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Jon Stewart Critiques Cable News in Rally Speech

By Alex Weprin on Oct. 31, 2010 - 5:04 PMComment

“The Daily Show”‘s Jon Stewart criticizes the cable news channels regularly on his nightly program. Usually, the criticism comes in the form of a clip package, pointing out the hypocrisy of partisan pundits, or t

Brian Williams: TV News Viewers More Engaged Today

By Alex Weprin on Oct. 31, 2010 - 1:55 PMComment

NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams was interviewed at the Broadcasting & Cable/Multichannel News OnScreen Media Summit last week. In addition to talking about the Juan Williams situation, the upcoming departure of NBCU CEO

Fox Biz | TV Biz

News Corp., Cablevision Cut Deal, Fox Channels Return

By Alex Weprin on Oct. 31, 2010 - 11:22 AMComment

Last night, just before the start of game two three of the 2010 World Series, News Corp. and Cablevision cut a deal to return the Fox broadcast channel, along with Fox Business Network, Nat Geo World and Fox Deportes to Cablevisi

ABC News Clears the air about Andrew Breitbart’s Participation in their Election Night Coverage

By Chris Ariens on Oct. 30, 2010 - 4:36 PMComment

It didn’t take long, after conservative author, commentator and webtrepreneur Andrew Breitbart announced he would be participating in ABC News’ election night coverage, for the pitchforks to come out. Keith Olbermann g

An Honor, and Retirement, for ‘Today’

By Alex Weprin on Oct. 30, 2010 - 4:10 PMComment

This week, NBC’s “Today” had two notable events. On Wednesday, the program was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, and at the end of the week, Jim Wilson, a producer on the show for 29 years,

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Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert Put on a Show

By Chris Ariens on Oct. 30, 2010 - 1:15 PMComment

After a warm-up from the Legendary Roots Crew and some audience stunts put on by the MythBusters guys, Jon Stewart bounced on stage at 12:55pmET to kick off the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. Before delivering any one-liners

Longtime CBS News Stage Manager James ‘Jimmy’ Wall Dies at 92

By Alex Weprin on Oct. 30, 2010 - 10:10 AMComment

A regular and friendly presence at CBS News for nearly 50 years, James “Jimmy” Wall, has died, the network says. Wall is best known to the public as “Mr. Baxter,” the next door neighbor of “Captain Ka

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For the Win: Tough Mudder Seeks New Event Planner

By Nadine Cheung on Oct. 29, 2010 - 7:23 PMComment

Tough Mudder is no joke. According to its site, it’s “Ironman meets Burning Man” and only the strong survive. However, you can be a part of the action without having go through the grueling training process. The

SportsNewser | TV Biz

NFL Broadcast Teams For Week 8

By Marcus Vanderberg on Oct. 29, 2010 - 5:39 PMComment

A season-high three NFL teams will be blacked out during Week 8 of the NFL season. The Detroit Lions, Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers all failed to sell out their home games 72 hours before kickoff. The St. Louis Rams and C

Terror Update on Networks & Cable: President Obama Confirms Explosive Materials in Terror Attempt

By Molly Stark Dean on Oct. 29, 2010 - 5:15 PMComment

All of the networks broke into programming to air President Obama‘s speech on the UPS bomb scare shortly after 4:25pmET. The president confirmed that the cargo bomb scare was a “credible terrorist threat.” After

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