Archives: August 2008
Network Newscasts From New Orleans
CNN's Gustav Plans: Cooper Live at 8pm
Behind-The-Scenes at "Largest Live Operation" on the Web
McCain: RNC Will "Suspend Most of our Activities Tomorrow"
CBS's Gustav Plans: Katie Couric to the Gulf, Bob Schieffer at the RNC
On The Way to a Subdued RNC
FNC's Gustav Plans: Coverage Continues All Night
ABC's Gustav Plans: Charlie Gibson to the Gulf, George Stephanopoulos at the RNC
NBC's Gustav Plans: Brian Williams to the Gulf, Tom Brokaw at the RNC
CNBC and FBN Live on Labor Day
From Beijing to Denver, Strong Weekend Ratings for NBC
Extended Coverage on Cable, Special Coverage on Broadcasters As Gustav Roars Toward Shore
The VP Nominee, Like You've Never Seen Her Before...Unless You Lived In Alaska in the Late '80s
Look Who Dropped In On the Daily Nightly
O'Reilly "Almost Sick" Over MSNBC Chyron
The Scoreboard: Thursday, August 28
Gustav a Cat 3 4, And Heading For the Gulf
Dave Marash On His "Really Exciting" New Job
NBC Making Use of Its Newest Acquisition
Recent Palin Interviews, Queued Up For Cable
So, Will You Be Laboring This Weekend?
Record 38 Million Watch Obama, Most on CNN
Air Twitter
Sunday Show Preview
Sam Champion Injured in Crash on New York Expressway
GMA Beats Today...In Softball
One Source Or Two? Reporting the Palin News
Morning Show Ratings: Week of Aug. 18
Inside the Tent at ABC News
Is Sarah Palin One Of Us?
Maria Bartiromo Gets Palin, Pre-Pick
John McCain Picks Gov. Sarah Palin for VP. Fox News First With The News
Cablers on the McCain Veep Chase
Olbermann Tells AP Reporter He Should "Find New Work"
Between the Conventions: Softball for Morning Shows
Cable Quotables on Obama Speech: "I've Been Criticized For Saying He Inspires Me. To Hell With My Critics"
The Networks End 2008 Convention #1
Ear Canals and Convention Floors for Megyn Kelly
From Mile High to Times Square
Snapshots From Invesco
The DNC & Cable (and Web) Gains
Rome Hartman on the "Friendly Outsider" at the Convention
Dance Party at CNN Grill
CNN Tops All Broadcasters on Night #3 of DNC
What's On At The Convention
The Scoreboard: Wednesday, August 27
Meredith Vieira, Highest-Ranking Woman TVNewser On Forbes List
The Daily Show's Forecast For Scarborough Country: "Partly Bitchy"
ABC Producer Posts Bail, With Company Credit Card
NBC News London to Move In With ITV
The Denver Fights Continue: FNC Analyst v. NY Senator
Putin Tells CNN Reporter Georgia Invasion Orchestrated by U.S.
Adam... Dan... Whatever
The Ticker: (DNC Day 4 Edition): Ratings, Evening, Watching...
MSNBC On Air Tension: Insider Predicts "Blow Up" While Griffin says "Don't Make More of This Than it Is"
Look Who Dropped in On GMA at the DNC
Covering Gustav and the Conventions, and Making Sure "Coverage is Even-Steven"
Scenes From The Floor
A Night of Nightly
Let's See Charlie Gibson and Brian Williams Do a Headstand
12 Year Later, Money Trail Still Ruffling Feathers
Making the Move — Invesco
"To Put It Simply, We're Covering Two Different Democatic Conventions"
The Scoreboard: Tuesday, Aug. 26
NBC First for DNC Night Two
 CNN Tops ABC & CBS at 10
 FNC Sees Most Growth From 2004
Rachel Maddow Ready for Prime Time
Blow Up at the DNC
The Ticker (DNC Day 3, PM Ed.): Nightly, Mornings, Post-Conventions...
Denver Police Arrest ABC News Reporter
FNC Exec. Fires Back at Olbermann
O'Reilly To Talk Opinion Journalism with Kalb
Does Jon Stewart Need a New Punchline?
The Ticker: (DNC Day 3 Edition): Hemmer, Stanley, Bus...
Bright and Early, with CBS' Smith
Behind-the-Scenes at the Convention
Klein: "This is How Ted Turner Started"
(Slightly) Uncomfortable MSNBC Moment #3, With a Shot at Fox
Cavuto: Anchor of the Business News Show in Denver
Barkley, Carville — One-On-One
Acuna Talks Denver, Security and More
Cable Ranker: Week of August 18
TVNewser Live Chat, with Greta Van Susteren
Chat With Greta!
Koppel on BBC: What's This Convention All About, Anyway?
DNC Night One: Cable Nets Up Big From 2004
CNN Beats CBS & ABC in 10pmET Hour
The Scoreboard: Monday, Aug. 25
The Ticker: (DNC Day 2 Edition): Nightline Find, Night One Ratings, Too Much Talking...
Grounded! Cablers Cover FAA Flight Problems
will.i.am Set For Political Panel
"Wherever Wolf is, That's Where The Situation Room Is"
What Gustav Might Mean for the RNC
Evening News Ratings: Week of August 18
FNC "The Place to Be" for Night One of DNC
Uncomfortable MSNBC Moment #2
The Scoreboard: Sunday, Aug. 24
The Scoreboard: Saturday, Aug. 23
Barack, John and Gustav
Charlie Gibson On Familiar Territory and New Ground
Couric's More "Relaxed" Newscast
Wallace Reflects on Conventions Past
CNN Packs The Grill
Powerful Foursome
Jon Stewart: FNC's Fair & Balanced Claim an Insult "To People With Brains"
Shovel to Shovel on MSNBC
MSNBC Brings Out the Crowd
Hillary Supporters, Still No Love For Chris Matthews
At Security Checkpoint, a Security Stand-up
Couric Tosses to Curry Schieffer
Greta Brings McCain, Obama Camps Together
Mile High Win for MTP
How CNN is Using Its HD Real Estate
The Ticker: (P.M. Edition): Skycam Scrum, Racy Ads, New Correspondent...
The Ticker: (Youth Vote Edition): Palestra, UWIRE, Early...
The Scoreboard: Friday, Aug. 22
CNBC, MSNBC, and FOX News Go Mobile
Technical Difficulties in Denver, Part II: Too Close to the Edge
The Press Meets Betsy Fischer
Technical Difficulties in Denver
Fox Calls CNN "Partisan" In New Ad
Luke Russert's First NBC News Report Asks Young Dems About the VP Choice
Where Former Hillary Clinton Advisers End Up
Bob Schieffer On Campaign '08: "The Most Exciting One of All"
Charlie Gibson Gets on the Blogwagon
Jenkins Takes Anti-Fox Sentiment in Stride
Mascots Play Nice, For Now
TVNewser Heads to Denver
FNC Targets CNN's "Expansion" in New Ad
Brokaw: Matthews, Olbermann "Not the Only Voices" on MSNBC
HD Coming For World News
Convention Eve: FNC
Convention Eve: CNN
Convention Eve: MSNBC
CNN's Skycam Has Other Nets Up In Arms
CNN Reporter's Airport Chat With Joe Biden
Meet Wins With Gregory as Moderator
Gender Bending (and Back Again) on MSNBC
Meet the Veep
Pioneer Shister Inducted Into LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame
Bob Schieffer's Convention Look-Back
Obama Picks Biden. CNN is First With The News
Bohrman Predicts Long Night
The Scoreboard: Thursday, August 21
Cable News Wars, Through an Advertisers Lens
Friday Afternoon, at the Democratic Convention
MSNBC Going Live Tomorrow
Why is This Man Smiling, Part II
The Ticker: Roots, Tastes, Trips...
Cell Phones Still Quiet, Cablers Are Not
Babyland "Will Haunt You For a Good Long Time"
The End of an Update
Morning Show Ratings: Week of August 11
Meeting the New Team
Frequent Cable Guest Jim Warren Leaving Chicago Tribune
CNN, FNC Reject Ayers Ad
CNN's Ratings "Revealed"
Harry Smith's Birthday Wish Doesn't Come True
The Waiting Game
The Verdict is Out But Abrams is Still In, For Now
Greta Prepares For Marathon Convention Blogging
Dobbs Finds Cafferty Question "Amusing"
The Scoreboard: Wednesday, August 20
The Ticker (p.m. edition): Radio, Web, TV...
The 'Experience' Behind The Scenes
Bored This Fall?
In Olympic Shadow, Nightline Beats Letterman
"Maddow to Fox?"...And Other Recent Storylines
Nancy Grace's Next Caller...Nancy Grace
The Ticker: Smith, Spinners, Swampland...
Rush Limbaugh's Take on Maddow Gets Olbermann Talking
New CNN and MSNBC Partnership
Another Day of Fay
Does CNN Have a Challenger to its Best Political Team on Television?
MSNBC Sets Hourly Convention Anchors
With Fay Overhead, and the Media Crush on the Ground, Casey Anthony Makes Bail
ABC News Hits the Road in Run-Up to Election
Character Counts... For Fox News
Wolfson on Obama: "My Advice Would Not be to Attack Fox"
Two Years In, CNN's iReport Takes Off
The Scoreboard: Tuesday, August 19
NYT & NBC: "We Do Like to Be Totally Transparent Here"
The One They Left Behind
NBC's Natalie Morales Interviews "Clark Rockefeller"
CNN, FNC Report Ohio Congresswoman Had Died, When She Hasn't
Gwen Ifill Looks Toward Debate...and Beyond
Batson Named Senior Broadcast Producer of The Early Show
Maddow's Show to be Called...The Rachel Maddow Show
For CNN, The "Growing Importance" Of CNN.com
The Storm That Won't Go Away
Martin Savidge Leaving NBC To Anchor Nightly Public Television Program
Why is This Man Smiling?
Bob Costas' Nightly News Tip...That Wasn't A Tip
What CNN's Expansion Means for Chicago
Cable Ranker: Week of August 11
ABC's Ross On The Purpose And The Future Of Investigative Journalism
FNC's Obama Special Scores Big
The Scoreboard: Monday, August 18
Olbermann "Had Something To Do With" Maddow Replacing Abrams
What's Next for Dan Abrams?
Final Verdict: Maddow Replacing Abrams
The Ticker (Anchor Edition): Brown, Hemmer, Dart...
C-SPAN Lays Out Convention Plans
Dube Named VP, Michalopoulos Managing Editor of ABCNews.com
FNC Readies for 'The FOX Experience'
The Scoreboard: Sunday, August 17
The Scoreboard: Saturday, August 16
Chuck Todd Apologizes For "Hatred" Comment
ABCNews.com Set to Name VP, Managing Editor
With Wrestling Out of the Question, Lauer & Roker Settle on Gymnastics
Evening News Ratings: Week of August 11
"Spaghetti Cat" Mystery Solved
Cable Games
CNN Fires Up Grills
Fox News Draws Most Viewers for Presidential Forum
The Ticker (p.m. edition): Adoption, Bohrman, E-Cards...
Meet Your FBNers
Today Names New Senior Producer
The Scoreboard: Friday, August 15
The Hamptons: Bringing TVNewsers Together
Russert's Office Converted; Furniture Going to Newseum
Who Watches What: Believability
The Ticker: Apprentice, Warren, Green...
Who Watches What: Education and Age
The Scoreboard: Thursday, August 14
Dan Bartlett Joins CBS News as Political Analyst
Who Watches What: Party Lines & Cable News
Chucky T. Preps for Conventions
Tapper "Embarrased" By His Stephanopoulos Comments
GE's Immelt: "We're Not Done Doing Cable Deals"
Fox News Updates Facebook Profile
CNN Finds New Way to Rock the Vote
Florida Prepares For Fay
McCain Campaign Requests Meeting with NBC's Capus
Networks Of Older Viewers Cover Young Voters
Keeping An Eye on Fay
Phelps Does It. How'd McCain & Obama Do?
Brian Williams on CCTV Gives Props To His Predecessor
The News of the Games
For FNC's Harrigan, Running From Bullets Comes with the Job
Morning Show Ratings: Week of Aug. 4
You Say Beijing, I Say Beijing: Who's Right, Williams or Costas?
CNN's Presidential Bookends to Tonight's Forum
Leroy Sievers Loses Battle with Cancer
Meet the Press Takes Gold
MSNBC Scores Early, But FNC Still Winning Prime
Tornado Warning For NYC
The Ticker (Olympics Edition): CBS, NBC, CNN.com...
Biz Briefs: Bolling is Missed, Deutsch Inspires
Marvelous Mal's Return to the Olympics Includes CNN Anchor/Daughter
Chris Matthews Recovering From Pneumonia
Precocious Cubs Fan + Bucket = One Unhappy Reporter
Dropping in to Denver
The Ticker: Edwards, O'Reilly, Tropics...
Look Who's Not Going to the Conventions
Zucker on News, Weather, Sports and, Yes, GE
MSNBC Breaks Into Olympics For Bush Statement
Is MSNBC's Olympic Update "Juvenile and Nasty?"
McKay, Buckley, Snow to be Honored at Documentary Emmys
Dawn Fratangelo Earns Broadcast Excellence Award
The Scoreboard: Wednesday, August 13
The Ticker: MSNBC.com, CBSNews.com, Al Jazeera...
Houston Pursuit
Couric, After Dark, At the Conventions
Georgian Soldiers Fire on Fox News Crew
Three Cable News Nets To Air Saturday's Presidential Forum
Beijing Boom For Today Show
Another Strong Week for Nightline
The Whisper Heard 'Round the Couch...And On The Air
Fox News Gives Up Two Days of The Factor For The Candidates
CNN's New APJs
Janice Dean, The Baby Machine
Kristol Reports: Colin Powell To Endorse Obama
The Scoreboard: Tuesday, August 12
TNA Tired of Chris Matthews' T & A Ways
Dobbs Taking Up Brown's Time
The Ticker: Georgia, Soviet Union, Hawaii...
CBS Evening News Adds Politics Features to Broadcast, Web
CNN's Politics Reminder
In With the Old, Out With the Blue
With CNN Expansion, Comes Job "Redefinement"
Beware Those CNN and now MSNBC Breaking News Alerts
Making Room for MySpace At MSNBC
Producer Leaves News for Laughs: "This Will Be Much Funnier Than Morley Safer"
As Russian Troops Move In, Georgian President Takes His Case To Western Media
The Scoreboard: Monday, August 11
On The Air With One Former and Two Current Candidates
Lighting the Way in Denver
Phelps Race May Get Coast-to-Coast Live Coverage
Cable Ranker: Week of August 4
Live From Inside the President's Office
Farley Out, Farris Back In at CBS Evening News
Claman: "It's Why I Made the Jump"
Evening News Ratings: Week of August 4
New Bureaus, New Kind Of Journos for CNN
The Scoreboard: Sunday, August 10
The Scoreboard: Saturday, August 9
Friend Tells CBS John Edwards is the Father of Rielle Hunter's Baby
Morning Cable Ratings: Friday, August 8
TVNewser Gets It Right, and Nightly News, Well....
The Place For....
FNC's Goldblatt Named Main Anchor At Chicago's Fox Station
Back on the Bus
The Scoreboard: Friday, August 8
Avila To Receive Journalist of the Year Award
Nightly's Live Broadcast From Tiananmen Square
Fireworks About the Fireworks
The Ticker: Oil, Homage, Alaska...
One-Man Band Your Comments
Kathie Lee Getting Buzz — Positive and Negative
FBN Uses Olympics to Push Viewer "Switch"
The Travails of a Field Producer
Reporters Briefed on DNC Details
Gregory's Humor Shows at the Close of Meet the Press
What Will Nightline's Scoops & Growth Mean For the Newscast?
Edwards Affair: ABC's Ross Followed The Money
Edwards Affair: Mainstream Media Post-Mortem
ABC News Report Spurs Kidney Donation
MTP Wins By More Than a Million
Edwards "Apoplectic" Over Interview Promotion
msnbc.com Shifts Into New Gear With Politics Dashboard
Morning Cable Ratings: Thursday, August 7
Ron Insana Leaves Insana Capital...and CNBC?
The Ticker (international edition): China, England, Georgia...
Shepard Slip
Closing Bell Rings Closing Bell
The Scoreboard: Thursday, August 7
What Happens If News Breaks During Basketball?
Edwards Affair: No, That's Not a Misprint
Edwards Affair: Shuster Wants Apology
ABC News Breaks Edwards Story Into Mainstream
More Bashir Comments Emerge
As Olympics Begin, CNN Gets Exclusive on Other Big International Story
ABC Announces Convention Plans
Happy Friday in August
David Gregory on "Killing Time"
Two Fox News Contributors Picked By USA Today
Today Show Avoids Opening Ceremony Conflict
How Some Covered the Opening Ceremony
Morning Cable Ratings: Wednesday, August 6
It's Getting Hot in D.C.
If You Thought There Was Brett Favre Coverage Before...
Morning Show Ratings: Week of July 28
The Scoreboard: Wednesday, August 6
The Ticker: Olbermann, Rose, Bashir...
Cablers Still Mostly Silent on John Edwards Enquirer Story
Nightline Ties Letterman in Demo
When Does The Opening Ceremony Start?
MSNBC Adds Daily Olympic Wrap Up Show
Shock Poll: Which Cable Viewing Audience Favors Which Candidate?
Changes to CNN Newsroom
Obama Picks His Hannity Representative
Interactivity and the Debates
Cable Ranker: Week of July 28
Reporting On the First U.S. War Crimes Trial Since WWII
The News of the Games, Part II
Lifetime Achievement for Producer Who Has "Too Much Stuff" Left To Do
Morning Cable Ratings: Tuesday, Aug. 5
Cablers to Paris Hilton: "That's Hot"
The Ticker (p.m. edition): Turner, Olympics, Cafferty...
CNN.com Adds Executive Creative Director
The Scoreboard: Tuesday, August 5
Ross Responds to "Vital Questions" About Anthrax Report
Milbank "Began Contract Talks a Month Ago"
CNBC's Becky Quick to Moderate National Town Hall
Woodruff Returns to China For ABC Special
Stahl, Zakaria Make Cameo in Daily Show Promo
Mel Karmazin Listens to CNBC
Cavuto on GMA: "For Six Weeks I Just Had to Shut the Heck Up"
The Ticker: Dina, Michelle, Paris...
Would McCain Delay Speech if NFL Game Goes Long?
Fox News Helps Out the Parents
The News of the Games
Morning Cable Ratings: Monday, August 4
Anderson Cooper Rips Dina Lohan
Lauer's Image Removed From Email Campaign
The Daily Show's Deck of "Cards"
How's Chris Matthews Doing in PA?
The Scoreboard: Monday, August 4
Olbermann and Milbank Respond
Couric Apologizes to St. Paul, Minn. for Geography Mixup
Evening News Anchors to Appear on LKL Tonight
News Channels Cover Aborted AA Flight
Changes To FNC's DC Bureau
Olbermann v. Milbank: The Poll
Olbermann v. Milbank: The CNN Deal
Milbank Leaves Countdown, Joins CNN
Presidential Debate Moderators Set
Edouard Makes Landfall
Evening News Ratings: Week of July 28
The Scoreboard: Sunday, August 3
The Scoreboard: Saturday, August 2
Andrea Mitchell: "MSNBC Is Helping Preserve The NBC News Brand"
Morning Ups and Downs
Morning Cable Ratings: Friday, August 1
Cavuto Back On-Air After Surgery: "So Many Of You Were So Concerned, You Stunned Me"
The Scoreboard: Friday, August 1
The Ticker (p.m. edition): North Korea, China, Wisconsin...
Two Network News Execs Named McCormick Fellows
Nas Takes Break From Protesting FOX to Appear On It
How the Cablers Have Covered (or Not Covered) the Edwards Story
Novak Announces Immediate Retirement
The Ticker: Claman, Bartiromo, Abdul...
Fired Blogger Blogs About New Blogging Rules
ABC NY Staffers Make Way For Nightline
Olbermann: O'Reilly "Still Dominating That Important Demographic, 65 to Dead"
Bell: "I'm an Olympics Geek, What Can I Tell You?"
FNC Cameraman Injured in Afghanistan
Cable's Gain May Be Broadcasters' Loss
Which TVNewsers Rock the Vote?
With Obama, Brokaw's Best Ratings
The Ticker: Monster, Green, Sources..
Morning Cable Ratings: Thursday, July 31
CNN's Erica Hill to Fill In on The Early Show
Lawsuit Against Nancy Grace Moves Forward
Fox And Their Florida Friends
The Scoreboard: Thursday, July 31
That Nightly Guy on the Daily Show
CNN Announces Olympics Coverage Plan
Baier Family Gives Back
"You're Not Going to Have to Settle For Their Overpromising Graphics and Underperforming Anchors"
Martin Bashir "Bitterly Regrets" "Asian Babes" Remark
Is CNN's AM Imitating MSNBC's AM?
Why Is John King Getting Airtime Beyond CNN?
New Ad Blasts Media's McCain Favoritism
Matt Lauer to Co-Host Beijing Opening Ceremony
Morning Cable Ratings: Wednesday, July 30
CNN.com Needs Some Help in Beijing, Like Yesterday
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