ABC ‘World News’ Staffing Changes; Rick Klein Upped in D.C. By Chris Ariens on May. 14, 2010 - 4:50 PM In addition to the departure of senior producer Mimi Gurbst, which has been widely reported this week, “World News” EP Jon Banner is making some other moves. TVNewser has learned, Rick Klein will join the show as Senio ...
ABC ABC News Senior Producer Becoming Guidance Counselor By kevin on May. 12, 2010 - 11:46 AM The NY Observer’s Felix Gillette writes about Mimi Gurbst, the “ABC World News” senior producer who’s leaving the network later this year to become a high school guidance counselor in a surprising career sw ...
TV Biz Anchors Away, Covering Oil Spill, Times Square Attempted Bombing By Chris Ariens on May. 3, 2010 - 8:02 PM The big three network anchors left their studios for tonight’s broadcasts. Two had far shorter trips than the third. The AP’s David Bauder writes about it. [Brian] Williams anchored NBC’s “Nightly News̶ ...
TV Biz TVNewser Bracket Challenge 2010: EP Edition By kevin on Mar. 18, 2010 - 1:50 PM It’s time for some College Basketball March Madness and while you’ve been asking your colleagues (or are being asked by your colleagues) to join a bracket pool, we’ve been asking your bosses (or your favorite sho ...
ABC Diane Sawyer to Interview Obama on Monday By kevin on Jan. 22, 2010 - 4:28 PM “ABC World News” anchor Diane Sawyer will sit-down with President Obama on Monday for an interview ahead of the State of the Union, according to the show’s producer Jon Banner. Banner writes, “We have had a ...
TV Biz Broadcast Networks Stay Focused on Haiti, Not ‘The Sideshow’ of Late Night By Gail Shister on Jan. 21, 2010 - 12:30 PM If Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien were to suddenly relocate to Haiti, Steve Capus would need a defibrillator. Thus far, NBC News chief Capus has been able to sidestep the network’s nasty late-night melodrama to focus on th ...
ABC Staff Changes at ABC ‘World News’ By kevin on Jan. 6, 2010 - 11:54 AM It’s a new year, the newscast has a new anchor, and the staff has seen its first rearrangement. Yesterday, ABC “World News” EP Jon Banner announced some reassignments in his staff now that Diane Sawyer’s it ...
ABC ‘World News’ EP Ready to ‘Get on to Producing the Next Couple Thousand Programs’ By Chris Ariens on Dec. 22, 2009 - 2:42 PM Jon Banner says it’s high time the evening news got real. “Both the mission of the broadcast and our online mission is similar in that I want it to have a more real feel.” That means a more conversational approac ...
ABC A Much Cleaner Job for Mike Rowe: The Voice of ‘World News with Diane Sawyer’ By Chris Ariens on Dec. 22, 2009 - 11:43 AM During a chat with ABC News executive Jon Banner this morning, we learned the new announcer for ABC’s “World News with Diane Sawyer” is Mike Rowe host of “Dirty Jobs” on Discovery Channel. Rowe is als ...
ABC Charlie Gibson Signs Off ABC ‘World News’ By kevin on Dec. 18, 2009 - 7:05 PM This evening was Charlie Gibson’s final broadcast on ABC’s “World News.” Gibson announced he would be retiring from the program and from ABC News in September. Diane Sawyer, who ended her run at “Good ...