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More on Steve Capus…
The Hollywood Reporter’s Marissa Guthrie writes about the departure of Steve Capus and other things related to said departure… Speculation is rampant that Capus could reunite with Jeff Zucker at CNN....
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Buried Nuggets…
This is story about Steve Capus maybe going to CNN by Claire Atkinson in the New York Post is a few days old but it contains one piece of information that set my alarms off… Meanwhile, Capus’ former...
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Hard News Hours or Non-Hard News Hours?
This statement from Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher… I’m not sure why this is a problem, especially since MSNBC has never blocked off specific hours for hard news the way Fox has …is factually inaccurate....
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Are Maddow or Her Staff Spamming Twitter With Bogus Tweets? ICN Sez No…
This erupted overnight thanks to a post from NewsBusters’ P.J. Gladnick… Perhaps Rachel Maddow can claim that the multiple twitter accounts plugging her show with identical words was the work of her...
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More MSNBC Related Twitter Spam?
Goblingbooks has two more examples of MSNBC related Twitter spam; one involving Morning Joe and another involving The Ed Show… Morning Joe has links to people repeating a promotional message, and they...
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Tamron Hall to CNN? Not Very Likely…
Page Six is reporting that Jeff Zucker is eyeballing Tamron Hall for his network… Since Erin Burnett is not giving up her CNN prime-time show and is refusing to go to mornings, CNN boss Jeff Zucker is...
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Ed Schultz Profile…
Columbia Journalism Review’s Michael Meyer profiles Ed Schultz… But even as Schultz’s audience grows, he’s beginning to look out of place in an MSNBC lineup that is increasingly the domain of a wonky,...
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Cable News Spats…
Mediaite’s Joe Concha writes about cable news spats… So does CNN or MSNBC benefit by attacking Fox? Sure, it may provide their more myopic audience members some red meat (“Look! O’Reilly is yelling at...
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Cable News Taunting Can Be Good For Business…
Yesterday I linked to a Mediaite piece by Joe Concha making the argument that cable news taunting was bad for business. I needed time to think about Concha’s article before responding… Here’s Concha’s...
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Chris Jansing Talks About The Upcoming Conclave…
(photo credit: Dwaine Scott/NBC News) In March of 2005, MSNBC’s Chris Jansing and then MSNBC producer (and now TVNewser chief) Chris Ariens flew to Rome, ostensibly to spend a couple of weeks covering...
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NewsNation Gets Customized Theme Song…
The Huffington Post Jack Mirkinson lays it on extra thick in reporting that Prince did a theme song for NewsNation… MSNBC’s Tamron Hall just blew every other cable news host on television out of the...
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The Ed Show to Reveal the “47 Percent” Video Shooter…
From MSNBC… MSNBC’S “THE ED SHOW” TO AIR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE MAN WHO VIDEO-TAPED THE INFAMOUS MITT ROMNEY 47% COMMENTS Interview to Air for Full Hour of “The Ed Show” on Wednesday, March 13...
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Ed Schultz Takes Himself Out of M-Fr…
TVNewser’s Alex Weprin reports that at the end of The Ed Show tonight, Ed Schultz announced that he is going to weekends and it was his decision… Schultz said that the decision to move to the weekend...
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Chris Hayes to MSNBC Primetime…
MSNBC announced what most of us suspected…that Chris Hayes will get the M-Fr primetime gig. The obvious question is what happens on weekends? I would guess that Melissa Harris Perry’s show will slide...
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MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Gambit
MSNBC in deciding to move Ed Schultz out and Chris Hayes in – despite Schultz’s claims that the move was his decision nobody is really buying that it was all his decision – may be exchanging one...
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Phil Griffin Interview
The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove interviews Phil Griffin… On Thursday Griffin was at pains to deny widespread speculation that MSNBC management, concerned that Schultz’s audience was aging beyond the...
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Steve Kornacki Gets Up
I never would have seen this one coming… STEVE KORNACKI NAMED NEW HOST OF MSNBC’S “UP” NEW YORK – March 19, 2013 – Steve Kornacki has been named the new host of MSNBC’s “Up” which airs Saturdays and...
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Dennis Horgan Tapped to Helm New Chris Hayes Show…
MSNBC’s announcement… DENIS HORGAN NAMED EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF NEW CHRIS HAYES PROGRAM NEW YORK – March 19, 2013 – Denis Horgan has been named Executive Producer of the new Chris Hayes program, which...
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Steve Kornacki Profile…
Capital New York’s Tom McGeveran profiles Steve Kornacki… And though Kornacki, less than one year Hayes’ junior, says he doesn’t just want to imitate the guy who came before him, there’s lots about...
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Phil Griffin Profile…
Rebecca Dana has a must read profile of MSNBC President Phil Griffin in the New Republic… “Phil is the perfect distillation of the television mentality,” says one former MSNBC employee, “which is:...
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