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Melanie McFarland

Jeff Zucker's legacy of ruining networks

Former CNN president Jeff Zucker attends the 10th Anniversary CNN Heroes at American Museum of Natural History on December 11, 2016 in New York City Rob Kim/Getty Images

Jeff Zucker has a yen for viewing humans as TV characters. In theory, this should have made him an excellent network executive.

In practice, he proved to be a terrible programmer.

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