Friday, March 24, 2006
Former CNN Anchor Entertaining Several Options...Even the Host of a Game Show?
Market Watch's Jon Friedman sat down with former CNN/NewsNight anchor Aarron Brown to get up to date on what he's up to. This excerpt from the article states some of the things he considering doing with his time:
"He said he's looking forward to a new TV opportunity. His agent is talking to prospective employers about everything from radio and TV news to, of all things, a gig as a game-show host.
Above all, he'd like to preside over a TV show that would be a cross between "Larry King Live" and "Charlie Rose." As Brown noted, "I was talking with Bill Moyers and he said, `What do you want to do now?' I told him, 'I think I want to be you.'"
Open to network offers, Brown would listen to Fox, CNN's most bitter rival, even though his understated style would seem to have little in common with Fox's in-your-face approach to broadcasting.
"I don't have a problem with them," Brown said of Fox. "They were competitors. I enjoyed competing with them." "
Read the full article HERE.
"He said he's looking forward to a new TV opportunity. His agent is talking to prospective employers about everything from radio and TV news to, of all things, a gig as a game-show host.
Above all, he'd like to preside over a TV show that would be a cross between "Larry King Live" and "Charlie Rose." As Brown noted, "I was talking with Bill Moyers and he said, `What do you want to do now?' I told him, 'I think I want to be you.'"
Open to network offers, Brown would listen to Fox, CNN's most bitter rival, even though his understated style would seem to have little in common with Fox's in-your-face approach to broadcasting.
"I don't have a problem with them," Brown said of Fox. "They were competitors. I enjoyed competing with them." "
Read the full article HERE.
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Thursday, March 23, 2006
'AM' Producer Out
Source: Broadcasting and Cable Kim Bondy is out as executive producer of CNN’s American Morning after about a year on the job. Bondy, who joined the show March 1, 2005, will leave the show for some “much needed time away” to deal with her “post-Katrina life,” according to an internal memo circulated Wednesday morning. Her last day at the show is April 7, and she will be leaving permanently.
Bondy moved to New York to join American Morning after serving as CNN’s VP of franchise development in Atlanta. Prior to that, she had held stints as news director on NBC’s Today show and executive producer of the network’s Weekend Today, when American Morning co-host Soledad O’Brien anchored the weekend show.
No word on who will replace Bondy in the executive producer role. CNN is expected to release a statement later Wednesday.
Bondy moved to New York to join American Morning after serving as CNN’s VP of franchise development in Atlanta. Prior to that, she had held stints as news director on NBC’s Today show and executive producer of the network’s Weekend Today, when American Morning co-host Soledad O’Brien anchored the weekend show.
No word on who will replace Bondy in the executive producer role. CNN is expected to release a statement later Wednesday.
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006
What's the Buzz
Back to work for me at job number 2....Out for Spring Break at job number 1....So here's what happened today :
> Fire on the set of HLN Tuesday afternoon
> Gallup Drops CNN after 15 years...heading towards offering their product on their own venue
> Fire on the set of HLN Tuesday afternoon
> Gallup Drops CNN after 15 years...heading towards offering their product on their own venue
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Monday, March 20, 2006
Q and A with CNN/I's Cramer
Business Standard recently caught up with CNN/I's Managing Director Chris Cramer. Cramer was in India to get caught up on the recent IBN/CNN partnership. Business Standard asked him several questions. Below is an excerpt from the article:CNN International has recently repackaged its on-air look and feel for the Indian audience. Where’s it headed?
We’ve been in the business of broadcasting since 1985. In these last 20 years, we’ve emerged as the pre-eminent provider of global news. Through innovation and repositioning, we’ve worked hard to maintain our position. CNN International is a series of very successful regionalised feeds. We’ve been profitable since 1989. And profitable news channels are as rare as snow flakes in July.
What’s your focus in India?
India provides extremely attractive opportunities. We have 26 bureaus around the world, the one in India has 20 people. We provide comprehensive news coverage around the world. And growing the CNN presence in India makes sense both journalistically as well as financially.
What do you think of the growth of the news genre in India?
Oh, it’s very vibrant. There’s phenomenal audience choice in this country. I salute the integrity of news broadcast here. It’s an exciting market out here, though the competition is cut-throat. CNN is present in 10 million Indian homes and 97 hotels in total.
How is the CNN-IBN partnership working out?
The partnership signifies the coming together of like-minded journalists to share information and news gathering facilities. It’s primarily a licensing arrangement. And I think it’s been very successful.
These are formidable journalists, very smart and charismatic individuals who know the business extremely well; the management of IBN is entirely local. They turn to us for international coverage and access to big players around the world, while their in-country news gathering services are available to us.
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Sunday, March 19, 2006
Newman Headed to Al Jazeera
A tipster tells WHAC, Lucia Newman is leaving CNN for Al Jazeera International. Lou Dobbs bid Newman farewell on his program Friday.
UPDATE: 03/20 LOOK at what some blogger claims some 24 HOURS LATER after I post the news. And Newsblues had the news today too. Funny TV Newser doesn't know the definition of FIRST!
UPDATE: 03/20 LOOK at what some blogger claims some 24 HOURS LATER after I post the news. And Newsblues had the news today too. Funny TV Newser doesn't know the definition of FIRST!
# posted by ATN @ 3:37 PM
Government Workers Impersonating Fox News 'Journalists'
And to think I always thought it was the other way around....Anyway here's the story from the DC post:
"The White House said yesterday that it will discipline two government employees who masqueraded as journalists this month while scouting locations for a presidential visit to the Gulf Coast.
A Mississippi couple whose home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina said two men who later identified themselves as Secret Service agents pretended to be Fox News journalists when surveying their neighborhood in advance of a March 8 visit from President Bush.
The men arrived on March 3 at the site of the beachfront home that Jerry and Elaine Akins are rebuilding in Gautier, Miss., Elaine Akins said in a telephone interview yesterday.
"They didn't show any cards or anything," Akins said. "They just came up and said they were with the media, and then they said they were with Fox. They just talked to us and asked us about rebuilding our house. Then, after everything was over with, they approached us and they were laughing, and they said: 'You know, we really weren't with Fox. We're government, Secret Service men.' "
Ken Lisaius, a White House spokesman, said the employees were out of bounds." MORE
"The White House said yesterday that it will discipline two government employees who masqueraded as journalists this month while scouting locations for a presidential visit to the Gulf Coast.
A Mississippi couple whose home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina said two men who later identified themselves as Secret Service agents pretended to be Fox News journalists when surveying their neighborhood in advance of a March 8 visit from President Bush.
The men arrived on March 3 at the site of the beachfront home that Jerry and Elaine Akins are rebuilding in Gautier, Miss., Elaine Akins said in a telephone interview yesterday.
"They didn't show any cards or anything," Akins said. "They just came up and said they were with the media, and then they said they were with Fox. They just talked to us and asked us about rebuilding our house. Then, after everything was over with, they approached us and they were laughing, and they said: 'You know, we really weren't with Fox. We're government, Secret Service men.' "
Ken Lisaius, a White House spokesman, said the employees were out of bounds." MORE
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Longtime ABC News Anchor Dead
This falls under the network news category BUT I thought it deserved a mention here:Source: CNN.com Bill Beutel, the longtime television news anchor and host of the show that became ABC's "Good Morning America," has died, the network announced. He was 75.
Beutel, whose trademark signoff "Good luck and be well" closed WABC's nightly local newscast for more than 30 years, died Saturday at his home in Pinehurst, North Carolina, the network said.
In 1975, Beutel hosted "AM America," the network's national morning news show.
He "proved you could be a tough newsman and a gentleman at the same time," WABC president and general manager Dave Davis said Sunday in a statement. "He was never shrill, always measured, and universally respected -- the original class act."
Beutel, who won several Emmy awards and a Peabody award, began as a radio reporter in his hometown of Cleveland. He started working in television in 1962, appearing as a reporter for ABC national news and as an anchor for the local evening newscast.
After a stint as ABC's London bureau chief, where he worked with a young Peter Jennings, Beutel returned to New York to man the local anchor desk in 1970.
He stepped down in 2001, continuing to report for the network for another two years. He reported frequently from overseas and, at age 70, traveled to cover the dangers surrounding the diamond trade in Sierra Leone.
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