View Post ABC | TV Biz Pope Benedict Coverage: ABC News By Alex Weprin on Feb. 26, 2013 - 4:22 PM With Pope Benedict XVI set to resign on Thursday, U.S. networks are beginning to plan for coverage of the unprecedented (at least in modern times) event. George Stephanopoulos and Terry Moran will lead the network’s coverage ...
View Post TV Biz Former ABC News Chief David Westin On What TV News ‘Doesn’t Cover’ By Alex Weprin on Feb. 19, 2013 - 11:35 AM Former ABC News president David Westin writes in The Huffington Post about CNN’s coverage of the Carnival Triumph disaster, and what it says about the state of TV news coverage. Westin argued that the Triumph was a story wor ...
View Post Global News | TV Biz Who’s Going to Rome to Cover the Pope? By Chris Ariens on Feb. 11, 2013 - 2:36 PM Fox News’s Shepard Smith will soon be on his way to Rome, reporting from the Vatican on the resignation of Benedict XVI and upcoming Conclave and election. Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent Greg Palkot will be there tomor ...
View Post ABC | Politics State of the Union Coverage: ABC News By Merrill Knox on Feb. 8, 2013 - 4:07 PM Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos will anchor ABC News’ coverage of the State of the Union from Washington, DC beginning at 9pmET Tuesday. They will be joined by Jonathan Karl from the White House and Martha Raddatz fro ...
ABC Promising Signs for ‘Nightline’ in New Timeslot By Chris Ariens on Jan. 10, 2013 - 2:45 PM On its second night in a new timeslot, ABC News “Nightline” improved upon its first night by winning not just Total Viewers but also the key A25-54 news demo. Even more promising, versus ABC’s performance at 12:3 ...
View Post ABC Final 11:35 ‘Nightline’ Is Tonight By Chris Ariens on Jan. 7, 2013 - 10:33 AM It’s not very often a number show is moved out of its timeslot by network execs, but that’s what’s happening at ABC as “Nightline” moves from 11:35pm to 12:35am beginning tomorrow night making room fo ...
View Post ABC ‘Nightline’ Has Most-Watched Show in a Year By Chris Ariens on Dec. 7, 2012 - 7:13 AM With just a month before its timeslot change, ABC’s “Nightline” remains the No. 1 late night show. Last Tuesday’s “Nightline,” which featured a Powerball lottery story and an interview with the ...
ABC | Weather ABC’s Primetime and ‘Nightline’ Sandy Specials By Chris Ariens on Oct. 30, 2012 - 4:38 PM Diane Sawyer and Chris Cuomo will co-anchor “A Special Edition of 20/20: The Perfect Storm” tonight at 10pmET. Sawyer met up with Cuomo’s brother, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) at Ground Zero this afternoon. That interview wi ...
ABC ‘Nightline’ #1 in Q2 By Chris Ariens on Jun. 29, 2012 - 7:52 PM They won the 2011-2012 season, so it figures “Nightline” would also be the #1 show in late night for the second quarter. In numbers just released, the ABC News show topped NBC’s “The Tonight Show” by ...
Crime News CNN, FNC Fail in Early Reporting of Health Care Ruling By Chris Ariens on Jun. 28, 2012 - 10:59 AM The expediency of TV news is not meeting well with the depth involved in the ruling on the Affordable Care Act of 2010, more commonly known as Obamacare. “Be cautious with us, we’re trying to do the best we can,” ...