Wednesday, April 24, 2024

cable news (and comment)

4/25/24 - Toobin, Lemon, Stelter re-appear on CNN
3/26/24 - NBC News drops Ronna McDaniel
3/18/24 - the aftermath: Don Lemon releases Musk interview on YouTube
3/13/24 - Don Lemon says Elon Musk cancelled his show on X, will be on YouTube instead
9/21/23 - Rupert Murdoch steps down as chairman of Fox
6/30/23 - Geraldo says he is leaving Fox News
6/26/23 - Jesse Watters will take Tucker Carlson's primetime slot
6/17/23 - Trump says only "TRUMP" can save Fox News
6/16/23 - Sarah Palin says she got cancelled from Fox
6/16/23 - Biden dictator producer resigns from Fox News
6/7/23 - Chris Licht is out at CNN
5/16/23 - CNN ratings fall below NewsMax
5/9/23 - Tucker Carlson says his show will return via Twitter
4/27/23 - Fox ratings tumble are Carlson exit
4/26/23 - Tucker Carlson breaks silence
4/25/23 - Lemon and Carlson hire the same lawyer
4/24/23 - Fox fired Carlston "with cause", Carlson lawsuit expected
4/24/23 - Right wing backlash against Fox after dropping Carlson
4/24/23 - CNN parts ways with Don Lemon
4/24/23 - Fox News parts ways with Tucker Carlson (Yahoo)
4/19/23 - Fox News facing four more lawsuits
4/18/23 - Fox News and Dominion reach settlement agreement before trial begins
4/11/23 - Judge says Fox News has a credibility problem
3/23/23 - Trump's return to Hannity is a loss for half of Fox News
3/22/23 - Fox News producer files lawsuits against Fox News
3/11/23 - Fox is now trapped in an ever-worsening spiral of lies (Katie Phang)
2/28/23 - Trump says Murdoch is throwing his anchors under the table
2/24/23 - CNN guests say Fox News is in a precarious situation and in real jeopardy
2/20/23 - Don Lemon to participate in "formal training"
2/15/23 - Only 25% of Americans believe that national news organizations do not intend to mislead
2/3/23 - Don Lemon screamed at Kaitlan Collins
1/27/23 - Trump reviews Jessica Tarlov
1/22/23 - Chris Cuomo says he'll "never be what I was" after being fired by CNN
1/16/23 - CNN reportedly considering Jon Stewart or Bill Maher to fill Chris Cuomo slot
12/6/22 - Robin Meade signs off
11/12/22 - Judy Woodruff to leave PBS NewsHour
11/9/22 - Fox & Friends explains why Oz lost (according to the exit polls)
11/3/22 - Shepard Smith cancelled by CNBC
10/21/22 - Newsmax bans Lara Logan after appearance
9/20/22 - Roseanne planning special on Fox Nation
9/6/22 - John Dickerson to host CBS News show that won't air on CBS
9/6/22 - Chris Wallace to return on HBO Max and CNN
9/2/22 - John Harwood leaving CNN
8/18/22 - CNN ends Brian Stelter
8/11/22 - Shannon Bream to take over Fox News Sunday
7/27/22 - Trump threatens to sue CNN
7/27/22 - Chris Cuomo to join NewsNation
3/27/22 - Chris Wallace found it unsustainable to work at Fox News
1/23/22 - Pearls Before Swine
1/17/22 - Rand Paul cancels DirecTV after it drops OANN
1/7/22 - Hannity and Fox face ethical questions after texts to Trump revealed
12/12/21 - Chris Wallace leaving Fox News for CNN+
12/5/21 - Chris Cuomo fired by CNN for helping his brother
10/26/21 - Fox is trouncing CNN and MSNBC in the ratings
8/4/21 - Devin Nunes sues Maddow
6/26/21 - Carlson on Hannity on Carlson?
6/23/21 - Don Lemon punches down at Tucker Carlson
4/12/21 - Fox standing behind Tucker Carlson
4/11/21 - Anti-Defamation League CEO calls for removal of Tucker Carlson
2/11/21 - Gutfeld has evolved
2/9/21 - Kudlow will sort of replace Dobbs
1/20/21 - "Bloodbath" at Fox News

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Fox News, the top-rated cable channel, has announced its biggest shake-up of its daily lineup in several years — an overhaul that includes shifting one of its marquee news anchors, Martha MacCallum, out of her 7 p.m. spot to make way for an expansion of its prime-time opinion programming.

The move highlights the increasing dominance of conservative punditry at a network that positioned itself at its founding as a “fair and balanced” alternative to what it saw as a liberal drift in other media. Fox has not yet named a permanent host for the 7 p.m. slot and will instead feature “a rotating group of Fox News opinion hosts” in that hour after MacCallum moves to a lower-profile 3 p.m. slot next week. Brian Kilmeade, who co-hosts the “Fox and Friends” morning show, will be up first on Monday.

Rival news network CNN also unveiled a slate of programming changes that includes an expansion of news anchor Jake Tapper’s show and a shrinking of veteran anchor Wolf Blitzer’s.

From October: What happens to Fox News if Trump loses? Rupert Murdoch is prepared.  MacCallum will take the afternoon time slot now held by news anchor Bill Hemmer. Hemmer will return to the morning show, “America’s Newsroom,” which he left to replace Shepard Smith, who abruptly resigned from the network in October 2019. But that morning show will now be two hours instead of three, beginning at 9 a.m., with co-host Dana Perino, the former White House press secretary, who previously hosted a 2 p.m. show.

Fox’s chief White House correspondent John Roberts will leave the beat to anchor a 1 to 3 p.m. news show with Sandra Smith, now the host of “America’s Newsroom”; his replacement at the White House has not yet been named. And Harris Faulkner, another key member of the network’s news division, is being moved from 1 p.m. to 11 a.m. She will remain a lead panelist on the 12 p.m. talk show “Outnumbered.”

Fox News finished 2020 as the most-watched network in cable. But, in the wake of President Trump’s electoral loss to Joe Biden, CNN has been on a major upswing, while Fox’s ratings have experienced some softness.

In the last few months of 2020, CNN attracted more viewers than Fox News between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. in the 25-to-54 demographic, though Fox was watched by more total viewers. In prime time, Fox News edged CNN by 15,000 prime-time viewers in the key demographic over the same time period.

From November: What happens to CNN and MSNBC if Biden wins? It’s complicated.  CNN’s programming changes include an expansion of Tapper’s 4 p.m. weekday show from one hour to two, beginning in April, while Blitzer’s “Situation Room,” now a two-hour show that begins at 5 p.m., moves to a one-hour slot at 6 p.m. His show will air on CNN’s overseas networks, though. And CNN introduced a new delineation of the two anchors’ roles, describing Tapper as the lead for Washington news and Blitzer as a principal for breaking news.

Tapper will also take turns with chief political correspondent Dana Bash in hosting the Sunday morning “State of the Union” show. Abby Phillip will take over the Sunday edition of John King’s “Inside Politics” franchise, hosting from 8 to 9 a.m., beginning Jan. 24. And Pamela Brown will anchor a three-hour news block on Saturday and Sunday mornings.

CNN also announced that chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta, who rose to national attention as a sparring partner of Trump, will become an anchor and take on the new title of chief diplomatic correspondent. Kaitlan Collins will serve as the network’s chief White House correspondent for the Biden administration.

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[10/25/19] 44 months of Fox News

[9/2/18]  Fox News earns top spot in poll

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