View Post TV Biz The Monday Ticker: Hillary & the RNC, Rita & the Pope, Vector & OMG By Chris Ariens on Jun. 9, 2014 - 12:00 PM Republican National Committee spokesman Kirsten Kukowski tells CNN the group is urging ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and Fox News to book Republican guests in response former first lady Hillary Clinton‘s upcoming book tour interviews. ...
View Post NBC Ann Curry Rescued by Boy Scouts By Chris Ariens on May. 10, 2014 - 11:15 AM NBC News anchor Ann Curry is thanking a group of New Jersey Boy Scouts for helping her out of a perilous situation. Curry was hiking on Bear Mountain in upstate New York five weeks ago today when she broke her ankle. As Scouting ...
View Post Global News TV News’ Weekend Coverage of Missing Nigerian Schoolgirls By Jordan Chariton on May. 9, 2014 - 12:52 PM Broadcast and cable news networks will continue covering the hundreds of abducted Nigerian schoolgirls this weekend. ABC News will have international affairs correspondent Hamish Macdonald in Nigeria. CBS News correspondent Debora ...
View Post NBC NBC News Confuses Kenya and Nigeria in Boko Haram Kidnapping Story By Merrill Knox on May. 7, 2014 - 3:52 PM During a report on the Boko Haram kidnapping of 276 teenage girls on “NBC Nightly News” Tuesday, Brian Williams twice said that the abductions took place in Kenya instead of Nigeria. “Tonight it now feels as if t ...
View Post NBC Tom Brokaw to Interview Angelina Jolie, Louis Zamperini about ‘Unbroken’ By Chris Ariens on Feb. 24, 2014 - 4:08 PM NBC’s Tom Brokaw bridges the Greatest Generation and Generation X as he interviews actor/director Angelina Jolie and 97-year-old Louis Zamperini, a 1936 Olympian, WWII prisoner of war and subject of “Unbroken,” L ...
View Post Evening News Most-Watched Week in 9 Years for the Network Evening Newscasts By Chris Ariens on Feb. 11, 2014 - 12:38 PM Nearly 29 million people tuned in to the evening newscasts last week, making it the most-watched week in more than 9 years, since Jan. 17, 2005, when a combined 29.937 million tuned in during a week which included Pres. George W. ...
View Post TV Biz 2013 TVNewser Challege: The Results By Merrill Knox on Dec. 30, 2013 - 3:20 PM At the beginning of the year, we asked you to predict what would happen in the television news industry in 2013, and thousands of you responded with your thoughts on the year ahead. We’ll have a new set of questions in the 2 ...
View Post ABC | NBC Your Cast for ‘Top of the Morning’ Movie Is… By Jordan Chariton on Dec. 23, 2013 - 3:00 PM With the news coming out last week about Brian Stelter’s book “Top of the Morning” being developed as a made-for-TV movie on Lifetime, we gave you the task of casting some of the main parts of the movie: Matt Lau ...
View Post NBC Casting Call: Who Should Play Ann Curry in the ‘Top of the Morning’ Movie? By Jordan Chariton on Dec. 20, 2013 - 3:00 PM In the final poll that gives you the role of casting director for the in-development Lifetime original movie based on Brian Stelter’s book “Top of the Morning,” we need you to cast the role of Ann Curry. Polls are still ...
View Post NBC What’s Next For Ann Curry? By Merrill Knox on Dec. 11, 2013 - 2:57 PM The Hollywood Reporter‘s Marisa Guthrie reports on what could be next for Ann Curry, who has a window in her NBC News contract that opens in early 2014: Curry’s representative, Washington lawyer Robert Barnett, has mad ...