Ted Turner

Morning Reading List 06.22.09 - Posted June 22, 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. Happy (belated) Father's Day, particularly to John Harwood, who received a fitting gift from MSNBC co-anchor Norah O'Donnell on-air Friday. Check out how CNN's John... [FishBowlDC]

Cooper, Brokaw, Turner Among The "Sexy Gray Haired Men" - Posted June 20, 2009
Anderson Cooper, Tom Brokaw, and Ted Turner all make the wowOwow list of "Sexy Gray-Haired Men From Politics, Business and Hollywood". Here's what the site had to say about the three: • Cooper: "This anchorman makes heads turn 360. Confident, charming, intelligent Anderson Cooper. The movement's perfect icon?" • Brokaw:... [TVNewser]

CNN's Time 100 Special: Ted Turner, Bono and More - Posted May 1, 2009
Where can you see Bono chat with George Clooney, or Ted Turner and T. Boone Pickens reminiscence about billions made and lost? Tonight at 11pmET on CNN, for the Anderson Cooper 360 special highlighting this year's Time 100 list. "These people are really good friends. They know a lot about each other on... [TVNewser]

CNN's Time 100 Special: Ted Turner, Bono and More - Posted May 1, 2009
Where can you see Bono chat with George Clooney, or Ted Turner and T. Boone Pickens reminiscence about billions made and lost? Tonight at 11pmET on CNN, for the Anderson Cooper 360 special highlighting this year's Time 100 list. "These people are really good friends. They know a lot about each other on... [TVNewser]

Greta on Roesgen: "I Think She's Been Punished Enough" - Posted April 23, 2009
Eileen O'Connor, the former CNN reporter who spoke out against Susan Roesgen's tea party reporting, went On the Record last night with Greta Van Susteren. "I can only think that if we had done that, Ted Turner would have had our heads," said Van Susteren. Although both agreed there needs to be an... [TVNewser]

Greta on Roesgen: "I Think She's Been Punished Enough" - Posted April 23, 2009
Eileen O'Connor, the former CNN reporter who spoke out against Susan Roesgen's tea party reporting, went On the Record last night with Greta Van Susteren. "I can only think that if we had done that, Ted Turner would have had our heads," said Van Susteren. Although both agreed there needs to be an... [TVNewser]

Morning Reading List 04.16.09 - Posted April 16, 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. Its day 87 covering the Obama administration and week 11 for us. What we know and what we're reading this Thursday morning... NEWSPAPERS | TV |... [FishBowlDC]

Brian Williams to Receive Cronkite Award - Posted April 6, 2009
Brian Williams has been named this year's recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. Williams will receive the 26th Cronkite Award from Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at a ceremony Nov. 18. Cronkite Dean Christopher Callahan called Williams "a great journalist who... [TVNewser]

Turner's First Trip To The No-Spin Zone - Posted December 10, 2008
For the first time in the history of The O'Reilly Factor, one of FNC's more vocal critics, CNN founder Ted Turner, appeared as a guest. The edited interview, which was conducted two days ago, began with Bill O'Reilly asking Turner whether he regrets comparing FNC to Hitler in 2005. "Well maybe it... [TVNewser]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted November 28, 2008
Meet The Press: First Lady Laura Bush, Afghanistan's Ambassador to the United States Said Jawad and Ted Turner, Author, "Call Me Ted" This Week: Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) of the Armed Services Committee and Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) of the Foreign Relations Committee. A roundtable with ABC News' Matthew Dowd, Donna Brazile,... [FishBowlDC]

Beck Tops NYT Best Seller List - Posted November 24, 2008
As expected, Glenn Beck's new book, "The Christmas Sweater," debuted at #1 on the New York Times Best Sellers list. It was last year at this time that Beck's "An Inconvenient Book" was reaching #1 as well. This book, however, falls under the "fiction" category. On the nonfiction list, Bill O'Reilly's "A Bold... [TVNewser]

Morning Reading List, 11.19.08 - Posted November 19, 2008
Good morning Washington. What D.C. building is featured in the above picture? Think you know? Drop us an email and we'll give you the correct answer (and list the correct guessers) in tomorrow's Morning Reading List. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort... [FishBowlDC]

Big Day for Late Edition - Posted November 18, 2008
CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer" had a big Sunday. The show won both the 11amET and 12pmET hours on cable news with 369,000 and 350,000 Total Viewers, respectively. Also, the 11am hour was the #1 cable news show of the day in the A25-54 demo. Guests on Sunday included Commerce... [TVNewser]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted November 14, 2008
Meet the Press: Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), BP Capital Management founder/chair T. Boone Pickens and a roundtable with New York Times' Tom Friedman, BBC's Katty Kay, NBC's Andrea Mitchell and PBS' Tavis Smiley. Face the Nation: Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), Newt Gingrich and Gov.... [FishBowlDC]

Turner to Dobbs: "You're So Mean and Nasty To The Illegal Immigrants" - Posted November 12, 2008
Today's Ted Turner post revolves around a stop at his old stomping ground at Time Warner. Portfolio.com's Jeff Bercovici writes about a trip he took to the building for an interview with Time magazine yesterday. One thing revealed was his original plan to put together an alternative to CNN, and turn Headline... [TVNewser]

60 Minutes Most-Watched Program Last Week - Posted November 11, 2008
Thanks to a number of factors, the top-rated program on all of television last week was 60 Minutes. The Sunday program averaged 18.47 million Total Viewers, the show's largest audience since the same week last year. One thing that helped the program was a strong lead-in from two tight NFL games, Indianapolis' win... [TVNewser]

D.L. Hughley Not CNN's First Try At Comedy - Posted November 10, 2008
From a TVNewser tipster: CNN piloted a comedy news show just after the '84 election. It was called "The Last Laugh" and was hosted by Richard Belzer and PJ O'Rourke. It was shot in front of a live audience at Caroline's Comedy club in NYC and had guests, Pat Schroeder, Morton Downey... [TVNewser]

The Ticker: (Sunday Edition): Turner, Fung, Herridge... - Posted November 9, 2008
> We're told that Morley Safer's interview with Ted Turner includes a discussion of his "feud" with Rupert Murdoch. Let's see if it makes it into the final cut of tonight's piece on 60 Minutes. > Four weeks after being kidnapped in Kabul, a CBC journalist has been freed from... [TVNewser]

Greta Lobs Bias Charge at CNN - Posted July 18, 2008
Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren is blasting Netroots Nation, which calls itself a "progressive political movement," for for labeling FNC "opinion media." But Van Susteren saved much of her blog ire for CNN. I know someone at CNN — and to protect that person's job won't identify — who said that... [TVNewser]

The EcoManor is LEED-Certified, but Still a Monstrosity - Posted May 4, 2007
There is perhaps no other place on earth where the McMansion feels at home more than Atlanta, Georgia. Just a quick swing through the Buckhead area makes the epidemic seem like part of the community plan; every third house is a brand-spanking-new Italianate incarnate. On one street the stucco is... [UnBeige]

Roger Ailes To Be Honored For His Contributions To Press Freedom, First Amendment - Posted January 10, 2007
Well, here's some news the left-wing media will have a field day with. The Radio and Television News Directors Foundation is set to honor Fox News chief Roger Ailes along with Philip Balboni of New England Cable News and a pair of journalists — Kimberly Dozier of CBS News and Bob Woodruff... [FishBowlNY]