“The beauty of this show is that it’s got content from all over the NBC Universal platforms,” said Matt Glassman.
It was Wednesday afternoon, and Mr. Glassman, a senior producer of content at NBC’s local owned-and-operated station in Washington D.C., was on the phone with The Observer talking about a newfangled, pioneering-type show called Daily Read More
The Observer has learned that former CBS News President Andrew Heyward is working for NBC News as a consultant.
According to an NBC News spokesperson, Mr. Heyward will be working with NBC News President Steve Capus and NBC News Senior Vice President Alexandra Wallace on several programming and news gathering initiatives.
Not so long ago, Read More
On Jan. 10, 2005, CBS President Leslie Moonves sent his employees a novella-length memo with the subject line “The Independent Panel Issues its report.”
CBS had formed said independent panel months earlier, in the fall of 2004, in order to investigate the development, preparation and aftermath of Dan Rather and company’s flawed report on Read More
On July 18, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 27th annual News and Documentary Emmys—150 production teams, some consisting of more than 30 people. This year, the awards are more exclusive than ever: Under its new one-statue policy, the academy will provide the winning team in each category Read More
It was straight out of a reality show. With the performance over, the panel of judges slowly held up their scores, stenciled in black ink on white notebook paper: 7, 8, 7.
American Idol? Olympic figure skating? Not quite. The scene took place late last month in an executive boardroom at CBS News’ headquarters on Read More
More than a week after CBS News released its ostensibly final, tortured, novella-length report on the suspicious-document scandal at 60 Minutes Wednesday, some basic matters in the case are even less settled than before-starting with the fate of the four employees the network singled out for dismissal on Jan. 10.
Producer Mary Mapes, who was Read More
Early on the evening of Monday, Sept. 17, during a taping of The Late Show with David Letterman in the frigid Ed Sullivan Theater, an overcome Dan Rather gripped Mr. Letterman’s hand at his desk and wept openly as he recalled the events in New York City since the morning of Sept. 11.
The moment Read More
Early on the evening of Monday, Sept. 17, during a taping of The Late Show with David Letterman in the frigid Ed Sullivan Theater, an overcome Dan Rather gripped Mr. Letterman’s hand at his desk and wept openly as he recalled the events in New York City since the morning of Sept. 11.
The moment Read More
Two weeks ago in this space, I chastised ABC, CBS, and NBC for dereliction of journalistic duty for neglecting to shed light on disturbing conditions in factories making Nike and Reebok shoes in Vietnam–conditions made visible in an hourlong documentary in early April by ESPN that put the big three TV networks to shame. The Read More
