May December (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Last night we went to The Museum Gala at the American Museum of Natural History . I have fond memories of visiting this museum when I was a kid; it's always great fun to back as a grown-up. Cocktail hour in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda: The dinosaur skeletons are as giant as I remembered: All smiles with Chappy during cocktails: Many cast members of Saturday Night Live were at the benefit: Dinner...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
PHOENIX — NBC newsman Brian Williams said Wednesday he's not sure if Walter Cronkite would have succeeded in the age of cable news, blogs and Twitter. "I am convinced that had he come along today, I don't think he would have cracked through. I think there's too much noise, too much to cut through for a modest man from Missouri," Williams told an audience in Phoenix. "But God and...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
"Cable TV operator Comcast Corp. is expected to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal, perhaps as early as next week, bringing the network of Johnny Carson, Jerry Seinfeld, Bob Hope, Milton Berle and Tom Brokaw under the corporate control of the company that owns the Golf Channel and E! Entertainment Television."...
Media News (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
"Eight decades after pioneering the concept of broadcasting, NBC is on the verge of a startling move that illustrates broadcast television's decline. : Cable TV operator Comcast Corp. is expected to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal, perhaps as early as next week, bringing the network of Johnny Carson, Jerry Seinfeld, Bob Hope, Milton Berle and Tom Brokaw under the corporate control of...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Women's magazines notoriously promote an ideal woman: thin, stylish, beautiful, sexually adventurous. And after seeing who Glamour named as its annual " Women of the Year ," readers can now add "liberal" to the list of ideal qualities. The women featured in Glamour's 2009 list represent a cross-section of accomplished women from different industries - business, politics, sports,...
TV Squad (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Filed under: News , Video , Reality-Free Something astonishing happened 20 years ago this week: the Berlin Wall came tumbling down . Now thanks to the magic of the Internet's never ending series of tubes, you can relive that shocking and happy day when the wall finally fell. Former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw went to the former site of the oppressive cement figure over the weekend and filed...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, TVNewser takes a look back at the broadcast network newscasts from that day, November 9th, 1989. NBC's Tom Brokaw reports for "Nightly News" from Berlin: Peter Jennings delivers the "astonishing news" for ABC (h/t Mediaite ): Dan Rather stands atop the wall, reporting for CBS News the next day: You can also check out some...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
CBS's Steve Kroft has been named the 2010 Paul White Award winner by The Radio Television Digital News Association (formerly The Radio and Television News Directors Association). Kroft will receive the award April 12 in Las Vegas, during the RTDNA annual convention. "Steve Kroft's practice of our craft stands as a benchmark providing substance, depth, public service and thoughtful style,"...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Good morning FishbowlDC! SNL spoofed Fox News' Election Day coverage with Greta Van Susteren , Shepard Smith , Glenn Beck and Karl Rove . Happy Birthday to John Harris (h/t Playbook). And Kaylee Hartung who celebrated at Cleveland Park Bar & Grill Saturday with CBS friends, including Bob Schieffer , who sported a TCU "Schieffer" football jersey. Last night Wendy Gordon hosted a "Hooked...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
• NBC's Meet the Press : Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey, Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS), Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA), NYT 's David Brooks , WaPo 's E.J. Dionne , MSNBC's Rachel Maddow , Republican strategist Ed Gillespie and NBC's Tom Brokaw • CBS' Face the Nation : Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and Republican...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
It was the fall of 1979, and Iranian militants had seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 53 Americans hostage. The late Roone Arledge , then president of ABC News, wanted extended network coverage. "Roone had decided a long time before," Ted Koppel tells TVNewser, "that any time a big news story [broke], ABC News was going to do a special broadcast at 11:30 at night. And one day,...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Daily Newsfeed via email. Oprah Giving Up Syndicated Talk Show, Moving It To Her Cable Network In 2011 (Deadline Hollywood Daily) In the coming days Oprah Winfrey and Discovery will announce OWN's on-air launch for the start of 2011. And, in several weeks, Oprah will tell the public that she's ending her syndicated daytime talk show when her current deal runs...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Remember the period between the 2008 Republican Convention, but before the Katie Couric interview, when Sarah Palin was widely seen as a new politico dynamo who had breathed life into the McCain campaign? I wrote a column pointing out the the reaction to Palin eerily recalled the early reaction to Dan Quayle in 1988: [S]omewhere in the recesses of my mind, this admiring appraisal of the prospective...
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
This week in celebrity dining: Katie Couric and Mario Lopez brought their mutual friends to Tao, home of the big Buddha, while T-Mom kept it real with simple sushi on St. Marks. Mayor Bloomberg, meanwhile, rolled ten deep to Brooklyn for Japanese cuisine, and Michael’s began tweeting its boldface diners. The well-heeled are well fed, below. Barbuto : Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg dined with...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Katie Couric received the Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media at the University of South Dakota Thursday. The award bears the name of USA Today founder Al Neuharth, who just three years ago wrote that he didn't think Couric was up to the job of "CBS Evening News" anchor, writing , "Couric can't cut it if she stays on the non-news fringe she started out on this week." Neuharth...
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