CNN will no longer produce live programs for HLN, according to one of these people, and will simulcast “CNN This Morning” in place of “Morning Express,” the A.M. news program that takes up most of HLN’s daytime schedule. HLN’s true-crime programming will be placed under the aegis of Warner Bros. Discovery executive Kathleen Finch, and made more a part of the operations of the company’s ID cable network.

CNN executives were expected to inform staffers about layoffs at the network Thursday morning, according to these people. CNN correspondents Alison Kosik, Martin Savidge, Alex Field, Mary Ann Fox and Chris Cillizza are among the staffers who have been let go, according to two people familiar with the matter. A CNN spokesperson declined to comment. …

HLN once served as a sort of “CNN2,” and featured a “wheel” of quick news segments in a format that ran throughout the day. But it has gone through major transformations in recent years, and has long been difficult to monetize. Cable operators get it as part of a package with its flagship sibling, rather than paying a separate carriage fee for its use.