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Patti Blagoievich... the wife of ousted Illinois governor Rob Blago, talked to MSNBC about her new reality show and her husband. Hasn't this Blago bunch had enough of their 15 minutes of fame already?
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Carrie Prejean co-hosted FOX and Friends Wednesday. How sad.... that she actually seemed to fit in just naturally -- hot blonde chick between two heavy breathing men. On some other FOX shows the men would be in the closet. I'm guessing that's not the case here LOL. Total joke people. Take it easy. Oh.. and poor thing... she had to get up early to get a big break on FOX News.
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Congrats to '60 Minutes' for increased ratings this season. As critics point out it may not be high brow journalism that is once did every segment in every show. But, times have changed. Check out TV Newser.
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Glenn Beck was on 'The View' this morning. It was not pretty. Beck was off radio and took off his 5pm FOX show because he was sick. Beck called into his own show.
Here is the first segment of 'The View'.
Here is the second segment of 'the View'.
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From the Business Insider.
Poor Dennis Kneale thought he was just asking Jeff Macke some meaningless softball question, and Macke comes back at him, talking in what we think is probably English, but with no coherence to it whatsoever. Seriously, if anyone has any clue what's going on here or can translate Macke-speak, we'd love to know what it all means.
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I live in Washington DC, so I got a chance to watch the local FOX station (WTTG FOX 5) after Kris Allen's rather surprising 'American Idol' win. I don't envy the fight for ratings in local news for one minute! You have to fight for every single meter. That also means I don't envy the sometimes over-the-top effort to keep me watching. Here are a few notes.
--The pre-show LIVE tease was OK. The only problem: the LIVE bug in the upper left corner covered the male anchor's face as he fronted a tease standing beside a monitor.
--The show open: "ANNOUNCE: This is FOX 5 News. ANCHOR: FOX 5 news is everywhere tonight." I guess that implies they are NOT every where every other night. I get it. It's urgent writing It lets us know they are doing a good job. I get it. Having been removed from local news now for 2 years, it sounds forced.
--Pretty 'clean' newscast.
--The content on this station is always pretty solid.
--An awkward moment in the final element of tease 1. The anchor voiced over a tease for Idol. The shot was a W-I-D-E studio shot of the anchor desk and a picture of Kris Allen in a studio monitor. The problem.... nothing was really the focus of the shot. It was using a camera for using a camera sake.
As I said, this station is pretty good.. day in and day out. I just happened to watch tonight... and as a blogger, I write about most media I see. I would never pretend to have all the answers about local news engagement. I worked at two very good TV stations and two very challenging stations in my local TV career. I learned a lot from all of them. While I don't have all the answers... like every viewer at home, I always have an opinion :)
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With NBC's announced fall and spring schedule, is Dateline NBC dead? What... no more 'To Catch a Predator?"
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From TV Newser
Nancy Grace gets bent out of shape when a St Louis radio host takes Grace and her show to task.
KTRS radio host McGraw Milhaven had appeared on Grace's HLN show several days last week to discuss the murder case of Sheri Coleman and her two sons.
On Monday's show, Milhaven responded to a question from Grace about murder suspect Christopher Coleman and his rumored girlfriend in Florida — a question he deemed irrelevant. "This show is a joke, you are a joke," said Milhaven, closing with, "I'm embarrassed to be on this show."
"Well, sir, you're off," said Grace, and cut his mic.
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Glenn Beck stepped into it on the 'The View', Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg confronted Beck about some comments on his radio show.
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CNN's AC360... is more like AC180 these days.
Ratings for the the silber hair fox (to many women and gay men) are in a freefall lately. Has Anderson Cooper's popularity peaked? I decided to sample tonight's show to see what all the fuss is about. Why are Cooper's ratings falling faster than the Dow in February?
Here are XXX observations.
1. The first, and most obvious, reason is that CNN is getting zero benefits from the political landscape. It happens when you straddle the fence. Of course that may be where a "news" organization should be.
2. Tonight's show... was just boring. The opening piece was a question and answer with Dr. Gupta. So, the AC team worked all day on this show and the most they deliver for me at the top is a Q&A with Gupta? When the gate opens, the race starts. It was more like a stuttering engine t0night.
3. Cooper seemed lifeless. He almost seemed tired tonight. He smiled and chuckled a bit with Erica Hill in the final segment. But for the first 55 minutes, he was seemed uninterested.
4. The show and its production lacked creativity tonight. Cooper was one of the first cable prime anchors to get up from behind a desk. There was motion, energy and a completely different atmosphere to the show then. Tonight it was dry.
5. The content didn't break new "news". The topper was the final segment about a new world record for a Thriller dance performance from William and Mary students. Cool story and video. Unfortunately I saw the same video a few days ago... maybe even last week!
6. There could be 'Cooper-fatigue'. Been there and done that.
No doubt there are many other reasons we could talk about. But there are the top things that came to mind as I watched tonight's broadcast.
On the flip side, I checked out Katie Couric's CBS Evenign News tonight (on DVR).
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She's getting a lot of positive press again, including her column in USA Today today. I have preached this for more than a year. The content in this show is pretty darn good. With few exceptions, it's focused. There is solid storytelling. There is content of depth and interest... not just quick passive voiceovers. While I have liked Couric, I still long for the days when she actually "talks" to me instead of reading that freaking prompter. It's an tool to help communicate... not a crutch to walk on.
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You may not agree with Glenn Beck (or you may)... but he does zero in on issues that many Americans are asking.
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On 60 Minutes tonight.....
Katie Couric brought us her report from the military trip abroad. It must be 60 Minutes becasue she needed her "I am intelligent" glasses.
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I heard the term "bitch" more in the piece about the top woman Bogue than I really ever care to hear. Take out the 'bitches" and call it 57 Minutes. i'd still be pleased.
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I like Andy Rooney's bitching about the cost of air travel. Well said.
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How to bring Anderson Cooper's ratings up - the gay way.
olsond said...
I vote leave AC's personal life to AC! Not much of anyone's business but his.
May 16, 2009
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Is Jenna Wolfe connecting?
Anonymous said...
yep!
May 15, 2009
Anonymous said...
She is still terrible. Give me Amy Robach any day of the week!
May 16, 2009
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Every time I see this... I laugh! Bill O'Reilly goes nuts. This is the single best TV news blooper of all time.
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Let's admit it. It's rare that local news promos hit home runs. There are some good ones... and a load of bad, rushed ones. But, let's give KMAX in Sacramento some credit. These promos for their new set are very creative. I admit they get a little less creative later in the sequence. But, the first couple on the reel are great!
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Tuesday night's Rachel Maddow was seen by only 789,000 viewers, a series-low performance since her show debuted last summer.
Friday's Anderson Cooper 360 was the anchor's least-watched show since Barack Obama's inauguration, with 622,000 viewers.
Cooper and Maddow's average audiences have been sliding since January following last year's historic presidential election, and with the bombastic daily economic headlines have lessened somewhat. Cooper is about on par when compared to the same period last year.
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Planet Out has some ideas how to improve CNN's Anderson Cooper's ratings -- that same Cooper is perhaps the mostly well-known, closet homosexual. PART OF THE PLANET OUT STORY:
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George Stephanopoulos subbed for Charlie Gibson on 'World News' on ABC tonight. He wasn't bad. It was far better than the early fill-in days when he first joined ABC as a chief Washignton correspondent. Still.... it wasn't all that good either. I like anchors who communicate by telling a story... no just trying to READ with emotion.
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At the center of the new look, anchor and managing editor Katie Couric, who will mark three years with CBS in September. McManus praised Couric's versatility — on TV, the Web and more, when "put together, results in a pretty good plan to get her exposed on as many different platforms as possible," says McManus. "And also to give her a chance to exhibit what makes Katie Couric different, which is not so much the way she reads the news, but it's the way she reacts to things, the way she interviews people. She's got a very broad array of talents, and a lot of them can't be seen between 6:30 and 7:00 every night."CNN's Rick Sanchez really doesn't like Ashton Kutcher. But... who really cares who Sanches likes. Oddly enough someone in my office today mentioned that Sanchez was one of the two daytime CNN male anchors he can't watch.
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I thought MSNBC loved all Democrats. But, take a look a the quick little dig at Nancny Pelosi by Morning's Mika B. The whole 'Morning Joe' bit is a bit inside-baseball. The Pelosi bit is the best part of the clip.
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First.. the video and then the CBS reporter note.
Here is Bill Plante's response as reported on CBSNews.com
The issue of the day at the White House briefing: the Obama administration's reversal of the decision to release photos of detainees being tortured. After an appeals court refused to hear the case, the administration said last month they would abide by the lower court's decision and release the photos. So the President's decision NOT to do so was the topic of most questioning today - intense at times. Intense, that is, until a reporter John Gizzi's cell phone began chiming one of those vaguely familiar ring tones which have become this era's elevator music. Spokesman Robert Gibbs looked up and said, "just put it on vibrate man. We did this before...it happened twice one day." He resumed. Ten seconds later, Gizzi's phone went off again. "Give me the phone," said Gibbs - and started down from the podium, hand outstretched. Laugher all around. Gibbs took the phone, walked to the pressroom door, and pitched it to someone inside. More laughter. Then the briefing resumed -- for thirty seconds. That's when my phone rang - a standard ring, nothing imaginative. I answered. It was a source I'd been waiting to hear from. "You too," asked Gibbs? "So you want to do it too? Here, come on." "Gibbs wants to take my phone," I explained to the caller as I got up from the chair and headed outside. "I assume it's your banker, with a suit like that?" Gibbs quipped as I walked out, in reference to my pin-striped suit. "There's cotton candy down the street. It's a circus." I spent about five minutes on the phone and came back into the briefing. I asked Gibbs if I'd missed anything. He joked in response: "Will somebody brief Bill on our new Supreme Court nominee?"
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Will the madenss never end? Bristol Palin is live in-studio Wednesday on 'Good Morning America' with Chris Cuomo. She later appears at a town hall with Cuomo to talk about..... teen pregnancy.
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The big news from American Idol was the accident that happened just before the show. A stage manager was hurt and sent to the hospital. TMZ.com has more.
Also... last week, Paula Abdul denied a drug addiction to 'Nightline'. Now word comes she WAS addicted. Shocking!!!!!! Tomorrow night, she sings.
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What the heck is the fascination that Larry King Live has with the ladies of 'The View'. They always seem to be on his show. This week is not different... a full week of the 'The View' women on 'Larry King Live'.
From TV Newser. Barbara Walters starts tomorrow, with sometime fill-in LKL host Joy Behar on Tuesday, Elisabeth Hasselbeck Wednesday, Whoopi Goldberg Thursday and Sherri Shepherd Friday.
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Has anyone taken a look at the new Sarah Palin Twitter account. First, get over the "who cares" attitude. This is politics. There is some real insight to be gained from checking out who she is following.
After earning a last-minute reprieve from the judges two weeks ago, Matt Giraud did not make the cut on Wednesday’s results edition of “American Idol.” The final episode for the 23-year-old piano player from Michigan drew 21.8 million viewers at 9 p.m., according to Nielsen’s estimates, easily lifting Fox to No. 1 in the ratings for the night. (More from NY Times)
Fox led over all despite earning a much smaller audience of 7.9 million viewers during the 8 p.m. hour with “Lie to Me.” The crime show was the only regular programming in the time period on the major broadcast networks as Fox was the only one of the big four networks that opted not to carry a live news conference in the hour in which President Obama marked his 100th day in office and took questions from the press.
About 29 million people watched the press conference on a total of 10 broadcast and cable channels, down about 30 percent from a similar event held last month.
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Is Jenna Wolfe finally in a good groove with Lester Holt on 'Today'.
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From TV Week
