View Post Fusion Fusion Readies ‘The Morning Show’ By Alex Weprin on Oct. 9, 2013 - 1:47 PM As it promised, Fusion will have a morning show when it launches at the end of this month. The program will be called “The Morning Show,” and will be hosted by Globo journalist Pedro Andrade, Univision reporter Mariana ...
View Post MSNBC Alec Baldwin On New MSNBC Show: ‘I wasn’t that wild about that idea’ At First By Alex Weprin on Oct. 9, 2013 - 12:33 PM Actor Alec Baldwin talks to Politico about his new MSNBC program “Up Late,” which starts Friday. Baldwin is blunt about how the show came about, including hesitations he had before signing the deal. “I wasn’t that ...
View Post TV Biz The AM Ticker: Farrow, Mika, Esser By Alex Weprin on Oct. 9, 2013 - 10:30 AM Page Six has more on MSNBC’s possible hiring of Ronan Farrow. Farrow–the son of Woody Allen (or possibly Frank Sinatra) and Mia Farrow, will not be getting his own show to start, but will work across the network. At Ca ...
View Post PBS MacNeil-Lehrer Productions To Give Up Ownership of The ‘PBS NewsHour’ By Alex Weprin on Oct. 9, 2013 - 9:39 AM The “PBS NewsHour” will likely be getting new owners in the coming weeks. The public-TV stalwart, which has had some troubling months, even as it expanded to the weekend, is in talks with Washington DC public TV statio ...
View Post Fox News | Ratings Fox News’ New Primetime Lineup Day One Ratings By Alex Weprin on Oct. 8, 2013 - 4:53 PM Fox News Channel’s primetime lineup debuted last night. The channel’s one new primetime program, “The Kelly File,” debuted to 2.07 million total viewers and 289,000 viewers in the adults 25-54 demo. That pl ...
View Post Ratings The Scoreboard: Sunday, October 6 By Alex Weprin on Oct. 8, 2013 - 4:06 PM 25-54 demographic (Live +SD) Total day: FNC: 123 | MSNBC: 130 | CNN: 124 | HLN: 92 Primetime: FNC: 145 | MSNBC: 211 | CNN: 175 | HLN: 80 4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p: 12a: FNC Alt/NewsHQ: 74 Kurtz: 50 FNSunday: 76 Report: 91 H ...
View Post CNN CNN Pushes Back Debut Of Weekly Sports Show ‘Unguarded with Rachel Nichols’ By Alex Weprin on Oct. 8, 2013 - 12:21 PM On Friday September 20, CNN was scheduled to debut “Unguarded with Rachel Nichols,” its weekly sports news program anchored by Nichols, who is a correspondent for CNN and Turner Sports’. The idea was to get the s ...
View Post NBC NBC News Prepares To Close Out ‘Education Nation’ Conference By Alex Weprin on Oct. 8, 2013 - 11:04 AM Today is the final day of NBC News’ “Education Nation” conference. New York City Mayor and Bloomberg founder Michael Bloomberg will be a speaker, as will former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. NBC will announce a digi ...
View Post TV Biz The Ticker: King, ’60 Minutes,’ 2016 By Alex Weprin on Oct. 8, 2013 - 10:01 AM Former CNN anchor and current RT host Larry King is profiled by Time as he guest-hosts ESPN2’s “Olbermann.” “I can’t f–kin’ believe I’m gonna be f–kin’ 80,“ King quips. The LA Times‘ Mic ...
View Post Fox News Here Are The Highlights From FNC’s New Primetime By Alex Weprin on Oct. 8, 2013 - 9:21 AM Last night Fox News debuted its reworked primetime lineup, starting with “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren” at 7 PM, holdover “The O’Reilly Factor” at 8 PM, new program “The Kelly File̶ ...