Amanpour out, Stephanopoulos back in at ABC’s ‘This Week’

Amanpour out, Stephanopoulos back in at ABC’s ‘This Week’

Amanpour interviews Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for "This Week." (ABC News)

Christiane Amanpour, who was hired pided from CNN by ABC News in 2010 to reinstate George Stephanopoulos as a horde of "This Week," is stepping down from her roost during a network's ratings-challenged Sunday morning speak show. Amanpour will lapse to CNN International, where she'll horde a daily daytime show; Stephanopoulos will lapse as horde of "This Week," and sojourn a co-host of ABC's "Good Morning America."

However, Amanpour will sojourn with ABC News (which is also a calm partner with Yahoo! News). She'll horde a array of primetime specials for ABC, with a pretension of "international news anchor."

Amanpour has a challenging résumé of covering general news, though her credentials didn't seem to interpret for "This Week," a uncover traditionally driven by American politics.

"I am looking brazen to removing behind into a margin to news stories on tellurian issues that matter severely to a American people," Amanpour pronounced in a statement. "At a same time, we will be broadcasting once again to hundreds of millions of people opposite a universe with a weekday show."

CNN Worldwide conduct Jim Walton--who called a arrangement with ABC News "unique"--wrote in a memo to staffers: "We could not be happier than to acquire behind to a CNN classification a heading general publisher operative in radio news, who also happens to be a longtime co-worker and friend."

Amanpour's ouster had been rumored for weeks . Many speculated that ABC News' arch White House match Jake Tapper, who had filled in as horde of "This Week" before Amanpour arrived, would be given a role, though ABC pronounced Tuesday Stephanopoulos would step in. (Tapper will be featured on "This Week" as a unchanging contributor, according to ABC.)

Amanpour added: "It's been an implausible knowledge to have had a ringside chair to democracy in movement during 'This Week.' It's been an implausible respect to anchor such a prestigious module and we appreciate all of we who have helped me on that journey."

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