ABC | Morning Shows | NBC What’s For Breakfast TV? Stunts & Celebrities and ‘Journalism Suffers’ By Chris Ariens on Apr. 9, 2012 - 12:11 PM The TV critics are assessing last week’s morning show stunts. “Television news now feasts on fame, the gaudier the better, with journalistic credentials a mere afterthought,” writes Newsweek/Daily Beast’s H ...
MSNBC Pat Buchanan May Not Return to MSNBC By Chris Ariens on Jan. 7, 2012 - 11:54 PM The NYT’s Bill Carter, covering MSNBC’s panel this morning at the Winter TCA, reports political analyst Pat Buchanan may not be returning to MSNBC afterall. Buchanan, who has been a frequent guest for much of the netwo ...
Revolving Door | TV Biz Keith Olbermann’s New Job: Current TV By Molly Stark Dean on Feb. 7, 2011 - 9:35 PM TVNewser learned earlier today that Keith Olbermann would make an announcement tomorrow as to where he’ll be next after he left “Countdown.” But the news broke sooner than expected. The New York Times‘ Bil ...
Fox News Greta vs. Bill Carter Escalates: Emails and “Agenda” Accusations By SteveK on Apr. 27, 2009 - 7:25 PM Remember what Greta Van Susteren had to say about Bill Carter’s CNN ratings story? WebNewser has the latest in the back-and-forth, which includes Carter writing “somehow I get the feeling facts do not penetrate the par ...
Fox News Glenn Beck: “If You Take What I Say As Gospel, You’re An Idiot” By SteveK on Mar. 30, 2009 - 12:09 PM Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck, “suddenly one of the most powerful media voices for the nation’s conservative populist anger,” is featured in a front page story in the New York Times today. “With a mix ...
MSNBC Matthews Re-Ups With MSNBC By SteveK on Mar. 23, 2009 - 10:20 AM The New York Times’ Bill Carter reports MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews is staying with the network, in a deal set to last “at least four years.” The terms of the deal were not disclosed, and one unnamed executive sa ...
ABC Kimmel Moving to Nightline’s Slot? Not So Fast By SteveK on Jan. 28, 2009 - 9:29 PM The New York Times’ Bill Carter brings up the idea of Jimmy Kimmel moving up a half-hour into Nightline’s slot. However in the article, Anne Sweeney, president of the Disney-ABC Television Group, “denied there wa ...
CBS With Layoffs Abound, CBS Finds Time to Celebrate By Chris Ariens on Dec. 11, 2008 - 10:35 AM TVNewser attended one of the few holiday parties still on the calendar. Producers, anchors and executives from CBS News and CBS Radio, and those of us who cover them, packed the 35th floor of CBS’s Black Rock headquarters la ...
Fox News FNC’s Growingly Expensive Lineup By SteveK on Oct. 23, 2008 - 6:10 PM Just in the last three weeks, Fox News Channel re-signed Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, arguably its two biggest stars, to expensive new contracts. They also added a new big name, Headline News’ Glenn Beck. The New Yo ...
MSNBC Matthews Senate Run Talk Continues By SteveK on Oct. 22, 2008 - 11:19 AM So, will MSNBC’s Chris Matthews be moving from the anchor chair to the political arena? The question has certainly been asked before (in February, and April, and May, and August…), but there appears to be new details a ...
