TV Biz 15,470 Posts Later… Here’s My Goodbye By Brian on Jul. 20, 2007 - 10:16 AM Today I’m publishing my last post on TVNewser, 15,470 entries and 1,297 days after launching CableNewser. It started as an anonymous project by a news consumer, but before long, the site was being read by the same people I w ...
TV Biz 20 Memorable TVNewser Headlines By Brian on Jul. 20, 2007 - 10:15 AM Of the 15,000+ headlines on TVNewser, hundreds are eye-opening, ironic, unintentionally funny, or all of the above. As I say goodbye, click continued to read just a few of my favorites…
CNN “CNN’s Beck In Bed With Ad” By Brian on Jul. 20, 2007 - 9:45 AM Great headline in The Hollywood Reporter. Gail Schiller reports: “In the first ever on-air pitch for one of its advertisers, CNN Headline News talk show host Glenn Beck recently plugged one of his radio show sponsors — ...
TV Biz How About A 5 a.m. Newscast? By Brian on Jul. 20, 2007 - 8:30 AM Jon Friedman profiles C-SPAN host Brian Lamb and depicts his “scary level of news consumption:” “I found it amusing when Lamb griped that he couldn’t find a decent TV-news or talk show on the air at five in ...
NBC Was NBC Responsible For Potential Predator’s Suicide? By Brian on Jul. 19, 2007 - 11:50 PM “The sister of a veteran Texas prosecutor who blew his brains out as he was about to be busted in an underage-sex sting set up by ‘Dateline’ is slapping NBC with a $100 million suit,” the NY Post reports. & ...
Fox News Misenti Becomes GM & VP of Fox News Digital; Kaplan Becomes FOXNews.com Managing Director By Brian on Jul. 19, 2007 - 10:52 PM “Jeff Misenti joined Fox News Digital as general manager and vice president,” Multichannel News reports. “Misenti had been senior director of product development and marketing at Dow Jones.” Also, “Re ...
MSNBC By Brian on Jul. 19, 2007 - 10:50 PM Brother blog FishbowlNY: There’s some furor building over a graphic shown on Tuesday’s Countdown With Keith Olbermann — guest-hosted by Alison Stewart — which referred to embattled Louisiana Senator David V ...
Morning Shows Morning News Ratings: Week of July 9 By Brian on Jul. 19, 2007 - 6:51 PM The gap between Today and Good Morning America stood at 620,000 total viewers and the 25-54 demo viewers last week. For the week of July 9: Total viewers: NBC: 4,710,000 / ABC: 4,090,000 / CBS: 2,210,000 25-54 demo: NBC: 2,250,000 ...
Fox News Bo Dietl Becomes FNC Contributor By Brian on Jul. 19, 2007 - 3:42 PM “Richard ‘Bo’ Dietl has signed on with FNC as a contributor,” ICN reports. “He will analyze crime stories exclusively for the network.” Dietl was on Geraldo At Large over the weekend. He was co- ...
CNBC Liz Claman Leaves CNBC: “Highest-Rated Anchor At The Network” By Brian on Jul. 19, 2007 - 2:30 PM A couple of weeks ago, before today’s announcement of Liz Claman‘s departure from CNBC, a network insider pointed out that she has “quietly become the highest-rated anchor at the network.” The insider wrote ...