ABC | TV Biz Diane Sawyer Bears Down on Chicago By Chris Ariens on Apr. 7, 2011 - 12:25 PM Nationally, she anchors the #2 network evening newscast, but in Chicago, ABC’s Diane Sawyer is #1, thanks to the very strong sign-on to sign-off showing of Chicago O&O WLS. So today, Sawyer is in Chicago where she will a ...
ABC | Evening News Where Does Diane Sawyer Get her Ratings Info? By Chris Ariens on Mar. 26, 2011 - 9:33 AM We like to think we’re the one-stop blog for TV and cable news news. The most popular posts we write on any given day are the ratings posts: the daily cable news Scoreboard, the evening news ratings on Tuesdays and the morni ...
TV Biz TVNewser Bracket Challenge 2011: It’s On By Alex Weprin on Mar. 17, 2011 - 3:20 PM The time has come. The very first March Madness games are underway, and with them, comes the 2011 TVNewser bracket challenge. Last year we had executive producers from across the TV news landscape make their picks, with “BBC ...
ABC | People Former ABC News Staffer Dies At 25 By Alex Weprin on Mar. 8, 2011 - 9:38 AM Former ABC News Investigative Unit staffer Rehab El-Buri died on Sunday at the age of 25, after battling cancer. El-Buri started at ABC as a desk assistant, and worked her way up to become a key member of the Investigative Unit le ...
ABC | Revolving Door Weekend ‘World News’ is Now ‘World News with David Muir’ By Molly Stark Dean on Feb. 14, 2011 - 1:10 PM ABC News president Ben Sherwood announced today that David Muir has been named the sole anchor of weekend “World News” editions — which is now “World News with David Muir.” “David breathes clarity and wisdom into a ...
ABC ‘World News’ On the Road Again with Diane Sawyer By Molly Stark Dean on Nov. 15, 2010 - 4:20 PM “World News” airs from Shanghai, China again tonight, where Diane Sawyer has been since Saturday. This is Sawyer’s third week in a row on the road. Last week, she was in Phoenix, Ariz. to accept the Crokite Award. And th ...
ABC Who’s on the Short List for the top job at ABC News? By Chris Ariens on Oct. 11, 2010 - 4:16 PM B&C’s Marisa Guthrie has an update on the search for David Westin’s replacement at ABC News. Guthrie reports Disney-ABC Television Group president Anne Sweeney was at ABC News headquarters in New York last week: Ac ...
ABC | Revolving Door ABC News Staffers Take on New Roles By Chris Ariens on Aug. 31, 2010 - 2:39 PM A couple staffing changes at ABC News. Dan Arnall has been promoted to senior producer of business coverage at the network. In a memo to staff, obtained by TVNewser, ABC News president David Westin calls the six-year ABC News vet ...
ABC Westin Announces Leadership Rearrange at ABC News By kevin on Aug. 26, 2010 - 5:40 PM ABC News President David Westin sent a memo to staff, obtained by TVNewser, earlier today outlining the new/altered management responsibilities for leadership at the network. While most of the changes add responsibilities for vari ...
ABC Six Months In, Diane Sawyer’s ‘World News’ By Chris Ariens on Jun. 28, 2010 - 7:59 AM WaPo’s Howard Kurtz profiles ABC World News anchor Diane Sawyer, now six months in to her new job. Kurtz: Despite her superstar status at ABC and CBS, Sawyer admits she feels the extra weight of the anchor mantle. In her eye ...