Saturday, April 09, 2005
Royal Wedding Coverage Roundup
Source: New York Times
> Like children released after hours of sitting up straight at a school assembly, news anchors moved from the Vatican to Windsor Castle wriggling and giggling in relief. CNN sent a veteran correspondent, Walter Rodgers, to a Cornish village to glean the reactions of the locals to their new duchess of Cornwall. "Bloody trollop, isn't she?" an elderly villager replied.
> Before the ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall, MSNBC diabolically rebroadcast, in its entirely, the 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer as it was covered by Tom Brokaw and Jane Pauley on NBC. The network's live commentary on his second marriage was a little less glowing. Tina Brown, who hosts a talk show on MSNBC, noted that the bride looked quite a bit like the governess who raised Prince Charles as a boy, but explained that there was nothing abnormal about it. "Englishmen always marry their nannies," she stated briskly.
> Fox News spent so many minutes on Prince Charles's choice for the traditional wedding dessert: a fruitcake.
This from an e-mailer: "Even the NYT can be wrong if they indeed did say that Tina Brown hosts a show on MSNBC. Tina Brown hosts a show on their sister channel, CNBC."
UPDATE: 4/10
Source: Baltimore Sun
> No one was more consistently aggressive or came closer to mocking the proceedings than Anderson Cooper, who was co-anchoring CNN's coverage. It was as if he was trying to imitate the tart, satiric tone of Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's Daily Show rather than anchor coverage of a news event for a global audience.
As police were shown leading away a streaker shortly after the civil wedding ceremony, Cooper commented: "I'm convinced he's a member of the wedding party, and he's being taken back to the party."
In response to an on-screen commentator noting the queen's absence from the civil ceremony, Cooper offered: "Ah, but she was there in spirit. Her portrait was hanging in the room." The sarcasm was a setup for more discussion about how stern she looked in the portrait.
Then, as the CNN cameras focused on a statue of the queen (holding scepter and globe) outside the Guildhall where the civil ceremony was held, Cooper kept on: "That's a large statue of her presiding with her staff and, what is that, her big ball? I'm not sure, but it's a symbol of something."
> "I feel so functional now," Fox News co-anchor E.D. Hill said in response to a report on the queen's family. "Compared to that family, everyone is so normal."
Commenting on Parker Bowles' former husband's attendance, Fox co-anchor Jon Scott rhetorically asked Hill, "Wouldn't you like to be a fly on the wall in that receiving line?" After a brief silence, he added, "Though I'm told there won't be a receiving line."
> No one was nastier than MSNBC analyst Victoria Mather, who responded to a question about the possibility of Prince Charles kissing his bride in public after the civil ceremony: "Would you want to see two old people kissing?"
In describing the kind of lipstick and makeup Parker Bowles was wearing, Mather said, "It's sort of like making up an old wall with metallic paint."
# posted by ATN @ 3:04 PM 
Long Time No See
Pic from TV Heads.
Well there's quite a site to behold today as one time CNN/US, HLN anchor/reporter Holly Firfer popped up anchoring the noon to 6pm eastern shift on Headline News today. Firfer now is a full-time morning personality at Atlanta radio station 92.9 Dave FM.
# posted by ATN @ 1:37 PM
SURPRISE!!! More CNN-I on CNN-US
Well what do we have here? No In the Money and MORE LIVE CNN-I coverage of the Royal Wedding. "The Andersons" are hosting while Richard Quest and other correspondents are contributing to the broadcast. I guess we will have to wait and see what other surprises CNN throws at us. Maybe no Next at CNN...who knows!
# posted by ATN @ 1:12 PM
"A Royal Wedding" Coverage
Pic from TV Heads
Well what can I say, I slept late and missed the LIVE coverage. I will have to watch it later and throw in my two cents worth. Anyway, I am looking for your comments on the coverage of the Royal Wedding.
> This from one e-mailer: (edited for length) "Becky Anderson and Anderson Cooper actually make a great team and are really funny without things getting out of hand.The only qualm I have is that AC overdoes the "befuddled American" thing for the US viewers. Other than that, though, those two are brilliant. That's some of the most interesting, refreshing coverage I've seen in a while."
> This from another e-mailer: "I enjoyed CNN's coverage; it was a good mix of information and entertainment. Anderson and Becky made a great team--I love when Anderson gets to display his humorous side. I'm not particularly interested in the Royals, but I watched mainly because Anderson would be covering it and I was not disappointed."
# posted by ATN @ 11:53 AM
Friday, April 08, 2005
CNN/I Blacked Out in China
Source: Khaleej Times China’s state-controlled media blacked out news of the pope’s funeral Saturday, with no reports or pictures of the historic event seen on televised news broadcasts, in daily newspapers or on news websites.
The sole report seen in state media in China concerned foreign ministry comments condemning Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian’s attendance at the funeral.
Coverage of the funeral on the international broadcaster CNN was been repeatedly blacked out here when China’s reaction to the death of the Catholic Church’s highest spiritual authority was reported.
On Friday, state media also refrained from reporting on the funeral except for a terse, two-sentence report stating it had taken place carried by the state-run Xinhua news agency and China Central Television’s evening news.
The Chinese government broke diplomatic ties with the Vatican in 1951.
# posted by ATN @ 11:50 PM
News Blogger a Fox News Suck up?
Ftvlive.com writes:
When 18 year old Brian Stelter launched the website Cablenewser.com, it was a refreshing look at the 24 hour cable channels and their often over coverage of news events.
After months of good and seemingly unbiased critiques, the college kid came out and told people who he was. Cablenewser soon became TVnewser and many felt that is when the site started to slide.
Now, young Brian has become nothing more than a PR machine for whomever wants to use him. Fox News seems to hand feed young Brian stories almost on a daily basis.
Stelter fawns over Fox News like Candy Crowley over a Twinkie. He gushes about Fox's ratings and swoons over the channel's stars.
Read the COMPLETE write-up HERE.
# posted by ATN @ 9:15 PM
R & T Correspondents Association Dinner Wrap-up
Sorry I didn't get invited to the 61st Radio & Television Correspondents Association Dinner Wednesday night nor i did beg for a ticket from anybody BUT there's a wrap-up of the shing-dig in Thursday's Washington Post.
According to the Post, CNN brought along some special guests to the dinner:
In lieu of celebrity guests, CNN invited a group of wounded U.S. soldiers who are being treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. One guest, Army Ranger Eivend Forseth of Billings, Mont., was wounded in an ambush in Mosul, Iraq, on Jan. 4. He has since undergone 14 operations in an attempt to repair nerve damage in his right arm.
# posted by ATN @ 5:22 PM
Judy and Wolf--Together Again
For the second time in less than a week, Judy Woodruff and Wolf Blitzer have combined their programs into a 2 and a half hour special covering the Pope's Funeral. Of course this means the Crossfire shoutfest has been been pre-empted. IMO, it's refreshing to see two anchors at the desk at the same time.
UPDATE: 3:35p.m. Crossfire Shouters Robert Novak and Paul Bagela showed up at 3:30pm with Wolf and Judy during the special coverage of the Pope's funeral.
# posted by ATN @ 4:20 PM
Amanpour To Do Leno AND Letterman
Source: NBC.com Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour is schedule to appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,Wednesday, April 13.
Thanks to KD for the heads up on this!
UPDATE: 4/10 CNN Blog is told Amanpour is scheduled to appear on David Letterman, Tuesday April 12!
# posted by ATN @ 3:51 PM
Pope Coverage: How CNN Crews Pulled it Off
Source: CNN.com Great article by CNN's Susanna Flood explaining the behind the scenes work of pulling off covering the illness, death and funeral of the Pope.
CNN has exclusively taken over the rooftop where four tents are the base of our global broadcasting: one for CNN International, another for CNN US, as well as CNN Espanol and CNN NewsSource. Guests come to and fro to join the different crews and contribute their insights to the proceedings in the Vatican.
CNN and the BBC have hired their own rooms in the basement of the college as the nerve centers of their operations. The priests and staff of this traditional center of learning look on bemused at the comings and goings of the world's Press.
Elsewhere in Rome, hotel balconies and roof tops house other broadcasters. While at the foot of the Via della Concilliazione, which leads from the Vatican to the Tiber, satellite dishes are also amassed.
Read complete article HERE.
# posted by ATN @ 3:37 PM
Pope Funeral: More Coverage of the Coverage Round-UP
> Baltimore Sun: Shepard Smith on the Fox News Channel, the anchorman who had prematurely pronounced the pope dead by 25 hours last week, needlessly overstated the service by telling viewers before the start of the mass that they were about to see "what may be the most spectacular event ever put on television."
> New Zealand Herald: CNN decided the appropriate tone for death is always immense sadness and its presenters were suitably doleful. Repeatedly they told us Catholics were in mourning. In fact, the Pope was an old man who had been painfully ill for a long time and increasingly unable to perform a role that permits no retirement. His death was going to be a blessed release.
UPDATE: 7:20pm
> Chicago Tribune: "I wonder if we can just pause for a moment and just hear these bells ringing out over Vatican City," said CNN's Bill Hemmer, minutes before the pope's coffin was carried out of St. Peter's Basilica.
From time to time, CNN showed what viewers in other countries, such as South Korea or Cuba, were seeing on their television sets.
UPDATE: 9:11pm:
> UK Telegraph: The dispatch of Anderson Cooper, the ultra-polished CNN star and arguably the closest American television has to royalty, hot-footing it from Rome to anchor today's coverage is proof enough of the enduring love affair between America and the Royal Family - or at least proof enough that the schedulers know what makes for an entertaining weekend after a week of Papal pomp.
This post will be updated as the day progresses.
# posted by ATN @ 3:27 PM
Pope Funeral: Coverage of the Coverage
Source: Associated Press The funeral of Pope John Paul II was both a solemn ritual and a news event _ and television networks that brought it live into American homes hours before the sun rose struggled to reconcile the two.
> Fox News Channel helpfully used graphics to detail the hymns and readings during the Mass. The network also removed the fluttering American flag graphic that's usually a fixture in the upper left-hand corner of its screen.The networks all employed translators to cover a Mass celebrated mostly in Italian, but were inconsistent in how often they were used. And some appeared completely flummoxed at times when other languages were used.
> Both CNN and CBS saw symbolism in a brisk wind closing the pages of the book of the Gospel that had been placed on the top of the pope's simple wooden coffin.
> "This Mass is about to begin," CBS anchor Harry Smith said at the outset. "We're going to try to stay as much out of it as possible."
> NBC's Katie Couric also couldn't resist talking about NATO warplanes during the litany of the saints. But, in general, NBC and the cable news networks _ outlets often used to a torrent of words _ showed more restraint and willingness to let the events unfold.
Networks had so much expertise on hand they sometimes couldn't resist using it, even when their observations added little. "I sense both the presence and absence of Pope John Paul II," Notre Dame professor Scott Appleby said on ABC.
# posted by ATN @ 11:54 AM
Ailes: No "Anti-American Channel" Planned
Source: Hollywood Reporter Fox News Channel's future plans include the launch of a financial news offshoot network, possibly as early as the summer. But CEO Roger Ailes doesn't envision an international version of Fox News anytime soon.
"We've decided not to start an anti-American channel," quipped Ailes to the applause of some of the roughly 100 people who attended his speech Thursday night at the Washington Press Club.
"To get distribution overseas it is helpful if you're not all that friendly to the U.S.," Ailes said during the question-and-answer session conducted by journalist Marvin Kalb. He specifically mentioned the BBC and Al-Jazeera.
In an interview following the appearance, Ailes said an international news channel along the lines of CNN International was not in the cards for Fox News.
# posted by ATN @ 11:36 AM
Goodman: AC May Be the Future, I'd Rather Watch Brown
Source: San Francisco Chronicle Great article by Tim Goodman in today's San Francisco Chronicle. Good writes about all the longtime anchors leaving the networks and the future of news in general. Below is an excerpt from the article:
I'd like to see Koppel pop up in one of two places: CNN or PBS. Koppel is a serious newsman and he needs to have his interest in long-form explanatory journalism encouraged. Those are about the only two places left to make it happen in the right fashion.
Every time I write a story about network news or the "three iconic anchors," a smattering of people accuse me of criminally neglecting Jim Lehrer and the "NewsHour." There's probably some truth to the idea that the other three, driven by their personalities (not to mention a whole lot more viewers), took the bulk of my interest. But it's also true that through the years I've watched Lehrer three times as often as the others, combined. He is, and remains, my reliable go-to news guy.
But I do like some outsize (just so) personality in my news, and maybe that's why the anchor I've been watching almost nightly and with the most interest is CNN's Aaron Brown.
Now, I know Brown is not everybody's favorite, which is fine. And as even he well knows, I haven't always been kind to him. But I can't stop watching. I like his delivery, I like what some people might call "that smirk," I like his underlying sense of passion and perhaps it's the journalist in me geeking out, but I do like the "Morning Papers" segment a whole lot.
Even before Brokaw retired and Rather got in a mess, I was prepping a column about Brown being the anchor I watch most (despite or because of CNN's inability to figure out quite what to do with him, or how to promote him).
But Jennings' illness only put an exclamation point on how much I miss seeing the others. Leaving the anchor chair is fine, but the stage -- not yet. Clearly there is something in Brown that resonates with and relates to the others. Shepard Smith and Anderson Cooper and Williams may well be the future, but apparently I'm not ready to go there.
Update: 5:30pm- This from an e-mailer: "I watch him every night, and if someone else take his place, I will get my news elsewhere, he is passionate and have feelings, he is not, just a talking box like so many are......and if P Jenning has to retire, he could easly fill for him, but It would be only 30 minutes instead of on hour"
# posted by ATN @ 10:41 AM
O'Brien Goes to College
Source: The Post-Standard The last time a pope died, Soledad O'Brien was 11 years old, and there wasn't any cable TV news channel to tune in.
This time, she's a CNN news anchor in New York City and part of the team handling the network's live coverage throughout this morning's funeral of Pope John Paul II.
O'Brien, who speaks at 5 p.m. Sunday at Syracuse University, uses words like "amazing" to describe what it has been like as an anchor reporting on the pope's illness, death and funeral preparations and interviewing those with insights on his possible successor.
"I find all the angles to be a fascinating story. Picking a pope is something, obviously, that happens so infrequently, and so you get a chance to shed a little light on the Vatican," says O'Brien, who plans to talk about this at SU's Hendricks Chapel in a speech open to the public.
# posted by ATN @ 10:38 AM
Pope Funeral Observations
Pic from TV Heads
Will be posting observations through-out the day. So this post will be updated:
> One e-mailer describes the first minutes of the funeral like this: " As the clock ticks into 4AM EST, not a word from the anchors.
We get a clean package of ticker-less graphic – just a small CNN bug on the left, live bug on top left and a somewhat larger graphics highlighting the title of the programming – “The Funeral of Pope John Paul II”
Wind has beginning to blow very hard in the Vatican - especially at alter.
Actually at 4:13, silence was broke for the first time to explain the significant of the color red in the religion/
4:16: We get graphics labeled Poland to a video feed that appears to be the Vatican. - It seems that they are ironing out the wrinkles."
UPDATE:8:22pm
> Here's DCG's two-cents worth: I am a sucker for any event the international CNN correspondents take part in on CNN/US. CNN's coverage was dignified through-out the week. Really glad the news crawl was gone through out the coverage of the funeral and CNN had minimal graphics on the screen as well. Talking was kept to a minimum by the ac, ca and others. I guess if you wanted "comment free" coverage you could always turn to C-span. Thought the "look from around the world" was really cool.
# posted by ATN @ 10:30 AM
Eccleston Does CNN
Pic from TV Heads
This from an e-mailer: "Jennifer Eccleston, the Former NBC European reporter and a Contributor to Fox News during "Operation Iraqi Freedom" popped up on AM, Live Today and Life From today. Daryn welcomed her this morning as she always does w/ every new reporter."
# posted by ATN @ 12:21 AM
Thursday, April 07, 2005
Kagan Engaged?
This from an e-mailer: "So my wife and I noticed on monday morning, at least for the first half hour or so of Live Today, that Ms. Kagan was clearly wearing an engagement ring. She was sort of uncomfortable when her left hand would end up on camera and kept fussing trying to hide the hand, somewhere in the second half hour the ring disappeared."
An insider says, "Think she's calling it a "friendship" ring."
Is being "friends" with Rush Limbaugh something one would want to promote?
# posted by ATN @ 10:05 PM
US Cable News Influencing Canada Cable News?
Source: CBC Business News The federal broadcast regulator ruled Thursday that CTV Newsnet can drop its required 15-minute cycle of news.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission said it was persuaded by CTV's arguments that in order to keep viewers, its news channel needs to be able to broadcast breaking news without having to revert to a two-minute headline news segment every quarter-hour.
In its submission to the CRTC, CTV called the restrictions in its broadcast licence "operationally onerous."
The network said changes in the broadcasting environment have rendered the 15-minute news wheel anachronistic, and pointed out that CNN Headline News and CablePulse 24 have both dropped the formats in recent years.
# posted by ATN @ 3:28 PM
Sanchez Moves to Prime-time
A CNNFan says CNN Live Today anchor Rick Sanchez is being reassigned. "Daryn Kagan said goodbye to her co-anchor this morning at the end of CNN Live Today. Rick Sanchez is moving to prime-time to become a correspondent." CNN Blog has reported in the last couple of weeks Jon Klein was thinking about letting Sanchez be a correspondent for Anderson Cooper 360.
UPDATE: CNNFan is reporting Sanchez will not be replaced. Daryn will anchor solo says Jon Klein.
Update: Finally found where the prime-time move was mentioned. So here we go:
UPDATE: CNNFan is reporting Sanchez will not be replaced. Daryn will anchor solo says Jon Klein.
Update: Finally found where the prime-time move was mentioned. So here we go:
KAGAN: And I'm Daryn Kagan in Washington D.C. Before I let you go, Rick, I have to tell our viewers to see you. We're going have to start watching primetime, because you're going to go be a primetime contributor. It's been a fun six months having you hang with us in the morning.
SANCHEZ: I can't tell you how much I've learned from you. I really appreciate it, Daryn. And I'm sure we're be able to work together a little bit more, but in the meantime, just call me primetime.
KAGAN: You got it, primetime Sanchez.
# posted by ATN @ 12:30 PM
Anchors/Reporters at Pope Funeral told to Keep Mouth Shut
Source: Baltimore Sun Early Friday, as the networks and 24-hour cable channels point their cameras and microphones at Pope John Paul II’s funeral, an estimated 2 billion TV viewers from around the globe will not hear much color commentary, voice-overs or chatter from the newscasters.
Instead, producers say, they are urging their anchors and correspondents to stay out of the way, allowing the solemnity and magnitude of the occasion to prevail. TV’s marching orders are clear: Friday’s coverage must not only tell viewers the news from Rome, it must also allow enough room for the rich and ancient ritual of the Catholic church to make viewers feel as if they are inside St. Peter’s Basilica for the funeral Mass.
“I believe it will be rare to hear the voice of an anchor or correspondent during any of the funeral ceremonies,” CNN anchorman Bill Hemmer said from Rome on Wednesday. “I believe this story is so rich with pictures, and it will be so rich with sound emanating from St. Peter’s Basilica – and then St. Peter’s Square when his body is brought back out – that words from people like us are not necessary at those moments. And I think as a broadcaster, it’s your responsibility to recognize those moments and not nterfere.”
Jonathan Klein, president of CNN, said such moments can offer viewers a compelling sense of belonging to a community brought together by television: “There’s a yearning on the part of audiences everywhere for connection with one another. That is in large part what’s behind the rise of the Internet. But television is the most connective medium ... because it provides not only information but also emotion. When you hear the chanting in Vatican City, you’re transported there emotionally.”
# posted by ATN @ 12:21 PM
Peabody's Awarded
Source: Peabody Press Release Some interesting work won Peabody Awards:
>Comedy Central`s "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart `Indecision 2004`" won a Peabody for its presidential campaign coverage; the Peabody Board citied the show`s appeal as "satire that deflates pomposity on an equal opportunity basis." This is the program`s second Peabody; it also won for its 2000 election coverage.
>CBS News won a Peabody for "60 Minutes II: Abuse at Abu Ghraib," the Dan Rather report that broke the story of the abuses at Abu Ghraib Prison in Baghdad.
View the complete list HERE. Heck watch the webcast.
# posted by ATN @ 12:01 PM
Candy Crowley, Producers Honored
Source: CNN Pressroom CNN senior political correspondent Candy Crowley and senior producers Michael Roselli and Sasha Johnson were the recipients of the 2005 Joan S. Barone Award for excellence in journalism on Wednesday, April 6, at the 61st Annual Radio & Television Correspondents’ Association dinner. They were honored for their work covering the 2004 presidential campaign. Crowley also received the award in 1997 for her coverage of the presidential campaign of former Sen. Bob Dole.
The award is given each year to honor the memory of the late Joan Shorenstein Barone, former executive producer of CBS News’ Face the Nation, and is presented for excellence in Washington, D.C.-based national affairs and public policy reporting.
She came to CNN from NBC News in 1987.
# posted by ATN @ 11:58 AM
Fox Boss Still Pouting About CNN "Getting Better Press"
Source: USA Today Speaking at a media breakfast last week, Roger Ailes at first said he couldn't think of a single thing that No. 2-rated CNN does better than Fox — except get better press. CNN chief "Jonathan Klein is getting 50 great stories about what they are doing there, one of which is he thinks that there are not enough liberals in the newsroom ... 'need more progressives.' God, I hope he believes that," Ailes said.
(What Klein told PBS' Charlie Rose on March 23 was that a "progressive" cable channel would not appeal to Fox's audience, which he described as "mostly angry white men ... who tend to like to have their points of view reinforced." Said CNN spokeswoman Christa Robinson: "In Fox's fantasy world, they like to think that's what the president of CNN goes around saying, but, unfortunately for them, it's just not true.")
IF you wanna read more, you'll find it HERE.
It's amazing we get a different spin on this little 'breakfast meeting' from every publication that prints an article about it.
# posted by ATN @ 11:50 AM
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Cable News Responsible for Network News Downfall?
Source: LA Weekly Former Nightline executive producer Leroy Sievers laments the death of serious TV news in an article in LA Weekly. One of the questions is:
L.A. Weekly: What is going on
with televised news?
Leroy Sievers: It’s gone to hell. When did it start going to hell? I think it was gradual. I think CNN came in and really dumbed it down. It’s funny, because when CNN first started, everybody felt really sorry for them. We’d give them tape, we’d give them equipment and stuff; we basically subsidized them, and had we known, we would have done none of that. They used to steal stuff too, anything on satellite they used to take off and air. And they were sort of funny, but they sort of came in with this attitude — “Well, if we didn’t get it right this time, we’ll get it right the next time. Or if we don’t get it right the next time, we’ll get it right the next hour, and we’ll throw up whatever pictures we’ve got, it doesn’t really matter” — and they started making money. And about the same time — this is mid- to late-’80s — all the networks were sort of taken over by businessmen, who didn’t care either. And we would say, “But look, we worry about every word, we craft every shot, you know we put such care into it.”
There was news on TV, and it was respected and well thought of and people paid attention to it. We were the good guys. You could do good. Now we’re scum. I got in trouble one time at a forum because I said: “People sort of get the news they deserve.” If they weren’t watching it. all this crap would go
away.
LA Weekly: Who was running the networks before?
Sievers: I think at least people who cared about it. News was thought to be . . . it was an annoyance to some extent, but it wasn’t a moneymaker, it was a responsibility, both legally and morally. Legally, to keep your license, you had to have news. Well, gradually that went away. Well, then you have to make money. And we were like, “What? We don’t make money. We’re above all that. We spend money in huge amounts.” And some of that was our fault — I remember if you were going into a city that you hadn’t been to before, you’d get a hotel guide, you’d open it up and pick the most expensive hotel in town and that’s where you would want to stay. But all of a sudden it was like you have to make money, and the only way to make money was to start slashing costs. So you ended up in this spiral. Your resources for the news got crappier, and so fewer people watched, and then I think, you know, FOX came up, MSNBC came up, talk radio came up and the country changed. Talk came on and it was like argument . . . I mean, you got a bunch of people yelling at each other. That costs nothing.
# posted by ATN @ 10:45 PM
CNN/US Pope Funeral Plans
Source: CNN Pressroom CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, along with CNN’s chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour and American Morning anchors Bill Hemmer in Rome and Soledad O’Brien in New York, leads the network’s coverage from specially built set from the rooftop of the Collegio Urbano overlooking St. Peter’s Square. More than seven hours of wall-to-wall coverage begins at 3 a.m. on Friday, April 8. CNN will replay the coverage at 7 p.m. within its prime-time weekday programming and again at 11 p.m.
“No other network rises to the occasions of such global importance as the death of Pope John Paul II as CNN does,” said Jon Klein, president of CNN/U.S. “Our global resources enable us to place more anchors, correspondents and producers in place to cover this event and to effectively tell the story of this pope and how the world grieves for him.”
For the coverage of the declining health of Pope John Paul II and his eventual death, CNN deployed more than 100 staff members, including 14 anchors and correspondents to Rome and the Vatican City. Other correspondents include international correspondent Jim Bittermann, CNN anchor Aaron Brown, CNN en Espanol anchor Patricia Janiot, CNN International anchors Jonathan Mann and Richard Quest, CNNRadio anchor Dick Uliano and CNN Rome bureau chief Alessio Vinci.
# posted by ATN @ 5:56 PM
Crossfire Has at Least a Month Left
Source: GW Hatchet Nearly three months after CNN president Jonathan Klein announced plans to cancel "Crossfire," the show is still broadcasting from GW. The Hatchet has learned the debate show will continue broadcasting from campus for at least a month.
In the GW-produced By George! magazine, CNN producer Sam Feist said in February that "Crossfire" would continue broadcasting "for the next month or two," while the network develops a new version of "Inside Politics" to be aired from the University.
Michael Freedman, GW's vice president of Communication, said CNN has not told him an ending date for "Crossfire," and he has no new information about the show's future. He did not verify a report that "Crossfire" will be on the air at least until May.
Freedman said decisions about "Crossfire" would be made by CNN and added that the plan is still to bring Judy Woodruff's "Inside Politics" to GW once "Crossfire" is phased out.
"When there's something to tell us, they'll tell us," Freedman said. "There's nothing to indicate Jonathan (Klein) has changed his mind."
# posted by ATN @ 4:58 PM
CNN/US to Cover Royal Wedding
Source: CNN Pressroom CNN will provide comprehensive coverage of the Saturday, April 9, wedding of Prince Charles to his longtime girlfriend Camilla Parker Bowles. CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Becky Anderson will anchor the coverage beginning at 6 a.m. (ET) from the Harte and Garter Hotel on Windsor High Street, providing a view of Windsor Castle and the crowds.
Live coverage will include the couple’s church blessing from the Archbishop of Canterbury in the castle’s St. George’s Chapel in front of an audience of 750 invited dignitaries, including Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
CNN International’s Matthew Chance, Paula Hancocks and Richard Quest will contribute to the coverage with reports from the crowds gathering around Windsor Castle.
# posted by ATN @ 4:50 PM
Pope's Death: Web Users Flock to CNN.com for Info
Source: CNN Press Release CNN.com’s websites saw a 52% jump in usage over its normal traffic over the last weekend when the Pope became ill.
# posted by ATN @ 8:30 AM
CNN/I Coverage of Biggest Planned Event In 25 Year History
Source: CNN Press Release CNN’s coverage of the funeral of Pope John Paul II, on Friday April 8, 2005, will reach more people than any other planned CNN broadcast following the rapid growth of digital technology and the spread of cable and satellite homes around the world.
With CNN now reaching more than 250 million households worldwide and CNN’s coverage being streamed on the web and also on cell phones in parts of Europe and Asia, millions of viewers will have access to more than seven hours of live coverage from Rome.
“Our audience expects CNN to rise to an occasion like this and we will not disappoint,” said CNN International’s Managing Director Chris Cramer. “While this is a sad and solemn time for many, the funeral of a Pope is a global event and his passing will have ramifications for people around the world.”
CNN’s Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour together with CNN/US anchors Anderson Cooperand Bill Hemmer lead CNN’s historic coverage from Vatican City. Also reporting from Rome will be Rome Bureau Chief Alessio Vinci, CNN International anchors Jonathan Mann and Richard Quest and correspondents Jim Bittermann and Jennifer Eccleston.
Broadcasting from the network’s specially built studios on the rooftop of the Collegio Urbano overlooking St Peter’s Square, CNN’s coverage starts at 3pm (Hong Kong Time). CNN en Espanol will also be broadcasting live to more than 15 million households in Latin America and the United States, while CNN+ in Spain, CNN Turk in Turkey and n-tv in Germany reach an additional 40 million households in their local languages.
# posted by ATN @ 8:26 AM
Pope's Death: Dropping the Ball
Source: Market Watch Last weekend, U.S. television networks scrambled to surpass one another in the coverage of the Pope John Paul II's death.
Sadly, however, what we most prominently saw was an electronic media competition for the dubious honor of airing the dumbest piece of reporting and analysis.
At its lowest, the coverage practically disintegrated into a virtual game of Can You Top This?
> Fox News prematurely aired the news of the pope's death. This kind of flub is as bad as it gets in journalism, folks. And there is no excuse for it, particularly in this case. Every network was at the mercy of the Vatican on this story. So, there couldn't be any likelihood of a scoop. Everyone was going to find out at the exact same time. What Fox did was as questionable as a high school student giving the right answer on a final exam but failing to show the work.
> Larry King's interview on CNN with former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday night was positively surreal. What started as a nice, respectful chat about the pope's legacy dissolved, and fairlyquickly, into a ludicrous chat about their families. You can't make this stuff up.
CNN took its lumps for other aspects of its reporting.
As a viewer in Oregon wrote to Washington Post media specialist Howard Kurtz, who also presides over the CNN show "Crossfire," "I am simply flabbergasted at the wall-to-wall coverage surrounding the passing of il Papa. Turning to CNN for your take yesterday morning, of course I met only with a series of smiling insipid faces (I'm sorry, but not only does the coverage never end, it is for the most part grossly inappropriate in tone) adding nothing new to the media orgy, but relenting not."
Of course, it wasn't only CNN which featured shiny, happy anchors and reporters over the weekend. Most likely, every network could be accused of that sort of thing.
You'll find the complete article HERE.
# posted by ATN @ 8:18 AM
Too Much Pope?
Source: Detroit Free Press The number of people who will watch Pope John Paul II's funeral Friday, either live or on a replay, will be enormous.
Cable news is glued to the story of the pope's death, and that's not going to change any time soon. News junkies are predicting the selection of a new pope will preoccupy CNN, Fox News and MSNBC for the rest of the month.
Is this much coverage too much? "It strikes me that this is the story of the moment," says CNN anchor Aaron Brown, who's in Rome on assignment. "What cable does and ought to do is cover it as completely as we can."
A high point was the close-up view of the grand procession accompanying the pope's body Monday through St. Peter's Square, a ritual that CNN's Anderson Cooper noted for its "profound formality."
On Friday night as the pope's condition worsened, CNN's Larry King noted that the pope was "a very handsome man" during a chat with Nancy Reagan, who went through a list of comparisons between John Paul II and her late husband -- both were former actors, both loved the outdoors, both had great senses of humor, and so on.
CNN's Brown says his job over the weekend was to explore why this man mattered to history.
Now, Brown says, the story will move forward.
"We've sort of covered the pope as a rock star, if you will," he says. "I don't think we've looked, to this point, at some of the theological issues that create disagreement and conflict within the church both in the United States and elsewhere. ... I think we should start to examine more the issues that confront the church. They're real."
# posted by ATN @ 8:15 AM
Crossing the Line; Journalists Cashing In
Source: Washington Times Most news organizations forbid their employees from endorsing commercial products, but what about "celebrity journalists" who become authors?
CNN, for example, has permitted Lou Dobbs to become an outspoken critic of moving jobs overseas on his newscast. Last year, Mr. Dobbs wrote a book, "Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas."
"Obviously [journalists-turned-authors] are cashing in on the reputation that their careers have provided them, but that doesn't [always] mean it's a terrible, harmful thing," Mr. Libin said. MORE
# posted by ATN @ 8:10 AM
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Saturday Hourly Numbers
Hourly #'s for Sunday; CNN Either Beats or Ties Fox Most of Day
CNN To Test Drive New Technology
Source: India Daily Time Warner Cable is testing a new technology that could help television programmers corral audiences in an age when viewers have increasing control over what they watch, a top executive said this week.
Time Warner Cable, a unit of media giant Time Warner Inc., is pitching an on-screen digital navigation tool that will let television networks point viewers to sister stations or to new services such as video on demand.
Using the new tool, viewers can click on a pull-down menu during live broadcasts to channel surf to any number of a particular network's sister properties. A pull-down menu on CNN would point to CNN Headline News or even CNN on-demand. The technology being introduced by Time Warner Cable, the second biggest cable operator in the U.S., would aim to give programmers some measure of control over audiences, even as they have more choices.
CNN, which is part of Time Warner Inc. corporate cousin, has already signed on for the test.
# posted by ATN @ 6:37 PM
News Nets Spar Over Pope Ratings
Source: Multichannel News Both Fox News Channel and Cable News Network are claiming Nielsen Media Research victories for their coverage of the death of Pope John Paul II.
From 2:55 p.m.-4:05 p.m. (EST) April 2 -- the period immediately following the Pope’s passing -- Fox News averaged 2.55 million viewers to CNN’s 2.25 million, according to Nielsen Media Research data. MSNBC averaged 944,000 over that span.
Among adults 25-54, Fox News was on top with 951,000 versus 685,000 and 412,000 of those watchers, respectively, for CNN and MSNBC in the aforementioned period.
On a total-day basis from 3 a.m. April 2-3 a.m. April 3, Fox News averaged 1.29 million viewers and 460,000 25-54 watchers, versus 1.13 million total viewers and 399,000 among the demo for CNN and 592,000 and 272,000, respectively, for MSNBC.
The following day (3 a.m.-3 a.m. April 4), Fox News averaged 619,000 total viewers, compared with 601,000 for CNN and 273,000 for MSNBC.
For its part, CNN cited Nielsen data that gave it the edge in Saturday and Sunday primetime. Among viewers, CNN pulled in 983,000 viewers on average to its coverage of the Pope’s death and legacy April 2, which topped Fox News’ 828,000 and 432,000 for MSNBC. On Sunday night, CNN averaged 987,000 watchers, versus 743,000 and 371,000 for Fox News and MSNBC, respectively.
Among the 25-54 set, CNN counted 316,000 watchers, versus 293,000 and 200,000 in primetime on Saturday, respectively, for Fox News and MSNBC, according to Nielsen data. On Sunday, the primetime 25-54 scorecard read 316,000 for CNN, 192,000 for Fox News and 115,000 for MSNBC.
CNN also set the pace in primetime on those days among adults 18 -34 and 18-49, according to Nielsen data.
# posted by ATN @ 6:33 PM
CNN Founder Stays on TW BOD
Source: AJC sub required CNN-Founder Ted Turner is staying on the Board of Directors according to an article in the AJC. Also AOL founder Steve Case remains on the NOW 15 member board.
UPDATE: This comment from an insider: "With Jane Fonda's new book coming out, Ted may get caught in morality clause"
BTW, here's a programming note, Jane Fonda, Turners ex, will be on Larry King Live Wednesday night. Here's how the LKL webpage describes her visit: "A revealing hour with screen legend Jane Fonda about her Christian faith and the dark secrets she hid for years. Tune in at 9 p.m. ET." Do you think Turner would have ever thought that the news network he put on the air would be hosting an ex to tell all? I don't think so!
# posted by ATN @ 5:42 PM
HLN CNN's Answer to FNC?
According to CNNFan.com, Headline News covered not one BUT two car chases this afternoon. One CNNFan seems to think HLN is CNN's answer to FNC:
"Didn't realize HLN did this sort of thing, but do you suppose this may be CNN's answer to FNC? CNN stays serious, while they let HLN stray, that way they may pick up viewers who would not watch CNN, but rather than FNC they can now turn to HLN. That gives Time Warner the advantage when it comes to ad sales etc. They can combine the audience, since they do sell package ads that can air on both stations."
# posted by ATN @ 5:01 PM
Weekend Prime-time #'s; CNN Wins!!
Source: CNNFan.com
Update: CNNFan.com has #'s showing CNN outfoxed Bill O'reilly in the 25-54 demo Friday and Monday.
# posted by ATN @ 4:29 PM
Are Networks Ready For 2 BIG Events Back to Back
Source: Reuters/Hollywood Reporter Scrambling to finalize plans for coverage of Pope John Paul's funeral, TV news executives breathed a sigh of relief at Monday's announcement that the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles had been postponed a day to Saturday.
Charles' official spokesman, Paddy Harveson, said in a statement that the decision to put back the wedding by a day was made in deference to events surrounding Friday's funeral in Rome, which the prince will now attend.
CNN International managing editor Nick Wrenn concurred: "It's been a refreshing story. So much of this year has been spent covering grim issues ... here we have a story of worldwide interest that's a bit brighter. The royals are still big box office, a big international interest."
"I think U.K. broadcasters with a public service remit have been very reverential. They observe certain protocols and are precise with titles in a way that international and American broadcasters do not," CNN's Wrenn said. "The international view of the royal family has moved on slightly from reverential to bemusement. I'm not saying our coverage will mock -- far from it -- but it won't be same the same tone."
Read the complete article HERE.
# posted by ATN @ 8:21 AM
City Official Upset Toronto Doesn't Exist On CNN Maps
Source Toronto Sun Toronto City Council member Gloria Lindsay Luby seems to be suffering from a weather-map inferiority complex. The Etobicoke councillor said during yesterday's Expo debate that Toronto isn't on the world map and needs to be.
The world map she was referring to is CNN's weather map. The Atlanta-based news network's weather map includes Montreal and Vancouver, but not Toronto -- the centre of the universe.
"Is there any way we can write to CNN and tell them we exist?" Lindsay Luby said. "I'm just wondering how we can get on on the world map."
CNN's Lauren Hammann said Toronto isn't on the network's current map but CNN's "constantly evaluating our graphics and make changes periodically. We do feature Toronto when a weather story warrants," Hammann wrote in an e-mail.
Toronto is featured in CNN's city roll that plays after the weather segments, Hammann added.
# posted by ATN @ 8:15 AM
Today is the DAY!
The Atlanta Braves kick-off the 2005 season today on the road. The Braves will take on the Florida Marlins today at 4:05p.m. eastern and yes the game will be carried on TBS! Maybe I should start an Atlanta Braves blog.
# posted by ATN @ 12:33 AM
Monday, April 04, 2005
Former CNN-Exec Heading Gore TV
Source: Associated Press Former CNN Chief Programming Officer David Neuman has been named President of Programming of former Vice President Al Gore's new cable tv channel, Current.
The former vice president joined investors Monday to announce the creation of Current, a cable TV channel that will target younger viewers with a blend of news, culture and viewer-produced video.
# posted by ATN @ 7:57 PM
2 1/2 hours of Judy and Wolf
What a very unusual anchor pair, Judy Woodruff and Wolf Blitzer. When they first came on I was reading something into it that wasn't there. According to the CNN Program Schedule, it's a special 2 and a half hour program filled with the stuff we've been getting all weekend. Looks as though CNN's folks in Rome, Aaron Brown and others will be on and off throught-out the program.
# posted by ATN @ 3:32 PM
More Coverage of the Coverage
Source: Hollywood Reporter Tens of thousands of mourners were gathered in St. Peter's Square. The world's major news organizations had been poised for more than 24 hours to break the news; some even did so prematurely Friday.
And while the wall-to-wall coverage from the thousands of journalists, producers and technicians from around the world who flocked to Vatican City -- including some of the biggest names in the field -- during the next 48 hours might not have surprised, it was indeed symbolic.
There was no CNN or World Wide Web in 1978, the last time the Catholic Church underwent a historic papal transition.
The mix of competition and worldwide scrutiny was not without its errors. On Friday, conflicting reports from the Italian news media regarding the pope's decline culminated in some outlets, including Fox News Channel, to prematurely report the pope's death around 1:23 p.m. ET. Fox News quickly reversed itself and apologized on-air to viewers.
"You really get a sense of history here," CNN's Anderson Cooper said in an interview Sunday afternoon from Rome. "It's an intensely public story, but it's also an intensely private story, too."
Network and cable news rushed in a second wave of correspondents and crews over the weekend, preparing for what likely will be at least two weeks of coverage of the conclave and John Paul II's funeral.
Read the complete article HERE.
# posted by ATN @ 1:44 PM
Roger Ailes Entertains
Source: Broadcasting and Cable Here's another article about FNC's prez "entertaining" at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School in New York breakfast series last week. Ya know, Ailes would make a great late night comedian. Anyway here are some quotes from the article:
> Auletta proffered a study sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts that found a pervasive right-wing bias on the part of FNC. Ailes countered that Pew started out with a bias—a liberal one—of its own. “Most polls today are not done to provide information for the public,” he said. “They’re done to get press for the organization taking the poll. I took a poll on Pew, and 98% of my organization thought they were biased.”
> Ailes was in a similar take-no-prisoners mode. He launched quip-laden punch after punch at his competitors.
On CNN’s new president, Jon Klein: “He thinks there aren’t enough liberals and progressives in the newsroom,” Ailes said. “God, I hope he believes that.” It doesn’t matter that Ailes’ line was a misrepresentation of at least what I’ve heard Klein talk about. It was funny.
On MSNBC: “After a year and a half of the changes at MSNBC, they just got beat by Headline News in prime time. So I assume they have some problems.” Then he joked about MSNBC’s lame attempts to emulate FNC’s roster of female talent: “MSNBC has hired every blonde who doesn’t work for us.”
But Ailes wasn’t on hand to make a lot of news. He was there to chide, charm and entertain the crowd. Sound like any "news network" you know?
# posted by ATN @ 12:03 PM
Klein VS Ailes: The Showdown
Source: New York Daily News CNN President Jonathan Klein's armor-plated PR machine moved to crush Roger Ailes after the Fox News chairman claimed in this column that Klein "thinks that there are not enough liberals in the newsroom." A CNN spokeswoman, who insists Klein never said anything close to that, theorizes that Ailes simply twisted Klein's comments on "The Charlie Rose Show" that a "quote-unquote progressive or liberal network couldn't reach" the Fox audience of "angry white men ... because liberals tend to like to sample a lot of opinions." Fox News' PR juggernaut couldn't give me any backup for Ailes' version, and a Fox spokeswoman scoffed: "With the death of the Pope, this is what Jonathan Klein is worried about? He takes himself too seriously." But a CNN spokeswoman - gloating that Fox jumped the gun Friday afternoon and announced the Pope's death while he was still breathing - fired back: "Once again, Fox has the facts wrong. In Fox Fantasy World, they like to think that's what the president of CNN goes around saying, but, unfortunately for them, it's just not true."
# posted by ATN @ 10:55 AM
Cable News:Showing History in the Making
Source: USA Today Here's another article on coverage of the Pope's death. Peter Johnson writes:
The pope's death Saturday came within days of the death of Terri Schiavo, which cable news also covered minute-by-minute.
"That's what cable news viewers expect, CNN chief Jon Klein says. "Big events like this tend to generate a very passionate and intense audience. People who have a very high interest in what's going on turn to cable for a breaking news story that's happening in real time and especially one that has a rich, emotional component."
The compelete article can be found HERE.
# posted by ATN @ 10:48 AM
CNN Correspondents View Pope's Body
Source: CNN.com Two CNN correspondents who were among those viewing the body of Pope John Paul II on Monday described the experience as "emotional" and "moving."
"It's quite emotional, what was happening this morning," said Correspondent Jim Bittermann.
He and Rome Bureau Chief Alessio Vinci were among a select group of journalists who covered the pope during his lifetime and were invited to pay their respects to the pontiff before his body is moved later Monday to St. Peter's Basilica from the Apostolic Palace.
"It does really affect you seeing him like this without life," Vinci said. "I am one of the junior reporters at the Vatican. And in this Vatican press corps there are correspondents who have been covering him 20 years, 27 years. Even they were extremely emotional. I saw some crying.
Bittermann said about 200 journalists were among 2,000 to 3,000 people who filed past the pope's body lying in the Sala Clementina, where he used to welcome foreign dignitaries. It was, he said, a "very respectful scene, very quiet scene." MORE
# posted by ATN @ 10:42 AM
Another Global News Channel Set to Launch
Source: Rediff.com Zee Television is planning to launch a global English news channel by the end of this year.
"The channel which will be beamed from India will have content in line with that of international news channels like CNN and BBC and would target a wider audience rather than the Indian diaspora," Zee chairman Subhash Chandra said at the FIICI-Frames conference in Mumbai on Monday. MORE
# posted by ATN @ 10:35 AM
Sunday, April 03, 2005
Pope's Death: Covering the Coverage
Source: New York Times In the loving television tributes to Pope John Paul II, one virtue in particular has been mentioned over and over by friends and acquaintances: the pope's humility.
Even anchors with little or no personal knowledge of John Paul could not help getting swept up in the reverence and emotion around St. Peter's Sunday morning. Standing on a terrace overlooking Vatican City, Aaron Brown of CNN waxed so piously about the pope's stature and spiritual magnetism that his guest, Robert Moynihan, editor of the Catholic monthly Inside the Vatican, seemed a little nonplussed. He told Mr. Brown that he found him very eloquent, and slyly added, "you should be considered for a ministry."
Read the complete article HERE.
# posted by ATN @ 11:09 PM
Pope to Media:Report Events Accurately and Truthfully
Source: Broadcasting and Cable According to Archbishop John Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, one of the last official documents issued by the Pope was an Apostolic Letter "to those responsible for communications."
Following are a couple of particularly telling passages from the Pope's letter.
The first is a general statement of principle, and the second a passage on media ownership that could have been drafted by Andrew Schwartzman of Media Access Project:
"The mass media can and must promote justice and solidarity according to an organic and correct vision of human development by reporting events accurately and truthfully, analyzing situations and problems completely, and providing a forum for different opinions. An authentically ethical approach to using the powerful communication media must be situated within the context of a mature exercise of freedom and responsibility, founded upon the supreme criteria of truth and justice."
And this on ownership:
"I would like to recall our attention to the subject of media access, and of co-responsible participation in their administration. If the communications media are a good destined for all humanity, then ever-new means must be found – including recourse to opportune legislative measures – to make possible a true participation in their management by all. The culture of co-responsibility must be nurtured."
CNN, where Foley talked of the appropriateness of the media-friendly Pontiff's letter, also managed to raise the level of its coverage through the commentary of Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete, a New York Times columnist and friend of the Pope.
Monsignor Albacete, asked about the Pope's sense of humor, said that he had one time discussed with the Pontiff CNN's standing invitation to Albacete to talk about the Pope's legacy after he passed away.
The Pontiff had asked how Albacete could be so sure he wouldn't die first. Albacete replied that if he went first, the Pope should go on CNN and talk about him.
Additional: An insider adds this: "What B&C failed to report or didn't know was that Msgr. Albacete, who is religion writer for NYT, and wrote a column in Sunday's NY Daily News Sunday, had signed a contract with CNN awhile ago to be their commentator when the Pope passed away. It's all those pesky "facts" that just keep being ignored even by a great publication like B&C."
# posted by ATN @ 5:12 PM
Former CNN Shouter Debuts on MSNBC Tonight
Months after leaving CNN, Tucker Carlson will make his debut on MSNBC tonight. According to this post on the MSNBC board Carlson will make his debut tonight at 7pm eastern on the Chris Matthews show.
# posted by ATN @ 3:03 PM
See What U Miss When U Sleep Late
This from a blog reader about this morning's Special Edition of American Morning: "Aaron Brown and Bill Hemmer worked together this"am" from Rome with terrific coverage, great guests and conversation; also as would be expected, great "live shots".....Soledad and Carol Costello covered from nyc, coming in at the 8am hour"
Something tells me we can expect to see alot of substitutions next week.
# posted by ATN @ 2:51 PM
Program Schedule Change
Looks like NO CNN/International for US viewers during the day Sunday. The program sched has been completely revamped for today. Below is a brief run down of the rest of the day.
>> 3pm eastern- People in the News: Pope John Paul II's life and legacy, from his path to the papacy to his impact on Catholic doctrine.
>> 4pm- CNN Sunday Live: Aaron Brown in Rome and Carol Lin in Atlanta bring you complete coverage of the death of Pope John Paul II.
>> 5pm- Larry King Live (replay): The world mourns the passing of Pope John Paul II. Vatican experts discuss the latest news.
>> 6pm- CNN Sunday Live: Aaron Brown in Rome and Carol Lin in Atlanta bring you complete coverage of the death of Pope John Paul II.
>> 7pm- People in the News: Pope John Paul II's life and legacy, from his path to the papacy to his impact on Catholic doctrine.
>> 8pm- CNN Sunday Night: Anderson Cooper and Christiane Amanpour in Rome, and Paula Zahn in New York, have the latest on the pope's death.
>> 9pm- Larry King Live: As the world mourns the loss of Pope John Paul II, Vatican experts look ahead to who might succeed him.
>> 10pm- CNN Sunday Night: Anderson Cooper and Christiane Amanpour in Rome, and Paula Zahn in New York, have the latest on the pope's death.
>> Midnight- Live Pope Coverage: As the faithful mourn the death of Pope John Paul II, we join CNN International's worldwide coverage.
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