TV Biz These Two News Anchors Were Featured On ‘Jeopardy!’ By Alex Weprin on Apr. 14, 2012 - 1:45 PM On “Jeopardy!” this week, a pair of questions relating TV news. The first was the $1,000 question under the category “Women on TV”, and the second was the $200 question under “Interviewing the Intervi ...
TV Biz Bill Maher’s Surprising First Guest On His First Talk Show? Roger Ailes By Alex Weprin on Apr. 9, 2012 - 2:14 PM New York magazine profiles comedian and raconteur Bill Maher, and reveals a surprising fact about the first guest on the first taping of Maher’s Comedy Central show: He pitched a show to Comedy Central executives that would ...
MSNBC Rachel Maddow ‘Drifts’ to Top of Best Sellers List By Merrill Knox on Apr. 6, 2012 - 2:46 PM MSNBC hosted a party at Manhattan’s Ace Hotel last night in celebration of Rachel Maddow’s first book, Drift, which tops the New York Times Best Sellers list this week. “When we gave [Rachel] a show on September ...
CNN Ken Jautz’s CNN Mission: ‘Differentiate Ourselves in Cable Television’ By Chris Ariens on Mar. 14, 2012 - 3:52 PM Marketwatch.com’s Jon Friedman had lunch recently with CNN/U.S. EVP Ken Jautz, now 18 months into his tenure at the top of the cable news network. “He has one of the most delicate balancing acts in all of the media, ...
Revolving Door | WebNewser Larry King Returning to the Interviewer’s Chair… Online By Alex Weprin on Mar. 12, 2012 - 9:33 AM Former CNN host Larry King will be returning to the interviewer’s chair on an Internet TV network backed by the richest man in the world, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. The network, Ora.tv, will feature a variety of shows ...
TV Biz The Ticker: White, Raddatz, King By Alex Weprin on Mar. 5, 2012 - 10:40 AM TVNewser hears that Mark White, who had been EP of Bloomberg TV’s morning programs, has left the company. White joined Bloomberg in 2009. No replacement has been named. ABC News chief foreign correspondent Martha Raddatz has ...
Funny Jimmy Kimmel Presents: ‘Larry’s Animal KINGdom’ By Alex Weprin on Feb. 18, 2012 - 3:42 PM Former CNN host Larry King may have ended his cable news talk show, but as ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel revealed, he may have a new talk show in the works, “Larry’s Animal KINGdom.” King’s first guest? ...
CNN CNN Ending Larry King Specials By Alex Weprin on Feb. 15, 2012 - 6:02 PM CNN and Larry King have decided to end the quarterly specials featuring the former “Larry King Live” host. King is believed to have nearly two years left on his contract with CNN, and he had two new specials in the pip ...
People TV News Coverage of the Death of Whitney Houston By Chris Ariens on Feb. 11, 2012 - 8:23 PM The news of the death of Whitney Houston broke at 7:57pmET, when the Associated Press sent a breaking news alert and Tweet announcing the news. The cable news networks began covering the story moments later, without yet knowing a ...
Fox News Greta Van Sustern Celebrates 10 Years at Fox News By Chris Ariens on Feb. 4, 2012 - 8:31 AM Today is Greta Van Susteren’s 10th anniversary at Fox News Channel. Van Susteren also now holds the distinction of being the longest-serving current cable news anchor, a title held by Larry King until he left his “Larr ...