Ashleigh Banfield

New CNN Morning Show to Launch Monday - Posted December 29, 2011
CNN will be launching its new 4-hour morning show Monday, the day before the Iowa Caucuses. Soledad O'Brien will anchor the 7-9am hours from Des Moines Monday and Tuesday with ... [TVNewser]

Shannon High Jumps to CNN, Will Oversee New Morning Show - Posted November 2, 2011
TVNewser has learned Shannon High is leaving NBC's Peacock Productions to join CNN where she will oversee the new four-hour morning show. An announcement on the hire, and the new show, could come as early as tomorrow. High joined MSNBC in 2007 as VP of daytime programs. Two years later ... [FishbowlNY]

Revolving Door: CNN, 'Harper's Bazaar,' YouTube, and More - Posted October 31, 2011
CNN is revamping its morning programming, bringing Ashleigh Banfield and Soledad ... [PRNewser]

CNN Prepares Morning Show Refresh - Posted October 30, 2011
What we first reported in September, is about to happen at CNN. Soledad O'Brien who has been CNN's lead documentary correspondent, will return to anchorin... [TVNewser]

CNN Prepares Morning Show Refresh - Posted October 30, 2011
What we first reported in September, is about to happen at CNN. Soledad O'Brien who has been CNN's lead documentary correspondent, will return to anchorin... [FishbowlLA]

Roger Ailes, Barry Diller & The Squawk Box Super Heroes - Posted October 26, 2011
Hail! Hail! The Wednesday gang is all here. The lunch scene at Michael's was firing on all cylinders today as moguls (Barry Diller! Roger Ailes!), high-profile edito... [FishbowlLA]

Roger Ailes, Barry Diller & The Squawk Box Super Heroes - Posted October 26, 2011
Hail! Hail! The Wednesday gang is all here. The lunch scene at Michael's was firing on all cylinders today as moguls (Barry Diller! Roger Ailes!), high-profile edito... [FishbowlNY]

Madeleine Haeringer Upped at NBC News - Posted October 13, 2010
Madeleine Haeringer has been named Senior Producer, Newsgathering for NBC News. Haeringer was promoted earlier this year to Coordinating Producer and has been NBC's lead foreign producer working alongside war correspondent ... [TVNewser]

Will Rick Sanchez make a comeback? - Posted October 9, 2010
One of the questions we've been getting from a lot of TV news watchers this past week is: Will Rick Sanchez make a comeback? He's done it twice before: after a 1986 FBI investigation and a 1991 deadly DUI. And in an interview with us three weeks before his firing, he told... [TVNewser]

ABC Considering Midday Newscast? - Posted March 16, 2010
The NY Observer's Felix Gillette reports that ABC News execs have been considering a "midday news and lifestyle program that would be one part 'Good Morning America,' one part 'The View.'" From the NYO: How ABC stations would fit the new show into their daytime line-up re... [TVNewser]

Familiar Faces in New Places: A Week of Debuts - Posted January 22, 2010
There have been a number of premieres or debuts this week -- and last -- so here's a quick summary in case you missed them: Former CNNer Erica... [TVNewser]

Ashleigh Banfield's ABC Arrival - Posted January 5, 2010
It's day one for former truTV and MSNBC anchor Ashleigh Banfield at ABC News. Insiders tell us Banfield begins work today for the network reporting freelance pieces for "20/20." • Earlier on TVNewser: Ashleigh Banfield's Next Stop: ABC News ... [TVNewser]

Ashleigh Banfield's Next Stop: ABC News - Posted November 13, 2009
First on TVNewser: Ashleigh Banfield, who made a name for herself earlier in the decade as an anchor/war correspondent on MSNBC, will be joining ABC News, TVNewser has learned. Banfield, who has been an anchor at CourtTV/truTV since 2005, is exp... [TVNewser]

Rick Sanchez's Twitter Suspended - Posted September 30, 2009
WebNewser reports that CNN anchor Rick Sanchez's famous twitter account has been suspended this afternoon: Here's the message anyone going to @ricksanchezcnn got today: "Sorry, the account you were headed to has been suspended due to strange ac... [TVNewser]

Party For Joy. Walters, Whoopi and More Gather at the Oak Room - Posted September 24, 2009
"The View" co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and Barabara Walters celebrate Behar's new HLN show at the Plaza Hotel last night. The famed Oak Room at New York's Plaza Hotel was the setting for a party last night to celebrate the launch of HLN's "... [TVNewser]

Who Should Be The New GMA Co-Anchor? Round Three - Posted September 15, 2009
With nearly 6,000 votes cast in round two, we have the Top 10 of the "Good Morning America" co-anchor-off. Suze Orman and Ashleigh Banfield shared the lead in round two, with each getting 20% of the vote. So here's ... [TVNewser]

Diane Sawyer's 'World News' Move More Write-Ups - Posted September 8, 2009
• The NY Times Week in Review: "It's an odd bit of a role reversal: Ms. Couric is a morning-show natural who had to tone down her peppy cadence and casual style to suit the formality of evening news programs, while Ms. Sawyer, born to be an evening anchor, spent much... [TVNewser]

Sotomayor Hearings Bring Kelli Arena Back On-Air - Posted July 14, 2009
With confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor now underway, truTV has booked former CNN Justice Department/Supreme Court correspondent Kelli Arena to help provide analysis during an on-air panel discus... [TVNewser]

truTV's "In Session" Shuts Down - Posted June 23, 2009
Breaking: TVNewser has learned truTV's 'In Session' daytime programming is shutting down its New York operations leaving as many as 65 staffers out of a job. Executives from Turner Broadcasting, which owns truTV, have been notifying employees of the change this afternoon. 'In Session' includes longtime anchors ... [TVNewser]

Ashleigh Banfield Channels Her Inner Lesbian - Posted May 14, 2009
truTV anchor Ashleigh Banfield was filling-in on Air America Tuesday around the time the cable news channels were airing the ... [TVNewser]

"I Will Never Forgive Him For His Cruelty and the Manner in Which he Decided to Dispose of Me" - Posted February 11, 2009
truTV's Ashleigh Banfield has some harsh words for a former boss in a profile in New Canaan - Darien Magazine. Banfield lives in Dar... [TVNewser]

Morning Reading List, 01.05.09 - Posted January 5, 2009
Good morning Washington. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got your morning mix of media Muesli after the... [FishbowlDC]

Ashleigh Banfield Predicted to "Shine" in '09 - Posted January 2, 2009
The NYPost has chosen truTV anchor Ashleigh Banfield as part of its "Five faces with something to look forward to" list. Ashleigh Banfield was suppose... [TVNewser]

"Anchors Gone Wild" - Posted November 5, 2008
PageSix Magazine opens up on the past, present and future of MSNBC, pondering "During the most exciting presidential election in decades, how did NBC become the story instead of covering it?" The story points to Microsoft's exit (the MS in MSNBC) that led to "an era of downsizing" at the cable... [TVNewser]

October Ratings - MSNBC: "We Tamed the Giant of Larry King" - Posted October 27, 2008
Brian Williams couldn't do it. Neither could Joe Scarborough, Rita Cosby, ... [TVNewser]

The Ticker: Oil, Homage, Alaska... - Posted August 11, 2008
> Charlie Gibson will anchor World News from Dallas this Wednesday. Gibson will interview ExxonMobil chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson. The interview is part of a special series "Oil Crunch" which airs all this week. > In an homage to ... [TVNewser]