The Ticker: Moonves, Curry, McCuddy…

> CNN’s Sunday night special “Undercover in the Secret State” premiered last night. It featured “some of the most dramatic footage to ever come out of North Korea, including the cursory trials and public executions in two different border towns.” More…

> Tom Shales in TV Week: “Somewhere along the road to huge success, [Les] Moonves set himself up as Vlad the Impaler, with CBS News as his intended impale-ee…”

> Where in the world is Ann Curry? In Pakistan, covering the continuing earthquake relief efforts…

> Via ICN, Page Six notes: “At the Museum of Arts and Design Visionaries awards, Bill McCuddy praised the museum’s planned new home in the old Huntington Hartford eyesore at 2 Columbus Circle. Noting that the building’s makeover will include windows, the Fox News quipmeister said, ‘You’ll be able to see right into the newsroom at CNN, which is nice because someone will finally be watching that network.'”