View Post TV Biz | WebNewser The WebNewser Ticker: Weather, Twitter² By Alex Weprin on Oct. 7, 2013 - 12:58 PM The Weather Company (owner of The Weather Channel) has relaunched Weather.com today. For users that means more localized news, less clutter and responsive design. For Advertisers, it means new ad units, including homepage takeover ...
View Post CBS Steve Kroft Celebrates 25 Years At ’60 Minutes’ By Alex Weprin on Oct. 7, 2013 - 11:38 AM Back in 1989, a young reporter named Steve Kroft joined a young producer named Jeff Fager on “60 Minutes,” where they were nervous about impressing the show’s EP Don Hewitt. In a “60 minutes Overtime” ...
View Post Fox News In Profile: Megyn Kelly Edition By Alex Weprin on Oct. 7, 2013 - 10:44 AM Today’s the day that Fox News launches its new primetime lineup, and with Megyn Kelly being the new addition, she is the subject of a number of profiles today. First, she talks to the LA Times‘ Meg James about her plan ...
View Post Politics Here’s Roughly How Many People Watched C-SPAN Last Month By Alex Weprin on Oct. 7, 2013 - 9:55 AM Let’s get this out of the way first: C-SPAN is a non-commercial channel dedicating to covering public policy in the U.S. (and occasionally abroad). It does not have any ads on its airwaves, and is funded by the cable industr ...
View Post NBC | People ‘Today’ Superfan Linny Boyette Dies At 71 By Alex Weprin on Oct. 7, 2013 - 9:25 AM “Today” superfan Linny Boyette has died of complications from a heart attack at age 71. He was described as “gravely ill” by Al Roker late last week. A staple on Rockefeller Plaza, Boyette was known not onl ...
TV Biz This Weekend In Inaccurate Reporting: CNN and Fox News Edition By Alex Weprin on Oct. 6, 2013 - 9:24 PM Hong Kong is not located in South America, and President Obama did not offer to fund a museum dedicated to Muslim culture as the government remains shut down. Those two facts did not stop CNN and Fox News from erroneously leading ...
View Post CNN | Funny SNL’s ‘Piers Morgan’ Reveals The Other Hillary Clinton Movies By Alex Weprin on Oct. 6, 2013 - 2:00 PM NBC and CNN may have canceled their Hillary Clinton projects, but on “Saturday Night Live,” “Piers Morgan” and his guest “Arianna Huffington” revealed a few other projects in the works. Take Fox ...
View Post TV Biz This Week In Lists: Eligible Bachelors, Biggest News Stories By Alex Weprin on Oct. 5, 2013 - 2:25 PM Gotham Magazine counts down New York’s 100 most eligible bachelors. Among the TV news personalities recognized: ABC’s David Muir, Fox’s Rupert Murdoch, CBS and PBS anchor Charlie Rose, Fox News anchor Shepard Smi ...
View Post Fox News Fox News Promos Preview New Lineup By Alex Weprin on Oct. 5, 2013 - 10:52 AM Next week marks the debut of Fox News Channel’s new lineup of programming. From Shepard Smith’s new role as breaking news anchor, to “On the Record” at 7 PM, Megyn Kelly at 9 PM and “Hannity” at ...
View Post TV Biz ABC’s ‘This Week’ Gets Boehner, CNN’s ‘AC360’ Gets Miriam Carey’s Siblings By Alex Weprin on Oct. 4, 2013 - 5:07 PM A pair of last minute big interviews have been announced on this Friday afternoon, as ABC’s “This Week” has an interview with house Speaker John Boehner Sunday, the first with the Speaker since the US Government ...