Bailout is Good Business for CNBC - Posted September 28, 2008
The NYTimes' Brian Stelter writes about how the economic crisis has been very, very good to CNBC. "The week of Sept. 14," Stelter writes, "was the highest-rated one in CNBC's 19-year history, with 502,000 viewers during the business day (counted as the 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. hours by CNBC). Last... [TVNewser]

Bailout is Good Business for CNBC - Posted September 28, 2008
The NYTimes' Brian Stelter writes about how the economic crisis has been very, very good to CNBC. "The week of Sept. 14," Stelter writes, "was the highest-rated one in CNBC's 19-year history, with 502,000 viewers during the business day (counted as the 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. hours by CNBC). Last... [TVNewser]

Brian Williams to Anchor From "Business and Economics Division" of NBC News - Posted September 15, 2008
NBC Nightly News' Brian Williams will be making the trip to Englewood Cliffs, NJ tonight, to anchor the program from CNBC's HQ. In what is turning into a historic day on Wall Street, the move signals NBC's reliance on its financial cable network. "We are the business and economics division of the... [TVNewser]

Burnett This Year's Biz News Hot List-er - Posted July 21, 2008
Another year, another business news anchor making The Hot List. CNBC anchor Erin Burnett continues to make media headlines, as TV Week names her to its Hot List for 2008. Burnett was the only TV news personality on the list. "Part of it is she's really genuine in liking what she does. That's thing... [TVNewser]

CNBC's Erin Burnett Signs On For Three More Years, Adds NBC Duties - Posted July 19, 2008
The NYTimes' Brian Stelter talks with "rising star" Erin Burnett of CNBC about her new deal with the business channel, signed his past week, that includes regular duties on NBC News. Ms. Burnett's backers, both inside and outside NBC, have set out to showcase her as a more mainstream news personality. Apparently... [TVNewser]

CNBC's Erin Burnett Signs On For Three More Years, Adds NBC Duties - Posted July 19, 2008
The NYTimes' Brian Stelter talks with "rising star" Erin Burnett of CNBC about her new deal with the business channel, signed his past week, that includes regular duties on NBC News. Ms. Burnett's backers, both inside and outside NBC, have set out to showcase her as a more mainstream news personality. Apparently... [TVNewser]

Lunch: Football, Fashionistas & Laila Ali - Posted June 11, 2008
— DIANE CLEHANE It was a tasty tossed summer salad of movers, shakers — and football players at Michael's today. Now that the power set has to cram in five days of plotting into a truncated work week — Why miss out on a Friday afternoon in the Hamptons if you don't... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch: The British Are Coming — Tomorrow! - Posted March 19, 2008
— DIANE CLEHANE We're still exhausted from hob nobbing with last week's overflow of A-listers, so we were almost glad things were a bit more subdued at 55th & Fifth today. It gave us a chance to catch up and chat with some our favorite regulars. Imagine my chagrin when I stopped... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch At Michael's: Paging George Clooney! Fern Mallis is Saving You a Seat at Fashion Week! - Posted January 23, 2008
— DIANE CLEHANE What recession? The dining room at 55th & Fifth was buzzing with the usual assemblage of bold face names, social swans and television types that tucked into their Cobb salads with gusto while digesting some of the week's harrowing headlines. Hollywood figured heavily into many of today's conversation with... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch At Michael's: Judy Collins Stops By - Posted December 12, 2007
— DIANE CLEHANE Last week we developed some serious whiplash craning around to keep up with the A-listers that table hopped at lunch. Today's crowd was much more low key with a smattering of regulars dotting a somewhat unfamiliar landscape consisting of business types and the occasional captain of industry who might... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch At Michael's: Lance Armstrong — For Governor? - Posted November 28, 2007
— DIANE CLEHANE Remember a few weeks back when I promised Lunch readers a full report on the off chance we had our own encounter Lance Armstrong at 55th & Fifth? Well, here's your early holiday treat. The Tour de France winner-turned-man about town was holding court at Table One today so... [FishBowlNY]

Torch-Passing, TVNewser Style - Posted July 26, 2007
For a couple hours, the back room at Michael's was transformed into a television news executive bender, a happy hour in honor of our outgoing TVNewser, Brian Stelter [right], and incoming TVNewser, er, 'Newsers: Chris Ariens, Diane Clehane, Alissa Kinsky and Philadelphia Inquirer TV columnist and Katie Couric nemesis Gail Shister. Some... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch at Michael's: Ken Sunshine: Lindsay's Woes Are 'Beyond PR Issues' - Posted July 25, 2007
— DIANE CLEHANE We've truly hit the dog days of summer when there isn't one Fiji water sipping-celeb in sight come high noon at 55th & Fifth. Luckily, that didn't mean there was a shortage of Tinseltown talk in the dining room. The topic du jour — what else? — Lindsay Lohan's... [FishBowlNY]

CNBC's New Mornings: Squawk On The Street Expands To Two Hours - Posted July 19, 2007
It didn't take long for CNBC to fill in the blanks. In the wake of Liz Claman's departure from Englewood Cliffs, CNBC is expanding the Erin Burnett, Mark Haines-hosted show, Squawk On The Street to two hours (9am to 11am ET). In a note to the staff, CNBC... [TVNewser]

CNBC's New Mornings: Squawk On The Street Expands To Two Hours - Posted July 19, 2007
It didn't take long for CNBC to fill in the blanks. In the wake of Liz Claman's departure from Englewood Cliffs, CNBC is expanding the Erin Burnett, Mark Haines-hosted show, Squawk On The Street to two hours (9am to 11am ET). In a note to the staff, CNBC... [TVNewser]

Lunch at Michael's: Tina Brown's Bathroom Promise - Posted May 16, 2007
We were expecting a celeb sighting or two since it's Upfront time — the week the networks trot out their overpaid and underfed stars to shill for their supper — but alas, there were no signs of McDreamy or Matthew Fox anywhere. (Thankfully, we didn't see any cavemen either.) Disappointed, we... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch at Michael's: Ralph Lauren Is Into Leather - Posted May 2, 2007
Fashion designers are a strange bunch. These arbiters of style often appear in some head-scratching ensembles that, if they were mere mortals, would land them squarely in "What were they thinking?" territory. We're always on the lookout for the sartorially splendid during our weekly visits to 55th & Fifth, so we... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch at Michael's: 'We're Off To Prison' - Posted April 18, 2007
For the boldface names and media mavens who flock to 55th & Fifth on a regular basis, the dining room is like a high school cafeteria without the adolescent angst. The richest and coolest kids in the class spend lots of time table hopping and there's plenty of gossip on the... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch at Michael's: Post-Hasselhoff, All Business - Posted March 21, 2007
We're guessing many of our favorite media celebrity regulars have headed south with their families for spring break or to rev up from the endless winter doldrums that have left us feeling a bit grumpy. Today, the tables were packed with a cross section of Prada and Gucci suits, and the... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch at Michael's: Valentine's Hangover - Posted February 15, 2007
It's the calm after the storm. The biggest — and only — snow storm of the season couldn't keep the movers and shakers away yesterday. On Valentine's Day the bustling dining room was host to a "low-key" birthday celebration hosted by Sherry Westin for Mayor Bloomberg, who received kudos all around... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch at Michael's: Al Roker, Katie Joel and A Special Birthday Celebration - Posted February 8, 2007
No doubt by attending the Michael's Media Jamboree on a Thursday — due to flu and flood, a day later than mediabistro.com's customary weekly report on the media bigwigs who lunch — things were bound to be a little off-kilter. But as the slightly-less-than-packed crowd prepared for their cookie plates and... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch at Michael's: Gay Talese, John Huey and The Guys - Posted January 17, 2007
The scene at 55th and Fifth resembled something of a men's club today where the power suits -- and ties -- ruled. Media machers including Time Inc.'s editor-in-chief John Huey, ad man Jerry Della Femina and the sartorially splendid Gay Talese (who got our attention when he removed his coat and... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch at Michael's: Gay Talese, John Huey and The Guys - Posted January 17, 2007
The scene at 55th and Fifth resembled something of a men's club today where the power suits -- and ties -- ruled. Media machers including Time Inc.'s editor-in-chief John Huey, ad man Jerry Della Femina and the sartorially splendid Gay Talese (who got our attention when he removed his coat and... [FishBowlNY]