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Items by By BRIAN STELTER
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Networks to Usher In Historic Presidency
Posted: January 7th, 2009, 3:56am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
With less than two weeks to go until a historic presidential inauguration, more television networks than usual are finalizing ambitious coverage plans.
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A Divided Hollywood Actors’ Union Regroups Before Voting on Strike
Posted: December 24th, 2008, 5:55am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
Facing internal strife over stalled contract negotiations, Hollywood’s largest union decided late on Monday to postpone plans for a strike authorization vote.
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Ailes Agrees to Remain at Fox News 5 More Years
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 5:31am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
The News Corporation announced Thursday that Roger Ailes, the chairman and chief executive of Fox News, had signed a new five-year contract with the company.
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Fresh Face on Cable, Sharp Rise in Ratings
Posted: October 21st, 2008, 6:00pm GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has doubled the audience for the cable channel's 9 p.m. hour in a matter of days.
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Finding the Humor in the Election, Each Other and Themselves
Posted: October 18th, 2008, 4:23am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
For one night, the race to be the next president of the United States of America morphed into “Last Comic Standing.”
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YouTube to Offer TV Shows With Ads Strewn Through
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 5:16am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
YouTube said it would start offering full-length episodes of some television shows on its sprawling Web site.
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SNL’s Goals: Funny and Evenhanded
Posted: September 17th, 2008, 5:29am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
“Saturday Night Live,” which won praise for a recent sketch depicting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Gov. Sarah Palin, aims to to be an equal opportunity satirist.
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Television Starts to Court the Young Voter
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:45am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
With polls showing a surge in primary-season ballots cast by voters under 30, media outlets are out to convert the newly energized voters into viewers.
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Media Talk: Fox News Joins a Social Network, but Not Its Parent’s Site
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 2:19am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
Fox News Channel wants more friends. But instead of using the News Corporation’s own social network, it’s choosing to network on the site’s chief rival, Facebook.
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TV Networks Rewrite the Definition of a News Bureau
Posted: August 13th, 2008, 1:07pm GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
CNN, which will assign to 10 cities journalists who will borrow office space and use laptops, is hardly alone in its approach.
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A Summer Break of Comedy for the Web
Posted: August 12th, 2008, 6:15am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
The cast and crew of “SNL” take their talents to the Web for the summer, with straight-to-Internet videos starring members of the New York comedy scene.
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Media Talk: Endorsement From Winfrey Quantified: A Million Votes
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:33am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
Two economists contend that Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Barack Obama last year gave him a boost of about one million votes in the primaries and caucuses.
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Back From the War and on MTV’s Radar
Posted: July 28th, 2008, 4:37am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
MTV plans to cover the 2008 election largely by spotlighting a few of the roughly 1.6 million Americans who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Media Talk: Blackjack Makes a Move From the Web to Television
Posted: July 7th, 2008, 4:23am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
With the premiere of “Catch 21,” a TV version of a popular online blackjack game, winners on the Internet get a chance to say “hit me” on the living room screen.
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NBC Universal Brings Oxygen Into the Fold
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:54am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
The Oxygen cable channel, purchased by NBC Universal last year, is beginning to embrace its new identity as NBC’s flagship female television brand.
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Arts, Briefly: Younger Viewers Spurn New Legal Drama
Posted: March 12th, 2008, 4:05am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
“Canterbury’s Law,” the new Fox legal drama, felt dark, mature and realistic — fare found more often on cable than on broadcast television. Julianna Margulies, the show’s star, said the network wanted to “bring a little FX to Fox.” But young viewers showed little interest in “Canterbury’s Law,” as the show’s premiere finished in fourth place in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic at 8 p.m. on Monday, Nielsen reported. Fox suggested that the transition to daylight saving time might have had some impact on the ratings. “Canterbury’s Law” averaged 7.6 million viewers, enough to place second in total viewers behind ABC’s “Bachelor,” but delivered a disappointing 1.7 rating in the 18-to-49 demographic favored by advertisers. At 9 p.m. “New Amsterdam” picked up some viewers for Fox, averaging 8.8 million viewers and a 2.5 rating in that demographic. The 11.7 million viewers for “Two and a Half Men” and the 10.1 million viewers for “CSI: Miami” put CBS into first place for the night. NBC was a close second, as ho-hum viewership for “My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad” (6.9 million) was offset by high ratings for “Deal or No Deal” (11.6 million) and “Medium” (9.2 million). ABC placed fourth for the night with two episodes of the low-rated “October Road” (4.6 million at 9, and 4.8 million at 10). -
Arts, Briefly: Fox Votes Out the Big Story
Posted: March 12th, 2008, 4:04am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
Fox News Channel, tinkering for the first time in eight years with its popular early evening lineup, is replacing its 5 p.m. news broadcast, “The Big Story,” with an election-theme program for the foreseeable future. The network confirmed this week that “America’s Election HQ,” a program that displaced “The Big Story” temporarily last month, would continue indefinitely. The program’s hosts, Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly, also anchor the network’s mid-morning newscast and are seen as rising stars on the channel. The change was first reported by the blog TVNewser.com. John Gibson, the longtime host of “The Big Story,” will continue to have a role on television, the network said, although it appears that his future for now lies mostly on radio. For two years Mr. Gibson, a conservative commentator, has been the host of a three-hour program for Fox News Radio immediately following his television show. Fox News Channel, the top-rated cable news network, has benefited in recent years from a stable programming schedule, while CNN and MSNBC have made multiple on-camera changes. The programming shift underscores the emphasis placed on election-year programming by the cable news networks. -
Arts, Briefly: Fix It Up, Give It Away
Posted: March 11th, 2008, 4:26am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
“Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and “Oprah’s Big Give” vaulted ABC to first place for Sunday night, according to Nielsen. “Extreme Makeover” was the most-watched program with 12.4 million viewers, and the second week of “Oprah’s Big Give” averaged 11.8 million, down 3.7 million from the week before, Nielsen estimates. Helped by an audience of 11.6 million for “60 Minutes,” CBS finished second for the night in total viewers but finished in fourth place in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic. A two-hour “100 Most Outrageous Moments of All Time” on NBC added viewers every half-hour, peaking with 10.6 million viewers at 8:30. But a “Law & Order” repeat at 9 garnered just under seven million viewers for the hour. “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” delivered 8.5 million at 10. On Fox, the animated comedies “The Simpsons” and “Family Guy” averaged more than seven million viewers. Fox was fourth overall but second among the 18- to 49-year-old set.
