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Brian Williams on CCTV Gives Props To His Predecessor - Posted 4 days, 17 hours ago
NBC's Brian Williams is doing his part as journalist and diplomat while reporting from Bei-jing. This week, he was a guest on CCTV-9, the English language channel from China Central TV. And the host of that show did her research. She asked Williams how he would compare his generation of... [TVNewser]

The News of the Games - Posted 4 days, 18 hours ago
The AP's David Bauder writes about what might be in store for the networks of NBC Universal next week with the Michael Phelps show near an end. Bauder also writes about the off-the-field news and how NBC has reported it: During the first week, NBC has done little to upset its hosts.... [TVNewser]

Meet the Press Takes Gold - Posted 5 days, 7 hours ago
Last Sunday's half-China, half-DC Meet the Press beat its competition. The Olympics likely helped, but being on earlier in some markets or not at all in others (89% coverage) didn't. The program averaged 3.354 million Total Viewers; 37% more than CBS' "Face the Nation;" 50% more than ABC's "This Week;" and 185%... [TVNewser]

TVNewser Gets It Right, and Nightly News, Well.... - Posted August 12, 2008
Last night, Brian Williams began Nightly News telling viewers, "as far as we can tell and as far looking back this is the first live network evening newscast to originate from here since 1987, the last time NBC Nightly News broadcast from here." If Brian had only checked TVNewser from his Blackberry... [TVNewser]

Nightly's Live Broadcast From Tiananmen Square - Posted August 11, 2008
Brian Williams anchors Sunday's NBC Nightly news from Beijing. NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams will originate live from Tiananmen Square tonight (Tuesday morning in Beijing), site of the 1989 uprising that led to the deaths of hundreds of Chinese students, activists and intellectuals. Williams will be joined live by Tom Brokaw... [TVNewser]

Gregory's Humor Shows at the Close of Meet the Press - Posted August 11, 2008
FishbowlDC has the clip from yesterday's multi-national Meet the Press, where Tom Brokaw spoke with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson in Beijing, while David Gregory wrapped up the hour with a political round-table in Washington. The round-table included WaPo columnist and MTP veteran David Broder seated next to CNBC's Erin Burnett; a... [TVNewser]

Morning Reading List, 08.11.08 - Posted August 11, 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]

Lifetime Achievement for Producer Who Has "Too Much Stuff" Left To Do - Posted August 7, 2008
Gail Shister TVNewser Columnist With a face young enough for a milk carton, how does Ken Burns qualify for a Lifetime Achievement Award? That's exactly what he thought when he was chosen to receive the accolade at the 29th annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards in September. PBS's prolific poster boy turned 55 last Tuesday.... [TVNewser]

Presidential Debate Moderators Set - Posted August 5, 2008
Breaking: Drudge reports that the 2008 presidential debate moderators have been named. According the the site, the moderators will be Jim Lehrer of PBS, Tom Brokaw of NBC, Gwen Ifill of PBS and Bob Scheiffer of CBS. There is no announcement yet on the Commission on Presidential Debates website. We'll have more information as... [TVNewser]

Morning Reading List, 08.04.08 - Posted August 4, 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]

With Obama, Brokaw's Best Ratings - Posted August 3, 2008
Last week's Meet the Press, which featured an interview with Sen. Barack Obama, saw its best ratings since Tom Brokaw took over as interim moderator. Meet the Press was the top rated program in Total Viewers and the A25-54 demo, and NBC was the only network with week-to-week gains. In the demo, NBC... [TVNewser]

Luke Russert to Report For NBC News at Conventions - Posted July 31, 2008
Luke Russert, son of the late NBC News DC Bureau chief Tim Russert, will be working as an NBC News correspondent focusing on youth issues during the upcoming DNC and RNC conventions. The press release is expected shortly... > More: Tom Brokaw weighs in on the Luke Russert hiring.... [TVNewser]

Whitaker's Long Distance Call-Up to the DC Bureau - Posted July 29, 2008
Gail Shister TVNewser Columnist L'amour, toujours l'amour. Mark Whitaker was attending a cousin's wedding outside Provence, France, when NBC News boss Steve Capus called to offer him the Washington bureau chief job. "I didn't want him interrupting me at the church, so I called him back between the wedding and the reception," Whitaker says. "It... [TVNewser]

The Big Story in Canada? That U.S. Network - Posted July 28, 2008
The Saturday cover story of Canada's Globe and Mail was about the business angle of NBC's upcoming Olympian effort: "a $1-billion cross-platform laboratory designed to capture the exact destination of viewers and prove to advertisers that network television still has the power to reverse trends and reclaim lost viewers." The piece... [TVNewser]

Morning Reading List, 07.22.08 - Posted July 22, 2008
Good Morning Washington. Where can you find the above slippers? Let us know. 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... [FishBowlDC]

Brokaw Gets Obama For Meet the Press - Posted July 21, 2008
NBC just announced that Tom Brokaw will interview Barack Obama for the full hour on Meet the Press this Sunday: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) will sit down with Tom Brokaw as he concludes his overseas tour in London for a "Meet the Press" exclusive interview to air on Sunday,... [TVNewser]

MSNBC's Phil Griffin, "A Big Fan" of Fox News, Says It's "Our Time" - Posted July 17, 2008
Gail Shister TVNewser Columnist Phil Griffin to Chris Wallace: Kiss my Peacock. The newly-named president of MSNBC takes offense at Wallace's assertion this week that commentator Keith "Mr. Bush, Shut the Hell Up" Olbermann has no business anchoring election coverage, and that Fox News would never commit such a sin. "That raises little hairs... [TVNewser]

Brit Hume to Step Down As Fox News Anchor - Posted July 15, 2008
Breaking: TVDecoder reports Brit Hume, 65, will be stepping down as anchor of the network's 6pmET program Special Report after the election, but will remain with the network. TVDecoder's Brian Stelter talked with "three people close" to Hume and reports: Mr. Hume, 65, has expressed an interest in "reducing his role"... [TVNewser]

Tony Snow's Death: MTP Remembers - Posted July 13, 2008
In the Meet the Press minute today, moderator Tom Brokaw remembered one-time Sunday show host and, later, White House press secretary Tony Snow. "It's been a tough season for all of us here in Washington," Brokaw said after playing a clip of Tim Russert, who died last month, interviewing Tony Snow,... [TVNewser]

LiveNation Deal, Yahoo! The Talk of Sun Valley - Posted July 8, 2008
Dan Cox, on special assignment for FishbowlLA, covering the 2008 Sun Valley Media Conference. All's quiet on the Western Front for Sun Valley. The conference doesn't officially start until tomorrow, but hundreds of executives, moguls and their families are dribbling in today. A conference shuttle driver said they're expecting 395 people on... [FishBowlLA]

Q2 2008 Ratings: Meet Still on Top - Posted July 4, 2008
NBC's Meet the Press saw its best second quarter ratings since 2004 in Total Viewers, and was the top rated Sunday morning show for the 43rd consecutive quarter in the category. The show has undergone a transformation since the death of its longtime moderator Tim Russert. Last week marked the first for... [TVNewser]

About Last Night... - Posted March 5, 2008
Tom Brokaw said "ass," Wonkette doesn't like MSNBC's panel, Tim Russert picks his nose, Fox was the first to call Ohio for Hillary, TVNewser regrets to inform Chuck Todd that his "screenwriter pales in comparison to the Billboard and Magic Wall," Karl Rove makes a funny ("Can we call this the... [FishBowlDC]

NBC Says Brokaw Does So Write His Own Books - Posted January 16, 2008
Jenny Tartikoff of NBC emails us about our recent post about Tom Brokaw and the cheapo scholarship: The scholarship program was established to honor Tom Brokaw's 30 years of service to NBC News. It's just one scholarship opportunities offered to NBC/GE employees by NBC News, not Tom Brokaw. Okay, we were wrong. It's... [FishBowlLA]

Morning Reading List, 08.28.07 - Posted August 28, 2007
Good morning Washington. Overwhelmingly, you think Dana Perino will be the next White House press secretary. TVNewser reports, "Another Super Tuesday tomorrow on MSNBC. Chris Matthews continues in Iowa moderating the Livestrong Cancer Forum. Back east, Tim Russert, Natlie Morales, Tucker Carlson, Chris Jansing and others will hold down the anchor fort." The AP... [FishBowlDC]

Knight International Journalism Award Winners Named - Posted August 24, 2007
From the release: The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) has named Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas and Burmese investigative reporter May Thingyan Hein as the 2007 Knight International Journalism Award winners. They will be honored along with Founders Award recipient Tom Brokaw at the 10th annual ICFJ Awards Dinner at the Ronald Reagan... [FishBowlDC]

Details In Greenwich Village NBC Death - Posted July 31, 2007
The story surrounding Eric Wishnie, the Emmy-winning NBC News producer who fell to his death in Greenwich Village yesterday, just gets more and more depressing. The Daily News reports that his 10-year marriage to Dateline's Dawn Fratangelo was in a state of collapse and that Wishnie was fired from NBC in... [FishBowlNY]

Peacock Productions Following Proud Tradition - Posted July 12, 2007
Is Ben Silverman influencing NBC News by some insidious mind control? Peacock Productions, which sounds like a soft-porn video company, is a new nonfiction provider for NBC, MSNBC, etc. NBC News president, Steve Capus says: There have been times in the past where the news category was viewed too narrowly. This is... [FishBowlLA]

Morning Reading List, 06.29.07 - Posted June 29, 2007
Good morning Washington. It was a close call, but you thought Chris Matthews would be the sweaty one. An NBC release announced, "NBC News has been awarded the 8th Annual RTNDA/Unity Award in the television network category for 'Separate and Unequal, Reported by Tom Brokaw.'" Ann Coulter takes a shot at "Hardball" ABC News' President... [FishBowlDC]

Imus Snubs Larry King Party - Posted April 18, 2007
One of the more intriguing questions about tonight's Larry King 50th anniversary party in New York has already been answered. Beleaguered radio host Don Imus, a longtime friend of King's, was on the invitee list for tonight's bash, but don't expect to see him. "He's not coming," our inside source says. Here's who... [FishBowlNY]

New York Times Has 1,200 Advance Obits In The Can - Posted April 9, 2007
In a new feature up on mediabistro, New York Times obituaries editor Bill McDonald pulls back the thin black veil, if only slightly, on the obit-writing process — and it doesn't sound terribly dissimilar to how Dana Carvey's Tom Brokaw handled Gerald Ford: Despite the potential for awkwardness, anticipation... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch at Michael's: Brokaw & Burns Break Bread - Posted March 28, 2007
The scene at 55th & Fifth was bustling as always thanks to one iconic newsman (we always sit up a little straighter when Tom Brokaw is in the room), a mix of movie moguls and the usual roundup of public relations pitchmen and women. Peggy Siegal did her usual flitting from... [FishBowlNY]

Woodruff To Deliver Keynote Address at ICJ - Posted February 28, 2007
From the release: ABC News Anchor Bob Woodruff will give the keynote address at the International Center for Journalists' 10th Annual Awards Dinner on November 13. Tom Brokaw, the former NBC Nightly News Anchor, will receive the Founders Award for Excellence in Journalism at the event, to be held in the... [FishBowlDC]

Lunch at Michael's: Joan Rivers Keeps An Eye On The Door - Posted January 24, 2007
It was a typically atypical lunch crowd today at Michael's — Tom Brokaw here, Joan Rivers there, Cobb salads everywhere — making the Diet Cokes and Pellegrinos go down like fine wine. A quartet of Rubensteins — Howard, Richard, Steve and Atoosa — dined at four separate tables, while the Michael... [FishBowlNY]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted December 29, 2006
"Meet The Press": Tom Brokaw, Bob Woodward and Michael Beschloss, E.J. Dionne, Kate O'Beirne, Eugene Robinson and William Safire. "The Chris Matthews Show": HD Net's Dan Rather, Chicago Tribune's Clarence Page, BBC's Katty Kay and MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell. Face The Nation: Gen. Alexander Haig, Washington Post's Ben Bradlee, Ford Historian James Cannon and... [FishBowlDC]

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