NYT Runs 50,000 Extra Copies for Election Day (Mediaweek)
CNN was the top rated cable channel during Election Night in prime time, even topping broadcast networks NBC, CBS and FOX in Total Viewers. (TVNEWSER)
Barry Diller’s IAC Sees Huge Loss - $14.8 million (NY Post)
Rather, CBS Spar Over Withheld Documents (Portfolio)
Users Flock to CNN, MSNBC Sites for Election Results (Mediaweek)
Check out CoverAwards’ Best-of-the-Best from The Teen Choice Awards here.
The Jonas Brothers and Gossip Girl both won six awards each at Sunday’s Teen Choice Awards in L.A.
“We are so blessed, and our fans are incredible, and we love it,” said Nick Jonas to USmagazine.com.
Teen host Miley Cyrus took home three awards of her own and Lauren Conrad took home the award for choice TV female reality star.
The show airs tonight at 8 p.m. (ET) on FOX.
Wendy Williams will be directly competing with staid programs like “Today” in a six-week run of “The Wendy Williams Show,” a live hourlong syndicated show to be broadcast weekdays on Fox stations in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and Detroit, reports Gawker via New York Times.
What she’ll is anyone’s guess. I bet they’ll be a lot of those annoying beeps.
Quick read here.
NBC is getting closer and closer to replacing Jay Leno with Conan O’Brien.
This will either be the biggest f&*k&p in history or pure genius by Jeff Zucker.
Only time will tell.
The Hollywood Reporter runs down a list of options for Jay Leno - who pretty much can do whatever he wants:
With all the talk about American Idol’s sinking ratings this season, the FOX public relations team sends out a press release stating how “American Idol” is heating up the week.
Spin, spin, spin…
For the intro to the press release, make the jump:
THIS JUST IN — Ex-White House press Secretary and Fox News Channel personality Tony Snow has joined CNN, according to the New York Post.
And They Will Not Let You Forget It, Rupert Murdoch!
The New York Times is reporting that CNN will officially announce on Tuesday that for the first time since 2001, it beat the Fox News Channel in prime time for one quarter of the year in the category of news viewers most desirable to advertisers, according to Nielsen. Thanks to its debate coverage and heavy focus on the presidential primaries, CNN’s ratings in prime time for viewers 25 to 54 were up 90 percent, to an average of 453,000 for the first quarter of 2008.”
Can you imagine if the Democrats win the race in November? Fox News Channel will be totally screwed.
