“Nightline” is poised to win the May sweep after winning the week of May 14. It’s the 8th straight week the ABC news show has topped Letterman and Leno in Total Viewers as well as A25-54 and A18-49 viewers.
Bill Owens, the executive editor of “60 Minutes,” will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Towson University’s College of Fine Arts and Communication today.
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews.
An investigative report on CNN’s “AC360,” has sparked an investigation from the U.S. Senate. The report examines the tax-exempt Disabled Veterans National Foundation, which claims to raise money for veterans, but has not appeared to give any money directly to veterans. CNN’s Drew Griffin was unable to secure an interview with the group’s founder, even after showing up at her house. Now Senators Max Baucus (D – Mont.) and Richard Burr (R – N.C.) are launching an investigation into the organization.
Former ABC News anchor and current NBC contributor Ted Koppel is the inaugural inductee into the WAER-FM Hall of Fame. WAER is a public radio station licensed to Syracuse University, where Koppel was a student. He served as program director of WAER in 1959.
NBC News website TheGrio.com has relaunched with a new site design. There are now a handful of key news topics, such as politics, business and entertainment, with text, video and other multimedia reports surrounding those subject areas. The site now also operates on the WordPress platform.
First Lady Michelle Obama will be a guest on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” next Tuesday, May 29. It will be her second appearance on the show, her first as First Lady. She will be there to shill her new book AMERICAN GROWN: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America, but viewers should expect politics to come up. Update: She will be on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and “The View” that day too.
ABC News is working with startup Qwiki to use its new news format. What the heck is Qwiki? Qwiki allows publishers to combine, text, photos, videos, tweets and other items to create a cohesive story, or provide information about a specific topic. Here’s an example of what it looks like.
Fox News correspondent Casey Stegall is moving from the channel’s Los Angeles bureau to its Dallas bureau. He will make the move in a few weeks. “We’ve been impressed with Casey’s hard news instincts and proven experience in Los Angeles, which should serve him well, reporting from our Dallas bureau,” said Michael Clemente, senior VP of News Editorial in a statement.
The new season of OWN’s long-form journalism series “Our America with Lisa Ling” premieres Sunday, June 10 at 10 PM. The series kicks off with an episode called “Sparkle Babies,” an investigation into the world of child beauty pageants. Future episodes feature teen mothers, and women who pursue religious vocations.
Fox News correspondent Molly Henneberg can add a new title to her résumé: mom. Henenberg and husband Chris Nagel welcomes baby Jacquelyn Amanda Henneberg Nagel back in December, but talked about the experience to Celebrity Baby Scoop. “There is an informal community of working moms at Fox, and they reach out to women as they return back to the workplace after having a child and offer support, advice, and encouragement.”
Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who inadvertently made some news on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday by apparently disagreeing with the Obama Campaign on criticizing Mitt Romney‘s former company Bain, appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” to talk about the incident:
CNN International chief Tony Maddoxtalks to B&C about his channel placing first in a survey of European viewers. “We’ve had many strong years before in this survey but we’ve never had a year like this,” Maddox noted in an interview. “Statistically this is the best performance we’ve ever had in terms of the rate of growth.”
The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtzreviews a new biography about the late CBS Newsman Walter Cronkite, and finds that there is more to the anchor than many people may know. “But he was far more liberal than the public believed, and he let it show in unacceptable ways. Had Cronkite pulled such stunts today, I would probably be among those calling for him to step down.”
Right now in New York, the Peabody Awards are being handed out, and recipients include CBS News, ABC News, BBC News, Al Jazeera and CNN. CNN Worldwide president Jim Walton sent a memo to staffers today discussing the Peabody wins, as well as the survey that cited CNNI. Read it after the jump.
CBS announced its Fall primetime lineup to advertisers in New York this morning and two CBS News magazines are on it. “60 Minutes” returns for its 45th season in its comfortable Sunday night timeslot, and “48 Hours Mystery” returns to Saturday nights.
FBN’s Charlie Gasparino will be honored with the Yorktown Circolo da Vinci Person of the Year Award tomorrow night – at the same place where his dad was once a bartender and where Gasparino had his first job washing dishes.
TVNewser was at the book party last night for CNBC’s Maneet Ahuja, author of “The Alpha Masters: Unlocking the Genius of the World’s Top Hedge Funds.” CNBC president Mark Hoffman and SVP Nik Deogun chatted up guests including former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan. Ahuja is a hedge fund specialist and producer of “Squawk Box.”
NBC Sports has slated its Olympics coverage for MSNBC and CNBC. MSNBC will broadcast up to 20 different sports, including basketball and soccer, over 155 hours from 9am-6pmET weekdays and more on weekends. CNBC will carry 73 hours of boxing from 5-8pmET weekdays, with six hours of live coverage on weekends. The London games open July 27 with preliminary matches on MSNBC beginning July 25.
New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning made his first trip to CNN this morning, interviewed on “Starting Point” talking about his nonprofit Build Our Kids Success. On his brother Peyton Manning‘s move to Denver, Eli says, “I was with him last week for a little bit shooting a Reebok commercial. He’s doing great and loving it out there and working hard and excited to be playing football again.”
NBC’s Ann Curry is in Cannes, France today giving viewers an inside look at the star-studded Cannes Film Festival. Curry reported live from Cannes this morning and will co-anchor split live shows tomorrow and Friday.
CNN is bringing back its “iReport Awards” for 2012, and turning it into a weekend-long event. The seven winners–six selected by a judging panel and one community choice winner–will be flown to CNN’s Atlanta headquarters, where they will be treated to a weekend of behind-the-scenes access, meet and greets and panel discussions. The awards will be handed out June 24.
On the debut episode of his new Current TV series on Friday evening, Gavin Newsom interviews cyclist Lance Armstrong about doping. “I’m worn out,” Armstrong tells Newsom, adding that the tests have taken “a toll on his self, family, community, friends, business and foundation.”
Chris Wallace: accomplished chef? The “Fox News Sunday” moderator was on “Fox & Friends” this morning with his wife Lorraine to promote their new cookbook(!!) Mr. Sunday’s Saturday Night Chicken. They revealed a few of their favorite recipes:
Fox News Channel chief congressional correspondent Mike Emanuel will receive the Humanitarian Media Achievement Award at the Hellenic Times Scholarship Fund gala tonight. “I never imagined receiving awards, or [having gone to] half the places I’ve been over the years,” he tells the National Herald.
Stephanie Ruhle says her transition from Wall Street to Bloomberg TV has been easy. “It’s great because it’s the same stuff I’ve focused on my whole career, and now I get to do it on television,” she tells 201 Magazine. “It’s not even that big of a change because I spent years surrounded by unbelievably talented people in the financial industry, learning from them, working with them.”
Jay Wallace, Fox News’ VP of News and senior executive producer of news and politics, talks to Lost Remote about how “America Live with Megyn Kelly” is leveraging social media. “The amazing thing about this social media age is that it’s usage on Megyn’s show and in the newsroom has grown to a point where it is hard to imagine what life was without it,” he said. “It has become second nature in news production.”
Shannon Bream is filling in for Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” this week. It will be the second time hosting the program for Bream, who was the first female to ever fill in for Wallace.
“Anderson Cooper 360″ will host its inaugural Google+ hangout tonight at 6:45pmET. Viewers will able to chat with Cooper, Randi Kaye, CNN International anchor Isha Sesay and “AC360″ producer Jack Gray.
“The Gavin Newsom Show, ” Current TV’s weekly show hosted by the California Lieutenant Governor, will premiere next Friday night at 10pmET.
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