Inside the Network Scramble for 2024 Debates

Vanity Fair: “The speed at which the two presidential debates came together last week had some TV insiders wondering whether CNN and ABC had prebooked the debates with the Biden campaign. I’m told that there were no formal planning discussions between the Biden campaign and ABC, or between the campaign and CNN, prior to Wednesday.”

“But given the seeming unlikelihood that both campaigns would have agreed to the CPD’s three planned debates for the fall, some network executives, reading the writing on the wall, had thought through contingency plans.”