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DC Heads To Aspen For Ideas Festival 2009 - Posted June 29, 2009
Andrea Mitchell, Bob Schieffer and Katharine Weymouth are among just some of the Washingtonians flocking to Colorado this week for the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival. Hosted by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic, the festival runs today through July 5th and this year's theme is "Ideas that Work," with programs like... [FishBowlDC]

DC Heads To Aspen For Ideas Festival 2009 - Posted June 29, 2009
Andrea Mitchell, Bob Schieffer and Katharine Weymouth are among just some of the Washingtonians flocking to Colorado this week for the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival. Hosted by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic, the festival runs today through July 5th and this year's theme is "Ideas that Work," with programs like... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List 03.06.09 - Posted March 6, 2009
Good Morning FishbowlDC! 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. Its day 46 covering the Obama administration and one month down for us. What we know and... [FishBowlDC]

CNN 'Breaks' D.L. Hughley's News Run - Posted March 5, 2009
From our sister site TVNewser: First on TVNewser: Insiders tell us CNN's "D.L. Hughley Breaks the News" will end its run at the end of the month, and we're told the decision was Hughleys. From CNN: "D.L. approached CNN about being permanently based in Los Angeles, where his family lives. To accommodate this,... [FishBowlLA]

CNN 'Breaks' D.L. Hughley's News Run - Posted March 5, 2009
From our sister site TVNewser: First on TVNewser: Insiders tell us CNN's "D.L. Hughley Breaks the News" will end its run at the end of the month, and we're told the decision was Hughleys. From CNN: "D.L. approached CNN about being permanently based in Los Angeles, where his family lives. To accommodate this,... [FishBowlLA]

D.L. Hughley Breaks A Wide Range of News - Posted February 21, 2009
D.L. Hughley Breaks the News features two very different interviews tonight. Former Dallas Morning News journalist Michael Precker talks about the decision to go from working in a newsroom...to running a strip club. Also on the show will be former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, who says "We were wrong,"... [TVNewser]

D.L. Hughley Offers Blago a Job - Posted January 30, 2009
As he made the rounds in New York earlier this week, Gov. Rod Blagojevich stopped in at CNN to chat with D.L. Hughley. Despite his ouster from office yesterday, the interview will still happen on Hughley's show tomorrow night. Insiders tell us producers will make clear the interview took place before... [TVNewser]

TVNewser Challenge '09 Poll Results - Posted January 10, 2009
With more votes cast this year than last year, the TVNewser Challenge '09 has come to an end. Let's take a look at the results: In two repeat votes from last year, 68% thought the Today show would "maintain its dominance" in the year ahead and 59% picked the NBC Nightly News... [TVNewser]

Is Howard Dean Bitter About Not Being Obama's Chief of Staff? - Posted December 5, 2008
TVNewser has the transcript from tomorrow night's "D.L. Hughley Breaks the News". DNC Chairman Howard Dean was Hughley's guest and they got to talking about Dean's successful 50 state strategy, and how one person was not so keen on the idea. Dean: You gotta go to everyone to ask for the vote... [TVNewser]

Hughley: "I Think We're Breaking Convention" - Posted November 16, 2008
Following its premiere less than a month ago, CNN's "D.L. Hughley Breaks The News" has garnered much attention and response. After the first episode, which included a news-breaking interview with former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan, reviews were mixed. And some of the negative reaction came from the African American community. Advertising... [TVNewser]

LAT Takes on CNN - Posted November 11, 2008
LAT's Howard Rosenberg's premise is simple: D.L. Hughley can't be as funny as the rest of the personalities on CNN: Is the line separating news and entertainment not blurry enough? Cablers are already somersaulting in HD to attract and keep viewing throngs that flocked to them for election stuff in 2008, and... [FishBowlLA]

From "Best Political Team" To a "King of Comedy" - Posted November 10, 2008
Three days after TVNewser was in the CNN Election Center studio on Election Night, we were back in a drastically changed environment. Gone were the BPTOT, in was a studio audience. Temporary walls blocked off the studio from the rest of the newsroom. And the man at the helm was not... [TVNewser]

"Is The Line Separating News and Entertainment Not Blurry Enough?" - Posted November 8, 2008
Howard Rosenberg writes in the Los Angeles Times' about two of the new, and unique, programs on cable news: CNN's D.L. Hughley Breaks The News and FNC's Huckabee. Rosenberg says Hughley's show is "CNN's only acknowledged comedy," and writes about the "faux" and "legit" interviews that make up the show. "Hughley is... [TVNewser]

CNN's Times Square Viewing Party - Posted November 4, 2008
D.L. Hughley is among the 3,000 visitors to the CNN viewing party in Times Square tonight. He's taping interviews (and being interviewed himself) for his show this weekend. Attendees are watching election returns form the steps/seating area of the newly refurbished Duffy Square. There are also two iReport kiosks for visitors... [TVNewser]

DL Hughley Premiere Wins Timeslot - Posted October 28, 2008
D.L. Hughley Breaks News won its timeslot Saturday night during the 10pmET premiere and the 1amET re-air. 10pmET numbers: • D.L. Hughley Breaks News — 1.49M Total Viewers - 648,000 A25-54 demo viewers. • Geraldo At Large — 1.37M Total Viewers - 293,000 A25-54 demo viewers. • MSNBC Investigates — 640,000 Total Viewers... [TVNewser]

CNN iReport Winners to be Announced - Posted October 25, 2008
CNN will announce the winners of the first annual iReport Film Festival at the end of the re-air of D.L. Hughley Breaks the News on Sunday (which airs at 10pmET). The iReport contest, the first ever user-generated short film competition by CNN, saw mor ethan 100 submissions and will pick two winners.... [TVNewser]

Anderson Cooper, 50 Cent Rock The Vote - Posted October 24, 2008
It was a coming together of two big name cable channels for a good cause — aiding veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The partnership was a little odd at times, but the audience, mostly vets and their families, thoroughly enjoyed it. 50 Cent kicked off the festivities, and Sway introduced... [TVNewser]

D.L. Hughley Breaks Some News - Posted October 23, 2008
It didn't take long for "D.L. Hughley Breaks the News" to actually break some news. During the taping of the first program today (which airs Saturday night at 10pmET), former White House press secretary Scott McClellan endorsed Sen. Barack Obama. Hughley urged McClellan to "endorse somebody, damnit." And McClellan did. "From the very... [TVNewser]

"Dork" Abrams Hosts "Cool Kids" Comedy Writers - Posted October 21, 2008
Leaving the home of Saturday Night Live, MSNBC's Dan Abrams hosted a lively panel of comedy writers at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater last night. "Pencils Down: America's Funniest Writers Talk Politics," which was a 23/6 event, took place in front of a standing-room only audience. Abrams, sporting a five o'clock shadow,... [TVNewser]

Morning Reading List, 10.17.08 - Posted October 17, 2008
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 jump...... [FishBowlDC]

Comedy News Network? - Posted October 16, 2008
Yes, the cable news channels have gotten funnier over the years. Sometimes it happens without even trying and sometimes they just try too hard. But a comedian getting his own cable news show? That's news. Fox News tried news-omedy with Half Hour News Hour (canceled) and keeps some overnight viewers laughing with... [TVNewser]

Some Funny People Are Getting Their Own Shows - Posted October 16, 2008
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart's husband and wife team Samantha Bee and Jason Jones have a yet to be titled sitcom in works for CBS. And DL Hughley is going to do a comedy talk show for - wait for it - CNN. CNN? 'The most trusted name in news'?... [FishBowlLA]