This week, CNN celebrated Piers Morgan’s ascent to Larry King’s anchor chair with a bash at the apartment of NewsBeast editrix Tina Brown. By all accounts it was a good party, despite the fact that its location, WWD discovered, had been transformed into Tina’s “brainstorming” bunker where she’s “assembling the team” for the magazine’s Read More
Anderson Cooper is getting ready to be on a first-name basis with with daytime television. Media Decoder reports that Warner Brothers has anointed America’s favorite silver-maned anchor’s talk show “Anderson.” It will begin next fall.
The release of the official name came with a list of 40 stations that have already signed up to Read More
Fortune is bullish on New York’s lightweight tech scene:
Why New York, and why now? For many of today’s Internet companies, the competitive advantage lies in the innovative nature of their products, not necessarily their technological prowess. Thanks to Internet-based services such as EC2 from Amazon (AMZN), startups can essentially rent the supercomputing power Read More
Rachel Maddow devoted Thursday night’s entire episode of her MSNBC show to an interview with Jon Stewart. The “Daily Show” host addressed criticism of his recent D.C. rally and outlined his issues with MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News.
The Oct. 30 “Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear” on the National Mall was attended by Read More
The Scooby-Doo gang have long been a staple of preschool school Halloween parties. But when a five-year-old Missourian had his pick of the sleuthing Mystery Machine crew, his choice came as a surprise to classmates and their mothers. Instead of going with Shaggy, he went with Daphne. Ruh-roh.
His own mother, however, is perfectly fine Read More
Much of Jon Stewart’s schtick involves critiquing the media, but those who question Stewart face the wrath of his devoted followers.
At his Oct. 30 “Rally to Restore Fear and/or Sanity” where he spoke before approximately 200,000 supporters, Stewart focused on the press, or as he described it, “the country’s 24-hour political pundit perpetual Read More
Jonathan Wald, former producer at the Today show and senior vice president of CNBC, will take the reins as executive producer of CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, which is set to debut January 2011. The talk show will be filling the space vacated by Larry King, who is leaving his show at the network after hosting Read More
CNN plans to keep tinkering with Parker Spitzer and give the show time to grow before they give up on it competely.
Audience numbers for the first few episodes of the show were a fraction of ratings for the 8 p.m. competition on MSNBC and Fox News, Keith Olbermann and Bill O’Reilly. “We weren’t Read More
Who takes care of champion show-jumper Hillary (daughter of Lou) Dobbs’ Europeam Warmbloods on the former CNN anchor’s various horse farms? Illegal immigrants from Mexico, according to an investigative piece about Mr. Dobbs published by The Nation this morning.
But with his relentless diatribes against “illegals” and their employers, Dobbs is casting stones from Read More
Even though Rick Sanchez has apologized both publicly and in private to Jon Stewart, both MSNBC and Fox News are not considering picking him up after he was fired from CNN. Spokespeople at both MSNBC and Fox told Hunter Walker that they are not interested in Mr. Sanchez at all.
Mr. Sanchez issued a Read More
