Say Good Night, Everybody

By DAVID ELLIS

Some of the Cable News Network's most familiar faces are fading from the screen. Last summer CNN owner Ted Turner hired former Los Angeles Times chairman Tom Johnson to shake things up. After leaving the network's on-air team alone during the gulf war, Johnson has started to do just that. Longtime anchor Mary Anne Loughlin was dismissed; veteran anchors Don Miller and Patrick Emory have not had their contracts renewed. "Johnson wants younger people who are not in the 'Ted Baxter' mode of broadcasting," says a CNN source. Turner will pay his replacements much lower salaries and use the leftover money to attract established superstars like former CBS commentator Bill Moyers.

With reporting by Sidney Urquhart