innovation was named in his honor.

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.

He joined CBS in 2011 and was named vice president of programming at CBS News. Licht was the executive producer of CBS This Morning starting when the show launched in 2012 and later joined The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2016.

While in charge of CBS This Morning, he was credited with making the show unexpectedly successful, giving CBS its most competitive place in the morning show race in almost 30 years. This success occurred partly because Licht allowed the show’s hosts Gayle King, Charlie Rose, and Norah O’Donnell, to talk freely about news events and about themselves.

A month after he was named executive producer and showrunner of The Late Show, the show saw its largest weekly audience since February 19 of that year. As executive producer, he focused on management issues that host Stephen Colbert had previously handled, as well as shortening the opening credits and adding a comedy sketch immediately before them.

Whos’ the wife of Chris Licht?

Jenny worked at CNN for several years as a producer for Anderson Cooper and then as a director of talent recruiting and development. Chris Licht began dating her while they both were on assignment at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and they married in April 2006 at the L’Auberge Del Mar, in Del Mar, California.

The couple lives together in Manhattan with their two sons.

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