Chris Licht, the former CEO of CNN, didn't see his ouster coming, according to the New York Post's Page Six.
Sources speaking to Page Six said Licht had meetings scheduled right up to the point where he was told of his firing. On Wednesday, he announced that he was stepping down from his position.
Licht was beset with troubles during his tenure, from a collapse in ratings to a wave of backlash over the network's town hall that featured Donald Trump, followed by a devastating profile in The Atlantic.
Licht was reportedly completely caught off guard when he was told he was being replaced by an interim leadership team -- news that was brought to him by the CEO of CNN's parent company Discovery, David Zaslav.
“As of last night, he was expecting to be in meetings on Wednesday,” a source told Page Six. “He wasn’t expecting this. Definitely not so soon, anyway.”