But wait, there’s more! At the end of a week of intense laying-off in television, the Media Mob has learned from several sources at the network that ABC executives are considering cuts to the news division. The focus would be on a slimming down of political units the network bulked up during the presidential campaign. Read More
This morning David Westin, president of ABC News, sent out an e-mail to staffers warning that ABC News is not "immune from the downturn," and that the division (along with the rest of Disney’s Media Networks Group) will be implementing new "guidelines" to "reduce administrative costs."
As part of the cost-cutting measures, ABC News Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C.—"Sometimes the end comes like a thief in the night," said Sam Donaldson.
Mr. Donaldson was standing on a stage at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., yesterday morning, quoting the Bible. Like the hundred or so mourners who had gathered in the large auditorium, Mr. Donaldson was struggling to make sense of the sudden Read More
It’s that time of the year when, all across New York, even more TV anchors, producers, and news crews are getting ready to pack up their bags and head out to the frontlines of the presidential campaigns.
That group includes, ABC’s Charlie Gibson, who will soon be heading out to New Hampshire.
On Read More
On Thursday evening, near a window in a banquet hall overlooking the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. in Times Square, Andy Rooney sidled up to a makeshift bar and asked for a bourbon.
No bourbon, explained the bartender. Wine?
Mr. Rooney shook his head no, furled his massive white eyebrows, and shuffled off Read More
As of Memorial Day, Charlie Gibson will finally, officially and for the foreseeable future be the sole anchor of World News Tonight.
On May 23, ABC News president David Westin announced that he was undoing everything he had done this past November when he appointed the youthful duo of Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff as Read More
At a Nightline staff meeting last week in Washington, ABC News correspondent John Donvan raised the question that was haunting the network news department: “What exactly did John do wrong?”
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Mr. Donvan, who had been out of town, meant it as a factual question to get himself up to speed. He was Read More
At a Nightline staff meeting last week in Washington, ABC News correspondent John Donvan raised the question that was haunting the network news department: “What exactly did John do wrong?”
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Mr. Donvan, who had been out of town, meant it as a factual question to get himself up to speed. He was referring to Read More
Live from Baghdad, fair, balanced and direct, it’s Bush TV.
The Coalition Provisional Authority running Iraq, created by the Bush administration, dissatisfied with the American television news decisions on covering the conflict, is about to create its own broadcast operation, with the capacity to bypass the networks, live from Iraq, 24 hours a day.
