Tiki Barber

Lunch: A Heaping Helping of the Usual Suspects - Posted May 27, 2009
— DIANE CLEHANE We've been spoiled by the steady stream of A-listers we've come to meet during our weekly Wednesday visits. So you can imagine our disappointment when we heard we missed Gabriel Byrne, who was in the dining room a week or so ago on a Tuesday. (We know more than... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch: A Heaping Helping of the Usual Suspects - Posted May 27, 2009
— DIANE CLEHANE We've been spoiled by the steady stream of A-listers we've come to meet during our weekly Wednesday visits. So you can imagine our disappointment when we heard we missed Gabriel Byrne, who was in the dining room a week or so ago on a Tuesday. (We know more than... [FishBowlNY]

Roker Reports For MSNBC's "Promise" - Posted February 7, 2009
Al Roker reports for "A Father's Promise," an MSNBC documentary premiering Sunday at 8pmET. The special, which coincides with Black History Month, looks at why so many fathers fall out of their children's lives, especially in the inner city. Within the documentary, NBC News catches up with a story originally reported 12 years... [TVNewser]

MTP Makes Way For Super-Sized Sunday "Today" - Posted January 27, 2009
The Today show is super-sizing this Super Bowl Sunday and will air from 9-11amET/8-10amCT. Meet the Press with David Gregory will air live following "Today" at 11amET/10amCT. Sunday's "Today" show will feature weekday anchors Meredith Vieira, Al Roker and Ann Curry live from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, while Matt Lauer will... [TVNewser]

The End of an Update - Posted August 22, 2008
Did you see that? Today marks the final airing of MSNBC's Olympic Update, which aired for two weeks from 5-7pmET. While enjoying strong ratings from an Olympic coverage lead-in, it amassed largely negative press. Terms like "Amateur Hour," and "Mean-Girl insults," were used, as were statements like, "The two seem to have... [TVNewser]

The Place For.... - Posted August 11, 2008
For the next two weeks MSNBC is calling itself The Place for the Olympics. With as many as 12 hours a day of events then a two-hour wrap up show, politics will take a back seat, relegated to Hardball at 7pmET and Countdown at 8. And while it may take war... [TVNewser]

MSNBC Adds Daily Olympic Wrap Up Show - Posted August 7, 2008
MSNBC will produce a two-hour, post Olympics wrap up show which will air weekdays from 5pm-7pmET beginning Monday. Insiders tell us Tamron Hall will anchor from New York and Tiki Barber and Jenna Wolfe will anchor from in Beijing. Morning Joe's Willie Geist will also contribute. This means the 5pm edition of... [TVNewser]

Dateline Thinks You Might Be Rich - Posted July 8, 2008
In what NBC calls "a different kind of 'Dateline NBC,'" three NBC News personnel will cross the country with an Ed McMahon-esque goal of giving away more than a million dollars. From the press release: "Tiki Barber leads a team of 'on-air detectives,' including NBC News' Peter Alexander and Tamron Hall, as... [TVNewser]

Bob Costas: L.A. Sucks - Posted July 17, 2007
FishbowlLA correspondent Dan Cox reports from the Television Critics Association tour: The second Television Critics Association session that followed NBC Entertainment president Ben Silverman's coming out party was an assembly of ex-NFL players and broadcasters around NBC's Sunday Night Football (formerly known as Monday Night Football), including broadcaster Bob Costas, announcer Al... [FishBowlNY]

Tiki On Va. Tech: 'It Was Almost Weird' - Posted April 20, 2007
Tiki Barber made his Today show debut this week and, according to Adam Duerson of SI.com, was not exactly ready for the pressure of covering the massacre at Virginia Tech, fumbling (sorry) a key segment: I'll say this much: Tiki's not a reporter yet. (Granted, neither were many of the alleged reporters... [FishBowlNY]

Next Up For Tiki: 'The Thinking Man's Football Book' - Posted January 11, 2007
Tiki Barber, freshly-retired NFL star running back and self-professed prince-in-training of the New York media scene, is set to publish his autobiography — at the ripe age of 31. The lucky publisher? Simon Spotlight Entertainment, an imprint of the same Simon & Schuster that publishes the youth sports books penned by... [FishBowlNY]

Tiki Barber: Working Towards Being The Prince Of New York Media - Posted January 4, 2007
Some essential Tiki-isms from the soon-to-be-retired Giants running back in this month's Gotham magazine: Gotham: Ronde has described you as the "King of New York media." Do you consider that an accurate description? Tiki Barber: I wouldn't say I'm the king. I dabble a lot, and I'm working towards being, maybe ... a... [FishBowlNY]