The Lead with Jake Tapper

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The Lead with Jake Tapper
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Title card
Directed by Reza J. Baktar
Presented by Jake Tapper
Country of origin United States
Production
Executive producer(s) Federico S. Quadrani
Production location(s) CNN Studios Washington, D.C.
Running time 60 minutes
Release
Original network CNN
Picture format 480i (16:9 letterbox SDTV),
1080i (HDTV)
Original release March 18, 2013 (2013-03-18) –
present
External links
Website

The Lead with Jake Tapper is an afternoon, early evening newscast on CNN hosted by Jake Tapper that first aired on March 18, 2013.

The show currently airs weekdays live from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET from CNN's studios in Washington D.C.

The show contains a "Lead" for different subjects. They are the National, Political, Money, Buried, Sports, World, and Pop lead.

In 2013, the show was given a week primetime run at 10pm ET. That week, terrorists bombed the Boston marathon causing Tapper's primetime run to be cancelled in favor of a live edition of Anderson Cooper 360°.

Following Piers Morgan's departure from CNN in March 2014, CNN President Jeff Zucker had various anchors fill the 9pm ET slot as a test run. Among them was "The Lead with Jake Tapper" airing at 9pm ET for the weeks of April 7 and April 14.

The Lead with Jake Tapper is also broadcast via tape-delay on CNN Philippines every Tuesday-Saturday at 11:00 am, local time.

Preceded by The Lead with Jake Tapper
2013–present
Succeeded by
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

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