Archives: October 2009
Guest List: Sunday Shows Nov 1
Chris Matthews on the 'Amtrak Series'
'Early Show' Saturday Anchors Having a Good Time
About That Shot Fired at Lou Dobbs' Home
The Scoreboard: Thursday, October 29
Another Obama - Osama Mix-up
Greta's On the Move
Who's on Maddow Tonight: Carrie Prejean? Levi Johnston?
Brian Williams: 'You've Really Got to WANT to Cover This Story'
'Early Show' Halloween More Frightening Than 'Today' Show
Bill O'Reilly on White House Fight: 'There's Two Commentators on Fox That Really Don't Like Barack Obama: Glenn Beck & Sean Hannity'
Morning Show Ratings: Week of October 19
Bill George Apologizes for Olbermann Article
The 'Today' Show's Star Wars Halloween Spectacle
Daily Show on Fox News: 'It's a Perpetual Revulsion Machine'
Who is This?
HLN Exec on His Network's Success and CNN's Struggles: 'There'll Always be Different Phases'
Learn TV News Reporting
Studying Perceptions of News Network Ideologies
The Scoreboard: Wednesday, Oct. 28
Geraldo Rivera - John Stossel: 'Stache Bash '09
Sunday Show Ratings: October 25
Is Keith Olbermann Hurting America?
'GMA' Redesigns Site
Jane Velez-Mitchell: 'This Is the Dialogue That Needs to Happen about Addiction'
'Nightline' on Top with Letterman, Conan in Repeats
Bloomberg Premieres 'Innovators'
One Year Post-Election: The Cable Ratings Drop-Off
Bill O'Reilly: 'I Thought Campbell Brown's Questioning was Excellent'
Police Investigating Shot Fired at Lou Dobbs' Home
David Gregory Subs for Brian Williams on Jay Leno
A Baldwin and Bill Hemmer @ Game 1
Campbell Brown Says White House Should Target Bias on Right AND Left
Olbermann 10pm Repeat Not Going Anywhere
The Scoreboard: Tuesday, October 27
Democratic Operative Turned Glenn Beck's Publicist
"Truce" Between White House and Fox News?
Letterman Writer Opens Up About 'Sexually Charged Atmosphere'
Is the White House Feud with FNC Winding Down?
'Feeding Fox a Slice of Raw Denunciation was Like Dumping Gasoline into a Fire'
Telling Week for the MSM?
Stossel to Speak at Health Care Forums
Campbell Brown Hosts Courage in Journalism Awards
Glenn Beck Is Voldemort?
Looking for a Booker Gig?
Univision's Maria Elena Salinas Discusses Her Career
Shep Smith Apologizes for "Lack of Balance"
CNN's Campbell Brown Asks White House Senior Adviser about Fox News...and MSNBC
The Scoreboard: Monday, October 26
O'Reilly: 'If you are going to do a straight newscast in primetime, you are going to lose'
Gibson Interviews Bill and Melinda Gates
CNN's Jon Klein to Staff: We Refuse to do the Things that Might Get us a Quick Number or Cater to the Extremes that Would Alienate our Core Viewers
48 Hours Mystery #1 on Saturday Night
Evening News Ratings: Week of Oct. 19
October '09 Ratings: Fox News Unchallenged at the Top
Levi on Sarah: 'If She's Going to Go out There and Say Things...About Me, I'm Going to Leak Some Things on Her'
October '09 Ratings: MSNBC Solidly #2 in Prime
October '09 Ratings: CNN Fourth in Prime Demo
October '09 Ratings: HLN on Track for Best Year
Jay Leno's Media Mentions: ESPN, Fox News, MSNBC
Did Scientology Flack Try to Kill 'Nightline' Story?
The John Stossel-Lou Dobbs 'I Know You Are, But What Am I?' Fight
Obama vs. Fox is No. 5 Story Last Week
The Scoreboard: Sunday, October 25
The Scoreboard: Saturday, October 24
Russ Mitchell Walks into a Bar...
Brian Williams to Report from Afghanistan
Early Reports: CNN Last in October Prime
NLP Event in NYC
The Scoreboard: Friday, October 23
Where Rupert Murdoch & Jeff Zucker Spent their Sunday
Shep's Surprise: A New Web Page
Goatee Gamble Charity Update
The Video Wall: Quinn, Andrews, Gutfeld, Schultz
Tom Delay, Now a Lifeline
The Season of Hoaxes
$12K Raised in Honor of CBS' Cami McCormick
News Orgs Win NJ Exit Poll Victory
Shep Smith: 'Something Crazy Happens Tomorrow'
Brit Hume on the Fox Fight: 'Hoist a Jolly Roger, Pull out our Daggers and Look for More Throats to Slit'
TVNewser on a Censored 'Week in Advertising'
Dan Rather on WH vs. Fox News
Laura Ingraham on 'This Week:' 'I Might Not be Invited Back, George;' Calls Out Charlie Gibson over ACORN Awareness
Even Stephen Harper Watches Our TV News
More on the Feinberg Controversy
White House Refutes Claims It Tried to Block Fox from Feinberg Interview
Scientology Spokesman Storms Out of 'Nightline' Interview
'Latino in America' Doesn't Match Predecessors' Success
CNBC Confusion about Microsoft
The Scoreboard: Thursday, October 22
Networks Refuse Interview After White House Denies Fox
CBS' Harry Smith on 'Prairie'
Morning Show Ratings: Week of October 12
Dobbs Rips Stossel
Fox News Off-Broadway
Roger Ailes for President?
'It's Go Time, Chuck'
CNN Unveils New Site
Why the Changes Coming to GMA are not as Easy as ABC
The Scoreboard: Wednesday, October 21
Step Away from the Hula Hoop
Sunday Show Ratings: October 18
'Nightline' Still Outdrawing Conan
The Video Wall: Grayson, Correction, O'Reilly, Animals
CNBC's Trish Regan Preps for Twins
Obama 'Not Losing Sleep Over' Fox News
Terry Moran Takes Over at Supreme Court, Continues 'Nightline' Co-Anchoring
CNBC Partners with SBS for Korean Biz Channel
NBC's Chuck Todd Loses Goatee Gamble
MSNBC's Geist Named "Best Sidekick"
Gwen Ifill to Receive Honorary Degree
Behar + Divorcees = Ratings
Steve Bell On His Network News Career: "More Than Anybody Had A Right To Ask For"
The Scoreboard: Tuesday, October 20
Rebecca Jarvis Leaves CNBC
Rome Hartman on the "Fox News-ization" of Media
Former TV Columnist's New Online Gig
MSNBC Anchor Introduces Rev. Al Sharpton When She's Really Interviewing Rev. Jesse Jackson
CNBC Talent Being Kept off Dylan Ratigan's MSNBC Show?
Jeff Immelt: 'I Hate Being No. 4'
Maddow/Olbermann Invited to White House Chat with Obama, But Fox Isn't a News Organization?
Listen: CNN's Don Lemon on User Generated Content
MSNBC Hires ESPN Vet for Top Marketing Job
Glenn Beck's Armed Guard
Where You Won't See the Heene Family 'Wife Swap' Episode
Paula Zahn's Strong Debut on Discovery I.D.
White House v. Fox News: Carey, Gardiner, Leno
Fox Business @ 2
"If They're Going for a Big Name to Replace a Big Name, Who's Bigger than George?'
'Hannity:' 'Not White House Approved'
Fists Fly as Balloon Boy Neighbor Takes on the Media
ABC's Dan Harris Interrupted by Publicist
Snow Inside Balmoral
The Scoreboard: Monday, October 19
'Go sit on a fire hydrant and improve your day'
Rodriguez Hosting Princess Grace Awards
Erica Hill Pregnant
Newsers Turn Out For Helen Thomas-Craig Crawford Book Party
'60' Finishes 7th Again
Tapper Questions Gibbs about Fox
Olbermann Ad Touts MSNBC Supremacy
The Scoreboard: Sunday, October 18
The Scoreboard: Saturday, October 17
Evening News Ratings: Week of October 12
Yes Men Presser
'Bombastic' HLN Grows Viewers and Advertisers
The Video Wall: White House v. Fox News
Jay Johnson, Anchorman, Congressman, Goldline.com Presenter
Greta Responds to Newsweek
What's MSNBC Saying with that FOX Graphic?
Kevin Corke Heads to South Florida
Safer, Sawyer, Gibson, O'Reilly Turn Out to Remember Don Hewitt
Williams to Appear on 'Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me'
The Scoreboard: Friday, October 16
Business Nets Fooled by Climate Change Hoax
Despite What the White House Thinks, New Promo Keeps the 'News' in Fox News
Sean McManus Welcomes Jan Crawford Greenburg to CBS News
John Stossel's First Day with FOX
CNN, MSNBC Ban Appearances on Imus?
Updates from Hewitt Memorial
Afghanistan a 'Top Story' Once Again
The Leno Effect
White House v. Fox News: Week 2 Updates
Brian Williams: 'We Don't Wait; We Attack'
Paula Zahn 'On the Case' and Back in Prime
Balloon Boy Was All a 'Hoax'; Sheriff Cites Wolf Blitzer, Criticized by Media for Not Playing Straight
TVNewser on an Ill 'Week in Advertising'
White House Officials Discuss Dunn's FNC Comments
10 Crazy Things Behind Reporters
Guest List: Sunday Shows Oct 18
Rush Limbaugh: Intimidation Tactics 'are a Cancer on Our Society'
TVNewser Recap: Week of October 11
CBS' Maggie Rodriguez Now in Prime Time
Weekend Morning Shows Had Big Saturday
Kate Snow's Big Wet KISS
Glenn Beck Tops 1M Viewers in Demo Thursday, #1 on Cable News
Stephanopoulos Named Sawyer's Substitute
Bush Calls Olbermann, Maddow 'Sick Puppies'
Jan Crawford Greenburg Leaves ABC for CBS
FNC Liberal Pundit Marc Lamont Hill Fired
The Scoreboard: Thursday, October 15
Goodbye, Balloon Boy; Hello, Train Baby
Sunday Show Ratings: October 11
Police Re-Interviewing 'Balloon Boy' Family Following Blitzer Interview
Morning Show Ratings: Week of October 5
HLN's Velez-Mitchell: 'It Took Me a Long Time to Admit to Myself That I Was Gay'
ABC, AP, CBS, CNN, Fox, NBC Fight NJ Exit Poll Ban
ABC's Westin: 'We're Not Doing This to Be No. 2'
'Balloon Boy' Vomits
Falcon Heene: 'You Guys Said... That, um, We Did This for the Show'
Hot Dow Coverage
Meghan McCain Did Not Appreciate That Segment, CNN
Rick Sanchez: 'Our Bad'
Glenn Beck Gets Choked Up Talking About Common Sense and Breaking Curfews
CNN Will Disclose Castellanos' AHIP Ties
'CBS Evening News' Investigates CBS News Producer
The Scoreboard: Wednesday, October 14
Boy Trapped in Flying Balloon
Ted Turner on Rupert, Comcast and His Old Company: 'I'd Like to See Me Running Time Warner'
Is MSNBC Rattled by Imus?
CNN Will Not Air Anti-Dobbs Ad During 'Latino in America'
Deborah Norville: 'I Don't Think Anybody Tunes in to a Broadcast Because it's a Chick Anchoring It or a Guy Anchoring It'
Bon Jovi's Unusual Arrangement with NBC
The Video Wall: Beck, Stewart, Ferguson, KATU
'Has it occurred to you that men's balls are as vulnerable as women's ovaries?'
Dr. Besser Keeping Busy at ABC
Rush Rammed: Limbaugh Targets Sanchez; O'Reilly Stands up for Limbaugh; Cooper Panelist Calls it 'A High-Tech Lynching'
Lauer's CVS Double on 'Today'
Chris Matthews Explains Rush Limbaugh Comments
The Scoreboard: Tuesday, October 13
Lunching with Andy Heyward
Imus Debut Week Ratings
Oliver Stone, Tell Us How You Really Feel: 'I Think Television is an Evil Drain'
'It's great if people think we're hot babes -- but more important, that we're smart, hot babes'
White House v. Fox News: More Reaction
Green on the Floor for Dow 10,000 2.0
Stephanopoulos Makes GQ List
Capus, McManus Comment on Reporters' Editorializing
CBS News Investigating Halderman
Schrenker Booking War
Protest Outside CNN Center in Atlanta
Stewart Mocks FNC: 'You Didn't Even Send Your Own Camera Crew?!'
Olbermann on Malkin: 'A Big Mashed-up Piece of Meat with Lipstick on It.' Malkin Responds
That Must Have Been an Interesting Lunch
The Video Wall: Gupta, Batt, Matthews, Ferguson
Rachel Maddow, Voice of America?
Norma Quarles: "I Fought To Dispel Stereotypes. I Fought It In My Work"
Glenn Beck Installs Red Phone for White House 'So You Can Correct the Mistakes as They Happen'
WH Correspondent 'Goatee Gamble'
Bloomberg Buys BusinessWeek
The Scoreboard: Monday, October 12
Eva Longoria Visits CNN's Situation Room
Tim Peek Upped to EP at NBC News
Senate Finance Committee Passes Health Care Reform
Major Garrett Has Swine Flu
Time Warner Reiterates: No Interest in NBCU
CBS, NBC Newsers Pick up Murrow Awards
Sunday Schedule Shuffle
The Scoreboard: Sunday, October 11
The Scoreboard: Saturday, October 10
Terry Keenan Leaves FNC
"60" Finishes 7th For the Week
MSNBC Substitutes Anchors
Donny Deutsch Calls Limbaugh More Names; Gets Bleeped
Evening News Ratings: Week of Oct. 5
Jon Stewart Rips CNN: "Why Would You Leave it There? There is a Terrible Place to Leave It"
Separated at Birth: Matt Lauer & the CVS Guy?
Bill O'Reilly: "Ms. Dunn is Seeing the World through the Prism of the other Media, like NBC News and CNN"
CNN Alters Promo Audio to Make It Sound Less Left-Leaning
Glenn Beck: 'They're More Worried about the War on Fox Than the Actual War in Afghanistan'
Fox News Covers... Itself
Ted Koppel on BBC Tonight
The Scoreboard: Friday, October 9
No Shaking Hands for Hoda Kathie Lee. Bumping Butts Will Have to Do
Rush on the Media: "I Know How to Yank Their Chain"
Dr. Sanjay Gupta Jumps in the Arctic Ocean to Prove a Point
Maria Bartiromo: From Wall Steet to 5th Ave.
White House v. Fox News
Comcast Would Likely Keep Zucker
News Organizations in Dire Straits
Will Lou Dobbs Head to Fox Business?
Dunn on FNC: 'Let's Not Pretend They're a News Network'
TVNewser on "CSI: Week in Advertising"
CNN's King & Carville in SNL Send-Ups
TVNewser Recap: Week of October 4
Who's on 'Reliable Sources' Tomorrow?
The Video Wall: Beck, Stephanopoulos, Deen, Gregory...
Greta Van Susteren Heads to North Korea... Again
Bill Boo'd in the Bronx
MSNBC Control Room Fail
The Scoreboard: Thursday, October 8
He Made It
We Blew up the Moon...And It Was Boring
Kimberly Dozier Running 10K in Honor of Cami McCormick
Rush on Obama: 'He's My President Too...If He Invited me up there to Chat, I Would Owe him the Dignity and Honor of Being Honest'
Betsy Fischer, Gwen Ifill, 98 Others Feted at DC Power Lunch
Al Neuharth: 'Couric Has Proved Me Wrong'
Want to Be a Senior Producer?
CNN's 'Latino in America'
The Most Famous Family Feud of the Decade
Obama on Peace Prize: "I Do Not Feel I Deserve to be in the Company of So Many of the Transformative Figures Who've Been Honored by this Prize'
Analyzing Potential NBCU Bidders
War Correspondents Speak Out On Afghanistan. Engel: 'I Honestly Think it's Probably Time to Start Leaving the Country'
Holmes Anchoring ABC News Now
Letterman #1 Last Week, 'Nightline' #2
The Video Wall: Miller, Smith, Kids, Olbermann...
Bill vs. Tyra. Who Won?
The Scoreboard: Wednesday, October 7
Nielsen Calls Meeting to Discuss Measuring TV & Online Audiences
Second Rather Lawsuit Dismissed
Morning Show Ratings: Week of September 28
Sunday Show Ratings: October 4, 2009
Capus to Speak at RTNDA Awards
CBS News Plans Don Hewitt Tribute
Rep. Michele Bachmann Says MSNBC Hosts Are 'Stalkers,' One of them Responds
Americans Interested in Health Care Coverage
White House Adviser on FNC: 'It's Opinion Journalism Masquerading as News'
'GMA' at the CDC
CBS Correspondents Share Afghanistan Stories
Letterman Blackmailed: Joe Halderman Speaks: 'I'm Not Trying to Hide or Run.'
How are Joy Behar's HLN Ratings?
CNN's SNL 'Fact Check' Generates Backlash
Newseum to Recreate Tim Russert's Office
The Scoreboard: Tuesday, Oct. 6
Gretchen Carlson 'MORE Beautiful at 40 Than 20'
The Ticker: AC in Chicago, Lauer & Brown, FNC @ 13...
Early Imus Ratings Arrive
Katie Couric Heads to USD for Award, Student Newspaper Asks 'Is She Media's Most Excellent?'
Why Is Mika Brzezinski Dumping Out the Contents of Her Purse on Stage?
The Price is Right for Bob Barker and Drew Carey
Brian Williams Hosting 'Stand Up for Heroes' Event
Letterman Blackmailed: Did a '48 Hours' Mystery Inspire Halderman?
Listen: Dave Price's Cross-Country Adventure
Robert MacNeil: Too Much 'Hyperventilating' Over Tabloid Stories In TV News
Roger Ailes, David Axelrod Have A 'Cordial Conversation' in Manhattan
Shepard Smith Is an Influential Man
The Scoreboard: Monday, October 5
Around the MB Blogs: Tweets, CBS, Beck...
The Ticker (Programming Edition): Grace, Squawk, Olbermann...
Layoffs at ABC News Radio
Robin Roberts Brings GMA to the CDC
The Video Ticker: Thomas, Ensign, Geist, Stewart
Evening News Ratings: Week of Sept. 28
Listen: 'Worldfocus' Anchor Daljit Dhaliwal on the Morning Media Menu
John Stossel: 'The Media Leans Left... FOX Clearly Leans Right'
The Scoreboard: Sunday, October 4
The Scoreboard: Saturday, October 3
Letterman Blackmailed: The Diary That Did in Dave
Now, Even More Nancy Grace
Secretaries Gates & Clinton Sit for Joint Interview for CNN
Letterman Blackmailed. Dave Apologizes: "I Got My Work Cut Out For Me"
Is HLN's 'Issues' the Best Value to Reach Republicans? 'CBS Morning News' for Dems?
I Get All My Dave Letterman News from Wolf Blitzer
The Ticker: SCOTUS, Red Eye, Beck...
The Scoreboard: Friday, October 2
Afghanistan Coverage Increases with Anniversary
Re-Air of CNBC's 'Fast Money' Replaced with Docs
Imus at FBN: The Early Reviews
Mike Murphy Criticizes 'One-Party Cable Networks' on 'MTP'
Letterman Blackmailed: Halderman Lawyer Says Prosecution's Case 'Makes Absolutely No Sense'
Cokie on Polanski: 'Just Take Him Out And Shoot Him'
Imus at FBN: Day One. 'Congratulations and Condolences'
Imus at FBN: 'I'm More Likely to Believe Shep Smith than Katie Couric or Brian Williams'
TVNewser Delivers the Drunken Draper Recap
Emmy-Winning Afghanistan Series Becomes MSNBC Doc
Keith Olbermann on Joe Halderman: 'This is Exactly the Guy We Knew'
Glenn Beck a Hot Topic on the Sunday Shows
Judy Woodruff Honored By Alma Mater
On Tonight's "48 Hours Mystery"
Guest List: Sunday Shows Oct 4
TVNewser Recap: Week of Sept 27
No Better Time for Spirituality Than 'Sunday Morning'
Newser Tweets of the Week
Letterman Blackmailed: CBS Execs Didn't Know About Plot Until Final Hours
Cult Month on MSNBC
Now It's Kate's Turn to Talk
David Letterman on CBS 'Sunday Morning', But Not Talking About That
Letterman Blackmailed: Who is Robert 'Joe' Halderman?
Morning Show Ratings: Week of September 21
The Scoreboard: Thursday, October 1
The Ticker: Tapper, Herridge, Matthews...
Letterman Blackmailed: Robert Halderman Pleads Not Guilty
Quick Trip for Charlie: Next Stop New York
Jon, Not Kate, Makes the TV News Rounds
ABC's 'Nightline' #2 Last Week Despite Strong Ratings
It's Rio in 2016
Hugh Jackman Drops in on CBS News Meeting; Katie Couric: 'It's Been a Hard Day Around Here'
Letterman Blackmailed: CBS News Employee Robert Halderman Charged with 'One Count of Grand Larceny'
Chicago Dropped From 2016 Contention. Gets Least Amount of Votes
Joe Kernen: "How Can Fox News Double MSNBC and CNN Combined? Air America Can't Sell An Ad"
Letterman Blackmailed: Morning Reaction
Letterman Blackmailed, CBS News Employee Arrested. "I Need to Protect My Family. I Need to Protect Myself. I Hope to Protect My Job"
Covering Comcast/NBCU
Richard Wolffe Back on 'Countdown' Tonight
Imus: "How Long Will It Take Him to Grow a Pair"
The Scoreboard: Wednesday, September 30
Dan Rather: 'I Didn't Have an Agenda. I Don't Have an Agenda'
Brian Ross: 'We Got a Rare Insight into a Chapter of American History'
Faber's Reporting on NBCU/Comcast: "The Willingness of GE to Consider Shedding NBCU, of Course, Of Great Significance"
The Ticker: BlackRock, Gupta, 'GMA' Proposal
Steve Kroft, Matt Lauer Honored
Beyond 140 Characters: Sanchez Back on Twitter, and Writing a Book
Sunday Show Ratings: September 27
Glenn Beck Has Two NYT Bestsellers Now
'Today' Gets Surprisingly Raunchy
Anderson Cooper to Unveil 'CNN Heroes' throughout the Day
CNN Time Travel
Zucker on NBCU: "There Are a Number of Possible Things That Could Happen"
Dan Rather to Speak with Neil Cavuto
CBS' Dave Price on His Latest Assignment: 'This Is Going to Be Tricky'
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