Trapped Miners: Primetime

> CNN was the first cable net to report the mine death tonight, an e-mailer says. At 8:59pm, Paula Zahn interrupted Brian Todd to report that the Red Cross confirmed that one body was found…

> Anderson Cooper is in the middle of an anchoring marathon on CNN, an e-mailer says: “He just finished hosting Larry King Live after appearing on CNNHN’s Nancy Grace and The Situation Room. Up next, the typical 2 hours of 360, and he just announced he’ll have a special live midnight ET edition of Larry King as well. By my count, thats 4 hours of anchoring, and appearances on 2 programs before that from West Virginia.” Has he changed clothes since Monday night?…

> Rita Cosby is MSNBC’s go-to girl in West Virginia. “The mood is definitely very grim here,” she reported at 11pm. “Praying for a miracle, but they know the odds are against them.”

> ABC’s World News Tonight isn’t airing in some West Coast markets because of football. NBC Nightly News and CBS Evening News updated their newscasts for PT…

> Fox recorded a new edition of Geraldo At Large after one body was recovered tonight. Phil Keating reported from WV.

> Brian Williams notes that Bob Hager is back on NBC as an analyst: “A lot of us around here have found Bob’s absence from our airwaves both unbearable and intolerable, and luckily for us, Bob found it just unbearable enough to agree to join us from time to time when his expertise is needed.” Hager (and his notebook paper sketches of the mine shaft) has been invaluable on NBC and MSNBC…