Technology used to cover the war in Iraq could be applied in daily news gathering on the home front.Journalists in the Middle East have made do without satellite trucks, suggesting reliance on them could be reduced at home, said John…
The call came around 2 in the afternoon from a woman at the Fox News Channel asking if I would consider appearing on The O’Reilly Factor in a few hours. I was initially wary but still interested. Wary because of…
At least 100 players are expected to flock to Las Vegas this week to play Texas Hold Em in the finale of the estimated $4 million World Poker Tour at the Bellagio Hotel. But the biggest winner appears to be…
NBC is starting work on a TV movie about Jessica Lynch, the 19-year-old U.S. soldier taken prisoner in Iraq and rescued in a daring operation. “Like the rest of America, we shared in the collective thrill of witnessing the heroic…
Get beyond the historic cable-news-viewing levels and there are quantifiable shifts in the four all-news networks’ share of the cable-news audience over the first 21 days of the war in Iraq.Although events can cause sharp spikes or drops on any…
Notes from the home front; or, They Also Surf:* One of the more memorable exchanges from the early days of the war was a journalism debate between ABC’s Ted Koppel and Charlie Gibson. Charlie declared it would be unconscionable to…
Dick Wolf was having none of The Insider’s attempt to figure out whether he’s got another one of those Law & Order cast changes up his sleeve. “This is not about the future,” he said at a party celebrating the…
BroadcastingMelissa O’Neill-Battaglia to group sales manager, New York, Eagle Television Sales, from account manager.Steve Bernstein to local sales manager, WTXX-TV, Hartford, Conn., from account executive, KASW-TV, Phoenix.Alex Sanchez to general manager, KSMS-TV, KDJT-TV, KLOK-FM, KSES-FM and KMBX-AM, Monterey-Salinas, Calif., from…
Goldie Hawn, whose last regular appearance on TV was on the seminal ’60s comedy Laugh-In, and musical legend Lionel Richie, who recently appeared on American Idol, are among the latest celebrities seeking to leverage fame with lucrative syndicated talk shows….
Patience may indeed be a virtue when it comes to Twentieth Television’s fledgling syndicated strip Good Day Live.The series was launched nationally last January and currently holds a 0.9 household rating. But the truer test could come from the initial…