Events

On Wednesday, November 4th, the NY Comedy Festival will host its "Stand Up for Heroes" event, a comedy show benefiting the Bob Woodruff Foundation. NBC "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams will host and Stephen Colbert, Louis C.K., and Bruce Springsteen are all included in the line-up.

Conan O'Brien and Regis Philbin have previously hosted the event, which is co-chaired by a long list of big industry names. The Bob Woodruff Foundation "provides resources and support to service members, veterans and their families to successfully reintegrate into their communities so they may thrive physically, psychologically, socially and economically."

More info after the jump.

continued...

The National Father's Day Committee held their 68th annual "Father of the Year" awards lunch today in New York, emceed by MSNBC's Chris Matthews. Recipients ranged from Michael Krzyzewski ("Coach K") to Gen. David Petraeus, who was not in attendance. Also honored was ABC's George Stephanopoulos, who missed the pre-lunch news conference due to some weather delays.

We talked to Matthews about what it means to be involved in this event, ABC's upcoming special and more. Part two (featuring Matthews' thoughts on Dick Cheney and Nancy Pelosi) is after the jump:



Click continued to see Matthews discuss Cheney, Pelosi, GM and Iran in under two minutes...

• WebNewser has an interview with Coach K about Twitter.

continued...

FishbowlNY's Amanda Ernst has the full recap from last night's Gracie Awards.

CNBC host Suze Orman accepted her sixth Gracie award during the ceremony — the most ever. "I'm a woman and I'm so proud to be a woman, and I'm proud to do programming for women," Orman said in her acceptance speech. "But we need to build each other up, not tear each other down...We all have to make sure that women rule because in my opinion they most certainly do."

Others in the crowd: Bob Schieffer, Katie Couric, Ann Curry and Anderson Cooper. Check FBNY for more...

We're just a couple weeks away from the second mediabistro Circus - June 2-3 at the Times Center in New York.

Executives from the New York Times and Bravo will be speaking and Tim Ferris will school us on the "Four Hour Work Week." Also speaking - Marketwatch founder/CBS Digital adviser Larry Kramer and former MSNBC executive turned NYMag.com GM Michael Silberman.

And since it's Internet Week in New York, you never know who else might drop by.

• Also, head over to WebNewser where you can qualify to win admission to Silicon Alley Insider's 'Startup 2009' conference which is also being held June 3 in New York.

CNN's Ed Henry, NBC's Brian Williams and Politico's Mike Allen at Saturday's White House Correspondents Association Dinner.

From our TVNewser spies at this weekend's White House Correspondents Association dinner and related events.

• Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner bailed as guests of CBS at the last minute. We hear Affleck was "really sick."

• ABC's Justice correspondent Jan Crawford Greenberg chatting up Justice Antonin Scalia at the National Journal pre-party. Will Crawford Greenberg be first with the news of the Souter replacement?

• Julia Louis Dreyfus spotted texting from her table during the Dinner. We hear she was sending texts to her co-star Wanda Sykes who was on stage as the Dinner's entertainment. (more below)

• A sign of the times -- no dessert and the networks/publications were charged if they ordered more than two bottles of wine per table, which our spy adds, "of course, everyone did."

• FishbowlDC's Christine Delargy and Matt Dornic had the weekend covered from Saturday morning brunch to Sunday morning after-parties.

- Tammy Haddad's Pre-Dinner Brunch

- Pictures - Inside the Hilton Dining Room

- Wanda Sykes - "Too Much?"

- The After-Parties: Vanity Fair & Bloomberg

The 2009 NAB Show/RTNDA conference is underway in Las Vegas this week. And like so many other out-of-town events, the dismal economy is taking a bite out of attendance - down 20% from last year. Last year 105,259 attended. This year there are 83,842 registered attendees.

NewscastStudio.com is covering the NAB show at the convention center as well as the annual RTNDA confab in the adjoining Hilton hotel.

Outgoing RTNDA president Barbara Cochran, wife of ABC News correspondent John Cochran was presented two awards yesterday: an NAB Recognition Award for her 12 years of service to the Radio & TV News Directors Association and RTNDA's John F. Hogan Award for Distinguished Service. More in the press release after the jump

(image: NewscastStudio.com)

continued...

The folks at Broadcasting & Cable are all over the NCTA Cable Show. And since it's in Washington, D.C. this year several DC-based tvnewsers are on the show floor while others have made the trip. So the B&Cers whipped out the Flip and started recording. A sampling below.

And be sure to check out all of B&C's coverage of the 2009 NCTA Cable Show here...

Great Van Susteren Talks to B&C at the Cable Show from Broadcasting & Cable on Vimeo.

Cable Show: Rachel Maddow on Ed Schultz, Twitter from Broadcasting & Cable on Vimeo.

CNN's Wolf Blitzer at the Cable Show from Broadcasting & Cable on Vimeo.

While the President was not in attendance, there were still plenty of politicians and journalists at the annual Gridiron Dinner in Washington, D.C. this weekend.

One tvnewser who graced the Gridiron stage was NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who appeared "in a bear costume introducing a number that lampoons her husband, former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, to the tune of 'What I Did for Love' from 'A Chorus Line.'"

Another was CBS' Bob Schieffer, who "donned a Stetson to play George W. Bush." "He's in the White House now — not my problem now," he sang to the tune of "In the Jailhouse Now."

FishbowlDC has more highlights from the event, including some shots by VP Biden at President Obama.

(image of ABC Charlie Gibson and Tammy Haddad by Dominic Bracco II — The Washington Post)

More than 300 TVNewsers packed Time Warner Center's 10th floor event space last night for the 14th annual NLGJA Headlines and Headliners benefit and silent auction. CNN's Soledad O'Brien emceed the event which raised more than $130,000 for NLGJA's annual programs and scholarships.

In attendance: Geraldo Rivera, Juliet Huddy, Mike Jerrick, Natalie Morales, Meredith Vieira and her former "The View" co-host Joy Behar; Jeanne Moos, Jane Velez Mitchell, Jenna Wolf, and Alison Stewart; NBC News president Steve Capus, FNC VP John Moody and many more (we had to duck out half way through the event so probably missed some late-comers.) Here are some of the faces in the crowd:

Several local newscasters, who headed back to their stations to anchor the 10 or 11 O'Clock shows, were in attendance, including Ernie Anastos and Dari Alexander of WNYW, Sade Baderinwa and Bill Ritter of WABC, and Chris Wragge of WCBS, doing double duty this week for the local station and the network.

At this hour, five noteworthy auction items remain on eBay.

More videos after the jump...

continued...

Dan Rather and Dan Abrams will deliver the two keynote addresses at this year's Bulldog Reporter Media Relations Summit. On Monday, May 18 Rather will deliver an address titled "The Future of the News." The following day Abrams, who recently stepped outside full-time journalism and founded media strategy firm Abrams Research, will discuss "The Future of Media Relations."

Among some of the other tvnewsers speaking at the 2+ day event, Ray Hennessey of Fox Business Network and Dan Patterson of ABC News.