Archives: December 2010

The National Hockey League announced on Friday afternoon that the 2011 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic will move from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m ET on Saturday night.

The decision to move the game back was based on the latest meteorological reports, which show an approaching front of potentially steady rain expected to fall through the afternoon and taper off by early evening.

As a result of the rain, there are a number of weather-related game procedure contingencies for the 2011 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic. Read more

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2010 has come and gone, and considering your expert predictions for 2010, we thought we would ask you what to expect in the world of TV news in 2011.

Voting will close January 9, 2011.

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From the TVNewser tipbox:

CNN’s Carter Evans left the Nasdaq early this morning because wife Courtney Friel is in labor!

Friel, who is an anchor at Fox News Channel, announced her pregnancy on her Facebook page, back in August. Yesterday on her Wall, Friel wrote,

was just at hospital checkup- they confirmed my baby doc’s estimates that he already weighs 9 lbs! Yikes! Please son- evict yourself now!

Update: From Friel: “Well that was quite an experience! *Cash Hudson Evans* was born at 6:08 am on 1-1-11. 9 lbs even (ouch). He’s perfect and healthy and I will post pics when I can. Thanks for the well-wishes! Happy New Year everyone!

1. March 28 — Harry Smith to Shoot Hoops with Pres. Obama

2. Nov. 9 — Matt Lauer’s George W. Bush Interview is Fourth in Timeslot

3. Aug. 24 — CBS Evening News Ties All-Time Low

4. Sept. 21 — Evening News Broadcasts Lose 739,000 Viewers in One Year

5. Dec. 24 — “This Week with Christiane Amanpour” Down -46% in the Ratings

6. Feb. 16 — CNN Has Lowest Viewer Night in 4 Years

7. Jan. 26 — Fox News Finishes #1 in All of Cable

8. Aug. 13 — Bed Bugs at Time Warner Center in New York

9. Mar. 16 — Cable News Network Rankings

10. April 21 — Donny Deutsch Off the Air Following Criticism of Keith Olbermann

The #1 cable news program of 2010 was “The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News Channel.  This year, Bill O’Reilly sat down with guests such as Whoopi Goldberg (after “The View” walk-off), Jon Stewart (before the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear“), and Bill Maher. It has been quite a year for the Fox News host, and here are a few 2010 highlights.

The other night on AC360, Anderson Cooper chatted with Kathy Griffin, to promote tonight’s New Year’s Eve special on CNN. Cooper sported his Rachel Maddow look for the interview. “Ryan Seacrest would not be caught dead with those glasses.”

Today is the last (official) day for the current “Early Show” team of Harry Smith, Maggie Rodriguez and Dave Price, with a new anchor crew coming on board in January.

Some people are not taking the change well:

There is also a “Save the Current Early Show Team” page on Facebook, but the 822 “likes” probably aren’t enough to force CBS to make any changes.

The second to last week in December, which also included the Christmas Eve holiday, was a fairly slow one for the broadcast morning shows.

As usual, NBC’s “Today” led the pack, followed by ABC’s “Good Morning America” and CBS’ “Early Show.”

All three programs were down in both total and demo viewers compared to the previous week.

The averages for the week of December 20:

Total Viewers: NBC: 5.36M / ABC: 4.55M / CBS: 2.71M
A25-54 rating: NBC: 2.49M / ABC: 1.70M / CBS: 1.08M

25-54 demographic (Live +SD)

• Total day: FNC: 280 | MSNBC: 143 | CNN: 118 | HLN: 106

• Primetime: FNC: 434 | MSNBC: 187 | CNN: 89 | HLN: 127

	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:	12a:
FNC	Beck:	Baier:	Shep:	O’Reilly:	Hannity:	Greta:	O’Reilly:	Hannity:
	227	321	331	539	418	346	295	276
MSNBC	Matthews:	EdShow:	Matthews:	Olbermann:	Maddow:	Lockup:	Lockup:	Lockup:
	134	145	214	210	216	137	212	245
CNN	Blitzer:	Blitzer:	KingUSA:	ParkerSpitzer:	King:	Cooper:	Cooper:	King:
	146	146	125	88	72	107	86	69
HLN	Showbiz:	Prime:	Issues:	Grace:	Behar:	Grace:	Showbiz:	Behar:
	57	45	90	163	124	96	82	97

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Former CBS Marketwatch CEO Larry Kramer blogs about MSNBC and Fox News on his blog, C-Scape. In a nutshell, Kramer argues that today’s busy media consumer, lacking the time to dig in to issues themselves, instead relies on cognitive shortcuts to familiarize themselves with what the “correct” opinions are, based on their preexisting ideology.

In Kramer’s opinion, Fox News and MSNBC are at the heart of this problem, which he says is “a bad thing for democracy” and leads to a “less-informed but more opinionated public.”

It is, frankly, easier for someone to turn on either Fox News or MSNBC, listen to the frequent opinion expressed, right or left, and benchmark themselves against that opinion rather than forming their own opinion based on independent thinking.

So if a new Supreme Court Justice was named tomorrow, more people would check out what Fox and MSNBC said about him or her, and then quickly decide whether or not they were in favor or opposed to approving the candidate. “If Fox (or MSNBC) like him, so do I,” a viewer can decide, (or the opposite) based totally on that viewer’s political stance and how it relates to Fox or MSNBC.

Kramer is an incredibly smart and well-respected TV executive, but in this case he seems to miss the mark in at least two ways:

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