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Another Saturday night, another vote on Capitol Hill on healthcare reform, and coverage of it on cable news. The vote, which essentially allows the debate to begin on the Senate floor, was 60-39, with Ohio GOP Sen. George Voinovich the only senator not to vote.
Interestingly, all the cable news [...]
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Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:39pm EST
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This week's Sunday lineup will include Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), California Republican Senate candidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, Salon's Joan Walsh, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, WaPo's David Ignatius, and Afghan Minister of Interior Hanif Atmar.
 See the [...]
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Posted: November 21, 2009, 5:02pm EST
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A week of Sarah Palin interviews began Monday on Oprah and culminated last night on "20/20," and in between national TV interviews with Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly with each drawing huge ratings.
• Oprah Winfrey had her highest-rated show in two years with the Palin [...]
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Posted: November 21, 2009, 3:58pm EST
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 Bill Moyers has said PBS' weekly "Bill Moyers Journal" will end on April 30, 2010, reports the NY Times:
"I am 75 years old," he said of the decision to end the series, which began in April 2007. The program has recently been having a "good [...]
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Posted: November 21, 2009, 3:17pm EST
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• Tonight on CNN, the premiere of Killings at the Canal: The Army Tapes. The one-hour documentary is a compilation of the reports from CNN investigative correspondent Abbie Boudreau which aired last week on AC360. The special premieres tonight 8pmET.
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. [...]
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Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:30pm EST
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 Tonight at 10pmET on Fox News, Geraldo Rivera anchors a special report titled "Pirates of the 21st Century," with reports from Amy Kellogg, Greg Palkot and Martha MacCallum.
With at least 11 ships currently being held by pirates off the Somali coast including 200+ [...]
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Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:48am EST
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He'll be at The Villages retirement community in Florida this afternoon announcing "The Plan" for his show in 2010, but if you missed it from earlier this week, here's Glenn Beck striking back at South Park, The New Yorker, Playboy, "The Daily Show" and SNL, over unflattering stories [...]
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Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:49am EST
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 NBC's "Today" show maintained its strong lead over ABC's "Good Morning America" and CBS' "The Early Show." "Today" was the only morning show that was up week-to-week in total viewers.
Last Monday, "Today" drew 6.35M total viewers, the largest single-day average for the show since [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:03pm EST
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25-54 demographic: (L +SD) Total day: FNC: 420 | CNN: 149 | MSNBC: 116 | HLN: 142 Prime: FNC: 795 | CNN: 222 | MSNBC: 255 | HLN: 265
5p:
6p:
7p:
8p:
9p:
10p:
11p:
FNC
Beck:
Baier:
Shep:
O'Reilly:
Hannity:
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525
477
1069
744
571
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Blitzer:
Blitzer:
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King:
Cooper:
Cooper:
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118
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:10pm EST
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In the Fox News Sarah Palin ratings race, the win goes to Sean Hannity.
Hannity's interview with Palin Wednesday night, a cable news first as she makes the rounds promoting Going Rogue, drew 4.20M Total Viewers and 1.15M in the A25-54 demo.
Last night, Bill O'Reilly's interview with Palin [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:51pm EST
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• Fox Business will cover the Senate vote on healthcare reform tomorrow night. Coverage begins at 8pmET with David Asman anchoring from New York and Peter Barnes reporting live from Capitol Hill.
> Update : MSNBC will break in to documentary programming for the vote with David Shuster [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:45pm EST
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MSNBC's "Morning Joe" was live today from John McDonogh High School in New Orleans. The special broadcast was set up to kick off the "Brewing Together Day of Service" partnership and volunteer effort between MSNBC, Starbucks and the HandsOn Network. (You can find out more here.)
After the show, [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:58pm EST
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Glenn Beck will be in Florida tomorrow wrapping up a two-day, seven-city speaking and book-signing tour. During his stop at The Villages retirement community north of Orlando, Beck promises to reveal how his Fox News show will look come January, which is the one-year anniversary of the [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:29pm EST
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 Cincinnati Enquirer columnist John Kiesewetter explains why Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer wears a purple tie every Friday (aka "Purple Friday") on "America's Newsroom."
It's to support the Elder High School Panthers, his alma mater whose football team currently has a 9-2 record for the season [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:31pm EST
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 NBC's "Meet the Press" was again the #1 public affairs show in Total Viewers and the A25-54 demo last Sunday. ABC's "This Week" was second in Total Viewers while CBS' "Face the Nation" was #2 in younger viewers.
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"This Week"
2.82M778K
CBS
"Face the Nation"
2.62M919K
FOX
"Fox News Sunday"
1.10M415K
New Career [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:28pm EST
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John King the CNN anchor and former White House correspondent tells Marketwatch.com's Jon Friedman what sets him apart from Lou Dobbs and how his show, debuting next year at 7pmET, will be different than Dobbs's.
"I had and have a great relationship with Lou and wish him the [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:00pm EST
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In last night's Part One interview on "The Factor," Gov. Sarah Palin sat down with Bill O'Reilly and discussed two of the most memorable interviews from last year's campaign season.
Palin called Charlie Gibson's "Bush Doctrine" question on ABC one of the "gotcha techniques" of the mainstream (or "lamestream") [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:26pm EST
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 According to sources on the set of "Good Morning America" yesterday, staffers were talking about the "get" that was Chaz Bono.
When the subject of George Stephanopoulos vs. Chris Cuomo came up, the staffers wondered if George could or would even want to pull that interview [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:14pm EST
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 As we mentioned, NBC "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams was in Arizona this week to receive the 2009 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.
This is the first time the award has been given since Cronkite's passing. "The honor you give me here today [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:29am EST
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 At the end of her show this morning, Oprah Winfrey made it official telling her audience, "After much prayer and months of careful thought I have decided that next season - season 25 - will be the last season of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.' And over [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:01am EST
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The AP's David Bauder has a behind the scenes look at Major Garrett's interview with Pres. Obama Wednesday morning in China.
Garrett, Fox's senior White House correspondent, described the backstage atmosphere as "very calm, very rational, very relaxed.
"Look, I wasn't going to litigate whatever it was that was going [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:33am EST
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 Animal Planet veteran Jeff Corwin admits that when he started work on his new documentary with MSNBC, he got some puzzled looks from MSNBC staffers as he first walked through the hallways.
"100 Heartbeats" is the first in MSNBC's "Future Earth" series and it examines endangered species [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:05am EST
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Breaking: WABC.com reports Oprah Winfrey will end her talk show. The announcement will come on her show tomorrow with the final airing expected to be Sept. 9, 2011.
The Oprah Winfrey Show airs on WABC-TV in the afternoons but originates from Chicago on ABC station WLS where it airs at [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:21pm EST
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Tomorrow, the Newseum will open its Tim Russert exhibit titled "Inside Tim Russert's Office: If It's Sunday, It's 'Meet the Press.'"
The Newseum says the exhibit's highlights include the "Florida" eraser board, draft scripts for an interview with President George W. Bush, and Russert's wooden "Thou Shalt Not [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:19pm EST
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 It was announced today that Bill Galvin has been promoted to Senior VP at HLN. Previously, he was VP of programming for the network.
Galvin's promotion comes at a time when HLN is on track for its best year ratings-wise. In a note to staff, [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:08pm EST
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25-54 demographic: (L +SD) Total day: FNC: 451 | CNN: 119 | MSNBC: 113 | HLN: 150 Prime: FNC: 989 | CNN: 168 | MSNBC: 241 | HLN: 231
5p:
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7p:
8p:
9p:
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11p:
FNC
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Baier:
Shep:
O'Reilly:
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O'Reilly:
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472
452
1065
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Blitzer:
Blitzer:
Tonight:
Brown:
King:
Cooper:
Cooper:
123
117
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126
208
171
117
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Matthews:
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Olbermann:
Maddow:
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162
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:24pm EST
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....when he appears on Larry Kudlow's CNBC show tonight. The Business Insider says they'll be watching.
After leaving CNN the first time in 1999, there was talk the former "Moneyline" host would join NBC and appear primarily on CNBC. That never panned out, and Dobbs returned to CNN 2001.
Dobbs departed [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:15pm EST
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 TVNewser was up at the space-station that is the Bloomberg building yesterday for the "Covering the Crisis" panel moderated by author and journalist Michael Lewis. The event was co-hosted by Bloomberg and Vanity Fair, and both Bloomberg media CEO Andy Lack and VF editor [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:04pm EST
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• Veteran TV producer Michele Remillard has been named Executive Producer of C-SPAN's live morning interview/call-in program "Washington Journal." A veteran of Fox News for 11 years, Remillard launched "Beltway Boys" and was a top producer at "Special Report with Bret Baier." Remillard also helped launch "Hardball with [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:58pm EST
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Fox News has apologized for misrepresenting footage of Gov. Sarah Palin during a segment about her book tour. Think Progress spotted this on FNC yesterday and realized the footage used was from the campaign trail, not from Palin's book tour. (But if you listen closely to anchor Gregg [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:28pm EST
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 "Good Morning America" co-anchor Robin Roberts has had two primetime "In the Spotlight" specials this month: one leading up to the CMAs last week and the other a sit-down with Janet Jackson last night.
According to Nielsen overnights, the Janet Jackson special at 10pmET drew 6.6 [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:59pm EST
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• Larry King's 10-year-old son, Chance, is getting his own show on FOX Sports Net called "Kid Pitch," reports TMZ. Tom Arnold will produce and production will start in February.
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:23pm EST
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25-54 demographic: (L +SD) Total day: FNC: 416 | CNN: 126 | MSNBC: 108 | HLN: 182 Prime: FNC: 763 | CNN: 195 | MSNBC: 222 | HLN: 321
5p:
6p:
7p:
8p:
9p:
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11p:
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Beck:
Baier:
Shep:
O'Reilly:
Hannity:
Greta:
O'Reilly:
628
524
558
1012
711
564
520
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Blitzer:
Blitzer:
Tonight:
Brown:
King:
Cooper:
Cooper:
116
138
151
147
168
268
209
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EdShow:
Matthews:
Olbermann:
Maddow:
Olbermann:
Maddow:
166
122
162
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211
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105
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:42am EST
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Lou Dobbs, formerly of CNN, sat down with Jon Stewart last night for an interview on "The Daily Show." Stewart brought out a live Mexican mariachi band to play the introductory music for the segment.
"Jon Klein the president of CNN told me point blank that the network was [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:09am EST
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ICN reports that two-year-old Fox Business network is finally about to be added to the New York City suburbs via Cablevision.
Fox Business Network is expected to announce Thursday morning that it has secured an agreement with Cablevision Systems Corp. The deal will expand the business network's distribution by nearly [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:20am EST
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The White House named four people to the Broadcasting Board of Governors, including the chairman of the group, Walter Isaacson, who is President of the Aspen Institute and former chairman and CEO of CNN. Isaacson, who ran CNN for 18 months from 2001-2003, is also the former editor of [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:38pm EST
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 When you get an email with the subject line ***MANDATORY STAFF MTG.***- 11/23 @ 2PM EST! ***, you might have reason to worry. When you work for "Good Morning America," it takes on greater significance as the show is about to A) get a new co-anchor [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:45pm EST
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Kind of a crazy story out of Atlanta today.
A local TV truck for WSB-TV hit some high voltage power lines when the crew forgot to lower the truck's transmission mast resulting in a giant explosion.
115,000 volts of electricity went through the truck as the explosion blew a hole in [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:20pm EST
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• ABC will have an exclusive interview with Chaz Bono, LGBT rights advocate and Cher's daughter son. Chaz Bono, formerly Chastity Bono, will speak out live for the first time as a man on tomorrow's "Good Morning America." Chris Cuomo will be conducting the interview.
New Career Opportunities Daily: [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:16pm EST
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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow made a cameo on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" during a segment in which a copy of Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue" escapes and goes rogue behind the scenes at NBC.
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:59pm EST
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25-54 demographic: (L +SD) Total day: FNC: 400 | CNN: 139 | MSNBC: 124 | HLN: 148 Prime: FNC: 717 | CNN: 229 | MSNBC: 287 | HLN: 229
5p:
6p:
7p:
8p:
9p:
10p:
11p:
FNC
Beck:
Baier:
Shep:
O'Reilly:
Hannity:
Greta:
O'Reilly:
650
497
468
1002
641
506
484
CNN
Blitzer:
Blitzer:
Tonight:
Brown:
King:
Cooper:
Cooper:
172
135
146
236
248
203
138
MSNBC
Matthews:
EdShow:
Matthews:
Olbermann:
Maddow:
Olbermann:
Maddow:
88
146
207
333
308
221
147
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:27pm EST
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On MSNBC today, Tamron Hall interviewed Kris Kringle (good get). He's concerned that too many kids are going to be getting H1N1 in their stockings this year. Coming from a 550+ year-old man, that says something. This Santa was actually speaking for all mall Santas, advocating that the H1N1 [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:55pm EST
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25-54 demographic: (L +SD) Total day: FNC: 227 | CNN: 125 | MSNBC: 151 | HLN: 91 Prime: FNC: 267 | CNN: 89 | MSNBC: 195 | HLN: 90
5p:
6p:
7p:
8p:
9p:
10p:
11p:
FNC
NewsHQ:
FNSunday:
Report:
Huckabee:
Hannity:
Geraldo:
Huckabee:
221
278
284
305
291
205
173
CNN
Zakaria:
Newsroom:
Newsroom:
SOTU:
King:
Newsroom:
SOTU:
137
77
68
49
103
117
86
MSNBC
Special:
Special:
Special:
Special:
Special:
Special:
Special:
171
192
208
188
224
173
217
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:42pm EST
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25-54 demographic: (L +SD) Total day: FNC: 227 | CNN: 162 | MSNBC: 174 | HLN: 104 Prime: FNC: 245 | CNN: 188 | MSNBC: 172 | HLN: 113
5p:
6p:
7p:
8p:
9p:
10p:
11p:
FNC
NewsHQ:
NewsHQ:
Report:
Huckabee:
Beck:
Geraldo:
Jrnl/FNW:
191
190
242
221
257
257
136
CNN
Newsroom:
SitRoom:
Newsroom:
Special:
Special:
Newsroom:
Special:
88
93
139
140
242
181
182
MSNBC
Special:
Special:
Special:
Special:
Special:
Special:
Special:
277
254
162
159
138
218
270
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:29pm EST
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 As we reported last week, in her new memoir "Going Rogue" Sarah Palin writes about the campaign interviews she gave to Katie Couric. Palin contends McCain aide and former CBS News political contributor Nicolle Wallace "pushed for Katie Couric and the CBS Evening [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:25pm EST
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 The "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" put up its best numbers in more than 9 months last week (week of Feb. 2). And ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson" had its best week in more than 8 months (week of Feb. 23).
NBC [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:01pm EST
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Suzanne Sena, former primetime/late night news anchor on Fox News Channel, is back in front of the camera, this time anchoring for ONN: Onion News Network. Sena worked for FNC from 2006-2008 and appeared on "Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld." She also filled in on Fox & Friends [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:30pm EST
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NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams is doing more than just picking up another award during his trip to Arizona this week. Today, he is receiving the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism at ASU, but yesterday he and his boss coached the next generation of journalists.
Williams [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:11pm EST
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 NY Posts' Page 6 reports that insiders at ABC are saying Charlie Gibson was not as happy about his "World News" replacement, Diane Sawyer, as he appeared:
Gibson, 66, had been pushing ABC News president David Westin to promote George Stephanopoulos, the host of [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:32am EST
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Sarah Palin's first Fox News interview may be with Sean Hannity tomorrow night, but the former VP nominee and new author also sat down with Bill O'Reilly. O'Reilly's team has put together this short promotional video touting the interview which will air over several days on his [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:21pm EST
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 This afternoon MSNBC's Tamron Hall and David Shuster reported on the news that "Unfriend" is the word of the year, as declared by the New Oxford American Dictionary.
A few minutes later, after a live shot on the healthcare debate, congressional correspondent Luke Russert [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:04pm EST
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 A 5-month CBS investigative report by CBS News' Armen Keteyian and producer Laura Strickler led to a policy change this week within the San Antonio police department:
In response to a CBS News investigation on untested rape kits, the San Antonio Police Department made a [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:00pm EST
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Their first appearance on national TV was on ABC's "Wife Swap" so it's fitting that their final interview before next month's sentencing for the balloon hoax, could end up on ABC.
TVNewser has learned the Heene family is in New York taking meetings and taping an interview [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:21pm EST
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• An editor from People Magazine will appear on the CBS "Early Show" tomorrow to reveal the cover of the "2009 Sexiest Man Alive" issue, which will hit newsstands this Friday. The segment will be the magazine's official reveal. Apparently, some forgeries have already made the rounds on the internet. [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:48pm EST
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 Filmmaker Andrew Rossi has been documenting the inner workings of the New York Times media desk for a project that could end up on HBO.
Rossi tells The New York Observer's John Koblin, "I think that these writers have something invested in their stories that is sort [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:35pm EST
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 A number of CNN regulars will be anchoring 7pmET broadcasts for CNN this fall as a part of a special rotation and TVNewser has learned some of the early plans.
Lou Dobbs' abrupt departure from CNN last week left an obvious hole in the network's 7pmET [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:24pm EST
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• After high-profile appearances on FNC's "O'Reilly Factor" and NBC's "Today" show, former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs will sit down with Jon Stewart for an interview on "The Daily Show" tomorrow evening. From "The Daily Show" website:
Dobbs spoke with TVNewser today. [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:18pm EST
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 Last night, NBC's Brian Williams anchored "Nightly News" from the NBC News Los Angeles bureau while he spends some time on the west coast this week.
Williams will receive the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism at Arizona State University tomorrow. While he's out of [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:56pm EST
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TVbytheNumbers and James Hibberd are reporting that Nielsen ratings are delayed today because of a power outage down at the Nielsen offices in Oldsmar, Florida.
Usually by this time we've posted evening news ratings for the previous week as well as the cable news ratings from the weekend.
Neilsen has [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:40pm EST
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 Lou Dobbs "would be delighted" to join Bill O'Reilly as a semi-regular contributor, Dobbs says.
Dobbs, who resigned from CNN on the air last week, was "surprised and very flattered" when O'Reilly made the offer on his Fox News show last night, Dobbs said in an [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:38am EST
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• Sean Hannity gets the first cable interview with former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin since the release of her memoir "Going Rogue." The interview airs tomorrow night at 9pmET on "Hannity."
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:37am EST
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It's official. Fox News' Major Garrett will interview Pres. Obama at 9:20pmET tonight. He tweets:
I will interview POTUS on camera Wed am here in Beijing. 4 other networks will too. 10 mins per. Many had asked. Can say now.
Follow @MajoratWH...
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:49am EST
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• NBC's Matt Lauer takes a look at the most fascinating, inspirational, heroic and notorious figures, and the most-talked about stories of 2009 in a Thanksgiving night special. NBC's "People of the Year" includes a hero pilot, an amateur singer and an Octomom. "People of the Year" premieres Thanksgiving night [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:45am EST
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Lou Dobbs continued his media rounds tonight with his first TV interview since leaving CNN, on "The O'Reilly Factor." (He'll be talking with TVNewser tomorrow). Dobbs talked about what led to his departure, his coverage of the birther movement, a possible future in politics and the shot fired [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:30pm EST
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• ABC News president David Westin announced today the ABCnews.com promotions of Deirdre Michalopoulos to senior managing editor and Ed O'Keefe to managing editor. WebNewser has more info plus Westin's email to staff.
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:25pm EST
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CBS News anchor Russ Mitchell makes a guest appearance on tomorrow night's episode of CBS' "The Good Wife." In the scene, Mitchell, who plays himself, conducts a jailhouse interview with Peter Florrick, played by (the once and future Mr. Big) actor [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:05pm EST
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25-54 demographic: (L +SD) Total day: FNC: 430 | CNN: 146 | MSNBC: 127 | HLN: 141 Prime: FNC: 650 | CNN: 147 | MSNBC: 228 | HLN: 226
5p:
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8p:
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11p:
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Baier:
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O'Reilly:
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355
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483
525
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Blitzer:
Blitzer:
Veterans:
Brown:
King:
Cooper:
Cooper:
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152
90
140
123
117
198
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EdShow:
Matthews:
Olbermann:
Maddow:
Special:
Special:
131
143
168
264
223
196
234
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:22pm EST
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 CNN has announced a list of celebrity attendees for its third "CNN Heroes" gala at the Kodak theatre in Los Angeles.
Carrie Underwood and Leona Lewis are set to perform and presenters include Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson, Neil Patrick Harris, Pierce Brosnan, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Eva [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:18pm EST
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Even more from Marisa Guthrie's B&C story on the Sunday shows. With the White House v. Fox News war of words still simmering, Guthrie talks with news execs and anchors about the implications and the outcome.
"Anytime anybody in the political world uses guest bookings as either a gift or [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:16pm EST
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 NBC's Washington bureau has been having power problems all day. Politico's Michael Calderone emailed bureau chief Mark Whitaker about it this morning. Whitaker writes, "somehow the bureau lost power and the electrical system froze in transition to the backup generator."
Insiders tell us the phones haven't [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:15pm EST
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More from Marisa Guthrie's B&C story on the Sunday shows. CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein says he is "extremely committed" to the network's four-hour Sunday show "State of the Union with John King," which includes the media criticism hour "Reliable Sources" at 10amET. King will be leaving the show [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:35pm EST
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 CNN Beijing correspondent Emily Chang was detained for two hours today by authorities in Shanghai for holding up a t-shirt that depicts Pres. Obama wearing a Red Army uniform.
Chang bought the t-shirt at a basement souvenir shop in Beijing and brought it with her to Shanghai [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:02pm EST
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 MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan apologized this morning for photos that he used last week during what was intended to be a lighthearted segment about Gov. Sarah Palin.
On Friday, we noted that Ratigan aired doctored photos on "Morning Meeting" of Palin without identifying them as fakes.
Today, the [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:00pm EST
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• Arizona State University will present NBC "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams with its 2009 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism this Wednesday. CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric also won an award named for Cronkite this year.
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:43pm EST
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 CBS News is following up its CBS REPORTS: Children of the Recession with CBS REPORTS: Where American Stands.
In an email to staff, obtained by TVNewser, CBS News & Sports president Sean McManus writes the multi-platform, multi-week, multi-broadcast effort, "will gather and convey a realistic assessment of [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:37pm EST
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 Current "BBC World News America" EP and former CBS "Evening News" EP Rome Hartman has an an editorial at Multichannel News on the direction of television news.
Hartman writes, "It is almost impossible to over-estimate the degree to which U.S. news organizations have surrendered editorial judgment [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:23pm EST
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 Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly are taking their acts on the road this winter for the Bold & Fresh Tour. (Guess which one is Fresh?) The title, based on O'Reilly's best-selling "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity," will hit four cities in late January.
Beck, [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:00pm EST
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 In a Howie Kurtz WaPo profile, Fox News' Shepard Smith expressed regret about the way he criticized Shannon Bream and her interview with then-gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie:
"Here I am, the face of the network, it's a week before the election, and our [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:34am EST
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Got 10 minutes? Check out this clip from "Reliable Sources" (before CNN pulls it off YouTube).
Radio talker Chris Plante, along with media critics David Zurawik and Eric Deggans debate the departure of Lou Dobbs.
Says Zurawik: "Jonathan Klein fired a nice shot across his bow in July. If [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:25am EST
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Fox News anchor Julie Banderas announced she is pregnant on air this weekend. She showed a picture of her and her husband, Andrew Sansone, and asked, "How many people do you see?"
Banderas and Sansone married this past August.
After making the announcement, Banderas pointed to co-anchor Gregg Jarrett [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:46am EST
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"I think George would be terrific at it. But I would just say this: 'George, I hope you know what you're gettin' into, son.'"
• From Marisa Guthrie's "Go Ahead, Make My Sunday" story in B&C. More later on Guthrie's piece including the White [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:22am EST
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In Brian Stelter's NYTimes profile of Rachel Maddow, which focuses on how the MSNBC host and her colleagues are ramping up their criticism of Pres. Obama, there is this conclusion about why opinion on a news channel is good business.
MSNBC is projected to take in $365 million in revenue [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:15am EST
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 The AP's David Bauder gets the first post-CNN interview with Lou Dobbs.
Although the decision to leave was characterized as mutual, Dobbs said he approached [CNN president Jon] Klein to say it wasn't working for him. There was no "eureka" moment, Dobbs said.
"What they do is their [...]
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Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:56pm EST
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The season finale of 'Mad Men' aired last week and TVNewser phoned in the final recap for AgencySpy's "The Week in Advertising" (literally, not just metaphorically like usual).
You can watch "The Week in Advertising" on the the AgencySpy sidebar each Tuesday and see the archive of previous episodes [...]
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Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:51pm EST
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Stephen King stopped by HLN's Morning Express with Robin Meade" on Friday to preview his newest book Under the Dome. And it turns out two CNN anchors are featured in the book -- Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer.
The Meade-King interview airs tomorrow morning on HLN, but [...]
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Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:57am EST
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With China's tolerate/hate relationship with Twitter and other social networking sites, we're wondering what @jaketapper, @chucktodd, @majoratWH, @edhenryCNN and other White House correspondents/prolific Twitterers are going to do without the service while covering Pres. Obama in the People's Republic. Guess we'll just have to see. The president arrived in China [...]
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Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:52am EST
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This morning on CNN's Reliable Sources, Howie Kurtz and his panel were talking about Carrie Prejean's near-exit from "Larry King Live" the other night. Turns out, since Prejean was in Washington, DC for the interview, Kurtz had some inside scoop about what happened after the interview.
Kurtz: "I just want [...]
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Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:21am EST
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The fourth hour of the Today show got the SNL treatment again last night, with new castmember Jenny Slate taking over for Michaela Watkins playing Hoda Kotb.
• After the jump Darrel Hammond did his best Lou Dobbs (with a hint of Ted Koppel). "I wish only the [...]
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Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:45am EST
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This week's Sunday lineup will include Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, WSJ's Peggy Noonan, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, U.S. Army (Retired) Major General John Hawkins, and U.S. Coordinator for Counterterrorism Daniel Benjamin.
See the full list of [...]
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Posted: November 14, 2009, 5:45pm EST
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CNN is following us even on our days off.
Last Saturday, we were leaving the Miami Hurricanes football game down in Florida (52-17 blowout, no big deal), when we spotted this car ahead of us in the parking lot:
More about Andrea Ivory here.
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Posted: November 14, 2009, 1:47pm EST
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 Next Saturday, Starbucks will introduce an updated Gold Coast Blend: Morning Joe Edition coffee. It's in conjunction with the Brewing Together Day of Service co-sponsored by the MSNBC morning show and Starbucks.
The "intense, full-bodied blend," as Starbucks describes it, is now on sale at grocery stores. Meanwhile, [...]
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Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:53am EST
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Kickoff at the Ole Miss - Tennessee game is in a couple hours. And if you find yourself in Oxford, MS for the game against LSU next Saturday, you just might spot FNC's Shepard Smith.
Smith, who attended Ole Miss but left before graduating, tells USA Weekend he likes to [...]
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Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:00am EST
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 NBC's Lester Holt will give the 2010 graduation keynote address at The University of California, Merced in May.
"We are honored that a journalist of Mr. Holt's caliber has agreed to inspire the Class of 2010 during their commencement exercise next May," said Chancellor [...]
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Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:02am EST
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 As Jon Stewart pointed out on his show last night (clip after the jump), it was neither he nor his writers who actually caught the "Hannity" protest footage mix-up that got mocked earlier this week and that Sean Hannity eventually apologized for on-air. It [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:10pm EST
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Charlie Gasparino, on-air editor for CNBC, appeared on Fox News' "Your World with Neil Cavuto" tonight promoting his new book, The Sellout.
We found out a few weeks ago what show Gasparino will not be appearing on...
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:44pm EST
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:15pm EST
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• On Bloomberg's "Political Capital with Al Hunt" this weekend, outgoing White House Communications Director Anita Dunn. It was revealed earlier this week that Dunn, who led the verbal attacks on Fox News last month, would be leaving the administration. The show airs tonight at 6:30pmET.
New Career Opportunities [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:10pm EST
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All three morning shows showed week-to-week Total Viewer growth last week, which often happens after daylight saving time begins. NBC's "Today" show was in first by 1.25 million Total Viewers, up 156K week-to-week. ABC's "Good Morning America" grew 290K and CBS' "Early Show" was up 190K week-to-week.
Last [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:42pm EST
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On today's "Morning Meeting," Dylan Ratigan and company had a segment asking why Americans are so wild about Sarah Palin.
During the segment, Ratigan showed photos of Palin that, as Newsbusters and Snopes.com point out, were photoshopped. Ratigan introduces the "Top 10" segment by saying its "to [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:35pm EST
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• After 18 years in New York, at 3pm today the lights went out at Court TV / In Session. So what now? "The crew plans to go out in style - at the bar across the street of course," writes a tipster. "In Session" trial coverage will be produced by [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:26pm EST
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