In this business of media navel gazing, we like to pick winners and losers. No matter how messed up the story is, invariably you’ll see someone make every effort to opine that this is who won a...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2022/12/22/abcs-gma3-disaster-how-everyone-screwed-up/
We still don’t know what will be in James O’Keefe’s CNN Editorial Meeting Expose but based on past behavior we can be relatively confident in making a few predictions: The recordings will b...
In a must read, the Wall Street Journal’s Benjamin Mullin and Joe Flint write about how newly minted NBC Universal News Group Chairman Cesar Conde isn’t thrilled with how MSNBC’s reliance o...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2020/10/02/msnbcs-politics-conundrum/
Today’s news that Shepard Smith is joining CNBC appears on its face to be a head scratching move of the highest order. Short of joining the constantly self-remaking-itself/can’t-stick-to-a-pl...
Ever since COVID-19 mania swept over the nation and the world, two of the three cable news networks tore up their regular dayside scheduling. But the methods and tactics differed wildly. Over at ...
CNN has started keeping COVID-19 statistics on its screen full time. I’m calling it CNN’s “Death Clock” because basically that’s what it is…something that continuously updates the dea...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2020/03/20/cnns-unhelpful-death-clock-must-go/
I haven’t blogged in over a year. But this story got me back because it’s a case study on how non network news people don’t understand how news networks function as well as serve as a remin...
It’s been a long time since I’ve done one of these and if I hadn’t have stumbled upon it by accident yesterday, I never would have posted it. Contessa Brewer’s reaction is priceless…
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2018/10/20/the-hazards-of-live-tv-25150-2/
HLN blew up it’s dayside lineup and format yet again and that got me off my ass and on to the keyboard. I’ve lost count how many times HLN has blown up its format since it stopped using CNN H...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2018/10/16/hln-blows-up-format-again-wash-rinse-repeat/
I haven’t blogged in four months. But this story has brought me out because this story is begging for my attention. I don’t know if Tom Brokaw did what Linda Vester claims he did. I can never...
Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva writes that Jeff Zucker has been in talks with Disney about possibly taking over ESPN… Reps at Disney could not be reached for comment, but multiple sources close t...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2018/01/19/jeff-zucker-to-espn/
Broadcast TV usually falls outside of my coverage area but every once in a while something comes along that I just can’t ignore. Today it is the idea that Vladimir Duthiers is the front runner ...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2017/11/27/cbs-is-about-to-make-a-mistake/
Mediaite’s Justin Baragona writes, with some palace intrigue tossed in, that Thomas Roberts is out at MSNBC and Justin Gura is in. I knew about Gura because he tweeted it yesterday but the Robe...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2017/11/19/roberts-out-gura-in/
TVNewser’s Chris Ariens notes that FNC is finally setting its dayside lineup in stone. Dayside has been in a partial state of flux since Gretchen Carlson left the network…and that was over a ...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/fnc-finally-finalizes-dayside/
CNN is noting its September ratings… CNN HAS MOST-WATCHED THIRD QUARTER EVER RANKS #2 IN CABLE NEWS FOR 3Q 2017 Key Programs Set Record Ratings, Post Double-Digit Growth from Last Year CNN Beat...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/september-numbers-cnn-3/
MSNBC is noting its September ratings… MSNBC EXPANDS LEAD OVER CNN ACROSS WEEKDAY PRIME, DAYSIDE AND TOTAL DAY IN TOTAL VIEWERS MSNBC Weekday Prime Tops CNN in Total Viewers and A25-54, MSNBC�...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/september-numbers-msnbc-4/
I’d held off writing about Bolling’s departure from FNC, mostly because of what happened with his son. It’s bad enough to lose your job over something that will follow you around for the re...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/fncs-unfamiliar-territory/
The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi writes about what has turned me off of cable news… Last year was a busy one for Hank Bargine, a freelance TV-news cameraman based in Colorado. The networks ke...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2017/08/11/cable-news-is-broken/
The Cut’s Amy Larocca writes the latest “There are a lot of blondes on FNC!” story… Normally I wouldn’t give a story like this the time of day. Yes, there are more contractual employees...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2017/08/11/sloppy-sloppy/
CNN’s Oliver Darcy writes in detail about what allegedly happened at FOX with the Seth Rich story… For more than two months, Fox News has declined to explain the story behind one of its most ...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2017/08/11/too-much-schadenfreude/
This is stupid. CNN dropped Jeffrey Lord from its roster over a “Seig Heil” comment? Of all the things in the world Lord has done both on CNN’s air and off it, and they only fire him becaus...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2017/08/11/jeffrey-lord-fired-by-cnn/
I have held off writing about the Eric Bolling situation because, frankly, I don’t know what to make of it. Bolling was suspended pending an investigation by FNC after a Yashar Ali article came...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2017/08/11/the-bolling-situation/
HLN announced that Carol Costello and S.E. Cupp’s shows will launch on August 21. Given that this was an official press release, we can be certain that the shows will indeed launch on that date...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2017/08/07/hln-officially-announces-costellocupp-launch-date/
MSNBC is noting its July ratings… MSNBC WINS A25-54 IN WEEKDAY PRIME IN JULY MSNBC Dayside Leads CNN in Every Hour Among Total Viewers; Scores 2nd Highest Rated Month Ever in Total Viewers MSNB...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/july-numbers-msnbc-7/
TVNewser’s Chris Ariens writes that former Red Eye Ombudsman Andy Levy is joining S.E. Cupp’s HLN show when it launches. “When” being the operative word here… It’s been many months in...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2017/07/26/andy-levy-to-join-s-e-cupps-show/
These are confusing times over at HLN. The network is showing signs of internal dissaray…or at the very least teetering on the edge of limbo. How else to explain what’s happened since the net...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/what-is-going-on-over-at-hln/
TVNewser’s Chris Ariens writes that Dana Klinghoffer, formerly with FNC PR, is joining NBC to handle PR for Megyn Kelly’s upcoming weekday show, among other things… Dana Klinghoffer, who sp...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2017/06/30/dana-klinghoffer-to-nbc-news-pr/
Well that was insanely fast…like itchy trigger finger insanely fast. I’m not sure that wasn’t a premature move on some level. Short of cratering outright, which Van Susteren’s show didn�...
CNN is noting its June ratings… CNN HAS MOST-WATCHED SECOND QUARTER ON RECORD BEATS MSNBC IN TOTAL DAY, DAYSIDE AND WEEKEND PRIME TIME Key Programs Surge This Quarter, Posting Record Performanc...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/june-numbers-cnn/
MSNBC is noting its June ratings… MSNBC Weekday Prime Tops FOX News and CNN in A18-49 for the 2nd Straight Month in June 2017 · MSNBC Weekday Prime Also Beats CNN in A25-54 and Total Viewers �...
https://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/june-numbers-msnbc/