TV Biz Networks Brand the Crisis By SteveK on Dec. 12, 2008 - 11:10 AM The New York Times’ Brian Stelter writes about the way cablers have been branding the financial crisis. “The news always feels the need to name everything,” says SVP for business news at CNBC, Jonathan Wald. R ...
CBS With Layoffs Abound, CBS Finds Time to Celebrate By Chris Ariens on Dec. 11, 2008 - 10:35 AM TVNewser attended one of the few holiday parties still on the calendar. Producers, anchors and executives from CBS News and CBS Radio, and those of us who cover them, packed the 35th floor of CBS’s Black Rock headquarters la ...
Fox Biz FBN Adds More Markets, Expands Reach By SteveK on Dec. 9, 2008 - 1:54 PM Fox Business Network has signed a new distribution deal with Cox Cable in several new markets, which raises FBN’s reach to close to 45 million homes, reports TV Week’s Michele Greppi. The new markets include San Diego, ...
CBS Who’s Missing From Rooney’s List? By SteveK on Nov. 24, 2008 - 2:58 PM TV Week’s Michele Greppi writes in this week’s “The Insider” about a tvnewser noticeably absent in Andy Rooney’s essay last Sunday on 60 Minutes. When Rooney gave his list of people who made TV news & ...
Ratings Cable Ranker: Week of October 27 By SteveK on Nov. 5, 2008 - 8:56 PM Fox News Channel was the top rated cable channel on all of television last week in prime time (Live+SD), averaging 3,114,000 Total Viewers. This is the seventh week in a row FNC finished in the top two and the 10th week in a row t ...
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 NBC, Affiliates Shuttering Weather Plus By Chris Ariens on Oct. 7, 2008 - 4:30 PM TVWeek’s Michele Greppi breaks the news that NBC and its affiliates board have agreed to shut down the four-year old Weather Plus digital weather channel. Greppi writes, “NBC News President Steve Capus informed the on- ...