Friday, July 28, 2006
Landis on LKL
Larry King scored an exclusive with 2006 Tour de France champion Floyd Landis Friday night. Landis canceled a scheduled appearance on one of the late night talk shows. During the LKL interview, here's what Landis had to say on watching his former team mate Lance Armstrong experience doping allegations:
"LANDIS: I spent three years of my life with Lance and those three years were some of the best years of my career. I watched him win the Tour. We spent a lot of time together training. Everybody knows we had our little differences the following year but we’re back to being friends again and I saw what he went through and I didn’t feel it because I hadn’t went through it myself and now I can relate. I see what the guy really had to deal with.
"LANDIS: I spent three years of my life with Lance and those three years were some of the best years of my career. I watched him win the Tour. We spent a lot of time together training. Everybody knows we had our little differences the following year but we’re back to being friends again and I saw what he went through and I didn’t feel it because I hadn’t went through it myself and now I can relate. I see what the guy really had to deal with.
# posted by ATN @ 9:16 PM 
Thursday, July 27, 2006
This Week at War to Air Live From Middle East Crisis this Weekend
Source: CNN Press Release With a permanent bureau in Beirut, Lebanon, and more than 100 personnel in the Middle East to cover the crisis in Israel and Lebanon, CNN will leverage its deep resources in the region for extensive in-depth reporting this weekend. Senior national correspondent John Roberts will anchor This Week at War live from the Middle East at 7p.m. on both Saturday, July 29, and Sunday, July 30, on the escalation of the crisis in Lebanon and Israel.
Roberts will also anchor a special CNN Presents documentary on the lessons learned during the last major multinational engagement in Lebanon – the attack on peace-keeping forces during the Lebanese Civil War in October 1983. CNN Presents: Marine Barracks Bombing will premiere on Saturday and Sunday at 8p.m. and 11p.m. All times Eastern.
In the early morning hours of Sunday, Oct. 23, 1983, a Mercedes-Benz truck packed with explosives and driven by a suicide bomber, crashed through the guarded gates of the U.S. Marine Corps headquarters and detonated; 241 American service men and women were killed. Almost simultaneously, another truck bomb barreled into a French Parachute Infantry Regiment. The coordinated terrorist attacks ultimately led to the 1984 withdrawal of all American forces as well as the multinational peace-keeping forces in place there.
The Marine Corps barracks bombing was the deadliest attack on Marines since the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. Featuring new analysis and eyewitness accounts of survivors and journalists who covered the bombing, the CNN Presents investigation describes events before, during and after the tragic explosions.
In addition to this weekend’s special programming, CNN’s in-depth coverage on the crisis continues across all CNN Worldwide platforms, including CNN Pipeline, Headline News, CNN International, CNN en Espanol and CNNRadio.
Roberts will also anchor a special CNN Presents documentary on the lessons learned during the last major multinational engagement in Lebanon – the attack on peace-keeping forces during the Lebanese Civil War in October 1983. CNN Presents: Marine Barracks Bombing will premiere on Saturday and Sunday at 8p.m. and 11p.m. All times Eastern.
In the early morning hours of Sunday, Oct. 23, 1983, a Mercedes-Benz truck packed with explosives and driven by a suicide bomber, crashed through the guarded gates of the U.S. Marine Corps headquarters and detonated; 241 American service men and women were killed. Almost simultaneously, another truck bomb barreled into a French Parachute Infantry Regiment. The coordinated terrorist attacks ultimately led to the 1984 withdrawal of all American forces as well as the multinational peace-keeping forces in place there.
The Marine Corps barracks bombing was the deadliest attack on Marines since the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. Featuring new analysis and eyewitness accounts of survivors and journalists who covered the bombing, the CNN Presents investigation describes events before, during and after the tragic explosions.
In addition to this weekend’s special programming, CNN’s in-depth coverage on the crisis continues across all CNN Worldwide platforms, including CNN Pipeline, Headline News, CNN International, CNN en Espanol and CNNRadio.
# posted by ATN @ 10:59 PM
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
War Good for CNN's Numbers; FNC's Total Viewers Down From This Time Last Year
Pretty good article from Broadcasting and Cable about the ratings of the coverage of the crisis in the Mid-east. Here it is, please pay close attention to the next to the last paragraph as most of the other blogs have failed to report this:
CNN typically gets a big Nielsen boost when the world starts going to hell, and its coverage of the war in Lebanon is no exception. Still, Fox News by far won the week.
The Israeli attack on Lebanon drove CNN’s total primetime audience 51% compared to the same week last year, to an average of 1 million viewers, while the Nielsen Media scores among the 25-54 news demo soared 97% to 364,000.
Fox News’ total audience actually dropped 3% to 1.9 million. But the No. 1 news network increased 13% in news demo to an average of 586,000.
MSNBC’s total audience increased 28% to 386,000 but zoomed 41% in the news demo to 161,000.
CNN typically gets a big Nielsen boost when the world starts going to hell, and its coverage of the war in Lebanon is no exception. Still, Fox News by far won the week.
The Israeli attack on Lebanon drove CNN’s total primetime audience 51% compared to the same week last year, to an average of 1 million viewers, while the Nielsen Media scores among the 25-54 news demo soared 97% to 364,000.
Fox News’ total audience actually dropped 3% to 1.9 million. But the No. 1 news network increased 13% in news demo to an average of 586,000.
MSNBC’s total audience increased 28% to 386,000 but zoomed 41% in the news demo to 161,000.
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