Some of the most popular stories from TVNewser this week:
- David Letterman revealed that a CBS News employee tried to blackmail him. The next day, Robert Halderman was charged, pleaded not guilty, and made bail.
- Reports of a Comcast/GE deal for NBCU surfaced.
- Dave Price from CBS’ “Early Show” talked with TVNewser ahead of his cross-country trip on 50 bucks. The last update we heard from Dave: he caught a single-engine plane ride on a family trip to Vegas where he got a job at a bakery to make some cash…which he promptly lost playing craps, forcing him to sleep outside at a hotel pool.
- Richard Wolffe returned to “Countdown.”
- TVNewser hosted a party.
- Lots of newsers turned out for two book parties this week, one for CBS’ Byron Pitts and one for ABC’s Brian Ross. Speaking of books, Glenn Beck will have two bestsellers.
- In Q3 cable ratings, Fox News — now in widescreen — continued to dominate, with the top 10 cable news shows. Here are the reports for CNN, MSNBC, and HLN.
- Joy Behar launched her new HLN show.
- It seemed Rick Sanchez had his twitter suspended. But it turned out to be just a precaution.
- Newsers traveled to Chicago for the Olympic announcement. It was Rio’s day.
- Dan Rather‘s case against CBS was dismissed.
- We caught a pretty hilarious incident on the “Today” show.
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