The Ticker: AM EP, Mitchell, driverTV

> TVNewser is hearing that CNN is closer to hiring an executive producer for American Morning. We hear the network is looking strongly at an internal candidate, but that no deal is done. Ed Litvak announced he was leaving the show a month ago today.

> Andrea Mitchell‘s return as a regular anchor on MSNBC was enough to earn second place in the demo, beating CNN. Mitchell’s 1pmET program drew 145K demo viewers to CNN’s 102K. CNN topped MSNBC in Total Viewers for the hour: 464K vs. 433K.

> FishbowlNY reports one-time CBS News exec Adam Wiener is now behind the wheel of the partly-owned NBCU property driverTV. Wiener leaves NBCU’s iVillage to become COO of the auto-related content site.

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