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‘Fox News Sunday’ Gets John Boehner Interview

Merrill Knox — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:55:36 +0000

“Fox News Sunday” will have an exclusive interview with House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) this week.

The interview took place Friday afternoon in Washington, DC. Boehner, who said this afternoon that the two parties are “almost nowhere” near a deal to avoid the looming fiscal cliff, will discuss the political stalemate with “FNS” host Chris Wallace.

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Diane Sawyer Gets Sit-down With Speaker Boehner

Chris Ariens — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:30:30 +0000

Tonight’s “CBS Evening News” is going one hour with 2012 election results and analysis. Meanwhile, “ABC World News” anchor Diane Sawyer gets the first post-election interview with Speaker of the House John Boehner who will soon get to work with President Obama on trying to keep the U.S. from going off the fiscal cliff. Sawyer will interview Rep. Boehner tomorrow and anchor from Washington, DC tomorrow night.

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The Ticker (Paul Ryan Edition): Brit, Greta, Dan

Chris Ariens — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:16:00 +0000

FNC’s Brit Hume gets the first sit-down solo interview with GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan. Hume talks with Ryan tomorrow in Denver. Portions will air throughout the day, with the full interview on “Special Report with Bret Baier” at 6pmET.

Greta Van Susteren will be hosting tonight’s “On the Record” from her home state of Wisconsin. She’ll be live from Rep. Ryan’s hometown of Janesville. Van Susteren interviewed House Speaker John Boehner in the Central Wisconsin city of Wausau Sunday. Gov. Scott Walker will also be a guest.

Dan Senor, the husband of former NBC and CNN anchor Campbell Brown, becomes a senior adviser to Rep. Ryan. Politico reports, Senor “will be serving in a much broader role with Ryan, helping on things like debate prep and the convention speech.”

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Wolf Blitzer’s Trifecta

Chris Ariens — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:32:53 +0000

Wolf Blitzer‘s gotten some big bookings the past couple days, and he’s got another tonight.

Today, Blitzer talks with House Speaker John Boehner who yesterday said President Obama “doesn’t give a damn about the middle class Americans.” The interview airs on “The Situation Room” at 4pmET. On Tuesday, Blitzer asked Mitt Romney national campaign co-chair John Sununu if he regretted saying “I wish this president would learn how to be an American.” He told Blitzer, “I shouldn’t have used those words. And I apologize for using those words.”

And yesterday, Blitzer interviewed Jordan’s King Abdullah II. The interview came on a day of major news out of the region: the killing of Syria’s defense minister and two other high-ranking Syrian officials as well as the bombing of a bus filled with Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, which Israel blames on Iran.

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GQ thinks Ed Schultz is one of ‘The Least Influential People Alive’

Chris Ariens — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:58:08 +0000

Wow. Is it that time of year all ready?

Well, yes it is. When publishers come up with end of the year lists. Here’s one from the December GQ: the magazine’s list of “The 25 least Influential People Alive” MSNBC’s Ed Schultz comes in at #3. Ouch.

…Then there pundits like Ed Schultz. Do you watch “The Ed Show” on MSNBC? Of course you don’t. No one does. The only reason people watch “The Ed Show” is they’re working out in a hotel gym and they can’t find a staff member to change the channel to ESPN.

Also on the list: Tia and Tamera Mowry (#4). (Tamera married Fox News correspondent Adam Housley over the summer); also Tina Brown (#17), John Boehner (#24) and Pres. Obama (#25). Topping the list former GOP candidate Tim Pawlenty.

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Government Shutdown Showdown Keeps White House Press Corps Up Late

Chris Ariens — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:24:34 +0000

It was a late night last night for the journalists who cover the White House as Pres. Obama appeared in the briefing room around 10:45pmET. Obama’s three-minute statement followed an 80-minute meeting with House Speaker John Boehner and Senate leader Harry Reid over the budget impasse. The three cable networks carried the statement. Obama took no questions.

Politico reports Rep. Boehner and Sen. Reid are heading back to the White House this afternoon for more negotiations.

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TVNewsers Capture Republican John Boehner’s Newly Elected Glow

Molly Stark Dean — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:48:07 +0000

Republican John Boehner was elected as speaker of the House of Representatives, replacing Democrat Nancy Pelosi — officially ending four years of the Democratic rule.

Alongside all the cable coverage, the broadcasts also commemorated this gavel exchange.

The business networks also decided to join the celebration.

Official press releases for some of tvnewsers’ plans for tonight are after the jump…
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Diane Sawyer Sits Down with 10 Freshman Republicans Ahead of 112th Congress

Chris Ariens — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:55:32 +0000

Diane Sawyer has lined up interviews with 10 freshman GOP congressmen & women as they head to the Hill. Sawyer will talk with:

Sen. Rand Paul (KY)
Sen. Mike Lee (UT)
Rep. Mo Brooks (AL-05)
Rep. Paul Gosar (AZ-01)
Rep. Michael Grimm (NY-13)
Rep. Frank Guinta (NH-01)
Rep. Vicky Hartzler (MO-04)
Rep. Tim Huelskamp (KS-01)
Rep. Marlin Stutzman (IN-03)
Rep. Scott Tipton (CO-03)

The interview airs tomorrow night, on the eve of the start of the 112th session of Congress. Let’s see if all of them make the cut for the “World News” broadcast. The extended interviews will be on ABCNews.com tomorrrow night. As we reported yesterday, NBC’s Brian Williams is getting the first interview with incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner Thursday, which will air on “Nightly News” that evening.

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NBC’s Brian Williams Snags John Boehner’s First Interview Since Becoming Speaker of the House

Alex Weprin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:10:17 +0000

With the new year comes a new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, John Boehner (R-OH).

“NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams has secured the first interview with Boehner since assuming the role. Williams will speak to Boehner Thursday inside the Speaker’s ceremonial office in the Capitol Building.

Excerpts from the interview will appear on that evening’s “Nightly News,” with an extended interview to be posted on the program’s website.

ABC News and Fox Newshad the first interviews with Boehner following the midterm elections, with CBS’ “60 Minutes” airing its interviews a few days later.

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’60 Minutes’ #3 Show for the Week

Chris Ariens — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:13:10 +0000

Thanks to a huge football lead-in — in fact the highest rated broadcast of the NFL season, CBS’ “60 Minutes” was the third most-watched primetime show on TV last week.

17.59 million viewers watched a weepy Rep. John Boehner interviewed by Lesley Stahl; Steve Kroft‘s report on emerging economic powerhouse Brazil and Scott Pelley‘s profile of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones which led nicely into NBC’s Sunday Night Football matchup between the Cowboys and Eagles — a ratings juggernaut in its own right.

Compared to the same night last year, “60″ was up +6% in households, +9% in A25-54 viewers and +8% in the A18-49 demo.

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Les Moonves Holds Court at CBS Holiday Bash

Chris Ariens — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:27:05 +0000

CBS Corp. CEO Les Moonves — sans wife Julie Chen who is fully ensconced in L.A. for her ensemble daytime show, “The Talk” — celebrated with his CBS minions, and the press who cover them, at CBS’ Black Rock headquarters last night.

CBS' annual airing of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" drew 12.2 million viewers Nov. 30.

Several stars of CBS primetime shows were there, including Tom Selleck who stars in “Blue Bloods,” and Christine Baranski and Matt Czuchry of “The Good Wife.” And while Moonves can tout having the most-watched TV network, the stars of his struggling news division also worked the room — including the new front four of “The Early Show:” Erica Hill, Chris Wragge, Jeff Glor and Marysol Castro. The team will be hitting the road next week, making stops at several CBS affiliates where the #3-in-the-ratings show performs relatively well. (Our sister blog TVSpy reports Wragge’s last day on WCBS is today.)

We talked with show EP David Friedman and CBS News & Sports President Sean McManus who both expressed their confidence in the team. “It’ll take some time,” said McManus, “but this is a good group. I’m excited.”

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Sunday Show Ratings: Jan. 31

kevin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:22:33 +0000

NBC’s “Meet the Press” was the most-watched Sunday show this week, drawing the programs largest audience since last March (last May in the demo). David Axelrod and Rep. John Boehner were guests.

ABC’s “This Week,” which was anchored by Barbara Walters and featured an interview with Senator-elect Scott Brown and a roundtable with Roger Ailes, was up enough week-to-week to overtake CBS’ “Face the Nation” and finish second. It was ABC’s largest audience of the season.

“Fox News Sunday” drew an additional 2.50M total viewers (674,000 demo) via cable replays. Rebroadcasts of “MTP” drew an additional 1,014,000 total viewers.

Network	Program	Total Viewers	A25-54
NBC	“Meet the Press”	3.89M	1.18M
ABC	“This Week”	3.07M	930K
CBS	“Face the Nation”	2.89M	780K
FOX	“Fox News Sunday”	1.14M	440K

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Split Decision for Sunday Morning Shows

Chris Ariens — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:56:50 +0000

This Week with George Stephanopoulos edged out NBC’s Meet the Press in the A25-54 demo last Sunday. MTP still beat all its public affairs competitors in Total Viewers. The economic crisis was the big topic on all the shows. ABC had Treasury Secy. Hank Paulson, Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. John Boehner as guests. As well as a roundtable that included Democratic strategist Donna Brazile.

MTP also had Paulson as well as New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and a roundtable with CNBC’s Steve Liesman and Erin Burnett and the Washington Post’s Steve Pearlstein.

The last time ABC beat NBC in the demo was January 27, 2008 when This Week had Sen. Barack Obama on the broadcast. Interestingly, as the primary battles were heating up, Sen. John McCain was a guest on Meet the Press that day.

Sept. 21, 2008	Total Viewers	A25-54 Viewers
Meet the Press	3,560,000	1,140,000
This Week	3,080,000	1,150,000
Face the Nation	2,710,000	1,080,000
FOX News Sunday	1,140,000	550,000

Also, for the 2007/2008 season, This Week placed second outperforming CBS’ Face the Nation among Total Viewers and the A25-54 demo. This marks the program’s first second place finish since Stephanopoulos began as anchor in September 2002 and its first second place finish among both Total Viewers and the demo in seven years (since the 2000/2001 season).

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