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Piers Morgan Takes King’s Throne

July 30th, 2010

LONDON - 15 JUNE: Piers Morgan sighting in London on the 15th June 2009. (Photo by Richard Johnson/Entertainment Press)

Long live the king of CNN’s prime-time block: Piers Morgan.

The rumored hopeful was confirmed as headed to the cable news network according to The Wrap.  Jeff Gaspin, president of NBC Universal TV, confirmed the former host of America’s Got Talent joining the network during a press tour earlier today.

The rest of the details aren’t publicly available yet;  Gaspin gave a brief answer to Morgan having  dual duty at NBC and CNN (“Yes,” Gaspin  said.)

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Fingers Crossed for This Week and This Fall on TV

July 14th, 2010

LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 15:  Piers Morgan attends a photocall for the new Burger King fragrance 'Flame' at Selfridges on June 15, 2009 in London, England.  (Photo by Tim Whitby/Getty Images)

The Beltway’s TV presence is going wider–if not global–in the coming weeks

TVNewser confirms August 1st as the start date for Christiane Amanpour’s premiere at This Week, which sadly ousts Jake Tapper from the temporary position. Meanwhile, Rick Sanchez is being bumped up to 8 pm on July 22nd until the Fall premiere of the Untitled Eliot Spitzer/Kathleen Parker Show.

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CNN Goes One For The Money

July 12th, 2010

Monday turned out pretty well if your name is Money Magazine.

CNNMoney and the social networking/geo-tagging site Gowalla teamed up, according to Fishbowl NY, to correspond with the “100 Best Places To Live” feature in the current issue; users can sign up for specialty mobile alerts at both CNN Money and Gowalla.

In case you were wondering, yes, this does mean the heat wave has lifted in NYC and the Beltway is still trying to get out of the muggy malaise.

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Larry King: “Hanging Up the Nightly Suspenders”

June 30th, 2010

Larry King announced on Tuesday that he will step away from his CNN chair in the fall after a remarkable 25 years on the air, earning the Guinness Book of World Records title for the longest running show with the same host in the same time slot on the same network.

“It’s time to hang up the nightly suspenders,” he told viewers, confirming what his Twitter followers learned just before showtime. As the host of the first-ever worldwide phone-in TV talk show, the breaking news reached the realm of new media as “Larry King” quickly became a trend in the social web.

While King, 76, will no longer be hosting his nightly program Larry King Live, he has signed a contract with CNN to do specials for the cable network. King hopes the new schedule will allow “more time for my wife and I to get to the kids’ Little League games.”

There will be plenty of time to head down memory lane; it’s estimated King has done about 50,000 interviews. Tammy Haddad, Larry King Live Executive Producer from 1985-1993, told NBC’s Today Show that King’s secret to success was that “people would get so comforable with him they would say things they didn’t plan on saying…he engaged them at such a level.”

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The months ahead are also sure to be full of speculation over who will fill King’s seat. Rumors hint at British talk show host Piers Morgan, but King disclosed on Tuesday’s broadcast that American Idol host Ryan Seacrest would be his choice.

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MSNBC Beats CNN in Primetime

June 29th, 2010

CNN may be celebrating its 30th anniversary, but that’s about all they have to be happy about these days.

According to the latest Nielsen Media Research, MSNBC beat CNN in primetime in the first half of 2010 among both total viewers and in the key adult demographic. MSNBC also beat CNN in primetime for second quarter of 2010. Year to date, MSNBC is on track to beat CNN for the second year in a row among Adults 25-54 and for the first time ever among total viewers.

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” is pacing to beat CNN for the year for the first time since 2000 in its time period. Meanwhile, CNN’s “Larry King Live” and “Campbell Brown” had their worst quarters ever among both Adults 25-54 and total viewers. This was CNN’s worst performance in primetime in nine years, since 2Q 2001.

CNN isn’t the only one losing viewers these days. Turns out all three major broadcast network evening news programs were down in 2Q 2010 compared to the same period last year.

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White House and Fox News — Still Sparring

October 12th, 2009
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The verbal skirmishes between the White House and Fox News continue, despite last month’s “Fox Summit” between Obama’s Senior Adviser David Axelrod and Fox Chairman Roger Ailes, leading the NYT to offer: “But shots are still being fired, which animates the idea that both sides see benefits in the feud.”

The back and forth between the administration and Fox — reignited by White House Communications Director Anita Dunn’s suggestion that the cable channel was “a wing of the Republican Party” — has started a blogosphere discussion of CNN (Democrat) versus Fox (Republican) and lining up other networks and programs on one side or the other.

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CNN Gets More Glitter for WHCD

May 4th, 2009

Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore To Have High-Profile Company at Cabler’s Table

4th Annual New York Times Sunday With The Magazine - Part 1

In addition to Kutcher and Moore, CNN will be bringing actors Val Kilmer, Kyra Sedgwick, Bradley Cooper and supermodel-turned-talk-show-host Tyra Banks. But anchor Wolf Blitzer has invited a local bold-faced name — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

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