View Post ABC | CBS | NBC | TV Biz Tom Costello Got the Most Evening News Airtime in 2014 By Chris Ariens on Jan. 8, 2015 - 2:41 PM Andrew Tyndall has added it up, and he’s out with his annual top news stories report. “Never have midterm elections been treated with such disdain. And never have federal domestic policy debates made such little news. ...
View Post ABC ABC Newsers Toast Ben Sherwood By Chris Ariens on Aug. 22, 2014 - 12:11 PM As Ben Sherwood heads West, his East Coast colleagues sent him off in style last night at the Nomad Hotel in New York’s Flatiron District. Sherwood, named co-president of Disney/ABC TV in March, is moving his family to Los A ...
View Post ABC | CBS | CNN | Fox News | MSNBC | NBC | Weather TV News Crews Head to North Carolina for Hurricane Arthur By Jordan Chariton on Jul. 3, 2014 - 11:17 AM Tropical Storm Arthur has strengthened into a category one Hurricane churning up the east coast set to hit North Carolina’s Outer Banks hardest. TV news crews have already dispersed crews to cover the extreme weather ...
View Post ABC ABC News Producer, Hired During Iraq War, Becomes U.S. Citizen By Chris Ariens on Apr. 5, 2014 - 7:06 AM Faisal Sidiq Alkadiri, an ABC NewsOne producer, and his wife Zina are now American citizens. ABC News hired Alkadiri as a translator the day after ABC teams arrived in Baghdad in 2003. “I did six stints in Baghdad and Faisal ...
View Post TV Biz Networks Cover Announcement: ‘MH370 Ended in the Southern Indian Ocean’ By Jordan Chariton on Mar. 24, 2014 - 11:00 AM The broadcast networks all interrupted their programming around 10amET to cover the Malaysian Prime Minister’s announcement that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 “ended in the southern Indian Ocean.” ABC News aired a ...
View Post ABC How ABC News Got the Exclusive on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 By Chris Ariens on Mar. 14, 2014 - 3:50 PM As the mystery of missing Malaysia Air Flight 370 grows, global news organizations are working around the clock with government and industry sources to piece together where the Boeing 777 may have ended up. On “World News wi ...
View Post ABC | Crime News ABC News ‘Pink Slime’ Lawsuit Sent Back To State Court By Alex Weprin on Jun. 13, 2013 - 10:19 AM The “Pink Slime” lawsuit is moving back to state court, much to the chagrin of attorneys for ABC News, whoa argued that its proper jurisdiction was in federal court. The case, if you aren’t caught up, involves an ...
View Post ABC Judge Recuses Himself From ‘Pink Slime’ Lawsuit, Citing Ties to ABC News By Merrill Knox on Nov. 27, 2012 - 5:33 PM Judge Lawrence L. Piersol has recused himself from the billion-dollar defamation lawsuit against ABC because his daughter-in-law is a producer on “Good Morning America,” the AP reports. South Dakota-based Beef Products ...
ABC ABC News Sued Over ‘Pink Slime’ Reports By Chris Ariens on Sep. 13, 2012 - 12:12 PM ABC News, and anchor Diane Sawyer, have been named in a defamation lawsuit filed by Beef Products Inc. (BPI). The Dakota Dunes, S.D.-based meat processor is seeking $1.2 billion in damages for roughly 200 “false and misleadi ...
ABC | Awards Martha Raddatz Presented Fred Friendly First Amendment Award By Chris Ariens on Jun. 7, 2012 - 4:30 PM ABC’s Martha Raddatz is presented the Fred Friendly First Amendment Award in New York City Martha Raddatz has been in worse rooms, in worse countries, on military bases and battlefields. Today, ABC’s senior foreign affairs ...