 In 1998, Battista was named as the host of the first multi-platform interactive talk show, "TalkBack Live", which ran for an hour on weekday afternoons.Battista left CNN after the merger of CNN's parent company, Time Warner, with America Online in 2001.She joined her husband John Brimelow's firm, Atamira Communications, and provided strategic counsel to a wide range of Fortune 500 companies.