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Senate Votes on Healthcare Reform, Cable Covers

Another Saturday night, another vote on Capitol Hill on healthcare reform, and coverage of it on cable news. The vote, which essentially allows the debate to begin on the Senate floor, was 60-39, with Ohio GOP Sen. George Voinovich the only senator not to vote.

Interestingly, all the cable news channels were in taped programming and shook up the schedules to broadcast the Senate vote and related analysis.

• FNC's "Huckabee" was preempted for special coverage anchored by Gregg Jarrett.

• CNN's Don Lemon anchored coverage of the vote, which delayed the start of an AC360 special report until 8:10pmET (which had already been delayed once before).

• MSNBC began airing Lockup at 8pmET, then interrupted the documentary for nine minutes of coverage as the vote happened, with David Shuster anchoring.

• Fox Business Network interrupted the Dave Ramsey show for special coverage anchored by David Asman.

The two Fox networks were the only channels, other than C-SPAN, to carry the Democrats' news conference following the vote.

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Palin Talks Gibson, Couric on O'Reilly

In last night's Part One interview on "The Factor," Gov. Sarah Palin sat down with Bill O'Reilly and discussed two of the most memorable interviews from last year's campaign season.

Palin called Charlie Gibson's "Bush Doctrine" question on ABC one of the "gotcha techniques" of the mainstream (or "lamestream") media and she said of the Katie Couric interview on CBS, "It was quite obvious that it was going to be an annoying interview," and that her response was the result of "my inexperience with having to deal with a badgering, condescending line of questioning."

As The Swamp points out, Sean Hannity's Palin interview on Wednesday night drew big numbers for his FNC program, its second largest audience of the year.

TVNewser will have the ratings for O'Reilly's Thursday night program later today.

Fmr. CNN Head to Chair Pres. Obama's Broadcasting Board of Governors

The White House named four people to the Broadcasting Board of Governors, including the chairman of the group, Walter Isaacson, who is President of the Aspen Institute and former chairman and CEO of CNN. Isaacson, who ran CNN for 18 months from 2001-2003, is also the former editor of Time Magazine.

The other appointees are named in a press release from the White House, after the jump...

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What Will the White House Correspondents Do Without Twitter in China?

With China's tolerate/hate relationship with Twitter and other social networking sites, we're wondering what @jaketapper, @chucktodd, @majoratWH, @edhenryCNN and other White House correspondents/prolific Twitterers are going to do without the service while covering Pres. Obama in the People's Republic. Guess we'll just have to see. The president arrived in China about an hour ago, so tweets CBS Radio News White House correspondent @markknoller.

• You can follow all the White House correspondents on our TVNewser Twitter list.

> Update: Tapper and Todd Tweeted from China around 9:30pmET Sunday night, with caveats...

Sarah Palin on Katie Couric: 'I Almost Started to Feel Sorry for Her'

goingrogue11-13.jpgThe Drudge Report has a leaked excerpt from Chapter Four of Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue: An American Life. In it, Palin describes being stifled by the McCain campaign's "media blackout" and the pressure she says she received from McCain staffer Nicolle Wallace to sit down for an interview with Katie Couric.

From the beginning, Nicolle pushed for Katie Couric and the CBS Evening News. The campaign's general strategy involved coming out with a network anchor, someone they felt had treated John well on the trail thus far. My suggestion was that we be consistent with that strategy and start talking to outlets like FOX and the Wall Street Journal. I really didn't have a say in which press I was going to talk to, but for some reason Nicolle seemed compelled to get me on the Katie bandwagon.

Wallace was a political consultant at CBS News until 2008 when she left to work on the McCain campaign. Palin continues:

Nicolle went on to explain that Katie really needed a career boost. "She just has such low self-esteem," Nicolle said. She added that Katie was going through a tough time. "She just feels she can't trust anybody."

I was thinking, And this has to do with John McCain's campaign how?

Nicolle said. "She wants you to like her."

Hearing all that, I almost started to feel sorry for her. Katie had tried to make a bold move from lively morning gal to serious anchor, but the new assignment wasn't going very well.

"You know what? We'll schedule a segment with her," Nicolle said. "If it doesn't go well, if there's no chemistry, we won't do any others."

TVNewser reached out to the Couric camp for a response. There's no comment at this time. Going Rogue goes on sale Tuesday.

Update: A spokesman for Couric tells TVNewser, "The interviews speak for themselves."

Sarah Palin on Katie Couric Interview: 'I Knew it was a Bad Interview'

CouricPalin_11.12.jpgFishbowlDC has a partial transcript from Oprah Winfrey's interview yesterday with Sarah Palin. In the interview, which airs Monday on "Oprah," Palin is asked about her 2008 campaign interviews with Katie Couric.

Winfrey: You do say that it wasn't your best interview. Do you think that was a seminal defining moment for you, that interview?

Palin: I did not. And neither did the campaign. In fact, that is why Segment 2 and 3 and 4 and maybe 5 were scheduled. The campaign said, 'right on. Good. You're showing your independence. This is what America needs to see and it was a good interview.' And of course I'm thinking, if you thought that was a good interview, I don't know what a bad interview is because I knew it was a bad interview wasn't a good interview.

Related / FishbowlNY: Former Playgirl Editor Dishes on Levi Johnston Shoot

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WHCA Dinner set for May 1, 2010

ObamaWHCA_11.11.jpgMark your calendars. The White House Correspondents' Association dinner will be held Saturday, May 1, 2010. The ticket price of the annual dinner, at which the President of the United States speaks, is being bumped up $25 to $225 per person. According to the WHCA board, the price hike means more money will go toward college scholarships, which is the reason for the black-tie dinner -- from the current $25,000 to $132,000.

Cable News Snapshot: 11:08pmET 11/07/2009

The House passed its version of the health care reform bill, getting the 218 votes needed at 11:07pmET tonight. The final vote was 220 in favor, 215 against. One republican, Rep. Joseph Cao of Louisiana voted for it.

Geraldo Rivera was hosting live coverage on Fox news. On CNN, Don Lemon anchored and MSNBC's David Shuster was in to anchor their coverage.

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Now it's the Senate's turn.

The Only Network to Provide Live Coverage of Speaker Pelosi? It's Not CNN or MSNBC

pelosi_11.7.jpgSo, we wonder if the White House still thinks Fox News is "not a news network." Tonight, Fox News was the only news channel [other than C-SPAN] to provide live coverage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi making her way to the house chamber, then speaking to members ahead of tonight's vote on health care reform. CNN stayed with a taped replay of The Situation Room. MSNBC was airing a crime documentary, but mentioned that Pelosi was speaking during a scheduled live cut-in. FNC and MSNBC have teased they'll have coverage of the vote when it happens. CNN returns to live coverage at 7pmET.

Late Races, With Early-Ending Coverage

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With several surprises and late returns, yesterday's races delivered more drama than one would generally expect from an off-year election. Still, after the build up on the three cable news nets, some were disappointed with the extent of the coverage, especially if you were on the west coast.

During the 10pmET hour, WaPo's Howard Kurtz tweeted something that others had been wondering about MSNBC's broadcast, "The usual Countdown rerun, on Election Night?"

Rather than running a full, live "Countdown," Lawrence O'Donnell broke in with a 20-minute update on the latest election results. Afterward, MSNBC finished the replay of Keith Olbermann's 8pmET broadcast.

With the exception of one segment, all of Rachel Maddow's subsequent 11pmET program was live, as was 12amET's "Hardball."

An MSNBC spokesperson tells TVNewser, "MSNBC was live with what needed to be live and provided coverage of all the results as they came in."

In September, Keith Olbermann commented on his recurring absences, due to his father's health.

As for the other networks, Fox News went to tape at MidnightET. CNN did so at 1amET, following a Midnight edition "Larry King Live."

Previously

It Wouldn't Be an Election Night Without...

November '09 Elections: Cable Coverage Plans

"Truce" Between White House and Fox News?

White House Refutes Claims It Tried to Block Fox from Feinberg Interview

Obama 'Not Losing Sleep Over' Fox News

White House v. Fox News: Week 2 Updates

White House Officials Discuss Dunn's FNC Comments

ABC, AP, CBS, CNN, Fox, NBC Fight NJ Exit Poll Ban

Senate Finance Committee Passes Health Care Reform

Dunn on FNC: 'Let's Not Pretend They're a News Network'

Obama on Peace Prize: "I Do Not Feel I Deserve to be in the Company of So Many of the Transformative Figures Who've Been Honored by this Prize'

Afghanistan Coverage Increases with Anniversary

Cable News vs. the President

Broadcasters Interrupt Morning Shows for Obama/Brown/Sarkozy Iran News

"You Look Like You Were Suffering Over There"

White House Pulls Guest from CNN over New Obama Book

U.S. Newsers Interview World Leaders

How Do You Spell that Libyan Leader's Name?

Obama @ the U.N.

Obama's Blitz: Monday Morning Analysis

Reporters Shouted Down During Values Voter Summit

Preventing Another 'Jackass' Moment

Business Nets Plan for G-20

President Carter Comment Quickly Spreads

No Exclusives Here. Sunday Shows Prep For Obama

ABC Apologizes to White House, CNBC Over Off-the-Record Tweets

As CNN and MSNBC Air Obama Health Care Speech, FNC Broadcasts a Live Glenn Beck Special

Obama Address & Wrap-Up: FNC Doubles Other Nets; MSNBC Tops CNN in Prime

21 Million Watch President's Address to Congress on Big Three

Gibbs: 'I do Hope People Will Check in to the Reality of What's Going on in America Rather Than the Distraction of a Reality TV Show'

Cable Plans for Obama's Address to Congress

President Obama Speaks to Schools

Glenn Beck Statement on Resignation of Van Jones

After Pressure, Much of it from Glenn Beck, White House Green Jobs Adviser Resigns

ABC, CBS, NBC to Carry Obama & GOP Response; FOX Unlikely

ABC Passes on Ad Critical of Healthcare Reform

White House Changes Email Rules After Fox News Questioned Tactics

Obama on His Town Hall: "They Didn't Shout at one Another, They Were There to Listen"

Obama in Montana Selling Healthcare Reform

Obama Holds White House Sotomayor Reception

Cable Coverage Differs on Healthcare Meetings

Cablers Carry Arlen Specter Town Hall Live

Republican Congressman About Glenn Beck: "Here's What I Suggest: Turn That Television Off"

Sotomayor Confirmed in Senate

U.S. Journalists Pardoned in N Korea

Christiane Amanpour Goes to the Presidential Way-Back Machine

Clinton (Bill, Not Hillary) Heads to North Korea to Negotiate Release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee

Another Former tvnewser Joins Obama Administration

White House Goes to the Top to Secure Network Prime Time

Countdown to Beer Summit

Health Care Bad for Ratings?

How Lynn Sweet's Race Question Trumped Healthcare

Too Many Steves at the White House

Commentary on the Press Corps: "These Guys, and Women, are Not Journalists. They're Enablers"

Pres. Obama's Healthcare News Conference

Cable News Giving Rebirth to an Old Obama Theory

FOX Sticks With 'Dance' Over Obama Newser

CBS to Carry Obama News Conf.; No Decision from NBC, ABC or FOX

Pres. Obama Calls Prime Time News Conference for Wednesday....via Twitter

Remainder of Sanford Emails Released

What's Jake Tapper Got Against NBC News?

WWBD or What Would Brian (or Charlie or Katie) Do?

Anderson Cooper, Obama in Africa

Nancy Pelosi Newser Carried by Cable Networks

Networks Headed to Ghana

Sarah Palin Takes Correspondents Fishing

Pres. Obama Makes the Net Rounds

From Russia With...

Four Hours of Pres. Obama or "More of 'The Biggest Loser'?"

Sarah Palin Takes News Nets By Surprise: "This Does Not Feel Like the Act of a Woman Who Wants to Have a National Career"

Networks to Carry Obama News Conference

Obama at Press Dinner: "I Know Where My Bread is Buttered"

Cablers to Carry Pres. Obama Remarks at RTCA Dinner Tonight

VP's Sunday Appearances Drawing Fewer Viewers

Gov. Sarah Palin on Today, Then CNN

Greta, George Interview Sec. of State Clinton

Pres. Obama Cairo Speech Replayed on MSNBC

Pres. Obama: "I Don't Find Most of the Cable Chatter Persuasive"

GM Everywhere: Networks Cover Obama Speech

Cablers Cover Prop 8 Court Ruling

Sotomayor Announcement Covered on Every News Network

Decision, Decisions: Pres. Speech at Naval Academy or Nancy Pelosi Briefing

White House Producing Its Own News Reports, Shutting Out the Press Pool

Cablers Cover Cheney Portion of Morning

Cablers Cover Pres. Obama Speech, Anticipate Cheney's Address

Rush Limbaugh "Resigns" As Head of Republican Party

Greta's Husband Tried to Bring Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton Together

Wanda Sykes Lands On FOX, And Talks About Her Rush Comments

Cell Phones Interrupt Already Contentious White House Briefing

Will FOX Decision Lead Other Networks To Follow Suit?

Rising Reporters: The Etiquette of Standing Up

Grading the Press Corps

NBC and CBS Reveal WH Correspondents Dinner Guest Lists

Is ABC News Hogging White House Dinner Guests?

"Lie to Me" Tops Obama News Conference

Covering the Coverage: From CNN's "Mess" to "Ravishing Rachel Maddow"

Live Blog: Covering the 100 Day Coverage

Specter's Switch: First Stop, Meet the Press

Obama Describes Seeing "Folks Waving Tea Bags Around" on Channels Where "I'm Not Very Popular"

Study: Too Much Personal Coverage of Obama

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