Two weeks in the life of the increasingly peripatetic Ann Curry: Curl up on “Today” colleague Hoda Kotb’s couch for a three-hankie interview about Ms. Kotb’s battle with breast cancer earlier this year. Travel to Pakistan to interview former Pakistani…
Viewership Up for Network, Local Newscasts
“The strike hurts our industry, our colleagues and our community, no question. That being said, it will probably give cable a boost in that our programming is primarily unscripted and repeat-oriented … so that we should get some additional sampling,…
ABC, ESPN Point to Demographics as NASCAR Viewership Dips
The fires that ravaged Southern California last week were one of the first major local news stories to demonstrate there’s widespread consumer interest in watching local news online. Most of the local broadcasters in Los Angeles and San Diego augmented…
Jim Cummins, who worked his way up through Midwest stations to a three-decade career as a correspondent with NBC News, died Friday. He was 62 and had been diagnosed with cancer after retiring from NBC News earlier this year. In…
Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign is flatly rejecting Fox News Channel’s request that it cease using in a campaign ad video of comments he made during the channel’s GOP debate Oct. 20. The 30-second ad includes 18 seconds of the…
Promax/BDA tapped Jonathan Block-Verk as the new president of the marketing and design nonprofit association, appointing a successor to Jim Chabin. Mr. Block-Verk previously served as VP/group publisher and executive producer of events for the commercial production industry’s Boards Magazine….
With less than a week left on the Writers Guild of America’s contract, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers placed what it called a “comprehensive proposal” on the bargaining table during today’s talks. The WGA said it would…
Federal Communications Commission member Michael J. Copps is suggesting the agency take a close look at Rupert Murdoch’s plan to buy the Wall Street Journal and not give it perfunctory approval. In a letter to FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin,…