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James Comey ratings boost cable, broadcast TV
The James Comey sweepstakes paid off for broadcasters. A whopping 29.5 million viewers across the three big broadcast networks, three major cable channels and Facebook Live, tuned in to watch former...
View ArticleEx-WABCer Ron Kuby: it’s ‘Zen’ to be replaced by a black woman
Radio is color blind — and so is former WABC talk show host Ron Kuby, who says he’s happy to be replaced by a black woman. Whip-smart Fox News Channel host Eboni K. Williams suddenly replaced Kuby last...
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KAPLAN: Megyn Kelly is wrong to give nut job and Sandy Hook denier Alex Jones...
Monsters do not deserve a megaphone. I’m all for offering every side of an issue, but handing a national, mainstream media platform to an unhinged Sandy Hook massacre denier like Alex Jones — as Megyn...
View ArticleDidn’t anyone at TV One notice the irony of airing a ‘Cosby Show’ rerun in...
We’re guessing that Bill Cosby didn’t need much rehearsal for the scene in “The Cosby Show” in which he slipped some aspirin into a glass of juice. Accused rapist Bill Cosby could be seen on television...
View ArticleNBC News changes the name of ‘Nightly News’ for shady ratings surge
Even as NBC News is battling bad headlines about Megyn Kelly, the broadcaster is getting slammed for using fuzzy ratings math. The Peacock Network seems so desperate to beat rival ABC’s “World News...
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Fox News Channel dumps ‘Fair & Balanced’ slogan
Fox News Channel has finally acknowledged that it is neither fair nor balanced. The cable news channel has dropped its famed — and much mocked — marketing slogan, “Fair & Balanced.” In its place,...
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Megyn Kelly shows she’s out of her league with embarrassing Alex Jones interview
Megyn Kelly is getting crushed in the big leagues and it’s beginning to show. Aside from what seemed like a blatant grab for attention and ratings, there was no good reason to hand over NBC’s primetime...
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Mourning Gabe Pressman, the man with the microphone
Decades before every Mary, Joe and Harry had a camera and a microphone in their pockets and ability to broadcast news or nothing burgers to the entire world, there was Gabe Pressman. Pressman, the...
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Greta GONE! Van Susteren out at MSNBC after just six months
That was fast. Greta Van Susteren has left MSNBC after just six months. The former Fox News Channel host tweeted Thursday that she had left the network. “I am out at MSNBC,” she wrote simply, declining...
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WNBC anchor Chuck Scarborough leaving late-night job after 42 years for...
There will be no more late nights for Chuck — a newsman whose pre-midnight run has been longer than Johnny Carson, David Letterman or Jay Leno. WNBC’s anchor Chuck Scarborough is stepping down from the...
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