Fox News Shepard Smith to Anchor FOX By SteveK on Oct. 28, 2008 - 10:54 AM Shepard Smith will anchor election night coverage on the FOX broadcast network on Tuesday, just as he did four years ago. But TV Week’s Michele Greppi reports it “will be quite different from the other Election Night p ...
NBC Lauer Roasted At Friar’s Club By SteveK on Oct. 25, 2008 - 2:56 PM Today show anchor Matt Lauer was the butt of many jokes during his roast at the Friar’s Club, as were many others in attendance. From the TV news crowd, joining Lauer were Katie Couric, Brian Williams, Meredith Vieira, Ann C ...
Fox News “Freewheeling” Fox & Friends Continues Ratings Dominance By SteveK on Oct. 21, 2008 - 10:31 AM “It was just after 7 a.m. on the set of ‘Fox & Friends,’ but the studio already looked like the scene of a college all-nighter.” This is how the Los Angeles Times’ Matea Gold opens a lengthy profi ...
Awards 60 Minutes Wins Three Emmys, PBS Wins 10 By SteveK on Sep. 23, 2008 - 5:04 PM CBS’ 60 Minutes won more awards than any other program last night at the 29th annual News and Documentary Emmys ceremony. The network with the most awards was PBS, which won 10. CBS won five total awards — CBS Sunday M ...
TV Biz Election ’08: Cable vs. Networks By SteveK on Sep. 12, 2008 - 4:33 PM Who are the big winners during the 2008 election season — the cablers or the networks? Matea Gold writes about the debate for the Los Angeles Times. The arguments are shaped by two quoted throughout the piece, CNN/U.S. presi ...
Politics Chucky T. Preps for Conventions By SteveK on Aug. 18, 2008 - 12:38 PM The Los Angeles Times’ Matea Gold profiles MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, as he and others gear up for the 2008 presidential conventions. He is readying to, “deliver analysis on MSNBC from dawn until late at night, squeezin ...
Events Bell: “I’m an Olympics Geek, What Can I Tell You?” By SteveK on Aug. 4, 2008 - 10:51 AM The Los Angeles Times’ Matea Gold takes a look at the upcoming Today show coverage of the Olympics. Anchor Matt Lauer says the network will cover the good and the bad. “We’re going to cover every single aspect of ...
MSNBC “It Would Make it More Interesting if Bill Was on And Did It Live” By SteveK on Jul. 21, 2008 - 6:29 PM It was MSNBC’s turn at the TCA today, which has become a hot spot for media stories the past couple of weeks. Matea Gold of the Los Angeles Times writes about NBC News president Steve Capus’ response to questions about ...
CBS Katie Couric: “No Plans to Part Company Any Time Soon” By Chris Ariens on Jul. 18, 2008 - 2:51 PM The LATimes’ Matea Gold has the scoop from CBS’s presentation in front of the TCA, during which Katie Couric’s future with the network came up. “We have no plans to part company any time soon,” Couric ...