What’s Hot/What’s Not: 04/18/10

What’s Hot:

American Morning changes? – FTVLive kicked of the week writing that CNN was mulling changes to American Morning that could include removing one or both of the show’s hosts.

CNN’s Upfront presentation – CNN held its annual upfront this week and it got a lot of press and caught some pretty strong blow-back from both MSNBC and FNC…

Sean Hannity – Hannity was hot this week. Hot – as in radioactive; all because of Hannity doing his show from a Tea Party event in Cincinnati. An event which tickets were sold and the proceeds going to the local Tea Party. The highest levels of FNC were not pleased with this development and word circulated that they weren’t made aware of this before hand. As a result Hannity was ordered home and the remote broadcast was canceled.

Keith Olbermann embraces Twitter – Olbermann started tweeting this week and in a prolific and confrontational way. The manner and zeal in which Olbermann deals with trolls and detractors is interesting. It’s interesting not because of the way he does it but because it echoes an infamous incident someone else from MSNBC had a few months ago. And I have to wonder if David Shuster is looking at Olbermann’s tweets and thinking to himself if they’re going to allow that then why did he get his twitter privileges revoked…

No I won’t, yes I will – Still haven’t read anyone try to find out why Cathy Areu first stated on MSNBC she wasn’t going to be on The Factor, only to wind up on The Factor later that night…

What’s Not:

CNN’s Twitter “dominance” – As part of its upfront presentation, CNN noted how “dominant” it was on Twitter compared to MSNBC and CNN FNC. I think this is a vastly overrated talking point…

Bloomberg to air FIA GT1 World Championship racing – What does this have to do with business news exactly?

Rick Sanchez – Sanchez allegedly joked about volcanoes and cold climates. I say allegedly because it didn’t sound like a joke. And jokes are supposed to be funny. This one wasn’t.

MSNBC continues to “de-news” 4pm 3pm – First Ed Schultz, now Donny Deutsch next week?

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