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Report: CNN courting Jay Leno

CNN President Jeff Zucker said earlier this month that he wants CNN to have more of “an attitude and a take" and to have it compete not just with Fox News and MSNBC but with the Discovery and History channels.

“The goal for the next six months," he told our colleagues at Capital New York, "is that we need more shows and less newscasts.”

Zucker appears to be making headway in that direction by meeting with "The Tonight Show" host Jay Leno about possibly joining CNN after his run with NBC ends, according to The Hollywood Reporter:

Sources tell THR that CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker -- who, while running NBCUniversal, famously set in motion Leno's first ouster from Tonight by promising the show to Conan O'Brien in 2009 -- is among those who have approached Leno for a late-night or primetime show on his network. Zucker recently visited briefly with Leno at NBC in Burbank. Also among the 10 or so outlets courting the comic are Tribune, American Idol producer Core Media Group and even former NBC chief Jeff Gaspin. But Leno, 63, and his lone representative, attorney Ken Ziffren, are said to be refusing to entertain offers until the host fulfills his obligation to NBC on Feb. 6.