TVNewser: Greece Protests Drive Dow Down. Biz Nets, Cable Nets go Full-Bore
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Thursday, May 06
GREECE PROTESTS DRIVE DOW DOWN. BIZ NETS, CABLE NETS GO FULL-BORE
At 2:48pmET, as the cable news channels showed live pictures of riots in Athens, Greece, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 995 points. Several correspondents from the business channels began appearing on the news channels, including CNBC's Carl Quintanilla from Athens and Trish Regan from Lisbon both phoning in to MSNBC, while CNNMoney.com's Poppy Harlow appeared on CNN. While FBN's Nicole Petallides and Eric Bolling went on FNC. > At 2:58pmET, ABC News broadcast a...
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MORNING SHOW RATINGS: WEEK OF APRIL 26
NBC's "Today" show was again the top-rated morning show last week. Season-to-date, "Today" is the only program to show increases in the demo. NBC and ABC's "Good Morning America" were both down a bit week-to-week, while CBS "Early Show" saw an increase. All three were down slightly in the demo. The averages for the week of April 26: Total Viewers: NBC: 5.22M / ABC: 4.35M / CBS: 2.56M A25-54 rating: NBC: 2.44M / ABC: 1.73M...
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SUNDAY SHOW RATINGS: MAY 2
NBC's "Meet the Press," which launched it's new HD set this week (more here), was the top rated morning show this week. "MTP" as well as CBS' "Face the Nation" and ABC's "This Week" saw week-to-week growth in total viewers. Cable and network rebroadcasts of "MTP" drew an additional 1,105,000 viewers. "Fox News Sunday" drew an additional 1.342M million total viewers on the 6pm cable replay (the 2pm airing was preempted by live coverage) and...
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Thursday, May 06
AFGHAN ORPHANS SING HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BRIAN WILLIAMS
•A group of orphans in Afghanistan -- whom "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams profiled last year -- sent the newsman a special video for his 51st birthday. The children's orphanage was featured in a "Making a Difference" segment, which helped raise over $50,000. Video after the jump. (h/t HuffPost)...
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'AC360' AMERICAN AL-QAEDA SPECIAL; O'BRIEN'S DOCUMENTARY REVIEWED
•Next week on "AC360," CNN correspondent Nic Robertson examines the life of Bryan Neal Vinas, a young man from Long Island who was convicted of supporting Al-Qaeda terrorist plots. Release in the jump. Another note, Anderson Cooper anchors the show from Nashville, Tennessee tonight following flooding in the area. Also, NY Daily News' David Hinkley reviews Soledad O'Brien's "touching new documentary 'Rescued.'"...
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SIGHTINGS: MATT LAUER
From the tipbox, 11:13amET: Matt Lauer spotted in the lobby of News Corp./Fox News building... But since it's across the street from where he works, he could just be headed to Wendy's for a Frosty. > Update from the tipster: Lauer was headed into an elevator inside the Fox building...sans Frosty. > Update 2: from "Today" show Executive Producer Jim Bell: We went to a screening of "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" in advance of...
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Thursday, May 06
ROLAND MARTIN'S ASCOT MAY BE JON STEWART'S FAVORITE THING ON CNN
Jon Stewart spent five minutes on "The Daily Show" last night discussing CNN's Roland Martin and his genteel, on-air ascot. Stewart can barely contain himself for most of the segment, saying, "It may be my favorite thing I've seen on CNN." CNN's recent ratings issues also get a couple of jabs, but its mostly about the ascot. As regular news viewers know, Martin is no stranger to splashy fashion, on air and off. (Martin's been...
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KNBC NEWSROOM STAFFER WINS MEGA MILLIONS
She wanted KFC, he wanted BBQ, now they're millionaires. Los Angeles KNBC-TV overnight assignment editor Jacki Cisneros and her husband Gilbert, who'd recently lost his job, were the lucky winners of the $266 million jackpot in California's Mega Millions lottery. Though they initially tried to stay anonymous, the couple revealed their identity last night and sat down with the "Today" show's Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira this morning. Jacki was still in the office today...
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WAS CBS CORP.'S LES MOONVES OVERPAID?
In a study for Bloomberg News, pay expert Graef Crystal looked at the compensation of 271 CEOs and found the average slipped 4.7% last year to $9.95 million, with extremes ranging from $43.2 million for CBS Corp.'s Leslie Moonves to $245,322 for Google Inc.'s Eric Schmidt. Using formulas developed over 30 years in the business, Crystal crunched the numbers and found CBS overpaid Moonves, who is married to CBS Early Show co-anchor Julie Chen, by...
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Thursday, May 06
PERFECT YOUR DEMO REEL
Next Monday evening, mediabistro.com is offering a one-night-only workshop in New York City on perfecting your television news demo reel. "CBS Morning News" anchor and "Early Show" correspondent Michelle Gielan will instruct you on how to best assemble and present one of the most essential tools in getting an on-air gig. The interactive workshop is limited to 12 students, so if you're interested go here for the full details on how to sign up. And...
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'MORNING EXPRESS' ON A QUIET RATINGS STREAK
April marked a small milestone for HLN's "Morning Express with Robin Meade" in the cable morning show race. Though still trailing the morning leader, FNC's "Fox & Friends," by 131,000 demo viewers (and a considerable 653K total viewers), "Morning Express" has now finished ahead of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" for a full year in the A25-54 demo. It's also finished ahead of CNN's "American Morning" consistently. In April, "Morning Express" averaged 316,000 total viewers with 188,000...
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Wednesday, May 05
JOHN MCKENZIE LEAVING ABC NEWS
ABC News medical correspondent John McKenzie is leaving the network. McKenzie is one of more than 300 ABC News employees who took a buyout. He'll remain with the network for another couple months. McKenzie was brought to ABC News by the late Peter Jennings in 1980. Jennings hired McKenzie away from Canada's CTV to cover the Solidarity movement in Warsaw, Poland. McKenzie returned to the U.S. and was a Boston-based correspondent from 1982-1988. He later...
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