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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
The first public ratings release of Fox Business shows the 9-month-old network is performing close to what Fox News Channel was doing in its first year. In July 1997 Fox News averaged 14,000 viewers in Total Day and 25,000 viewers in prime time. The network launched in October 1996. Fox Business is averaging about 8,000 in business day and 20,000 in prime time. FNC is also a general interest news...
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MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Jon Stewart takes a look at the kind of men who'd leave their mothers alone on Mother's Day.
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Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Jon Stewart juxtaposes how the two candidates spent their Thursdays. Download | Play Download | Play “But watching Senator Obama address a crowd of 200,000 in Germany while Senator McCain addresses a crowd of two in the frozen food section…” That about sums it up.
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Howard Kurtz got his hands on the first public ratings for Fox Business Network. Fox Business Network is averaging 8,000 viewers during daytime hours, and 20,000 in prime time. CNBC, by contrast, is drawing an average of 284,000 viewers during the day and 191,000 in prime time. Kurtz calls the numbers a "modest improvement" over the ratings that leaked out in January : about 6,300, on average, on...
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Olbermann Watch (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
"COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN" (8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M. ET) Host: Keith " Czechoslovakia " Olbermann? Comedian Rachel Madcow? Topics/Guests: TBA It's another thrill-packed edition of You Write the Recap! Comments are open, as before. And we invite all our clear-headed readers to watch the program and post their comments to each segment. Later we'll check out the comments, and the best, most insightful,...
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Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
Correspondent Bill Hemmer sits down with the presumptive Democratic nominee while he’s traveling in London. Obama also tapes his hour-long interview with NBC’s Tom Brokaw to air on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” Developing...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
25-54 demographic: (L +SD) Total day: FNC: 270 | CNN: 297 | MSNBC: 156 | HLN: 141 Prime: FNC: 456 | CNN: 882 | MSNBC: 256 | HLN: 226 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p: FNC ElectionHQ: Hume: Shep.: O'Reilly: H&C: Greta: O'Reilly: 225 385 324 524 399 444 508 CNN Blitzer: Blitzer: Dobbs: Brown: BlackinAm: Cont.: Cooper: 146 137 171 217 1210 — 746 MSNBC Hardball: Gregory: Hardball: Countdown: Abrams: Countdown:...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
For the second night in a row , CNN's documentary, "Black in America," was the top rated program in all of cable news in the A25-54 demo. Last night the program did even better than Wednesday, with 1,210,000 demo viewers. In second place was Anderson Cooper 360 (746,000) following the special, and FNC's The O'Reilly Factor (524,000) finished third. In Total Viewers The O'Reilly Factor was tops (2,586,000),...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ah, the day started with such happiness . Then it just fell into the red. Redlasso, a web site allowing users to make their own clips of cable and broadcast programming, has shut down, "for the immediate future." NBC and FOX filed suit against the company this week. In an email to the Redlasso Blogger Advisory Board (of which one of us TVNewsers is a member), Redlasso described the network's lawsuit...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Within just a few blocks of each other, two distinctly different sounds emanated from Midtown Manhattan this morning. While tween sensation Miley Cyrus performed on the plaza at NBC's Today show, singer-songwriter Feist was performing on ABC's Good Morning America in nearby Bryant Park. We were there for each this morning, as were thousands of others. The two spaces are very different. Plaza vs. park....
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today marks the 10th anniversary of Fox News Channel's "The Beltway Boys" which is hosted by Washington journalists, Fred Barnes and Morton Kondracke . The show, which airs Saturdays at 6pmET & 11pMET, focuses on the week's most memorable moments and hottest issues from inside the Beltway. This week Fred and Mort focus on Sen. Obama's trip and Sen. McCain's VP choice, whoever that might be. And just...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Brian Williams will not be returning to America following his interview yesterday with Sen. Barack Obama in Germany. On Monday, the NBC Nightly News anchor flies to Iran to interview Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from Tehran. The interview airs during Nightly News on Monday, with excerpts playing on the Today show, MSNBC and msnbc.com. Williams will also anchor the Nightly News from Tehran on Monday night....
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
As chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell is charged with reporting on the diplomatic beat for all NBC News platforms. This week, that has meant covering Sen. Barack Obama 's overseas trip and his meetings with heads of state. She has appeared on the Today show and Nightly News every day this week. She also reported for the weekend editions of those shows last Saturday and Sunday. And...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Monday, the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric goes HD. "The entire CBS Evening News team is excited that viewers can now watch our award-winning broadcast in HiDef," said executive producer Rick Kaplan in a press release. The HD broadcast will originate from a new multimillion-dollar control room, which broke ground a year and a half ago and includes new graphics and conference rooms. TVNewser...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
WaPo's Howard Kurtz sums up the media coverage of Barack Obama 's week abroad; what the trip meant for the candidate and the press following him. ...even as the likes of NBC's Andrea Mitchell and ABC's Jake Tapper rose to press the Democratic candidate on Tuesday, television viewers back home heard nothing but faint voices in the wind. The journalists weren't miked; only Obama's answers came through...
