CNN It’s Official: CNN Hires Piers Morgan By Alex Weprin on Sep. 8, 2010 - 11:26 AM CNN has made the worst-kept secret in TV news official: British television host Piers Morgan will be joining the network’s primetime lineup in January. He will be based in New York, but will also work from Los Angeles and Lo ...
CNN CNN’s New 8 PM Show to be Called Parker-Spitzer, Will Debut Oct. 4 By Alex Weprin on Sep. 7, 2010 - 2:53 PM CNN has finally announced the name and premiere date for its new 8 PM program hosted by Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker. The show will be called ‘Parker-Spitzer’ (or is that ‘Parker/Spitzer?’ or ‘Pa ...
CNN What Does CNN Have Planned For Fareed Zakaria? By Alex Weprin on Aug. 18, 2010 - 5:38 PM Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria is leaving the magazine to join Time. The news was broken by Joe Pompeo of Business Insider, who added a little nugget about Zakaria’s role at CNN: We hear that CNN plans to build ...
TV Biz Boston Globe Defends Amanpour, CNN 8 PM Show From Critics By Alex Weprin on Aug. 10, 2010 - 9:56 AM The editorial page of the Boston Globe took on TV news and the critics that loathe it this morning. The newspaper, in an unsigned editorial titled “Back Off, Critics – TV News Benefits From Fresher Voices,” defen ...
TV Biz Tucker Carlson Talks Daily Caller, Journolist, CNN’s Primetime Addition By kevin on Aug. 4, 2010 - 12:15 PM In the latest interview for mediabistro.com’s “So What Do You Do” series, FishbowlDC’s Betsy Rothstein talks to Tucker Carlson who responds to a range of topics varying from his Daily Caller venture to his ...
CNN Liza McGuirk Named EP of Upcoming Eliot Spitzer – Kathleen Parker Show By Chris Ariens on Jul. 30, 2010 - 10:26 AM One of the CNN originals, Liza McGuirk has been named executive producer of CNN’s still-unnamed 8pmET debate show with Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker. McGuirk has been EP of “Fareed Zakaria: GPS” since its lau ...
CNN The New Yorker Weighs In On CNN By Alex Weprin on Jul. 26, 2010 - 12:09 PM The New Yorker has tackled CNN’s primetime woes… fashionably late, it seems. Nancy Franklin discusses the new 8 p.m. program, which will be hosted by Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker, as well as the the presumed succe ...
CNN Campbell Brown Signs Off CNN By Chris Ariens on Jul. 21, 2010 - 9:59 PM With her television future still unknown, Campbell Brown said goodbye to a three-year stint at CNN tonight. “To each of you who tuned in every night or even every now and then, thank you,” said Brown. “I mean tha ...
CNN What’s Eliot Spitzer Worth to CNN? By Chris Ariens on Jul. 21, 2010 - 11:54 AM Page Six got their hands on some salary details for CNN’s soon-to-be-launched 8pm show. The gossip column claims Eliot Spitzer is set to make an annual salary “closer to $500,000 than $1 million, as is his co-host, Kat ...
MSNBC Tucker Carlson Calls Olbermann ‘Sad,’ ‘Tormented,’ ‘Despised;’ Olbermann Responds By kevin on Jul. 16, 2010 - 2:35 PM Tucker Carlson has plenty to say about MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and The Daily Caller’s purchase of KeithOlbermann.com, which Carlson says evolved over the past six months and calls “amusing as hell.” After d ...