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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
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6p:
7p:
8p:
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Beck:
Baier:
Shep:
O'Reilly:
Hannity:
Greta:
O'Reilly:
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525
477
1069
744
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519
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Blitzer:
Blitzer:
Tonight:
Brown:
King:
Cooper:
Cooper:
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118
148
193
258
216
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Maddow:
Olbermann:
Maddow:
108
102
175
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208
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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.
Network
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Total ViewersA25-54
NBC
"Meet the Press"
3.11M1.0M
ABC
"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:
6p:
7p:
8p:
9p:
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FNC
Beck:
Baier:
Shep:
O'Reilly:
Hannity:
Greta:
O'Reilly:
651
472
452
1065
1149
747
599
CNN
Blitzer:
Blitzer:
Tonight:
Brown:
King:
Cooper:
Cooper:
123
117
135
126
208
171
117
MSNBC
Matthews:
EdShow:
Matthews:
Olbermann:
Maddow:
Olbermann:
Maddow:
107
118
132
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273
162
129
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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:
10p:
11p:
FNC
Beck:
Baier:
Shep:
O'Reilly:
Hannity:
Greta:
O'Reilly:
628
524
558
1012
711
564
520
CNN
Blitzer:
Blitzer:
Tonight:
Brown:
King:
Cooper:
Cooper:
116
138
151
147
168
268
209
MSNBC
Matthews:
EdShow:
Matthews:
Olbermann:
Maddow:
Olbermann:
Maddow:
166
122
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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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