The Ticker: Wallace/Kerry, Wright, Ticker…

> Is the ax falling at CNN?…

> Today on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace had the first sit-down interview with John Kerry since his botched joke. It wasn’t as good as Clinton/Wallace, but it still got feisty, as Kerry tried to focus on more important issues and Wallace kept pressing hard about the joke…

> The NYT imagines NBC Universal without Bob Wright…

> A tipster says FNC is revamping its news ticker in a major way. True or false?…

> Last Wednesday, when Charles Gibson anchored World News from Atlanta, he “beat the combined ratings” of the NBC Nightly News and the CBS Evening News in the local market…

> I missed this on Thursday: The AP reports that 10 Midwestern hotels have “pulled CNN from the TV channel lineup in its guest rooms” because of 360’s sniper video…

> CJR’s Liz Cox Barrett tracks local-news-style fistfight coverage on CNN and FNC: “A week after the midterms and it’s back to business on cable news — the business of beat-downs, that is…”

> In October, CNN.com beat MSNBC.com for the first time in a while, Lost Remote notes…