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The Situation Room

The Situation Room
StarringWolf Blitzer and various contributors
Country of origin United States
No. of episodesUnknown
Production
Running time120 minutes (4 p.m. ET)
60 minutes (7 p.m. ET)
30 minutes
(International Edition)
Broadcast
Original channelCNN
Original runAugust 8, 2005 – Present
External links
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IMDb profile
TV.com summary
The Situation Room is an afternoon/early evening newscast on CNN hosted by Wolf Blitzer that first aired on August 8, 2005. The show replaces three politics and hard news programs (Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics, Crossfire (cancelled on July 3, 2005) and Wolf Blitzer Reports).

At first, the newscast aired live from 3-6 p.m. ET and was subdivided into an hour devoted to politics, an hour devoted to security, and an hour devoted to international news. However, on November 2, 2005, CNN announced that The Situation Room would be chopped up: block 1 would air live from 4-6 p.m. ET, and block 2 would air live from 7-8 p.m. ET (taking over the timeslot held by Anderson Cooper 360 which moved to 10 p.m. ET). Lou Dobbs Tonight airs between the two blocks.

A number of CNN journalists and pundits often join Blitzer, including Jack Cafferty, Ali Velshi, Carol Costello, Jacki Schechner, Abbi Tatton, Paul Begala, Bay Buchanan, James Carville, and J.C. Watts.

The show begins with the following (or a variation of this) phrase: To our viewers: You're in the Situation Room - where news and information are arriving all the time. Standing by: CNN reporters across the United States and around the world to bring you the days top stories. Happening Now ... I'm Wolf Blitzer, and You're in the Situation Room.

The Happening Now statement to introduce the day's top stories is a remnant from the show's primary predecessor, Wolf Blitzer Reports.

The show has garnered criticism for devoting excessive coverage to human interest stories, notably devoting almost an hour of commercial free coverage to a story about a virus affecting their Windows 2000 computers. Much of the criticism comes from satirist Jon Stewart, who has mocked the reporting of the show on multiple occasions, creating his own "hypothetical situation room". On the August 1, 2007 edition of The Daily Show, Stewart showed a clip of Blitzer seemed surprised to learn the salary of the Vice President of the United States comes from the United States Senate; this was juxtaposed with a clip from The Situation Room in which Blitzer spoke with a journalist who reported that very fact. Stewart sympathized with Blitzer's perceived inattentiveness, exclaiming, "Have you seen The Situation Room? It's unwatchable!!!" However, the show also earned critical praise for its multiple-screen coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Saturday Night Live would later lampoon The Situation Room following the fallout from the death of Anna Nicole and its excessive news coverage of the story in early 2007. On Monday, October 15th, Wolf Blitzer announced that the situation room would start a new time on November 5th. The show will now air 4pm-7pm.

Behind the scenes

The Situation Room differs in some ways from similar cable news programs. For instance, use of eight video screens requires extra coordination. Two control rooms are used: One is exclusively used for the show itself, while the second is used to maintain content in the large eight-panel video wall. The show also makes use of live RSS feeds that scroll in the background at various times during the show. Live video feeds are commonly present in the show's format.

Preceded by
CNN Newsroom		CNN Weekday Lineup
4:00PM–6:00PM		Succeeded by
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Preceded by
Lou Dobbs Tonight		CNN Weekday Lineup
7:00PM–8:00PM		Succeeded by
Open Mike

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Wolf Blitzer (born March 22, 1948 in Buffalo, New York) is an American journalist and author. He has been a CNN reporter since 1990. Blitzer is currently the host of the newscast The Situation Room and the Sunday talk show Late Edition.
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Wolf Blitzer (born March 22, 1948 in Buffalo, New York) is an American journalist and author. He has been a CNN reporter since 1990. Blitzer is currently the host of the newscast The Situation Room and the Sunday talk show Late Edition.
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