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Saturday Jul 04, 2009

ABC News Plans for Michael Jackson Memorial

ABC TV will broadcast live coverage of the Jackson memorial service at 1pmET/10amPT on Tuesday. Charlie Gibson will anchor. More details about guests, correspondents and individual show coverage will come out on Monday. ABC is calling their coverage "Remembering Michael Jackson".

> Update: ABC's early morning news broadcasts will be co-anchored out of Los Angeles. Jeremy Hubbard will anchor from LA for World News Now and America This Morning on Tuesday and Wednesday morning.

> Earlier: CBS News Plans... Fox News Plans...

Friday Jul 03, 2009

GMA Weekend Crew - Independent Minds

GMA_7.3.jpgWhile several news anchors are heading to Los Angeles for coverage of you know what, "Good Morning America" Weekend is keeping Independence Day in mind.

Kate Snow and Marysol Castro will report live from two of the country's most historic landmarks tomorrow.

Snow will bring viewers live inside the crown of the Statue of Liberty as the landmark re-opens to the public for the first time since 9/11. Meanwhile, Weather and features correspondent, Marysol Castro, will report live from the very spot where the Declaration of Independence was adopted -- Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA.

Anchor Bill Weir and news anchor Ron Claiborne will hold down the fort in Times Square tomorrow morning.

Thursday Jul 02, 2009

Nightline #1 in Late Night Last Week

Buoyed by their health care special with Pres. Obama and two days of coverage on the death of Michael Jackson ABC's "Nightline" was #1 among Total Viewers last week, outperforming NBC's "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" and CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman." Conan was still tops in younger viewers.

The last time "Nightline" bested both CBS and NBC among Total Viewers was election week, November 2008. The last time "The Tonight Show" was not the number one program at 11:35pm two weeks in a row, not including the writers' strike in 2007, was in 1996, when "Nightline" placed first.

For the week of June 22, 2009:

Show Network A25-54 Total Viewers
Nightline ABC 1.58M 3.89M
Tonight Show NBC 1.97M 3.69M
Late Show CBS 1.30M 3.46M

Stossel on Story Bump: "I Hate It That ABC Didn't Run My Piece"

Stossel_7.2.jpgOn his ABCNews.com blog Monday, John Stossel wrote, "I am sick of the coverage of Michael Jackson." Turns out he's sick of the coverage due in part because a 5-minute piece he had produced on the health care plan was bumped from Friday's "20/20." In it's place: another story on Jackson. "I hate it that ABC didn't run my piece," he continues.

But before you think Stossel went rogue on the blog, ABC News tells us all posts from staffers are vetted and approved before publishing.

Of the story swap-out, ABC News SVP Jeffrey Schneider tells the NYPost the Jackson story, "continues to develop hour by hour and day by day. There's enormous interest in it."

Stossel's health care piece is now set to run on the July 17 edition of "20/20."

Wednesday Jul 01, 2009

'How To Get An Interview With the Post-Coup President,' By Jeffrey Kofman

Kofman_7.1.bmpWho says there's no world news on World News?

Today, ABC's Jeffrey Kofman, who covers Latin America for the network, walked right up to the presidential palace in Tegucigalpa, Honduras to get an interview with the new, but internationally unrecognized, president Roberto Micheletti. All Kofman had to do was go to the palace, show his ID and about five minutes later, he entered the inner sanctum and sat down for an interview with Micheletti, his first with an American network.

Micheletti told Kofman he'd like to be called "Mr. President."

"You have to because I am the President," he said, adding, "or you can call me Roberto if you want."

Here's Kofman's World News report...

Monday Jun 29, 2009

"Nightline" Beats "Letterman" and "O'Brien" For Third Straight Night

"Nightline," which devoted their Friday show to Michael Jackson, outperformed both CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman" and NBC's "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien," according to Nielsen fast affiliate time period data. Friday marked the third night in a row Nightline came in first in Total Viewers.

Nightline - 4.193M Total Viewers

Tonight Show - 3.718M

Late Show - 3.089M

Friday Jun 26, 2009

ABC News Adds "20/20" Michael Jackson Special Tonight

ABC News will air a special edition of "20/20" - "Michael Jackson: The Man and His Music" at 9pmET/PT anchored by Elizabeth Vargas. "20/20" will also air at its regular time, 10pmET/PT which will include more reporting on the life and death of Michael Jackson.

"Nightline" Takes First with Michael Jackson News

Last night's "Nightline" anchored by Martin Bashir with coverage on the death of Michael Jackson was seen by 5.26 million Total Viewers, outdrawing David Letterman's 4.36 million on CBS and Conan O'Brien's 3.94 million on NBC.

ABC's Health Care Special: Reviews

Prescription.jpgExcerpts from two reviews of Wednesday night's ABC News special "Questions for the President: Prescription for America":

The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz says that, despite being criticized "as an Obama 'infomercial' before a single moment had aired...it was a pretty good look at a complicated issue."

But Kurtz does have his "quibbles. The president was allowed to give long answers, with [Charles] Gibson interrupting only a couple times." And "I would have included a Republican member of Congress" on the program.

• The Baltimore Sun's David Zurawik writes: "Let's make one thing clear right from the start: ABC News did not give President Barack Obama a free pass in its prime-time special."

But, he says, "Obama had his way from early morning to late night on ABC Wednesday to push his agenda for massive social change on healthcare. In short, he owned ABC's airwaves."

Thursday Jun 25, 2009

Terry Moran Explains "Stupid" Comments About Farrah Fawcett

Moran_6.26.jpgComments made by ABC News "Nightline" anchor Terry Moran have drawn the outrage of some of his co-workers. In the hours after the death of Farrah Fawcett, Moran added his thoughts to an email thread that was making its way around ABC News -- a common practice when a big news story breaks. Here's what he wrote:

One final, and perhaps very sad, note:

According to the American Cancer Society, the leading cause of anal cancer (the kind that killed Farrah Fawcett) is the human papilloma virus (HPV), the same virus that is thought to cause most cervical cancers. Twenty million Americans are currently infected with HPV, with more than six million new infections every year.

It is fair to say (and sad to say) that Farrah Fawcett, an American pin-up icon and sex symbol of the first post-sexual revolution generation, most likely died as a result of a acquiring a sexually transmitted disease.

"What I did was put out some ideas about a disease that is on the rise and I did it in a way that drew a lot of response," Moran explained to TVNewser. "Some people were very angry. Some people were very insightful. Some were both."

"I wanted to raise some issues about a disease and I did it in a very stupid way," he says.

ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider adds, "Terry is one of the smartest guys in the whole building. But even he can misfire occasionally. Just because someone occasionally misfires doesn't mean we don't want or expect a really intense discussion of whatever issue is out there."

Moran says what he wrote today won't keep him from interjecting in the future: "They say engineers learn far more from their mistakes than they do from their successes," he says.


Previously

Health Care Special Last At 10, But First at 11:35

ABC Rushes Barbara Walters Special On Farrah Fawcett

ABC's White House Health Care Special: What Do You Think?

"Tapper Did What Few White House Reporters Do"

ABC News Sponsors an Event That Targets the Network

GOP Charge to ABC: "It All Gives the Appearance of a State-Run Television Network"

A Midday "Nightline" All About Iran

Diane Sawyer Responds to "Mickey Mouse Sponsored Infomercial" Charge

"I've Always Been Struck By How Obsessed the President and the White House are with Fox News"

ABC's Ward "Mortified" By Campaign Donation Mistake

Late Night Race Tightens, Nightline Finishes #2 in A18-49

ABC Pre-Special Chatter: TV Critics Weigh In

Meet Your New GMA Contributor: Melissa Rycroft

Prescription For Controversy: Newest Storyline in ABC Special Uproar

White House Health Reform Communications Director is Former ABC News Correspondent

ABC Asks Nielsen to Investigate After Low 'World News' Friday

20/20's Glenn Beck Interview Brings High Ratings

Charlie Gibson & Diane Sawyer to Moderate Primetime Health Care Conversation from the White House

David Westin On 'The New Normal'...In Life and on TV: "I Don't Take Any Pleasure In Seeing Any Competitor Do Badly"

"The Lesson for Women is That It's OK if Everybody Doesn't Like You"

Couric, Gibson, More Celebrate "Womenomics" Release

Update: No 'World News' Saturday

ABC Correspondent Shuffle: Sy, Ward Relocate, Marquardt Joins Network

GMA Helps Reunite Mother and Daughter After 12-Year Separation

ABC News Expands Digital Reporting Corps; Adds Reporters in Denver, Detroit

David Westin Toasts Nightline Staffers

Cuomo Headed Overseas For Obama Trip

Late Night Shuffle and "Planning Battles" Inside ABC?

Nightline Finishes #2 in Late Night For Season; First Time in Six Years

George Stephanopoulos: "I Developed A Thick Skin"

ABC News Pays For Family's Plane Tickets

Roxana Saberi Interviewed By Diane Sawyer for GMA

ABC News Wonders: "Could This Be the Final Century of our Civilization?"

Nightline EP Goldston Talks Post-Leno Ratings Race: "It Will Become Very Tight"

GMA Gets Dunked For Charity

"Nightline" Beats "Letterman" and "Leno" in Metered Markets

"Nightline" Grows Viewers for 18th Straight Week

Raddatz Gives ABC News Insider Knowledge of Camp Liberty Murder

Staff Reduction at ABC's DC Bureau

ABC World News' Hubble Coverage Blasts Off

Nightline In Second Place in Late Night

Stephanopoulos Talks "Vegas" Night in D.C., Who Will Break His Heart

Job Cuts Coming to ABC's London Bureau

Diane Sawyer Gets First Interview With Face Transplant Patient

GMA Brings Summer Concerts to Central Park

Bob Woodruff's Family Matters

The Last Time...

Curse of Nightline Strikes Again

Brian Ross' Reporting Questioned by NYTimes; NYTimes Reporting Questioned by Source

Roger Goodman Steps Aside from ABC News

GMA Raises 150,000+ Pounds of Food Donations

With Abdul On and Leno Out, Nightline Wins Late Night

With New Late Shows, Letterman Still Loses to Nightline

Stephanopoulos Interviews Ahmadinejad in Iran

"Journalist Jake": Tapper Gets Name-Checked By Fidel Castro

John Berman Goes Behind-The-Scenes of a Scrum

A Small Fall at Great Falls For Sam Champion

Food Fight: Charlie v Emeril. Bam!

Nightline Tops Letterman Last Week

Yo Ho, Yo Ho: A Pirate-Filled Morning on GMA

ABC News Cameraman Retires After 50 Years in the Biz

Steph Watts Responds: "I Have Never Had a Nose Job"

"New Face of News Coverage" Fired From ABC

Who's Knocking At Your Door? Diane Sawyer

Sam Champion Has Surgery, Tweets About It

Tapper on Being "Tough and Consistent" and Conservative Praise

Longtime ABC News Producer Dies After Suffering Heart Attack

Will "This Week" Disclose Guest is Married to the EP?

"I Hope What We're Seeing is a New Kind of Heyday for Nightline"

Bracket Challenge Trash Talk on "Top Line"

Leno Wins Big With Obama, But Nightline Beats Letterman

Settlement Reached in ABC News Primetime Lawsuit

Teen Confesses To Murder of George Weber

San Antonio Really Wants to be Part of GMA's Holiday Windows

How Long Will Gibson Anchor World News?

A Temporary Fix For "The Fix"

The Fix Is Out... for Now

Barbara Walters: Retirement "In The Not-Too-Distant Future"

Stephanopoulos on Twitter Friends: "It Beats High School"

And Now To Charlie Gibson, With Sports

The Future of Interviewing?

George Stephanopoulos To Conduct First Twitterview

ABC's Westin: Don't Let "the Free Be the Enemy of the Flow"

U2 Rocks GMA, But There's No "Elevation" in the Ratings

ABC News Takes Another Look at "Where Things Stand" in Iraq

Even With A Week of U2, Nightline Still Tops Dave

First Lady's First Interview Goes To Roberts

Will Stephanopoulos and Wife Share Guests?

"Big" Talk from Sam Champion at U2 Performance

Nightline Up 14% YTD, Tops Letterman Again Last Week

Charlie and Weezy On Kimmel, and a News/Entertainment "Throw"

Is Bonnie Hunt's Anchorman Crush Shifting?

Gibson on Tapper: "He's One of the Hungriest Reporters I've Run Across"

World News Heads West as California Jobless Rate Tops 10%

Nightline Tops Late Show Last Week

It's Sam's Last Day

Slavin: "We Still Have Lots of People Competing With Us"

Jonathan Karl Gets First Post-White House Interview with Laura Bush

Murphy's Law: Diane Sawyer "Better Re-up"

Oscars Morning: GMA Tweets, Parties Through the Night

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