CNN morning show loses Roberts, executive producer

CNN Becoming Irrelevant: Lowest Prime Time Ratings In 13 Years
Terry Jeffrey's Interview with Va. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli on ObamaCare Lawsuit Is CNN becoming irrelevant? CNN’s woes worsened this year. Despite the somewhat bogus total reach-touting, the network hit Primetime Ratings lows (or at least going back to 1997, which is all we could dig up data for) for total viewers and viewers 25-54. A look at Tuesday's Prime Time numbers should give you an idea of just how terribly this Cable Network is doing. Right in the heart of CNN&...

Syndicators Pitching Katie Couric on Daytime Talker...
As Katie Couric's contract with CBS News nears its end, multiple syndicators are approaching her about daytime possibilities, confirm several sources. Couric's $15 million annual contract with CBS News expires at the end of May. It's still too soon for her to begin negotiating with CBS, but the news anchor has begun considering her options should renewing her contract with CBS not pan out. Couric, who was The Today Show's star for 15 years, has long been considered the ideal Candidate for dayti...

The last of 'Larry King Live'
Say what you will about Larry King — that he's a shameless softballer, that he's a selective listener, that he may not always understand who he's talking to and what they're saying — you have to admit the man has stamina. Even as his body seems to shrivel and his concentration appears to wane, he's been showing up for "Larry King Live," his five-nights-a-week, hourlong CNN interview program, for 25 years. Throughout it all — and, indeed, throughout his whole career, which began...

History Channel has year to remember
There's an old saying that those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. Fortunately for the History Channel, that's a good thing. The Cable Network saw its prime-time audience grow by 35% this year, according to Nielsen. History Channel, which is co-owned by Walt Disney Co., NBC Universal and Hearst Corp., averaged 1.6 million viewers in Prime Time. Its audience among adults 18-49 was up by 34%, to 754,000. Both were the biggest gains of any top 10 cable network. Of course, ...

Huh? CNN Spins Worst Ratings In Years: 10 Million More Viewers Than Fox News
With two weeks left to go, 2010 is looking like a year to forget for CNN. The network’s Primetime shows, including the heavily hyped but poorly performing Parker Spitzer have failed to stem the serious Ratings losses that have plagued the network for more than a year. When year end figures are released soon, it’s almost certain to be CNN’s worst performance in over a decade. But that’s not how the story goes in CNN’s year-end news release-out today-whic...

Anderson Cooper Beats Lawrence ODonnell In Tight Fight For Second Place
Cable news Ratings, December 14, 2010: •Tuesday night’s 10 p.m. ratings race was a fight for second, with Fox’s Greta Van Susteren easily winning the time period with 347,000 viewers 25-54. But CNN’s Anderson Cooper had a strong finish in second with 262,000 viewers, enough to beat MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, who had 238,000. The strong numbers for AC360 were the best in Primetime for all CNN shows. •At 8 p.m., Bill O’Reilly dominated Cable News Tuesday ni...

Larry King as you've never seen him -- suspenderless
Larry King. When he was a little boy growing up in Brooklyn, Lawrence Zeiger used to fantasize that he was Arthur Godfrey or some other famous broadcast personality in an age when people set their daily schedules by when their favorite programs were on the radio. Or the little Jewish boy would go up in the bleachers at Ebbets Field and pretend he was chatting on-air with Red Barber or other household sports names. This is way back, mind you, back in the 30's, even before Joe Biden was born...

Barney Frank: Tax Deal Will Pass As Is Because 'Cutting Taxes Is Always Popular'
WASHINGTON -- House Democratic leaders and prominent party members have grown resigned to the fact that, despite their howls of discontent, the tax deal crafted by President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans will pass as is. On Thursday morning, House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) became the latest member to bend to the emerging consensus. "You think this bill is going to eventually pass though the way it is, pretty much?" he was asked during an appearance on the ...

Golf Channel starting weekday morning show in January
Mark Ashman/Golf Channel Erik Kuselias, left, and Gary Williams will host Golf Channel's new morning show,"Morning Drive,"which will debut in early January. NEW YORK -- The Golf Channel is going for an earlier tee time. The network said it will introduce a weekday morning news show starting Jan. 3. Golf will be the focus for "Morning Drive," but hosts Erik Kuselias and Gary Williams will also briefly fill duffers in on general news and weather. Programming chief Tom Stathakes says the show will...

Larry King hangs up his crown
Early last June, CNN celebrated 25 years of “Larry King Live” with a week of shows whose A-list guests included President Barack Obama, LeBron James, Bill Gates and Lady GaGa. It was hyped to the hilt and suitably eventful, even as King and Lady Gaga regarded each other with the bemusement of a human encountering an alien life form. Then, at the end of June, King suddenly announced he was retiring from his show — a weeknight fixture at 9 p.m. Eastern since June 1, 1985. He told...

Obama's "West Wing" Burden
Brian Lowry writes that while Obama "carries no shortage of problems and challenges on his shoulders, but part of that burden was placed there -- at least among disgruntled liberal supporters -- by the wonderfully vivid if not entirely realistic mind of Aaron Sorkin." Brian argues that "while Sorkin's unabashed approach to exalting the nobility of Liberalism -- as he did in "The American President" as well as "West Wing" -- is surely cathartic for many Demo...

Poll: Obama down but not out
US President Barack Obama makes his way onto the stage for the signing ceremony for the Claims Resolution Act of 2010 in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building December 8, 2010, next to the White House in Washington, DC. After his party’s midterm losses and with the Unemployment Rate still hovering around 10 percent, President Barack Obama might be down. But he’s far from out — especially when it comes to his prospects for re-election in 2012. ...

I Miss Condoleezza Rices Straight Talk
From I Hate the Media The Fight of the Week: Condoleezza Rice knocks out Katie Couric in the first round About the only time we watch HBO is for the fights, but much to our surprise we found out that the Cable Network has a series called “HBO History Makers.” If this episode of the series - an interview with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and perky, Ratings-challenged news anchor Katie Couric - had been a fight, it would have been stopped in the first round. Couric aske

Tonight's the night for Larry King as 25-year reign comes to an end
He is from another era of current affairs television and tonight that era will end. When the lights dim on his desk this evening, Larry King, the Primetime interview host for CNN for the last 25 years, will hang up his Trademark braces and cede his throne to the British talent show judge and former editor Piers Morgan. With Mr King, 76, will vanish an interviewing style that to some had become outdated long before now. You don't need a Jeremy Paxman when your guest is Jon Bon Jovi but arguably y...

How Fox News Got Climategate Wrong
In journalism, context is everything. That goes for quotes and for facts, especially on an issue with facts as layered with complexity and nuance as Climate Change. Fox News’ Washington managing editor Bill Sammon should have known that when, at the height of the 2009 “ClimateGate” e-mail fracas, he dashed off an ill-considered memo ordering his reporters to “refrain from reporting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY (caps in original) poi

Rachel Maddow Defends Glenn Beck After David Letterman Calls Beck A Looney
In a highly entertaining interview on David Letterman’s Late Show last night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow talked about what she sees as the stark differences between her network and Fox News. Maddow argued that unlike MSNBC, FOX News is a “political operation” that’s run with overtly political goals: “to elect Candidates…to fundraise for causes…to have rallies against Democratic ideas and politicians.” For his part, Letterman kept it comedically short...

Fox News Announces Two 2012 Presidential Debates With South Carolina GOP
Believe it or not, we are at that point in the election cycle where Candidates and Cable Networks begin positioning themselves for the coming Presidential race. Fox News comes out of the gate strong today, announced a partnership with the South Carolina Republican party to host two presidential Debates for the 2012 Campaign. Full Press Release after the jump: FOX NEWS AND THE SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN PARTY PRESENT TWO PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES FOR THE 2012 CAMPAIGN FOX News and the South Carolina Re...

CNN Will Host First Republican New Hampshire Primary Debate
You can really feel the thrill of the season, can’t you? Republicans filling their sleighs with high hopes and heading over the river and through the woods to Iowa and New Hampshire. Now, like the coming of It’s a Wonderful Life, comes a date certain for our first GOP debate in New Hampshire, the “First in the Nation” state-at least to politicos. CNN announced today it would host the Republican Candidates’ debate, in association with New Hampshire’s Unio...

DeFazio (OR-D) Says Barack Obama told Lawmakers not Passing Tax Deal Could End Presidency
According to The Hill ,  US Rep. Peter Defazio (OR - D) stated that Obama told lawmakers not passing the tax deal could end his presidency. Obama denies making any such  comment. Obama’s presidency over because of not passing the tax deal? Not quite, Obama’s presidency is over for many other reasons as soon by his continued low Approval Ratings and his signature Health Care Legislation being in deep trouble with the people and the courts. Might end his presidency …

On word counts and sexism
In the run-up to the launch of CNN’s “Parker Spitzer,” media writers leaned on comparisons to “Morning Joe” as an easy crutch. (In this, I am not innocent.) And since the “Morning Joe” pairing of a female Journalist with a male former politician was a Beltway darling, the comparison was a compliment of sorts for CNN. But now that “Parker Spitzer” has been struggling very publicly with ratio of male to female word counts on the set, that com...

Video: Scarborough points out bias of MSNBC?
A classic, mainly for Mika Brzezinsky’s reaction. After his co-host read a news report about Judge Henry Hudson’s decision ruling the federal health-insurance mandate Unconstitutional that emphasized Hudson’s appointment to the bench by George W. Bush, Joe Scarborough wondered aloud why the source of appointments only seem to matter for those picked by Republican presidents. Former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham supplied the correct answer while mostly stifling a laugh, but Brze...

Four Marines Who Lost Limbs in Afghanistan Talk About the Afghan People, Their Time in Afghanistan and the Price They Paid
Four wounded warriors talk to CBS's David Martin, the first Marine says "we're the ones paying the price and we're telling you the price is worthwhile"...All 4 of these guys lost both of their legs, this is quite a video cbsnews.com If ever Marines earned the right to speak their minds about the war, it is a group of four men who were all gravely wounded by Roadside Bombs in Afghanistan, reports CBS News National Security correspondent David Martin "We're the ones paying the price, and we're te...

Inside Marine Afghan Culture Training
"How much for a cup a chai and cookies?" That's definitely not a question you expect to hear during a training drill at Quantico Marines Corp Base. The cultural exchange is just one of several scenarios Marines act out with Afghan role players inside a mock village on the base. Jessica Wattman, a senior conflict specialist with USAID, follows the marine and critiques them as they make their way through a series of missions, including meetings with tribal leaders. The Department of Defense has...

Michael Steele Faces Backlash From GOP
CBS News: In the wake of Michael Steele's Monday night announcement that, after much speculation to the contrary, he will be seeking re-election to chair the Republican National Committee (RNC), a number of influential Party Leaders made it clear that they would be actively seeking an alternative. Read the whole story: CBS News Get HuffPost Politics On Twitter and Facebook! Subscribe to the HuffPost Hill newsletter! Know something we don't? E-mail us at huffpolitics@huffingto...

Will TV Meteorologist Do Time for Rape Claim?
Like this Story? Share it: (CBS) In New York, a prominent TV Meteorologist who told police she escaped from an attempted Rape is now accused of making it all up. Heidi Jones was arrested over the weekend. She's been taken off the by her station, WABC-TV, pending the authorities' investigation. CBS News correspondent Betty Nguyen reported the TV Meteorologist was arrested last week by New York City detectives for filing a false report of attempted Rape in September while jogging in Central Park...