Cable news networks turned their attention to Cypress, Texas this afternoon as more than 12 people were stabbed on the campus of Lone Star Community College.

Fox News’ Rick Folbaum was the first to report the stabbings at 12:56 pmET, followed by MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell at 1:17 p.m. and CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux at 1:39pmET. All three went back to regular programming briefly before returning to wall-to-wall coverage during the 2pmET hour.

“First Thursday,” the big kick-off for March Madness, is over, and with it the 2013 TVNewser March Madness bracket challenge really gets started.

This early in the game everyone is really close, but a few people have separated themselves from the pack.

CNBC’s Brian Schactman leads the way, with his colleague Joe Kernen and CNN’s Brooke Baldwin right behind him. Right now Lisa Sylvester, Wolf Blitzer, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell are at the bottom of the pack, but there is plenty of time for a comeback.

Take a look at the full standings, after the jump.
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Spring is here (even though it may not feel like it where you are) and with it comes the sweet sound of sneakers on hardwood: the NCAA March Madness college basketball tournament.

Every year we have some of the best and brightest from the world of TV news come together in one competition to see who is tops at picking winners and losers.

Ultimately there can be only one winner, and they get the chance to brag about their picking prowess for all to see. 2012′s winner was Fox Business Network stocks editor Liz MacDonald. Liz wont be participating this year, but 2011′s winner Dominic Chu is back to try and reclaim the title.

Here is your 2013 TVNewser March Madness lineup:

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Early reports of Erin Burnett moving to the early shift on CNN may have been premature.

FTVLive reports:

CNN sources tell FTVLive that the Burnett to mornings is “dead in the water” and is not happening. Word is that CNN Boss Jeff Zucker is planning on going a different direction in finding a co-anchor for newly hired Chris Cuomo.

This report comes less than a week after Soledad O’Brien announced she would be leaving the morning show. As FishbowlDC reported earlier this week, Zucker met with NABJ representatives about the state of black anchors on the network. When O’Brien leaves, Suzanne Malveaux will be the only African American weekday anchor on the network.

While you may not see Burnett every morning, she will be anchoring during the mid-morning hours tomorrow. Burnett is slated to co-host, along with Cuomo a special on Pope Benedict. “The Pope’s Last Day” will be simulcast on CNN/U.S. and CNN International beginning at 10amET.

CNN continues to tweak its lineup, and the latest changes are coming to the 12-1PM hour. As we reported over the weekend, CNN International anchor Michael Holmes will be joining the program as co-anchor alongside Suzanne Malveaux.

Now, CNN says the name of the hour will be changed from “Newsroom International” to “Around the World.”

The new name will go into effect Monday, February 25.

The Ticker, which was replaced years ago by the Flipper, has returned to CNN. The lower third scroll of news returned at NoonET on “Newsroom International.”

Insiders tell us this is another Jeff Zucker move. The new CNN president has been making his mark on programming, hiring and the overall look of CNN. Today, the NoonET hour of “Newsroom Interenational” also became a co-anchored show, with Michael Holmes joining Suzanne Malveaux at the anchor desk. The new ticker is a scrawl, blue, with white font.

The Flipper had been a part of CNN’s look since 2008. At the time, CNN VP Bart Feder said the Flipper is “easier to read, understand and absorb the information.” What do you think?

> Update: By Tuesday, the ticker had been tweaked with blue type on a white background. It was not used at all in primetime.

CNN has named Michael Holmes the co-anchor of “Newsroom International,” the edition of “CNN Newsroom” that airs from 12-1PM ET on CNN/U.S. He will anchor alongside Suzanne Malveaux.

“I suppose we do share the same passion, and that is field work and international news, it is what we do, isn’t it?” Holmes said on “Newsroom” Friday afternoon, talking to Malveaux.

Holmes is currently an anchor and correspondent for CNN International, based in Atlanta. He will continue as the anchor of “International Desk” on CNNI. An Australian native, Holmes joined CNNI in 1996, and has reported from all over the world, including covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was a reporter fro Australia’s Nine Network before joining CNN.

A day ahead of the second presidential debate, the Obama and Romney campaigns are agreeing on one issue: the moderator’s role in the Town Hall style debate. The campaigns complain CNN’s Candy Crowley is planning to take liberties with her role as moderator, according to TIME’s Mark Halperin. Halperin writes the campaigns are miffed about statements Crowley has made in interviews ahead of the Town Hall. To CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux, Crowley said: “Once the table is kind of set by the town-hall questioner, there is then time for me to say, ‘Hey, wait a second, what about X, Y, Z?’”

The campaigns claim this does not go along with what they agreed to.

As stated in the document: “In managing the two-minute comment periods, the moderator will not rephrase the question or open a new topic … The moderator will not ask follow-up questions or comment on either the questions asked by the audience or the answers of the candidates during the debate or otherwise intervene in the debate except to acknowledge the questioners from the audience or enforce the time limits, and invite candidate comments during the two-minute response period.”

Crowley’s not commenting to Halperin. She told TVNewser’s Gail Shister, in a column published this morning, “The whole idea is to channel the voter and what he’s still wondering about,” adding, “Their campaigns set the rules, largely. In some ways, that makes it a little easier for me.”

Halperin says one of his sources “expressed confidence that, despite Crowley’s remarks on CNN, the moderator would perform on Tuesday night according to the rules agreed to by the two campaigns.”

The first sentence of CNN’s just-released press release for convention coverage reads like this:

CNN will offer viewers nonstop, unbiased programming across on-air and digital platforms at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions beginning later this month.

It’s as if CNN is saying, if you watch Fox News or MSNBC during the conventions, those networks will lean right, or left, or forward (never backward), so watch us if you want it down the middle. Our TVNewsers Alex Weprin and Merrill Knox will be at the conventions — ahem — keeping them honest.

Anyway, CNN has big plans. Read about them after the jump…

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• CNN has NALEO (National Association of Latino Elected Officials) covered. Suzanne Malveaux anchored Newsroom International from the conference; Jim Acosta and Jessica Yellin will report; CNN en Español is there and Wolf Blitzer will interview Sen. Marco Rubio today for “The Situation Room.”

• The Supreme Court ruled today that the FCC “failed to give Fox or ABC fair notice prior to the broadcasts in question that fleeting expletives and momentary nudity could be found actionably indecent.” ABC is pleased: “We’re pleased with the decision of the Supreme Court regarding the episode of NYPD Blue.”

• Clickspring Design has won an award for the design of NBC’s Studio 3B, home to “Nightly News” and “Rock Center.” Nightly began broadcasting from the new studio on October 24, 2011, a week ahead of Rock Center’s debut on October 31.