By getting some of their best election coverage online, Katie Couric and the team behind “CBS Evening News” may have seized on a template for the not-so-distant future.
The new reality show “Opportunity Knocks,” which has its premiere on ABC on Tuesday, turns quiet neighborhoods into flashy game-show sets and tests family members’ knowledge of one another.
Fox has seen its once formidable advantage over CNN erode in this presidential election year, as both CNN and MSNBC have added viewers at far more dramatic rates.
When Howard Kurtz invited Kimberly Dozier, the CBS journalist wounded in Iraq, onto his program, “Reliable Sources,” on CNN on Sunday, he was not a disinterested interviewer.
Charles Gibson, whose contract is due to expire soon after the presidential election, said that the network had asked him to remain on the job for the foreseeable future.
ABC, CBS and NBC have agreed to set aside the same hour of prime-time television on the first Friday night in September for a live, joint telethon benefiting cancer research.
Beginning on Wednesday night at 10:30 Eastern time, and continuing for the next seven Wednesdays, Comedy Central will finally give Lewis Black his due as the host of a half-hour show.
“Tucker,” the struggling early-evening talk show led by the often bow-tied Tucker Carlson, was canceled on Monday by MSNBC and replaced by a new politically oriented program featuring David Gregory.