View Post CNN | Revolving Door After 30 Years, John Zarrella to Depart CNN By Chris Ariens on Nov. 26, 2013 - 12:47 PM John Zarrella, who has been part of the fabric of CNN for more than 30 years, will be leaving the network at the end of the year. Zarrella has been CNN’s Miami Bureau chief since it was established in December 1983. He’ ...
View Post CNN CNN Looks at Hurricane Sandy’s Lessons For Investigative Documentary By Merrill Knox on Jan. 6, 2013 - 9:47 AM CNN’s latest investigative documentary, “The Coming Storms,” will debut tonight on “CNN Presents” at 8pmET. The show takes a look back at Hurricane Sandy and what lessons can be learned from the super ...
View Post CNN Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin Back to Co-Host CNN’s New Year’s Eve Coverage By Chris Ariens on Dec. 27, 2012 - 10:53 AM Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin are back for their sixth time co-hosting CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage from Times Square. “As always, I await New Year’s Eve with Kathy Griffin with grave reservations and trem ...
TV Biz ‘Touchdown Confirmed. We’re Safe on Mars’ By Chris Ariens on Aug. 6, 2012 - 9:35 AM At 1:32amET this morning, as the cable news networks looked on, confirmation that NASA’s rover Curiosity landed safely on Mars, after traveling hundreds of millions of miles through space. “Touchdown confirmed. We̵ ...
CNN Kathy Griffin Back with Anderson Cooper to Co-Host CNN’s New Years Eve By Chris Ariens on Dec. 18, 2011 - 7:06 PM Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin will again co-host CNN’s New Year’s Eve celebration from 11pmET to 12:30amET. “Get ready, America. Pull up a chair and a box of your finest wine, because you’ve never seen a New Ye ...
Weather Hurricane Irene Keeps Reporters & Forecasters on the Move By Chris Ariens on Aug. 25, 2011 - 12:12 PM TV news anchors, correspondents and meteorologists may not have to go far from their New York headquarters to cover Hurricane Irene as the Category 3 storm barrels toward the East Coast. With the 11amET advisory, the storm continu ...
CNN CNN To Examine Future of NASA in a Post-Space Shuttle World By Alex Weprin on Jul. 2, 2011 - 1:26 PM In a documentary to air Sunday at 8 PM, CNN will take a look at the future of NASA with the Space Shuttle program coming to an end. “CNN Presents – Beyond Atlantis: The Next Frontier” will be hosted by John Zarrella, ...
TV Biz Cablers Watch as Atlantis Launches for Final Time By kevin on May. 14, 2010 - 3:05 PM The space shuttle Atlantis lifted off at Cape Canaveral in Florida this afternoon for a final time. (AP story) Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC all took the NASA video and audio feed live from take off to orbit. Here’s how it looked ...
CNN Anderson Cooper, Kathy Griffin, and Lance Bass to Host CNN’s New Year’s Eve By kevin on Dec. 17, 2009 - 4:29 PM Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin will co-host CNN’s New Year’s Eve broadcast from Times Square, the network has announced. Fomer ‘N Sync performer Lance Bass will join the broadcast as a correspondent from Plane ...
TV Biz John Zarrella: A Journalist for Our Time By kevin on Jul. 9, 2009 - 9:05 PM Felix Gillette of the New York Observer brings us this profile of CNN’s John Zarrella who, most recently, hit the big-time again with his discovery of Bubbles, Michael Jackson‘s famous chimp, in a remote Florida town. ...