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What’s Hot/What’s Not: 09/05/11
Posted in What's Hot/What's Not on September 5, 2011 by icn2What’s Hot:
Irene Hype? – The start of the week saw the networks doing a bunch of “Was Hurricane Irene Hype or not?” stories…
Erin Burnett – Burnett was in the news because her show got a name; OutFront, and a preview spot on CNN…
CNBC Gets a 3 Day Weekend Right for a Change – For the first time in my living memory CNBC was not completely dark on a three day weekend. Monday saw the network simulcast CNBC World in the early morning hours as Europe’s markets were in free fall. It also did a US based special at 9pm. This also is going to take away an FBN talking point for a while because that network apparently stayed in tape the whole day.
What’s Not:
Jeanne Meserve – Page Six reported that Meserve was out at CNN…
CNBC to Air Euro Market Special Tonight…
Posted in Bloomberg, CNBC, FBN on September 5, 2011 by icn2CNBC has been extremely nimble on its feet today…the third day of a three day weekend. It was simulcasting CNBC World this morning as European markets had a big sell off. And tonight the network will be live at 9pm ET…
“CNBC SPECIAL REPORT: EUROSTRESS” AIRS TONIGHT, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH AT 9PM ET
“CNBC Special Report: Eurostress” will air live on Monday, September 5th at 9pm ET anchored by CNBC’s Michelle Caruso-Cabrera and Scott Wapner.
CNBC has taken its share of beatings the past couple of months for being dark when it shouldn’t have been and it seems like the network has finally learned its lesson. Bloomberg will be live tonight at 7 via Bloomberg Asia and Susan Li. I’ve been periodically checking FBN but have not seen it live today. But I could have missed something. So have any of you seen FBN live today?
What’s Hot/What’s Not: Submissions…
Posted in What's Hot/What's Not on September 3, 2011 by icn2Post your nominations for this weeks meager What’s Hot/What’s Not. I’ll post the finalists on Monday night. Happy Labor Day weekend…
Press Releases: 09/01/11
Posted in Press Releases on September 1, 2011 by icn2MSNBC (1)
PROGRAM NOTE: MSNBC TO BROADCAST GOP CANDIDATES DEBATE FROM REAGAN LIBRARY IN SIMI VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 7, 8-9:45P ET
LIVE POST-DEBATE ANALYSIS FROM 9:45P – MIDNIGHT, FEATURING RACHEL MADDOW, CHRIS MATTHEWS, ED SCHULTZ, LAWRENCE O’DONNELL, REV. AL SHARPTON, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYSTS
NEW YORK, NY – September 1, 2011 – MSNBC will broadcast the GOP Presidential Candidates debate at the Reagan Library from 8-9:45p ET on Wednesday, September 7. Live analysis will follow the conclusion of the debate, beginning at 9:45p ET and continuing until midnight ET. Debate analysis will come from MSNBC’s primetime anchors including Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews from Reagan Library, Ed Schultz, Lawrence O’Donnell and Rev. Al Sharpton. MSNBC’s political analysts will also weigh in, including Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson, Fmr. RNC Chairman Michael Steele, The Nation’s Melissa Harris-Perry, Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman and Alex Wagner, Georgetown University’s Michael Eric Dyson and GOP Strategist Steve Schmidt. MSNBC will re-air the debate in its entirety as well as the post-debate analysis at midnight ET.
Al Sharpton Quicksand…
Posted in MSNBC on September 1, 2011 by icn2The Wall Street Journal’s Michael Howard Saul front loads his Al Sharpton profile with these four juicy paragraphs. Everything else that comes after is anti-climactic…
The Rev. Al Sharpton, the civil-rights activist who has been at the center of every hot political contest in New York for years, will no longer be able to make political endorsements or campaign for candidates now that he’s become the host of a nightly program on MSNBC.
But in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, Mr. Sharpton said he wasn’t aware of any MSNBC rules that prohibit him from endorsing candidates. “I cannot write checks, but I can make endorsements if I choose,” he explained.
Lauren Skowronski, a network spokeswoman, said, “Rev. Sharpton will be adhering to NBC News policies now that he’s an MSNBC host. NBC News prohibits employees from campaigning for candidates without prior consent from management.”
When told that Mr. Sharpton believed he was free to endorse candidates—and just merely barred from making political donations—Ms. Skowronski replied, “I can let you know that Rev. Sharpton is aware of the policy and has agreed to adhere accordingly.”
Setting aside the blatant tightrope walking finely parsed PR response from MSNBC which raises about as many new questions as it answers old ones, the implications of this story are pretty significant.
The microscopes will be all over Sharpton and what he does in his downtime. Any time he’s at a rally that’s tangentially political or campaign related, MSNBC is going to get asked questions about whether or not this violates NBC policy. If Sharpton goes anywhere close to an endorsement on his radio show, MSNBC is going to get asked questions about whether or not this violates NBC policy. And if NBC gives Sharpton an exemption to make an endorsement or attend an event, MSNBC is going to get uncomfortable questions about why an exemption was given for Sharpton but not Olbermann or Scarborough.
Thanks to sites likes NewsBusters MSNBC can be assured that no Sharpton movement will go unscrutinized. This could be sort of like quicksand for MSNBC. Al Sharpton quicksand. The more the network struggles to deal with Sharpton, the worse things could get.
9/11′s 10th: CNN/HLN Programming Plans…
Posted in CNN, HLN on September 1, 2011 by icn2CNN and HLN’s programming plans for 9/11
CNN To Provide Global, Multi-Platform Live Coverage of the 10th Anniversary of Sept. 11th
On the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11th, CNN will broadcast live from New York, Washington, D.C., Shanksville, Penn., Afghanistan and Pakistan. CNN’s special live coverage will air across CNN/U.S., CNN International, and CNN en Español; and CNN.com and CNN Apps will live stream events throughout the day. In addition, and throughout the week, HLN will air HLN: Your Neighborhood Remembers 9/11, a series of specials and reports showcasing how communities across the country have triumphed over tragedy.
On Sunday, Sept. 11, beginning at 8:30 a.m. ET, CNN’s global broadcast will be anchored by Anderson Cooper and Candy Crowley from New York City’s Ground Zero, joined by CNN International anchor Becky Anderson, chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta and anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien. Wolf Blitzer will anchor from the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., joined by Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr. John King will anchor from the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Penn. Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh will contribute from Pakistan, and anchor Suzanne Malveaux and senior international correspondent Nic Robertson will contribute to CNN’s coverage from Afghanistan. On Sept. 11th, 2001, Robertson was one of the only Western television journalists in Taliban-held Afghanistan, and reported on the Taliban response and the attacks by the Northern Alliance on Kabul live via satellite videophone. Senior anchor Patricia Janiot and anchor Juan Carlos López will lead CNN en Español’s coverage from Ground Zero with regular reports by Adriana Hauser in New York and Ione Molinares from the Pentagon.
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