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Tuesday Jun 17, 2008

Ron Allen: The FishbowlDC Interview

Allen Ron 07.jpgSay hello to NBC's Ron Allen.

What word do you routinely misspell? Fortunatley, my spell checker is quiet relaible. But bcause I still only tipe with a feew fingers#, I offen hit tha wrong ceys.

What's the name of your cell phone ring? "Classic" I think it's called. The ole, boring, phone ringing sound. Maybe one day I'll learn how to download something else.

Read the rest when you click below...(and see previous FishbowlDC interviews: Julie Mason, David Shuster, Joe Curl, Alex Pareene, Peter Beinart, Jonah Goldberg, Megyn Kendall, Ana Marie Cox, Jim Brady, Howard Mortman, Amy Argetsinger, Jose Antonio Vargas, Chuck Todd, Tom Gottlieb, Kelly Ann Collins, David von Drehle, David Lat, Mark Leibovich, Zain Verjee, David Plotz, Paul Kane, Karen Travers, Mark Halperin, Hugo Gurdon, Greg Kelly,Ken Rudin, John Dickerson, Anne Schroeder, Spencer Ackerman, Bret Baier, Bob Sellers, Greta van Susteren, Danielle Jones, Jonathan Salant, John McCalla, Pam Hess, Ryan Grim, Marc Ambinder, Marty Kady, Jack Shafer, Annie Lou Bayly, Jerry Zremski, Charlie Cook, Dave Hughes, Howard Fineman, Katie Tarbox, Mark Segraves, Chris Cillizza, Tom Sietsema, Bill Triplett, Robin Givhan, David Brody, Norah O'Donnell, Carl Cannon, Jordan Lieberman, David Folkenflik, Molly Henneberg, Ernesto Londono, Brody Mullins, Aaron Blake, Martha Raddatz, Andrew Sullivan, Christina Bellantoni, Shane Harris, Nora McAlvanah, Adam Nagourney, Erin McPike, Mike Memoli, Ju-Don Marshall Roberts, Arthur Delaney, Chris Mincher, Rachel Sklar, Laura Sullivan, Jeff Kosseff, Matthew Cooper, Scott McCrary, Dan Reilly, Jennifer Griffin, Ari Shapiro, Jonathan Kaplan, Rick Klein, Mike Allen, Olivier Knox, Erik Wemple, Nathan Burchfiel, Andrea Mitchell, Mike DeBonis, Anne Kornblut, April Ryan, Amy Morris, Keith Koffler, Mark Silva, Ann Compton, Mark Knoller, Betsy Fischer, Katherine O'Hearn, Pamela Brown, Beverly Kirk, Wendell Goler, Glenn Kessler, Susan Page, Michael Crowley, Claudia Milne, Kelly Dinardo, Bruce Becker, Michael Rogers, Paul Schur, Diana West, Eric Nuzum, Bill Adair, Jonathan Ward, Jennifer Sergent, Jeffrey Goldberg, Ken Silverstein, Dana Milbank, Mark Murray, Katherine Lewis, Joe Mathieu, Chrystia Freeland, Sam Youngman, Christopher Dorobek, Greg Mitchell, Candy Crowley, Steve Chaggaris, James Pindell, Linda Kramer, Reid Wilson, Jay Newton-Small, Dan Steinberg Susan Ferrechio, Matt Labash, Gene Weingarten)

Also, drop us a line to let us know who else you'd like FishbowlDC to interview. They must work in the Washington area and you must include their email address.


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Monday Jun 16, 2008

More Bureau Closings...

The D.C. bureau covering the Montana and Wyoming congressional delegations and Western issues for the Independent Record, The Billings Gazette, Missoulian, Montana Standard, Ravalli Republic and Casper Star Tribune has closed. It was opened in December 2002.

"To adjust to rising expenses our newspapers are facing, we've decided to move coverage of the congressional delegation back to our newsrooms and our three-reporter state bureau in Helena," said Gazette Editor Steve Prosinski.

Thursday Jun 12, 2008

C-SPAN Continues C-SPAN3 Tweaks

FishbowlDC has obtained the following internal staff memo from C-SPAN's Rob Kennedy:

Our preparations to test a new programming approach on C-SPAN3 continue as we look to stay competitive in the public affairs marketplace. This summer, we're going to test internally a daily "hosted public affairs" approach to our on-air programming and look to integrate some of our new content for the web, as well as incorporating new technology and roles as we produce our product.

We've assembled a small team of people to join Richard Weinstein and Robert Browning in helping us execute the test including Greg Czzowitz, Tim Gray, Jonelle Henry, Brendan McQuaid, Seeno Merobshoev, Andrew Nason and Tony Pronko. The team will work from June 25th through August 8th, although some preliminary technical set up may begin as early as June 9th. Initial work by the test team will include paper testing, evaluating and training on equipment and at some point in July the team will produce four hours a day of an actual editorial product. The four-hour daily production will be an internal test only -- available on an in-house channel -- it will not be available outside C-SPAN. At the conclusion of the test, the team will return to their regular assignments in time for our convention and general election coverage. We'll use the time between the end of the test and the Conventions to evaluate what we learned so we can report our progress to our Board of Directors at their upcoming meeting in September.

Due to the staffing shifts for our test and to best prepare for the importance of our upcoming political convention and general election coverage, we've made the decision to cease offering Capital News headlines onscreen and online. It is our hope that C-SPAN3's editorial product, as it progresses, will build on the work that the Capital News team has done to keep interested viewers up-to-date in the public affairs and public policy arena. Due to this, we'll make the following staff changes:

  • Norma Gleason will return as a Programming Operations Control Room Producer
  • David Monack will remain in Programming Operations as an Associate Producer
  • Mark Rodeffer will temporarily work with Susan Bundock's team in the Programming Dept. as a Producer

    We'll have additional updates when we begin our test. And, as the test progresses we'll be actively seeking your feedback.


  • Thursday May 29, 2008

    Yellin: ABC Edited Tough Stories On Bush...Pushed The Positive

    (Hat Tip: Politico)

    Wednesday May 21, 2008

    Brian Van De Graaff Sings!

    WJLA's Brian Van De Graaff does his best Barry Manilow at last night's Capitol Karaoke event (and who's got the video of Mike Allen and Pamela Brown?!?)

    Tuesday May 13, 2008

    Hooker Ads: The Week In Review

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    (An explanation of "Hooker Ads")

    It was a generally down week for Hooker Ads, starting with an above-average 12 and ending with a below-average nine.

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    Monday continues to close in on 800 total ads, being only the second day to do so. Tuesday and Thursday are bringing up the rear as they both close in on 500 total ads.

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    Monday and Wednesday were the only days this week to post above-average numbers.

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    The trend this week is up over last week, but generally down over the last several weeks.

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    Tuesday Apr 29, 2008

    Dhue Seen at 7

    DCRTV says, "Seen at the Rosslyn HQ of Channel 7/WJLA today: Laurie Dhue, formerly an anchor at Fox News and other cable news nets. Possible new JLA anchor? You know, 7's never formally replaced evening anchor Kathleen Matthews, who left more than a year ago. Hmmm."

    Friday Apr 25, 2008

    More CBS Woes...

    First Couric's ratings start tanking and now this...

    From a tipster:

      nothing is going right for cbs these days... no water (or bathrooms) at the dc bureau

    McLaughlin Changes Channels

    From WaPo:

      John McLaughlin, the progenitor of TV's longest-running political talkfest, is taking his group to a new venue.

      "The McLaughlin Group," which has been seen on, and produced at, NBC-owned WRC-TV of Washington, will move next week to WUSA-TV (Channel 9). The change ends McLaughlin's 26-year association with NBC. The roundtable show's Sunday-morning time slot, at 11:30 a.m., will not change.

    Wednesday Mar 26, 2008

    ABC'S DC Bureau Is Going To Have A Great Thursday

    MoveOn.org plans to deliver 200,000 petition signatures to ABC in Washington "asking the networks not to parrot FOX's right-wing smears during the critical 2008 election."

    Read the petition here.


    Previously

    Troubled WJLA'r

    Comcaste On Demand

    Roll Call TV Announced

    Kathleen Finally "Moves On"

    MTP Goes Five for Five

    Raddatz Heads Back To Iraq

    Show Us Your Cubicle!

    CBS Seeks Enviro-Reporter, Knowledge of Environment Not Required

    Elisabeth Bumiller's 'Tell Me Something I Don't Know' Tells You Something She Didn't Know

    Meet the Press: More Powerful Than You Thought

    FNS Moving On Up

    "Meet" Shows Off Its "60"

    Battle of the CNN Bands Tonight

    Party Photos: "Meet" Turns 60

    But, Wait: We Thought Journalists Were McCain's Base...

    WTOP: So Hot Right Now

    Page: "It's the stupidest thing I've done in 30 years in journalism."

    Moran To Lean Towards New York

    Gwen Tolbart Has a Close Call

    Russert May Still Do Imus

    Snow Says No To Fox News?

    Sadomasochism on Fox5

    FNS Wins In D.C.

    Nightline Loves The Writers' Strike

    Russert: A Flower Child?

    David Gregory: Scary

    Wilson Explains Things To O'Reilly

    More All-Girl Russert Panels?

    Hooker Ads: The Week In Review

    It's Official: "This Week" Moving To Newseum

    Awww...They're Flirting!

    "Meet" = 3,000

    It's Like Katie Couric's Version of Tim Russert's White Board

    Bruce Becker: The FishbowlDC Interview

    Got Jello? "Meet" Does

    Friel Comes To D.C.

    Matthews on Matthews

    "This Week" to Newseum? (Likely)

    Tim & Bruce

    BREAKING: MSNBC To Apologize To Blackburn

    Greta Tops Forbes "Top Pundit" List

    Rice Gets the Heisman

    "NewsHour" Launches 2008 Interview Series

    Big News Out Of NYC

    Megyn Kelly: Gone But Not Forgotten

    "How Alexis Debat managed to cheat everyone in Washington"

    Happy Birthday, CMS!

    Sunday Show Preview

    What Up With Debat?

    George With George

    ABC's DC Graphics Department Sounds Off

    C-SPAN Gets Denied

    "This Week" Struggles in D.C.

    Greta Wants Paula Zahn To Get All Her Flak

    FNC's NH GOP Debate Scores Big Ratings Win

    Fox Notes

    What To Call FOX's Carl Cameron?

    No More "Meet" On iTunes

    Derek McGinty Is Getting Used To Doing His Own Make-Up

    Bill Sammon: Funnier Than You Think

    Beverly Kirk: The FishbowlDC Interview

    This Week's Reliable Sources

    Wallace Takes On Moyers

    Warner To Russert: "You Put Yourself Up As The Number-One National Political Pundit"

    It Was One Year Ago...

    Sunday Numbers

    NBC Seeks A Lobbyist

    More On ABC's DC Layoffs

    Pamela Brown: The FishbowlDC Interview

    Plante Discusses "If You're So Smart" Comment

    ABC Steps Up Its Calendar For Tapper

    Katherine O'Hearn: The FishbowlDC Interview

    Who Gets Rove? Pt. 2

    Who Gets Rove?

    Betsy Fischer: The FishbowlDC Interview

    WTTG Launches "Fox 5 News Edge at 6"

    CBS Pentagon Correspondent David Martin Gives It The Old College Try...Voice Or Not

    Jim Lehrer Has Claws?!? But He Seemed So Cuddly!

    Sunday Show Preview

    FOX Interviews Givhan

    "Meet the Press" Would Like To Remind You That They're Still #1

    Premature E-Jubilation?

    FT Looks At Al-Jazeera English

    Snow & Gregory Talk Cancer

    Branson's "Friend"

    A "This Week" Victory?

    How Did "This Week" Do?

    Ann Compton: The FishbowlDC Interview

    Is Ed Henry Becoming CNN's Dana Milbank?

    What Happens When You Put The Interns In Charge?

    Centanni and Wiig: Not Eager To Go Back

    NYT & NBC Join Up

    Koppel Leaving CNN At End Of The Month, "Destination Unknown."

    More Problems At ABC's DC Bureau

    BREAKING: ABC News' DC Bureau Evacuated

    Writers Guild & ABC Negotiations Get Tense

    Fox & Friends Knows Exactly How To Wake You Up In The Morning

    Chris Matthews: On Sex

    Sunday Show Preview

    Channel 4 Can't Stop Laughing At Model

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