The Ticker: Brown, Green, Coulter…

> This ticker item said ABC News Now was “on the air first with the news of the Andrea Yates verdict.” Court TV disagrees: It televised the Yates proceedings live and was already on the air at 1:03pm as the verdict was announced, the network says. And MSNBC.com says it published a breaking news banner and e-mail before ABCNews.com…

> Is this Campbell Brown‘s dirty little secret? Update: 6:53pm: “She got the tattoo while teaching English in the Czech Republic. It is a banana from the Velvet Underground CD cover…”

> The Star Tribune features FNC’s Lauren Green: “Fox & Friends, the most-watched cable-news morning show, may sometimes resemble an unsupervised detention room, but Green, as the news reader, almost always appears stoic and centered. ‘It’s easier for me to be the serious one, because that’s who I am,’ said Green…”

> And here’s a FishBowlDC interview with FNC’s Megyn Kendall…

> An e-mailer asks an innocent question: “With Ann Coulter appearing on CNBC’s Donny Deutsch, MSNBC’s Hardball, and CNBC’s Kudlow all within the span of only three days– is Coulter being auditioned for some type of role within NBC Cable?”

> “MSNBC and Fox News decided to air the car chase in Van Nuys, CA today,” an e-mailer notes. Last week, HLN “hammered them in the ratings last week during the Houston car chase. CNN stuck with the Middle East…” Update: 10:38pm: An e-mailer says: “I have two TV’s in my office, and I always keep one on Fox JUST for the car chases; if MSNBC is going to be covering them, well, this is a glorious day!”