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CourtTV/truTV

Thursday Apr 03, 2008

The New CourtTV?

CourtTV_4.3.jpgFrom a TVNewser tipster: "I understand that there is a move afoot to develop a legal television network in place of CourtTV."

Anybody know anything?

Earlier: CourtTV Adjourns...

> More from an emailer: "I've heard it's more than 'afoot'...that it's a web based gavel-to-gavel network claiming to program multiple trials at the same time; consumer info; caught on tape segments, etc. Former CourtTV people are involved (there are lots of them) and it sounds like the launch is late 3rd quarter early 4th quarter this year...OJ?"

Saturday Mar 01, 2008

Politan Leaves truTV

Politan_2.29.jpgMore changes to TruTV's daytime lineup. Sources tell TVNewser yesterday was anchor Vinnie Politan's last day at the former CourtTV. Insiders tell us, newsroom staffers had been wearing red, white, and green bracelets with 'Vin Strong' printed on them to show their support for Politan.

Thursday Jan 31, 2008

Star Jones' Show Canceled

Star_1.31.jpgAfter just five months on the air, Star Jones' self-titled program is going off the air. TVNewser has obtained an internal memo announcing the cancelation of the daytime show which airs at 3pmET on truTV. "Due to the rebranding and programming refocus of the network," writes EVP & GM Marc Juris, "truTV and Star Jones Reynolds have mutually agreed to cease production of the Star Jones show."

The show premiered August 20, 2007. The final program airs tomorrow. It will be replaced by Arrest & Trial. Jones will stay on as a contributing legal expert on the weekday In Session trial coverage.

Click continued to read the email from Juris...

continued...

Thursday Jan 10, 2008

The Ups & Downs of Ashleigh Banfield

Banfield_1.10.jpgPageSix Magazine profiled truTV's Ashleigh Banfield for this week's issue. (sorry no link)

Titled "The Comeback Kid," the story delves into the highs and lows of Banfield's TV career: from local TV in her native Canada, to her move to the U.S. and a station in Dallas, to the often controversial time she spent at MSNBC & NBC News, which came to a head after she gave a speech in Kansas on the eve of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

Looking around her office, she points out a framed poster that Kansas State had used to announce her now infamous speaking engagement. "I look at this as one of my proudest moments," Ashleigh says. "I don't regret the speech at all. It cost me enormously professionally, but four years later I'm proud of it."

Banfield also talks about being criticized by her colleagues at NBC and how Tom Brokaw came to defend her:

"For whatever reason, people will always be critical of their peers in this business. I rose very, very quickly, and I think there were headlines [about me]...Thank God people like Brokaw exist and will stand up for the little guy. I applaud him to this day as my savior."

Related: The mediabistro.com interview with Ashleigh Banfield...

Monday Dec 31, 2007

CourtTV Adjourns

CourtTVc_1231.jpgThe AP's David Bauder writes, "...with the new year, Court TV (1991-2007) adjourns." Tomorrow the channel "that burst into public consciousness with the O.J. Simpson trial and other big-name courtroom dramas in the 1990s becomes part of television history."

CourtTVd_1231.jpgThe network, which is being renamed truTV, will maintain six hours of "legal-oriented material during the day" to be called "In Session." Bauder writes that network execs consulted outside experts to find a new name, even holding an in-house contest for ideas. Some 5,000 suggestions came in.

Frank TV (now a sketch show on TBS) was one popular suggestion as was True Nation, "but truTV tested better with focus groups," Bauder writes.

Friday Dec 21, 2007

CourtTVNews.com Shutting Down

ctvnews.gifWith the re-branding of CourtTV to truTV less than two weeks away, some changes are already underway. The editor-in-chief of CourtTVNews.com posted a letter to readers about the fate of the site. It is going away.

Now CourtTVnews.com will sit in cyberspace, frozen and unchanging. The fact that the site will not continue does not diminish its accomplishments. Perhaps some day, years from now, someone will do a search on some trial or another, and up will pop a page from CourtTVnews.com. "What is this?" they'll wonder. Then they'll start reading, and think, "Jeez, this is pretty good. Who did this?" We know who did it. That is reward enough.
Wednesday Nov 28, 2007

Ashleigh Banfield on Her Last Days at NBC: "I Was Banished. I Sat in the Outfield For A Long Time"

Banfield_1128.jpgCourtTV's Ashleigh Banfield talks with mediabistro.com for our So What Do You Do? series. Part of it is excerpted below. TVNewser contributor Diane Clehane asked the former MSNBC anchor and NBC News correspondent about her undoing at the network:

In the months following 9/11 you were being touted as one of NBC's rising stars. The New York Post even mentioned you as possible successor to Katie Couric. Then, just as quickly, it seemed as if you dropped out of sight. What happened?

The Iraq war started to develop and I gave a very controversial speech at Kansas State [University] about the press's responsibility in covering international affairs. I sent out a cautionary note to all my colleagues covering this conflict and chastened the press corps not to wave the banner and cover warfare in a jingoistic way. It didn't sit well with my employers at NBC — who are no longer there. I think they overacted. I was banished. I sat in the outfield for a long time.

When did you officially leave NBC?

I left in 2004 — a few months after my contract expired. I was very much in the warehouse while my contract petered out.

Looking back on that time, what were the biggest lessons you learned?

On one hand you could say, "Keep your mouth shut while our nation is embroiled in war," but I don't think that was a responsible way to behave. If I have been fortunate enough to have risen to level in this business where people would actually listen to me, then I think I have a duty to convey all truths that I encounter. I felt it was my duty at the time. I was a war correspondent who had seen that the hearts and minds of the Arab world were not that easy to win.
Thursday Aug 02, 2007

Wishing On A Star

star_8.2b.jpgThe CourtTV folks have sent along the press kit (skinny Star pictures and all) for the upcoming Star Jones show.

CourtTV writes, Jones's program "will be a live, daily talk show that features the day's top stories and top guests from the worlds of law, news, pop culture & entertainment."

The show premieres August 20, at 3pm ET.

Thursday Jul 19, 2007

Court TV Evacuated After NYC Explosion

Court TV's offices on the 19th floor of a nearby building were evacuated following the steam pipe explosion in New York City yesterday.

"It was ten to 6:00, we heard a loud explosion. It felt like an earthquake," Adaora Udoji said on CNN last night. "I'm a block down. We're on the 19th floor. And it was shaking, we looked out the window. We saw hundreds and hundreds of people running down Third Avenue."
Monday Jul 16, 2007

A Star Is Reborn

starjones.jpg
Star Jones's self-titled daily talk show is just a few weeks away from launching on Court TV (soon to be truTV). The Chicago Tribune's Maureen Ryan was in the crowd for the Sunday morning session of the Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills.

Jones didn't talk much about her new show, or about the topic most reporters seemed to want to know about: her extreme makeover. Turns out Star is saving the good parts for a Glamour article she is writing.

She was also asked about "The View's" roller coaster of a year. "I was a part of an amazing pop culture experience. Barbara Walters gave me the opportunity of lifetime," Reynolds said. "So I'm not going to do anything that damages that warm feeling that I had. I'm not going to pile on."


Previously

Nancy Grace Says Goodbye To Court TV

Nancy Grace Leaves Court TV: "To Focus On My HLN Program & My Charitable Endeavors"

Grace Leaves Court TV: Statement

"Passing Of An Era" For Court TV

Court TV Cancels Catherine Crier Live

Banfield: Being At Court TV Is "Refreshing"

Grace Losing An Hour On Court TV

Libby: Court TV First With News-Of-Verdict

Court TV's 15th Anniversary Poll

Court TV Fires About 50 Employees

CNN & Court TV May Pool Some Resources

What's Next For Henry Schleiff?

No Longer Newsie: Court TV Becomes Part Of The TBS Entertainment Portfolio

Memo: Court TV Joins Turner Broadcasting

Henry Schleiff Out At Court TV

TBS SVP Dismisses Schleiff Speculation

If Time Warner Takes Over Court TV, Would Catherine Crier Come To HLN?

Former CNNer Udoji Coming To Court TV

Court TV Tweaks Lineup & Graphics

Savannah Guthrie Becomes Lead Correspondent For Court TV's D.C. Bureau

Court TV Launches Morning Show On Sirius

Ashleigh Banfield Is Back

Court TV Launches New Lineup

Is This Court TV's New Schedule?

Asner Says He Faced Fox "Lynch Mob"

Court TV Premieres Katrina Doc Tonight

"There's No Way I Am Leaving Court TV," Nancy Grace Says

Crier Cancels 'Contempt' Book Party

If Diane Dimond Was Such A "Tremendous Asset," Why Didn't Court TV Keep Her?

Diane Dimond Leaves Court TV

The Henry Schleiff Guessing Game

Dimond Penning Jacko Investigation Book

Pull Some Strings

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