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‘If Walter Cronkite and Jon Stewart had a Baby its Name Would be Brian Douglas Williams’

By Chris Ariens on Nov. 14, 2014 - 11:52 AM

Brian Williams has been immortalized in the Garden State. At an event in Asbury Park last night, the “NBC Nightly News” anchor was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame, by none other than the state’s most fa ...

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Springsteen’s Guitar and Brian Williams’ Tie Bring $250,000 to Bob Woodruff Foundation

By Chris Ariens on Nov. 7, 2013 - 10:06 AM

At the Bob Woodruff Foundation’s “Stand Up for Heroes” benefit last night at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, Bruce Springsteen fanatic Brian Williams joined Springsteen on stage to help with the event’ ...

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Making News Rather Than Covering It: Tales From Campaign 2012

By Alissa Krinsky on Nov. 17, 2012 - 10:04 AM

Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, and Ricky Martin were just three of the numerous celebrity endorsers of President Barack Obama in 2012. All appeared at re-election events, part of a meticulously organized entertainment pub ...

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NBCUniversal Networks to Air First Hurricane Sandy Telethon

By Chris Ariens on Nov. 1, 2012 - 8:56 AM

NBCUniversal will hold a telethon on 9 of its networks including NBC, Bravo, CNBC, E!, G4, MSNBC, Style, Syfy and USA Friday night at 8pmET. “Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together” will be hosted by Matt Lauer. The event wi ...

Specials on Whitney Houston Ahead of Tonight’s Grammy Awards

By Chris Ariens on Feb. 12, 2012 - 8:04 PM

The day-long coverage of the death of Whitney Houston will culminate on CBS tonight with the Grammy awards where there will be a simple tribute to Houston who died yesterday in her room at the Beverly Hilton hotel. The Grammy̵ ...

CBS Scoops Itself, As Adele Sings for Anderson Cooper

By Alex Weprin on Feb. 12, 2012 - 9:39 AM

Tonight CBS will televise the Grammy Awards, which will feature a tribute to Whitney Houston, a new song from Bruce Springsteen and the long-awaited return of Adele, who hasn’t sung since the Fall due to vocal chord surger ...

Cablers Take HBO-Event Obama Speech Live

By SteveK on Jan. 18, 2009 - 5:43 PM

While HBO exclusively broadcast this afternoon’s concert outside the Lincoln Memorial featuring Bono, Usher, Bruce Springsteen and, well, just about every other musician/celebrity, the cablers went live to the event when Pre ...

The Ticker: Woodruff, Maddow, CBSEyeMobile…

By SteveK on Oct. 2, 2008 - 2:22 PM

> Stand Up for Heroes takes place November 5 in a benefit for the Bob Woodruff Foundation as part of the New York Comedy Festival. Regis Philbin hosts and Bruce Springsteen and Ricky Gervais perform. > The newest Rachel Madd ...

Making the Move — Invesco

By SteveK on Aug. 27, 2008 - 8:40 PM

Sometime around 3amET, the cable and broadcast networks will be making the move to Invesco Field, to set up for Sen. Barack Obama’s acceptance speech. The move was described to us as a “disaster,” by an insider t ...

Two Concerts, Six Blocks and Seven Million Viewers*

By SteveK on Jul. 25, 2008 - 2:55 PM

Within just a few blocks of each other, two distinctly different sounds emanated from Midtown Manhattan this morning. While tween sensation Miley Cyrus performed on the plaza at NBC’s Today show, singer-songwriter Feist was ...

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