Morning Media Newsfeed: ABC News to Oversee <em>The View</em>

[emailonly]{{{ sbox300x250 }}}[/emailonly] Click here to receive Mediabistro's Morning Media Newsfeed via email. The View to Be Overseen by ABC News (TVNewser) The View is moving from the entertainment unit of ABC to the non-fiction programming group of ABC News. THR New ABC News head James Goldston, who will now oversee The View, announced the move in a staff memo sent out on Thursday morning. Goldston is largely responsible for Good Morning America’s transformation to a multi-anchor ensemble, which helped the ABC morning show end NBC rival Today’s 16-year morning-news ratings winning streak. He's also responsible for remaking Nightline into a multi-anchor, multi-topic program in the wake of Ted Koppel's retirement. HuffPost / AP Following the retirement of Barbara Walters from an on-air role at the show she started, ABC brought in Rosie O'Donnell, Nicolle Wallace and Rosie Perez to join holdover Whoopi Goldberg. A new production team was named, led by Bill Wolff, Rachel Maddow's former producer. Capital New York Still, after a strong first week, the program has begun to slip in the ratings. For the week of Oct. 12, CBS' The Talk, which is clearly based on the format of The View, matched the program in two key demos: women 25-54 and women 18-49. Variety One of Goldston’s central goals, according to insiders, is to make The View more appealing to younger viewers. The show has fallen 10 percent in the last year among female viewers between the ages of 18 to 49, but it’s up 1 percent in total viewers. NYT Posts $12.5 Million Loss (FishbowlNY) The third quarter was rough for The New York Times, as it posted a net loss of $12.5 million. Total revenue increased barely -- by 0.8 percent -- from $361.7 million to $364.7 million. Circulation revenues also ticked slightly upward at an increase of 1.3 percent. NYT The Times planned to spur revenue growth in 2014 with the introduction of several new digital subscription products, but those products have not caught on as the company had hoped. Poynter / MediaWire The Times added 44,000 subscribers to its digital-only products in the third quarter of 2014, “an increase of more than 20 percent compared with the end of the third quarter of 2013,” it says in its third-quarter earnings report. The company says it now has 875,000 subscribers to digital-only products. It added 32,000 subscribers in the second quarter. New York Post And digital ad revenue surged 16.5 percent to $38.2 million. “Digital advertising grew strongly enough to offset a tough June and July on the print side and leave total advertising revenue broadly flat,” said CEO Mark Thompson. Total ad revenue was down 0.1 percent to $137.9 million, dragged down by a 5.3 percent decline in print ad revenue. The company said that severance costs were estimated at $21.4 million for the move to reduce the newsroom by about 100 people. The Inside Story of Matt Taibbi’s Departure From First Look Media (The Intercept) Matt Taibbi, who joined First Look Media just seven months ago, left the company on Tuesday. His departure -- which he describes as a refusal to accept a work reassignment, and the company describes as a resignation -- was the culmination of months of contentious disputes with First Look founder Pierre Omidyar, chief operating officer Randy Ching, and president John Temple over the structure and management of Racket, the digital magazine Taibbi was hired to create. FishbowlNY The tipping point reportedly occurred earlier this month. While Taibbi insists the accusations by a staffer that Taibbi had been verbally abusive and unprofessionally hostile led him to be told he would be stripped of all managerial responsibilities pending investigation, First Look says that’s not the case. Capital New York The First Look journalists said that Taibbi's disagreement was partially the product of a cultural clash at the company -- between journalists known for their anti-authoritarian worldviews and the Silicon Valley backgrounds of the company's top brass. Politico / Dylan Byers on Media According to the Intercept's report, journalists at First Look confronted a “confounding array of rules, structures and systems imposed by Omidyar and other First Look managers." Omidyar personally signed off on expenses and sometimes objected to “employee expense reports for taxi rides and office supplies.” At one point, Omidyar imposed a three-month "hiring freeze" on both The Intercept and Racket and eventually scrapped the idea of more publications and a flagship site. [emailonly]{{{ jodslot01 }}}[/emailonly] Jon Stewart on Meet The Press Offer: 'They Were Casting A Wide And Weird Net' (Rolling Stone) Earlier this month, reports surfaced that NBC approached Jon Stewart about hosting Meet The Press after David Gregory's departure. A source told New York that NBC was "ready to back the Brink's truck up" and pay the comedian an absolute fortune. TVNewser Stewart confirms he did indeed have discussions with NBC about the possibility of the Daily Show host taking on one of broadcast news’ most storied programs. “My guess is they were casting as wide and as weird a net as they could,” he says. “I’m sure part of them was thinking, ‘Why don’t we just make it a variety show?’” FishbowlDC It was first reported earlier this month by New York’s Gabriel Sherman that NBC News’ president Deborah Turness pursued Stewart in the network’s efforts to boost the show’s ratings. Stewart reportedly says he never seriously considered taking the gig. Maddow, Matthews to Host MSNBC’s Election Night Coverage (TVNewser) MSNBC will turn to Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews to host coverage of the midterm elections, under the title Vote 2014! Coverage begins at 6 p.m. ET. FishbowlDC HuffPost Live will cover the Tuesday, Nov. 4 midterm elections via livestream, to be hosted by Marc Lamont Hill, Alyona Minkovski and Howard Fineman. FishbowlDC Just hours after televisions turn off and computers shut down in Washington and across the country, National Journal will convene for “The Day After” midterms conference bright and early at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 5. Tim Cook Speaks Up (Bloomberg Businessweek) In his Bloomberg Businessweek column Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that yes, he is gay. “While I have never denied my sexuality, I haven’t publicly acknowledged it either, until now,” he writes. “So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.” FishbowlNY “I’ll admit that this wasn’t an easy choice,” adds Cook. “Privacy remains important to me, and I’d like to hold on to a small amount of it." He continued, "I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others. So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy." TVNewser When something is not quite a secret, but also never confirmed as fact, it can present pitfalls to people who talk about CEOs on television, like Simon Hobbs, the CNBC anchor who accidentally outed Cook on air in June. Hobbs was part of a panel discussion with New York Times columnist Jim Stewart, who’d just written a story about the small number of openly gay CEOs -- and how those believed to be gay declined to talk about it for his story. [emailonly]{{{ sbox01 }}}[/emailonly] Vieira’s Syndicated Show Picked Up (TVNewser) Meredith Vieira‘s syndicated show has been picked up for a second season on the NBC Owned Television Stations. The show, which debuted just last month and currently airs in 98 percent of the country, is produced by NBCU at 30 Rock. Variety The show has had an uphill climb ratings-wise since its September debut. But the host is well-liked and the lifestyle-centric show has been generally well-received, so NBC is inclined to be patient and hope that the audience will build. The Peacock’s 11 O&O stations, covering top markets including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, have given the show plum afternoon time slots. José Díaz-Balart Expands MSNBC Slot (TVNewser) José Díaz-Balart is adding another hour to his MSNBC day. The Telemundo anchor will take over the 9 a.m. ET slot left vacant when Chuck Todd moved to Meet The Press. Díaz-Balart currently anchors the 10 a.m. hour. The two-hour Morning Rundown debuts Nov. 17 at 9 a.m. ET. TheWrap Díaz-Balart will frequently toss from Miami to MSNBC's D.C. bureau during the program to MSNBC talent like Peter Alexander, Kasie Hunt, Chris Jansing, Andrea Mitchell, Kelly O'Donnell, Luke Russert, Kristin Welker and Pete Williams. Hosting at 10 a.m. since July, Díaz-Balart has averaged 237,000 viewers and 53,000 24-54 demographic viewers. Vice Media, Rogers Communications Team Up to Build Canadian Production Studio (THR) Vice Media founder Shane Smith returned to his native Canada on Thursday to unveil a $100 million partnership with media giant Rogers Communications. Variety The new studio, to be based in Toronto, will operate under Vice’s creative direction and will aim its fare at younger, digitally savvy demos. Vice Canada Studio will focus on delivering news and entertainment content for TV, mobile and digital devices. The $100 million in funding is in Canadian dollars; the JV is a 50-50 venture. [emailonly]{{{ sbox02 }}}[/emailonly] Bloomberg View Adds Two (FishbowlNY) Bloomberg View has added Eli Lake and Josh Rogin as columnists covering national security and international affairs. Both Lake and Rogin were most recently senior correspondents for The Daily Beast and Newsweek. Sunday Show Ratings: Oct. 26 (TVNewser) CBS’ Face The Nation was first among Sunday shows in viewers last week despite being down 15 percent in total viewers and down 2 percent in the adults 25-54 demo compared to the same week last year. NBC’s Meet The Press was down 16 percent in viewers and down 32 percent in the demo vs. the same Sunday last year. Britain's Daily Telegraph Slashes More Jobs (WWD / Memo Pad) Britain’s Telegraph newspaper is grinding ahead with more layoffs as it seeks to establish itself as a digitally driven publication. About 55 people from the 500-strong staff at the daily and weekly publications have been let go. [emailonly]{{{ sbox03 }}}[/emailonly] TV Ratings: World Series Surges in Game 7 (THR / The Live Feed) It didn't start off so swell, but the 2014 World Series wrapped its seven-game run on a ratings high note. Wednesday's championship-sealing win for the San Francisco Giants was also a huge success for Fox. The network brought a 15.2 rating and 24 share according to overnight ratings. Stacey Snider to Be Named 20th Century Fox Co-Chairman as Start Date Nears (Variety) In a sign that Stacey Snider is preparing for life after DreamWorks, the executive has visited the 20th Century Fox studio lot to check out her new office space and introduce herself to the leaders of Fox Searchlight, according to people familiar with the matter. Foreign Policy’s Shane Harris Joins The Daily Beast (HuffPost) Foreign Policy magazine's Shane Harris will join The Daily Beast next week to cover intelligence and national security. Daily Beast executive editor Noah Shachtman described Harris as a “monster reporter" in a staff memo announcing the hire. 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