• The Five video: Bob Beckel’s heated debate over Col West.
• Q&A: Shep Smith on FNC’s milestone and his own weight loss.
• Report: WSJ ‘darling’ Kelly Evans jumping to CNBC?
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: Kilmeade faces a Cuba missing crisis (h/t @MartyDavis).
• Q&A: Greg Gutfeld, Liz Claman, FNC’s Jeremy Steinberg.
• The incredible disappearing Shep Smith.  Fox News rings the bell.
• An appropriate choice: subbing for Olbermann...Eliot Spitzer!
• Current wants to move next door to CNN and Fox News.
• Gore: There’ll be none of that ‘balance’ stuff on Current.
• Hot & Not: Suze Orman, Big Ed, CNN, MSNBC inciting violence, etc.

Tags: ratings, fox, shep, cnbc, friends, redeye, fbn, olbermann, cnn, msnbc, icn

• The Five video: Why are Newsweek editors so dumb?
• Newest FNC contributor debuts: it’s more GOP propaganda from Fox!
• Report: Bloomberg insider laments losses, ‘editorial tailspin’.
• Media Matters and Olbermann push CNN to fire Dana Loesch.
• Piers Morgan: an eventful year one.  Gerri Willis: Sneaky fees.
• Q&A: Bret Baier previews tonight’s debate: The Sun News, New York Daily News, The State, Raleigh News and Observer.
• Fox News and Twitter team up for debate dodging display.
• ICN: The elephant in MSNBC’s room is Al Sharpton.  Aly flix nixed.
• Lean Forward: MSNBC host leads march on Governor’s private home.
• Hot & Not: Frontline, Early Start, Color of Change.  Q&A: Suze Orman.

Tags: fox, olbermann, cnn, piers, fbn, baier, icn, msnbc, friends, cnbc

• Olbermann to CNN’s Loesch: You’re worse than the Taliban!
• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Fox News teams with Google, X-Box.  CNBC screw-up.
• Candidates get more time to speak at next Fox News debate.
• Q&A: Piers; Eric Bolling on baseball, Beckel, Bill Maher, and more.
• Lean Forward: Matthews dubs new audio over bad blunder.
• Discovery series dramatized stalking case of Arthel Neville.
• VIdeo: Why is Dana Bash ‘worried’ Ron Paul will stay in the race?
• Video: O’Reilly smacks ABC News for Media Matters sourced smear.

Tags: olbermann, cnn, ratings, fox, cnbc, piers, fbn, matthews, msnbc, oreilly, mediaite

• Geraldo: Berkeley prof assigns students to dig up Fox News dirt.
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-Hannity-TheFive 1-2-3-4.
• John Roberts and FNC team with Google for election coverage.
• Gretchen Carlson: The toughest interview I’ve ever done.
• VIdeo: Neil Cavuto trades barbs with Don Imus part one, part two.
• Pat Buchanan: What suspension? I’ve been sick.  ICN analysis.
• Video: Melissa Harris-Perry with Colbert.  Weekend numbers.
• Q&A: Carl Cameron, Cavuto, Trish Regan, Sandra Smith, Velshi.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on Michelle Obama vs Robert Gibbs.
• CNN edits Ron Paul interview, removes criticisms of the media.
• Finally a newsroom on CNN Newsroom.  Another O’Donnell scoop.
• Details of Olbermann/Current deal murky.  Today’s deep thought.

Tags: fox, ratings, friends, fbn, msnbc, icn, cnn, o'donnell, olbermann

• The Five video: Was Jesse Ventura puched out...or not?
• Rosen: Gregory and Burnett reveal their ignorance (via ICN).
• Orman debuts debit card. FBN video: It’s cream of the crap!
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Ex-employee unloads on Olbermann: ‘He needs to get help.’
• Profile: Trish Regan.  VIdeo: Melissa Francis FBN debut.
• (MS)NBC teams with Newsweek/Beast.  Q&A: Sandra Smith.
• FNC’s new digital look for 2012.  Hannity goes live at midnight.
• Olby not trapped in his show, will run future election coverage.
• Fire Buchanan movement reinvigorated on the left and the right.
• Hot & Not: CNN am, Olbermann, MSNBC, Buchanan, etc.  Oops!

Tags: fox, msnbc, cnn, cnbc, fbn, ratings, olbermann, hannity, icn

• Reliable Sources videos: NH debates, MSNBC’s left-wing caucus.
• Video: Sununu tells Chris Matthews ‘You guys have an agenda!’
• ICN: From Donahue to Buchanan, MSNBC comes full circle.
• MSNBC admits blacklisting Pat Buchanan, may fire him.  More.
• News Watch video: Iowa caucuses manifest media highs and lows.
• Finke: Current caved to Olby, then took it back; standoff continues.
• Christopher: Olby’s claim he was threatened is another fabrication.
• Specials: Sunday Special Report w/Bret Baier; FNC New Hampshire Primary Preview; Frank Luntz NH Primary Preview.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet.  Q&A: Melissa Harris-Perry.

Tags: cnn, msnbc, matthews, icn, olbermann, fox

• Video: The Five talk taxes and Kim Kardashian.
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Christopher: Olbermann stonewalling Current re NH primary.
• Greta: The people of Fox News have big hearts.
• Video: MSNBC blurred line between news and opinion in Iowa?
• MSNBC exposes their hand with mind-boggling caucus coverage.
• MSNBC downplays news for more lefty talk.  Profile: D-Rat (v/ICN).
• Tuesday’s numbers: FNC 1-2-3-4-5-6-7.  Video: Liz Claman.
• Mediaite: Emails suggest Olby lied about what he knew and when.
• Bercovici: Olbermann’s days at Current are numbered.  More.
• Olbermann attorney in negotiations with Current over future role.
• Stelter: Olbermann and Current locked in a struggle for control.

Tags: ratings, fox, olbermann, greta, msnbc, fbn

• Olbermann blasts Current; internal memo reveals tensions.
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
• Caucus numbers: FNC dominated.  Weekend numbers.
• New Years: Half-naked vulgarian edges Bill and Megyn.
• CNN morning shows are titanic--but not in a good way.
• O’Donnell and Maddow: MSNBC’s caucus misinformers.
• As tech toys overload wheels come off CNN bus. More.
• Cablers cover Iowa showdown.  More substantive critiques.
• When FNC’s Joe Trippi and Karl Rove speak, Santorum listens.
• Newest wrinkle: Olbermann refused to do Current caucus coverage!

Tags: olbermann, ratings, fox, cnn, msnbc, o'donnell, maddow, palin

• Current confusion: Is Olby on tonight, or not on tonight? Not!
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Faulkner-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Videos: Megyn Kelly questions Perry, Romney, Gingrich.
• Murdoch says it’s ‘much more fun than Beck’.  Analysis.
• ICN: Cable news resolutions for 2012.  R.I.P. Jim Huber.
• Blue on blue: MSNBC slammed for coddling rape trivializers.
• Video: Alan Colmes apologized to Santorum.  Q&A: Shep.
• Caucus coverage roundup: Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, FBN.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on MSNBC’s journalist-free caucus coverage.

Tags: olbermann, ratings, megyn, fox, icn, cnn, msnbc, shep, fbn

• ICN: E.D. Hill helps CNN move away from impartial anchoring.
• Video: Bill Hemmer previews New Year’s Eve. Hemmer Q&A.
• Video: The Five’s favorite moments from a wild year.
• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Bream-Greta 1-2-3.
• Olby’s not-very-substantive reply to NY Times exposé.
• A look inside Maria Molina’s handbag.  Sunday talkers.
• Revealed: The GOP Prez candidate Fox News is pushing to win.
• MSNBC finally discloses Capital connection.  Alison Stewart resurfaces.
• Shep, Bill, Greta, Neil, and more join Huck’s year-in-review roundup.
• FNC Specials: An All-American New Year; Red Eye New Year’s Edition; America’s Election HQ: Iowa Caucuses Preview.
• CNN Specials: New Year’s Eve Live; Countdown to Iowa.
• MSNBC: It’s a LockUp New Year’s!
• The Cui Bono Matter, part five: listen

Tags: cnn, fox, ratings, olbermann, msnbc

• No Olby on Current caucus coverage: trouble in paradise?
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Bolling-Bream-Gallagher-TheFive 1-2-3-4.
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Gutfeld-TheFive-Bream 1-2-3.
• CNN am shows have hosts, times, debut date...and odd names.
• Video: The Five talk about guest-hosting, and wanting to (Beckel).
• The Cui Bono Matter, part four: listen

Tags: olbermann, ratings, cnn, fox

• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Christopher serves up eight paragraphs about Olbermann’s lighting.
• Surprise: Fox hater posts lies about Bill O’Reilly.
• Q&A: How the youngest anchor in cablenews stays happy and healthy.
• CNN morning mayhem: Soledad demands solo.  Feud of the week?
• Video: Do Gingrich and Obama share a common ideological ancestor?

Tags: ratings, olbermann, fox, oreilly, cnn, msnbc, fbn

• What do you get when you’ve been grilled by Bret Baier?
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-MonicaCrowley 1-2-3.
• Video: The Donald blasts Chuck Todd on MSNBC.
• Sherman: That crafty Ailes is up to something again.
• Hot & Not: Olbermann, Imus, Mr Herman Cain, Greta etc.
• Ron Christie: Chris Matthews’s ignorance of facts is shocking.
• Behind the scenes at Huck’s forum.  Catherine Crier resurfaces.
• CNN’s Eason Jordan resurfaces...to produce the Trump debate!

Tags: ratings, fox, baier, msnbc, fbn, olbermann, icn, greta, matthews, cnn

• After paying millions to Olby, Current lays off staffers.
• VIdeo: Reliable Sources on Cain quitting.
• Coop responds to Big Ed Schultz slam.
• Is Facebook dissing Fox News? FNC Sat sked update.
• Chris Matthews in Portsmouth.  CNN journos gather.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
• Specials: Huck’s Presidential forum; Dinner with the Kings.

Tags: olbermann, cnn, cooper, schultz, msnbc, fox

• Video: The Five on Happy (and Unhappy) Meals.
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Shep 1-2-3.
• November program ranker: FNC holds the top 13 slots.
• O’Reilly bumps Rizzoli ratings, tops BriWi’s Rock Center!
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-ChrisWallace 1-2-3.
• ICN: Who’s leaking Imus numbers, and why?
• November: HLN slumps, Imus demo down as totals rise, CNBC daytime growth, Piers down, The Five up.
• November spin: CNN, MSNBC.  CNNi drops two shows.
• Video: HLN lets Ann Coulter say what MSNBC bleeped.
• Another Olby twitter boycott? Here’s what set him off this time.

Tags: ratings, fox, oreilly, icn, fbn, cnbc, piers, hln, msnbc, cnn, olbermann

• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Bream-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Video: MSNBC’s mind-boggling Al Sharpton ad.
• Huck to hold Presidential forum on FNC.  Weekend numbers.
• Video: Glenn Beck with Don Imus part one, part two.
• Beck and Olbermann: where are they now?  Courtney expecting.
• Zurawik to Blitzer: Don’t let Newt bully you!  The debate tightrope.
• MSNBC on Newt: disgusting, dirty, toxic, sexist, bottom-feeding, cowardly, inhuman.
• Dancing with the Stars contestant to co-host CNN Heroes pre-show.

Tags: ratings, msnbc, fox, fbn, olbermann, cnn

• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: Judith Miller on media coverage of OWS.
• Congressman demands an apology from Greta.
• Q&A: Dennis Miller.  O’Reilly’s trademark.  MoJo in Westport.
• Video: Martha MacCallum talks to Don Imus about working at FNC.
• Shepard Smith engages the news.  Burnett numbers hit bottom.
• Zurawik: Best coverage of Wall Street protests is from...Olbermann!

Tags: ratings, fox, greta, oreilly, msnbc, fbn, shep, cnn, olbermann

• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Olbermann got $10 million to lose viewers.  Weekend numbers.
• Q&A: Coop (v/TVN), Liz Claman.  FBN memo: more biz, less politics.
• VIdeo: Peter Johnson Jr on the real meaning of ‘occupy’.
• CNN skeds November debate on national security/foreign policy.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on anti-semitism among Wall St occupiers.

Tags: ratings, olbermann, cnn, cooper, fbn, friends, fox

• Video: Reliable Sources on coverage of Sarah Palin.
• Video: News Watch analyzes White House scandal coverage.
• FNC takes aim at the Big Three.  Profile: Neil Cavuto.
• Palin, Greta make ‘powerful’ list.  Hannity in Atlanta.
• Erin Burnett’s last pot shot at Apple.  Olby visits occupiers.
• Profile: Coop.  Special: Bullying: It Stops Here.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.

Tags: cnn, palin, fox, greta, hannity, cnn, olbermann, cooper

• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Poll: Best news channel? FNC-CNN-MSNBC 1-2-3. Analysis.
• Point: Greta. Counterpoint: Tucker. Response: Greta. More.
• Newsweek profile: Bill O’Reilly.  Olbermann ratings at all-time low.
• Video: Fox & Friends 15-year highlight reel. Q&A: Steve Doocy.
• MSNBC goes all out to promote ‘marriage equality’ presentation.
• FNC 15th celebration kicks off with Fox & Friends live in Orlando.
• Hot & Not: WSJ, CNBC, American Morning, Chris Hayes, Alex Witt.

Tags: ratings, fox, greta, oreilly, olbermann, friends, msnbc, icn

• ICN: MSNBC redefines the meaning of ‘breaking news’.
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• ICN: Making Sharpton MSNBC host worse than CNN hiring Spitzer!
• Cablers pivot to earthquake.  Video: Special Rpt may air outdoors.
• It’s official: MSNBC hires Sharpton (!) to host show.
• Q&A: Megyn Kelly, Neil Cavuto.  Kiran Chetry resurfaces.
• Videos: Steve Harrigan avoids gunfire in Tripoli, CNNer grazed.
• Coop gains while competitors off.  Weekend numbers.  Today’s oops.
• Desperate cablers turn to old PR standby: a feud!  CNN eyes Zite.
• Pareene: MSNBC weekend worse than Fox!  Another FNC outrage!
• Video: Bernard Goldberg critiques the Ingraham/Rangel shootout.

Tags: ratings, msnbc, icn, cnn, baier, fox, megyn, fbn, cooper, piers, olbermann

• Deggans: CNN making headlines but not for journalism.
• Wednesday’s numbers: Laura-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Zurawik: Olbermann airs slanderous character assassination.
• Video: Bias Bash on coverage of candidates’ pastors etc.
• Varney gets 8pm hour next week; FBN simulcast on FNC Fri 5am.
• Video: Beckel w/Imus talks The Five and more pt one, pt two.
• ICN: Has Bill O’Reilly become yesterday’s news?
• Video: Andy Levy’s devastating ‘apology’ to Chris Brown.
• Controversy swirls around tweet from tv’s Andy Levy.
• ICN: Rules for cablenews tweeters.  Bad call bites Cramer again.
• Zurawik: Insufferable Piers and pitiful Christine engage in mutual exploitation.  O’Donnell: I was running late.  Morgan: What, me rude?

Tags: cnn, ratings, olbermann, fox, fbn, oreilly, icn, redeye, cnbc, piers

• Coop’s new timeslot runs into obstacle: Bill O’Reilly.
• Friday’s numbers: Baier-Juan Williams-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Video: Bias Bash on Iowa, terrorism.  Becky’s baby boy.
• Stelter: Biznets gain as markets roil.  Meet Simon Hobbs.
• Video: The Amazing Kreskin made a Presidential prediction.
• Hot & Not: Markets, straw polls, etc.  Obama talks with Wolf.
• CNN skeds 9/11 docs.  Soledad special stirs controversy.
• Zurawik: Maybe Olbermann and Bohrman deserve each other.

Tags: ratings, cooper, cnn, oreilly, cnbc, fbn, friends, icn, olbermann

• Olbermann’s Countdown sinks to new ratings low.
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
• GOP debate tonight followed by Hannity at 11:00 pm.
• VIdeo: Bill O’Reilly meets Rizzoli & Isles [ipad].
• FBN out of the red as Dobbs tops Kudlow.  Huddy on The Five!
• CNN to rerun HBO reality show: analysis.  Straw poll coverage.
• Sharpton decision coming next week?  Today’s firing demand.

Tags: ratings, olbermann, fox, oreilly, fbn, cnn, msnbc

• Friday’s numbers: Juan Williams-Chris Wallace-Greta 1-2-3.
• Video: Megyn shows pix of baby Yardley.  Megyn’s new ‘do.
• Bohrman: Current was, is, and will stay a progressive network.
• Zurawik: Can Bohrman turn a sideshow tent act into journalism?
• Ex-CNNer David Borhman joins Olbermann, Gore at Current.
• CNN edits out SEAL widow’s reference to Christ?
• Video: Bias Bash on Afghanistan deaths and The Devil’s Double.
• Biznets go live! FBN: entire primetime schedule.  CNBC: 8pm plus.
• Video: The Donald on the downgrade.  More F&F for Juliet Huddy?
• Is ex-CNNer Bohrman headed to Current?  Coop’s in Somalia.
• Hot & Not: CNBC, Sharpton, CNBC, Maddow, CNBC.  Today’s oops.

Tags: ratings, megyn, fox, cnn, olbermann, fbn, cnbc, friends, cooper, icn

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Maddow hypes Sharpton: He’s wicked smart! He’s stupendous!
• CNBC drops World Business amid cash-for-coverage charges.
• Video: Bias Bash on overlooked Middle East developments.
• Don Lemon, riding publicity wave, to sub for Joy Behar.
• Why is MSNBC stalling its Sharpton decision?  Q&A: E-Mac.
• Video: Alan Colmes w/Imus pt one, pt two.  Weekend numbers.
• Zurawik: Olbermann a fawning pet poodle in Gore interview.
• Latest Buchanan zinger brings new calls to fire Pat.  Update.

Tags: ratings, maddow, msnbc, cnbc, fox, cnn, hln, fbn, olbermann

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
• First guest on tonight’s O’Reilly Factor: Bill O’Reilly!
• Impartial MSNBC anchor: Bachmann would extinguish gays.
• ICN: MSNBC’s ‘insider’ problem.  Tamron’s stalker.
• Greta: I’ve never seen anything at FNC like Uygur describes.
• Was Uygur his own worst enemy? Video: Cenk with Olby [ipad].
• Juan Williams’s story.  New Piers problems?  Q&A: Tony Maddox.

Tags: ratings, oreilly, fox, msnbc, icn, greta, turks, olbermann, piers, cnn

• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3. Five rebounds.
• Documents expose WH anti-FNC policy; more.  Soledad’s foundation.
• FBI investigation of News Corp immediately leaks to press.
• Video: Chris Wallace talks Bachmann, debt ceiling with Don Imus.
• Wedeman caught in the crossfire.  Q&A: Olbermann in the NY Post!
• CNN escorts Kiran Chetry out the door.  But who’s next?  Analysis.

Tags: ratings, fox, cnn, fbn, olbermann

• Say what? MSNBC issues a ‘DNC press release’?!?
• Friday’s numbers: HLNSpecRpt-Grace-Baier 1-2-3.
• Zurawik: Nancy Grace’s phony indignation a ratings ploy.
• Flint: HLN about to undergo withdrawal symptoms.
• Hemmer and MacCallum fill Beck 5:00 pm slot today.
• In second week, Countdown 2.0 sinks below 100k.
• Goldberg: Double standards at MSNBC?
• Rosen: CNN to forgo ‘nonpartisan’ coverage? (via TVN)
• Video: Bob Beckel talks w/Don Imus about The Five.
• Video: Juan Williams on Media Matters ‘ruining lives’.
• F-bombs fly in cable trial coverage.  Jenna and groom.
• The Secret Service joins the twitter hunt.  CNN in NOLA.

Tags: msnbc, ratings, hln, fox, olbermann, cnn, fbn

• Q&A: Greg Gutfeld on Red Eye’s best ratings ever.
• Tuesday’s numbers: Laura-HLNSpecRpt-Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: Bias Bash on freeing captured terrorists.
• Coop and Zucker expound on cable news.
• Video: Wiehl and Imus discuss Beck and Bachmann.
• Q2 program rankers.  Olby trumpets O’Donnell slippage.
• When Larry meets Harry.  New CNN intern arrives.
• News Corp apps top iPad charts.  O’Reilly vs autobots.

Tags: ratings, redeye, fox, cooper, msnbc, cnn, fbn, olbermann, o'donnell, king, oreilly

• Video: Wallace questions Bachmann, apologizes for ‘flake’.
• Video: Reliable Sources on Olbermann and Stewart/Wallace.
• Chris Wallace: Hey Jon, the joke’s on you.
• Hot & Not: Ed Henry, Diaz-Balart, Olby’s war etc.
• Video: News Watch on Afghanistan coverage; more.
• R.I.P.: Nick Charles.  Reena Ninan: Woman on the front line.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.  CNN pychics.
• Slate: New Countdown juggles eloquence with strident bellowing.

Tags: fox, olbermann, cnn, icn

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Grace 1-2-3.
• Zurawik on Olbermann week one: smooth, rude, divisive.
• Barnicle, Bulger’s best bud.  Q&A: Jenna Lee.  Mika flashback.
• Poniewozik: Olby’s score-settling.  Is Alisyn ready to move on up?
• Party w/MSNBC.  CNN in (the other) Georgia.  Dana Bash abortion flap.

Tags: ratings, olbermann, msnbc, fox, friends, cnn

• Olbermann pulls the plug on his 63-minute gambit.
• Wednesday’s numbers: Obama/FNC-O’Reilly-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Joe & Mika in Hartford.  Sailing to Orlando.  (MS)NBC’s focus: vets.
• Video: Bias Bash on the Obama speech and Bernanke’s presser.
• Audio: Chris Wallace responds to purported Stewart ‘gotcha’ [ipad].
• Video: Chris Wallace w/Imus on Afghanistan and Jon Stewart.
• Latino outreach at MSNBC?  Beck’s book on best-seller list.
• Zurawik rips post-speech with Larry/Olby: ideology, name calling.

Tags: ratings, olbermann, msnbc, fox, fbn, beck, cnn, o'donnell

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Goetzi: Is Huntsman trouble for cable news?  Bloomberg vs CNBC.
• Video: Bias Bash questions Media Matters’s tax-exempt status.
• Zurawik: Hey Olbermann, how about some ratings transparency?
• Videos: Janice Dean on Today, Mika on ABC. Ed Henry’s other role.
• A dozen cablers named to distinguished list.  Cablers cover Casey.
• Least wanted: pre-Olby Current cable’s lowest Nielsen-rated channel.

Tags: ratings, cnbc, fox, olbermann, msnbc

• Current claims Countdown pulled 179K demo viewers.
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Bias Bash videos: Africa/Afghanistan and NBC’s pledge edit.
• Bloomberg/Comcast channel spat marches on.
• Julie Banderas back in the anchor chair?  Weekend numbers.
• Video: Juan Williams with Don Imus on Jon Stewart, Libya, etc.
• That was fast: Media Matters launches instant war against Ed Henry.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on NBC’s pledge, CBS’s Norah O’Donnell.
• ICN: Why 63 minutes means Olby’s declared war on MSNBC; more.
• Countdown reax: Zurawik: ruined by Markos; EW: fawning; LA TImes: effective; Perpetual Post: glad he’s back; The Cable Game: yawn; WaPost: sleepy; Salon: welcome back; Daily Beast: marred by nastiness; The Wrap: boring, pompous.

Tags: ratings, olbermann, fox, fbn, mediamatters, icn

• Van Jones calling for prior restraint of Fox News speech.
• Friday’s numbers: Laura-Nancy-Bret 1-2-3.
• ICN: No Countdown coverage for us.  O’Reilly/Fiasco preview.
• Ed Henry leaves CNN to be Fox News Chief WH correspondent!
• Hall: Why do top talents keep leaving MSNBCNBC?
• Audio: Bret Baier reacts to the Jon Stewart interview [ipad].
• Zurawik: Stewart flounders under Chris Wallace questioning.
• MSNBC, the Place for Progressives.  Velshi’s early call.
• Q&A: Bret Baier (via TVN), Baier, Nicole Petalides, Petalides.
• Stelter: Olbermann boasts he’ll take MSNBC’s viewers.
• Hot & Not: O’Donnell, Olbermann, Weinergate, etc.

Tags: ratings, fox, olbermann, oreilly, cnn, msnbc, cnbc, fbn, icn

• Unedited video: Jon Stewart on Fox News Sunday.
• Video: Reliable Sources on Bachmann/Weiner coverage.
• MSNBC without Olbermann: doing nicely, thank you.
• Video: News Watch on media treatment of Michelle Bachmann.
• Video flashback: Cenk Uygur exposes the truth about Weinergate.
• Video: Fox Fan Day at Citi Field.  Mal James: The crossing.
• Fineman: Dems turned on Weiner because he appeared on Fox?!
• Q&A: Amber Lyon.  Profile: Dr Drew (via TVN).
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.

Tags: fox, cnn, msnbc, olbermann, hln

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Christopher: Olby hypes Countdown with sleazy rumor-mongering.
• VIdeo: Bolling on The Insider.  Profile: Thomas Roberts, Grace.
• Lupe Fiasco will face off with O’Reilly.  Friday Luntz special.
• Robin’s CMA debut.  Cablers with clothes.  Kurtz contradiction.
• Jenna Lee’s diet diary.  Beck and Olbermann start over.
• Olby ‘contributors’ not exactly diverse; video: w/Jimmy Fallon.   
• Video: Kirsten Powers on Weiner as predator; more.
• ICN: Why (MS)NBC’s loss of Norah O’Donnell is a very big deal.

Tags: ratings, olbermann, fbn, msnbc, hln, oreilly, fox, beck, icn

• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• America’s Most Wanted may be moving...to FNC!
• Norah O’Donnell quits (MS)NBC for CBS News; analysis.
• Tragedy strikes Contessa Brewer (via ICN).
• CNN Sunday special: digital roots of the Arab Spring.
• Weiner’s next job: with CNN, CurrenTV, or somewhere else?
• Video: Chris Wallace w/Imus. Audio: prepping for Stewart [ipad].
• Q&A: Mika, Chris Matthews.  Video: Olbermann w/Colbert.
• Funt: Too much debate gimmickry.  CNN sued...over captions!
• Discovery CEO slams Liz Claman, then goes on her show!
• A month off air and off twitter...wherefore art thou, Juliet?

Tags: ratings, fox, msnbc, cnn, fbn, matthews, olbermann

• They picked him to host Friday’s Glenn Beck!?!
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
• Mal James: What happens at ‘the handover’.
• Video: Bias Bash on Weinermania, ethanol, Libya, and more.
• Q&A: Sandra Smith, Money Honey.  O’Donnell’s new studio.
• Christopher: Can Olbermann win a war with MSNBC?
• David Carr on Olbermann: bombast, narcisissm, and revenge.
• Zurawik: Is Olbermann misrepresenting one of his ‘contributors’?

Tags: redeye, fox, ratings, beck, fbn, cnbc, o'donnell, msnbc, olbermann

• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Bauder: Coop’s ‘honesty’ stratagem paying off.
• Bias Bash video: ramifications of Palin email crowdsourcing.
• Tension at CNN: Jautz vs Whitaker, who’s in charge?
• Video: Trump unfazed by Matthews ‘backward’ crack.
• Zurawik: He’s reckless, rude, and paranoid...guess who?
• Joe to NY Post: You’re lying!  Rehab for Kurtz and Toobin?
• Controversy swirls over CNN debate exclusion.  Twitterama.
• Casey Anthony soap opera resuscitates ratings at HLN.

Tags: ratings, cooper, cnn, palin, fox, matthews, msnbc, olbermann, hln

• Video: Reliable Sources talks Weiner w/Kirsten Powers.
• Joe & Mika angling for CNN slot?  Olbermann’s eloquence.
• Video: News Watch on Weiner’s confession and ‘treatment’.
• Video: CNN debate preview.  Greta: journo or talker?
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
• Tracton: How a one-hour CNN interview shrunk to five minutes.

Tags: cnn, msnbc, olbermann, fox, greta

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Bercovici: What Beck and Olbermann have in common (via ICN).
• Video: Bias Bash on Weinergate and more important issues.
• Q&A: Gerri Willis.  CNN.com’s pilates tactics.  Joe: Back to school.
• Maddow tipped off to Weiner scandal?  F&F keeps you abreast.
• Another revelatory Larry King Q&A.  Video: Zakaria w/Jon Stewart.

Tags: ratings, beck, olbermann, fox, fbn, cnn, msnbc, maddow, friends, king

• New O’Reilly Bold-Fresh tour replaces Beck with Dennis Miller.
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
• Olby unloads on split from MSNBC, is bringing Shuster to Current.
• Another Beck pre-emption Friday.  O’Donnell hosts skinhead special.
• Q&A: Liz Claman.  Kyra’s back.  Comcast/Bloomberg channel spat.
• Huck dings MSNBC’s Matthews, Scarborough et al.
• Cablers tweet about Weiner. Video: Kirsten Powers defends him.
• What will CNN do with Erin Burnett?  Coop emcees fashion awards.

Tags: ratings, oreilly, fox, olbermann, msnbc, shuster, beck, o'donnell, fbn, cnn, matthews, cooper

• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Wallace 1-2-3.
• Q&A w/slideshow: Rick Reichmuth and the MS flooding.
• Video: Chris Wallace with Don Imus.
• Chris Licht leaves MoJo for CBS.
• Video: Bias Bash on covering Obama’s Mideast speech.
• Video: Olby w/Letterman.  Gore: Rupert stifling CurrenTV?
• Joe & Mika call Trump.  Juan Williams in Wheeling.

Tags: ratings, fox, fbn, msnbc, olbermann

• Friday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Baier 1-2-3.
• Where was Juliet? She sez: laid up.  Back to School, with Shep.
• Zurawik: Trump, Huck bought and sold for walking around money.
• New book recounts Olbermann’s stormy ESPN exit.
• VIdeo: Juan Williams with Don Imus part one, part two.
• Greta jabs at Abrams; Dan returns fire; Greta apologizes.
• Kurtz: Why Huck said no.  Adam and Tamera tie the knot.
• Is Don Lemon’s book revelation a career risk?
• Hot & Not: Huck, Olby, Schultz, S-bombs, etc.
• Olby/Schultz flap fallout: KO gets HuffPo to delete tweet about him!
• Un-Common debate: Stewart accepts O’Reilly challenge tonight.

Tags: ratings, fox, shep, olbermann, fbn, greta, cnn, schultz, msnbc, huffpo, oreilly

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Markos, banned from MSNBC, to be Countdown contributor.
• Video: Bias Bash critiques 60 Minutes Obama interview.
• Elites gather for Mika soiree.  Last names can help.
• Audio: Around the world w/Bill Hemmer [ipad].  Q&A: D-Rat (v/TVN).
• Adam’s big day: May 14.  Big Ed sued.  Meade hosts concert.

Tags: ratings, msnbc, olbermann, schultz, hln

• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-JudgeNap 1-2-3.
• Do CNN gains worry the competition? Weekend numbers.
• Olby reveals the one and only purpose of government.
• Bias Bash video: Top ten UBL themes and memes.
• Today’s firing demand.  Q&A: Liz Claman.  Coop pranked.
• Video: O’Reilly challenges NY Daily News over Trump slam.

Tags: ratings, cnn, olbermann, fox, fbn, cooper, oreilly

• Friday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Diane Macedo takes over newsreader slot on Imus.
• Q&A: Willis, Thomas Roberts (v/ICN), Maddow (v/Mediaite).
• Who wants to work for Olby?  The obligatory denial.
• CNNMoney gets an extreme makeover.
• Licht move stirs MoJo speculation.  Todd loses Savannah.
• Video: Trump bloviates on UBL, racism charges.
• Profiles: Jennifer Griffin, Mrs Bill Hemmer (via TVN).
• Hot & Not: UBL, The Donald, the debate, CNN being petty.

Tags: ratings, fbn, msnbc, maddow, olbermann, cnn, friends, icn

• Video: Beck’s response to unseemly celebrations of UBL’s death.
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Fox & Friends-American Morning 1-2-3.
• FBN trying to make its mark in the marketplace.
• Zucker: No ‘secret meeting’ to turn MSNBC left.
• Mitt Romney to FNC: Count me out!
• Newsers flock to broadcast from Ground Zero.
• UBL numbers: CNN-FNC-MSNBC 1-2-3.
• Behind-the-scenes Sunday night at CNN.
• Video: Bias Bash on the ‘news of the decade’.
• Geraldo: I quit CNBC because of Bin Laden.
• Olbermann smears Fox, covers up his own gaffe.
• VIdeo: WH crowd surrounds Geraldo; what didn’t air.
• CNN brags they ‘pleased’ WH by not reporting UBL news.
• FNC breaks UBL story on cable: video.  Gaffes galore.

Tags: beck, fox, ratings, fbn, msnbc, cnn, cnbc, olbermann

• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Hannity 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
• April: FNC tops; MSNBC, CNN up; HLN down. Program ranker.
• Zurawik: Olbermann’s march to marginalization begins.
• Video: Frank Luntz tells Don Imus: Trump’s bluffing.
• Video: Bias Bash on Barbour bowing out and Gitmo.
• April spin: MSNBC tops CNN; CNN tops MSNBC.
• Will FNC’s Presidential debate air as scheduled?
• Video: Coop grills The Donald, nicks Hannity.
• Fareed Zakaria: It’s a post-American world. Q&A: Mika (via ICN).
• Historic announcement expected today: the Big News!

Tags: ratings, olbermann, luntz, fbn, fox, cooper, hannity, cnn

Tags: olbermann

• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
• Olbermann: I don’t watch MSNBC.
• New algorithm makes Fox most search-visible cablenews site.
• MSNBC treatment of Trump raises questions.
• Video: What cablenewser reported this in 1991? The answer.
• Profile: Chris Wallace.  Bret Baier’s top (and bottom) DC ten [pdf].
• MSNBC’s new studio.  Contessa’s compost.  Robin’s song.
• Larry King preps first CNN special, plans trip to Korea.
• Video: CNN staffer tries a little too hard to look busy [ipad].

Tags: ratings, olbermann, msnbc, fox, baier, hln, cnn, king

• Friday’s numbers: Laura-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
• Video: S.E. Cupp delivers ‘special comment’ re Olbermann.
• Videos: Shep dissects the debt, erupts over government ‘lies’.
• Video: Trump swipes at Perino, Romney, Rove [ipad].
• CNBC cost cuts hit Media 3.  NBC trims wedding plans?
• Beck failures to attribute stir controversy. Analysis.
• Hot & Not: Imus, Roberts, Soledad, John King etc.
• Yet another version of the Glenn Beck/Fox News split.

Tags: ratings, olbermann, shep, fox, cnbc, msnbc, beck, icn

• Video: Reliable Sources on the Trump media storm.
• Video: FNS Panel Plus on Palin/Huck Prez possibilities.
• Beck talks Trump, comedy, leaving New York etc.
• Video: Fox News Watch on the budget battle.
• Strangers on a plane end up on Fox News.
• Q&A: Piers Morgan’s breakfast w/Financial Times.
• Huddy returns to The Factor.  Video: Juliet’s twitterpic.
• Olbermann: I don’t watch Chris Matthews.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.

Tags: cnn, fox, palin, beck, luntz, piers, cnn, olbermann, msnbc, matthews

• Thursday’s numbers: Hannity-Laura (for BO’R)-Greta 1-2-3.
• Turnabout: Brian Sullivan leaves FBN for CNBC.
• Do Judge Nap’s numbers mean he won’t replace Beck?
• Martin Bashir lets slip that Contessa Brewer is pregnant.
• Video: Red Eye rips Olby’s gutter attack on S.E. Cupp [ipad].
• Greta: Don’t worry about Cenk Uygur, he won’t be around long.
• Video: Geraldo enraged over pat down of 6-yr-old [ipad].
• Imus losing sidekick Charles McCord; McShane replaces.  More.
• Video: Brian Kilmeade in the dunk tank.  Q&A: Lou Dobbs.
• Beck stage show takes on emotions of a revival meeting.
• Jennifer Griffin’s This Burning Land.  Lori Rothman: tax tips.
• Cooper’s syndie talk show to air from Lincoln Center room at CNN.

Tags: ratings, fbn, cnbc, judgenap, beck, msnbc, fox, redeye, olbermann, greta, friends, cooper

• Friday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
• Today’s Beck replacement specularama.
• Olby taking credit for ratings surge at CNN?!?
• Weekend in Vegas report gets Greta’s goat.
• As debates proliferate, FNC sets criteria for first showdown.
• Video: Bias Bash analyzes ‘thuggish’ NYT article.
• CNN skeds special on Waco.  FNC wedding plans.
• VIdeo: No birther talk on Trump’s F&F segment.
• Hot & Not: Beck, Trump, The Judge, Roberts, CNN etc.

Tags: ratings, beck, olbermann, cnn, fox, greta, friends, icn

• Video: Reliable Sources discusses Glenn Beck.
• Zurawik: Beck and Olbermann two noxious tv toxins.
• VIdeo: Sarah Palin talks Trump and budget.
• The burden of being Erin Burnett (via TVN).
• Video: Fox News Watch on budget battle coverage.
• Black Agenda: Sharpton/Schultz special airs Sunday.
• Tick tock, who had the best clock? 
• Sunday talkers: tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
• Video: Beck talks to O’Reilly about his future plans.
• Who should replace Glenn Beck? J$P Poll: final results.

Tags: beck, cnn, olbermann, palin, fox, cnbc, msnbc, schultz, oreilly

• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Beck 1-2-3.
• CNN deploys massive resources for huge overseas story.
• Guess who’s headed to Libya?  More.
• Video: Susan Lucci smacks Brian Kilmeade.
• FNC promotes Jay Wallace.  MSNBC re-ups w/Starbucks.
• Kurtz: Character assassination via sound bites?
• Keith Olbermann resurfaces.  Olby’s ‘baller whip’.
• Desperately seeking Megan Megyn Kelly.
• Video: Jennifer Griffin, Greg Myre.  Q&A: D-Rat part tres.

Tags: ratings, cnn, fox, friends, msnbc, olbermann, megyn

• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• An early peek at FBN’s numbers.
• Q&A: John McCann on FBN’s Nielsen move.
• Aaron Brown resurfaces, slams Bill, Beck, Coop.
• Zurawik: Sarah Palin, Bill Maher, and Greta.
• Cablers gather for Roberts-hosted NLGJA soiree.
• Olbermann web ‘worst persons’ smears Billy Graham.
• Shumate: Cable news short shrifts Liz Taylor passing.
• Video: Sean Hannity talks to Larry King part one, part two.

Tags: ratings, fbn, cnn, palin, greta, fox, msnbc, olbermann, hannity, king

• Friday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Beck 1-2-3.
• Fox News top-valued non-sports channel.
• Olbermann plans website, claims: ‘I’m in charge’.
• Zurawik: Good, bad, and ugly of Wisconsin coverage.
• Audio: John Gibson opens up about his skin cancer.
• Bias Bash video: Comparing Wisconsin to Egypt.
• Michael Ware has left CNN.  MSNBC snags Gracie.
• Video: Major Garrett w/Don Imus part one, part two.
• Kirsten Powers fan sends her a tweet.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on George Soros vs Fox News.
• CNN’s Wedeman first Western journo in Libya.

Tags: ratings, fox, olbermann, cnn, msnbc, fbn, oreilly

• Zurawik: Hot-dog poseur O’Donnell’s desperate ploy.
• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Bret 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
• Q&A: Major Garrett on Olby’s exit, Velez-Mitchell pt deux.
• New Pew: Egypt coverage analyzed.
• Video: Ashley Webster w/Imus part one, part two.
• Morning Joe’s music mavens, CNN’s iReport awards.
• O’Donnell adopts Olbermann’s shtick, rips O’Reilly.
• Chris Jansing joins Jack Jacobs in VietNam.
• Video: Greta’s unedited interview with Donald Trump.

Tags: ratings, o'donnell, msnbc, oreilly, fox, olbermann, hln, fbn, cnn, greta

• Friday’s numbers: Bill-Bret-Beck 1-2-3.
• Greg Palkot hears from doctor who treated him in Egypt.
• FBN’s Ashley Webster survives Cairo scare (via TCG).
• Cablenewsers to gather for NLGJA benefit.
• Video: S.E. Cupp w/Don Imus part one, part two.
• Coop in Naples.  Q&A: Juan Williams, Velez-Mitchell.
• Licht to Bloomberg?  CNBC skeds currency show.
• With ‘wild card’ Olby on board, Current widens its web.

Tags: ratings, fox, fbn, cooper, cnn, hln, cnbc, olbermann

• Video: Reliable Sources on AOL/HuffPo.
• Video: Fox News Watch on AOL/HuffPo and Olbermann’s move to Current TV [ipad]; plus how Obama views Fox News.
• Q&A: Joe & Mika in Chicago.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
• Cablenewsers scramble to cover surprise resignation.

Tags: cnn, olbermann, fox, msnbc

• Zurawik: Cablenewsers jump the gun.
• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Bret-Beck 1-2-3.
• Reese’s piece: Egypt and the Olbermann effect.
• Cenk at six hemorrhaging Schultz’s audience.
• CNN signs contributors: Belcher, Loesch, Cain.
• New weather intern arrives: Theodore Patrick.
• Greta fisks Politico article on Palin/Santorum.
• Egypt triggers breaking news mode on cable.
• Audio: Cavuto to O’Reilly--move on already! [ipad]
• PolitiFact dings Maddow over false Fox attack.
• Egyptian crisis continues as newsers depart.
• Coop tells Letterman about being pummeled.

Tags: ratings, cnn, olbermann, turks, schultz, msnbc, greta, fox, oreilly, maddow, cooper

• What’s behind those Don Imus rumors?
• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• MSNBC plans to target ‘two-screen viewers’.
• Video: Red Eye analyzes Olbermann’s new gig [ipad].
• Video: Glenn Beck/Bill Kristol feud heats up.
• Why Olbermann went to Current TV.  Olby alone won’t save CTV.  Can KO stay relevant?  Keith’s new neighbors.  Let the sniping begin.  Eating out.
• Q&A: Cenk Uygur boasts that FNC will fear him.
• Laurie Dhue resurfaces: Today show video.  Juan Williams at WKU.

Tags: fbn, ratings, msnbc, redeye, fox, olbermann, beck, turks

• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.  Weekend numbers.
• Olby gets nightly primetime hour, twitter explodes.  Current’s eclectic lineup.  Will KO help or hurt Current’s bottom line?  Video: Pinkerton’s take.
• Olbermann to join cablenews powerhouse.  Why it makes sense for both parties?  Non-compete clause may not apply.
• John King complains about FNC’s contributors.
• Coop leaves Egypt, heads for Letterman’s couch.
• Nic Robertson’s wife Margaret on the Egypt experience.
• Lawrence O’Donnell struggles to retain viewers.

Tags: ratings, olbermann, fox, cnn, cooper, o'donnell, msnbc

• Zurawik: Piers goes live, and it’s unimpressive.
• (MS)NBC in a Comcast world.
• Video: Reliable Sources on Bachmann coverage.
• Video: Fox News Watch on Keith Olbermann [ipad].
• Mushnick: The real reason Olby is out.
• Watson: Olbermann firing poorly timed.
• Tom Brokaw dodges the Olbermann question.
• Larry O’Donnell and his $88 socks.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.

Tags: piers, msnbc, cnn, olbermann, fox, o'donnell

• Beck bumped! Shep covers Egypt at 5:00 pm.
• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Bret-Hannity 1-2-3. Piers plummets!
• Salon: Al Jazeera embarrasses US cable news.
• Video: Greg Palkot in Egypt.
• MSNBC tells Big Ed: no more ‘Psycho Talk’.
• ‘Colorful’ Ed Schultz emails surface.
• Tobin: Beck vs the rabbis...they’re both wrong.
• The Wrap: Comcast can’t escape Olbermann blame.
• Friedman: Will Olby replace Park & Spit?
• New hires at CNN.com, CNN.  Soledad at Emory U; Q&A.

Tags: beck, shep, ratings, fox, piers, msnbc, schultz, olbermann, parker, spitzer, cnn

• Tuesday’s numbers: Analysis/FNC, SotU/FNC, O’Reilly 1-2-3.
• SotU and analysis: FNC crushes CNN, MSNBC.
• Boedeker: Olbermann’s fall due to his arrogance.
• VIdeo: Imus calls Rachel Maddow a ‘gutless coward’.
• Will MSNBC get over its Palin sickness?
• Zurawik on SotU: CNN, FNC excellent; MSNBC not.
• Q&A: Jenna Lee, Claman in Davos, O’Donnell, Cavuto, Big Ed.
• CNN retracts false story about accused Wiki leaker.

Tags: ratings, olbermann, msnbc, maddow, fbn, fox, cnn, schultz, o'donnell

• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
• Rumor: MSNBC interested in hiring Alec Baldwin? Or not?
• Arend: Olby’s exit will consume humanity in a new Dark Age!
• Greta: Let’s stop the hand-wringing over Olbermann.
• Intramural feud: Roger Ailes vs the junior Murdochs?
• Video: Red Eye salutes Keith Olbermann [ipad].
• Rick Sanchez resurfaces, comments on Olbermann.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on the MSNBC goings-on.
• Who really fired Olbermann? The military-industrial complex!
• Zurawik: Ed Rendell signs w/MSNBC; Q&A.  AJ Hammer re-ups.
• Q&A: Neil Cavuto on SotU coverage, Big Ed part two, Cenk.

Tags: ratings, msnbc, schultz, olbermann, greta, fox, redeye, hln

• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Bream 1-2-3. Piers slips.
• Audio: John Gibson sez Comcast fired Olby.
• Daily Finance: Comcast unlikely to overhaul MSNBC.
• Video: Glenn Beck on Olby’s departure.
• Q&A: Coop, John Stossel, Big Ed.  Bret Baier: rapper.
• SotU coverage rundown.
• Haddad: Piers Morgan is the new King.
• MSNBC to hire Ed Rendell?  Dan Abrams to ABC?
• NYT: Years of tension led to Olbermann/MSNBC split.  WSJ: The end of a tumultuous affair.  LAT: Unanswered questions.  The Week: Five theories.
• Yahoo: Where will KO end up?  How about Senator Olby?  Or Sirius?
• Barnhart: NBC blew it.  MacNicol: Will MSNBC regret dumping KO?  Boedeker: How will Keith be remembered?  Zucker reacts.  Twitter explodes.

Tags: ratings, olbermann, msnbc, beck, fox, cooper, fbn, baier, piers, schultz

Tags: mediamatters, crooks, rawstory, newshounds, olbermann, msnbc, newscorpse

• Zurawik: We’re better off without Olbermann and his smears.
• Video: Reliable Sources on Olbermann etc.
• ICN: It’s time for CNN to deal with Park & Spit.
• Telegraph: Piers should drop the Brit shtick.
• Video: Fox News Watch on Tucson coverage.
• TMZ: Olby’s secret deal.  NYT: Weeks of negotiations. More.
• ICN: What it means for MSNBC.  Deadline H’wood: A right turn?  Big Ed cut to four days; Larry O gets five.  OlbyWatch: Keith is the winner.
• Salon: Goodnight and good riddance.  Olby week in review.
• H’wood Reporter: KO’s ten options.  EW: Next stop Hollywood?  Forbes: Should CNN hire him?  Poniewozik: Opportunities.  Salon: A victim of his own success?
• Mediaite: Why Olby is out.  TMZ: He was fired.  Bercovici: Was it Comcast’s doing?  NY Post: Olby was paid to leave.  Video: AC360 on Olbermann’s exit [ipad].
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.

Tags: olbermann, msnbc, icn, parker, spitzer, cnn, fox, schultz, o'donnell

• Keith Olbermann out at MSNBC!  New schedule.  Is Comcast cleaning house?  It was a stealth move.  Kurtz: It was a long time coming.  Video: Olby’s farewell.  Flashback: Olby says firing ‘a groundless fear’.
• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Wallace 1-2-3.
• Zurawik: Piers ratings could spell trouble for CNN.
• Post-surgery update: Soledad is doing fine.
• Video: Megyn Kelly w/Don Imus part one, part two.
• Is Martin Bashir’s show finally about to debut?
• J.R. Dunn: Why did MSNBC cancel me?
• As Zucker moves out, Immelt moves up.
• Videos: Matthews w/Colbert, Piers w/Letterman.
• Juan Williams talks education in Charlotte.
• Video: The Judge on how to bring freedom to China.

Tags: olbermann, msnbc, ratings, piers, cnn, megyn, fbn, fox, matthews, judgenap

• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Wallace-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Finally, Countdown hits #1...online.
• Piers grills Condi: cooking, dating, and marriage! (via CB)
• Video: Gretchen Carlson’s ear gets licked.  More.
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Wallace 1-2-3.
• Michael Steele looking for cable gig.
• Poll: FNC most trusted (and distrusted) cablenewser.
• FEC complaint against Hannity dismissed.
• Q&A: Eric Bolling, from baseball to business.
• Video: Chris Wallace w/ Don Imus part one, part two.
• Five ideas to improve Piers Morgan Tonight.
• Paper drops Parker column until she’s off CNN.

Tags: ratings, msnbc, olbermann, piers, cnn, fox, friends, hannity, fbn, parker

• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3. Weekly ranker.
• Rick Sanchez rehab tour: insecurity and sadness.
• Did Coop try to gin up opposition to BP? He sez no.
• Q&A: Piers Morgan; Mike Emanuel part one, part two.
• News Corp jumps to the defense of...NBC!
• Olby week in review: bad oysters.
• Will Mark Levin sue Chris Matthews?  More.
• Video: Judge Napolitano with Dr Marc Lamont Hill.

Tags: ratings, cooper, piers, cnn, fox, msnbc, olbermann, matthews, fbn, judgenap

• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Beck 1-2-3.
• Weekend numbers. Saturday shooting: FNC-CNN-MSNBC 1-2-3.  Glenn Garvin: Why MSNBC got clobbered on Saturday.
• Reese Schonfeld: Who killed Gabrielle Giffords?
• Ad buyers skeptical of Piers Morgan buys.
• Video: News Watch Skype Gripe on media finger-pointing.
• New Pew overview of 2011 paints CNN as outlier (via TVN).
• Parker fighting for her job as dismissal looms.
• Howard Kurtz profile: Joe Scarborough (via ICN).
• MSNBC debuts iPad app featuring Rachel Maddow.
• Thank cable news for a climate of hate?
• Video: Jake Tapper talks to Don Imus, part one, part two.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on media irresponsibility.
• Video: Judge Napolitano on freedom and an American tragedy.
• Olbermann ‘reforms’ Worst Persons, by calling it something else.

Tags: ratings, piers, cnn, parker, msnbc, maddow, fbn, fox, judgenap, olbermann

• Friday’s numbers: Bill-Bret-Shep 1-2-3.
• Profile: Eric Bolling is on a roll.
• John Roberts makes FNC debut on Studio-B.
• Janice Dean has pictures of Courtney’s baby.
• Happy, happy! Joy, joy! Rick Sanchez resurfaces.
• Howard Kurtz on media finger-pointing.
• FNC’s Dr Coomer has successful cancer surgery.
• CNN revamps graphics, adds CNNi, names Piers guests.
• Leading candidate to replace Parker: E.D. Hill?
• Olby to drop Worst Persons shtick again? Or not?
• Things for CNN to consider re Park & Spit. More.
• Q&A: Ailes & Simmons (via ICN), Eric Bolling, Gerri Willis.
• Hot & Not: Parker, John Roberts, O’Reilly, and more.

Tags: ratings, fbn, fox, cnn, piers, parker, olbermann, msnbc, spitzer, icn

Tags: mediaite, crooks, newshounds, olbermann, schultz

• CNN considers replacing Park, keeping Spit.
• Video: Megyn Kelly interviews Sheriff Dupnik.
• Video: Hero intern who saved Rep Giffords’s life.
• Video: Mother of Roxanna Green, 9-yr-old victim.
• Video: Reliable Sources on media finger-pointing.
• Video: Olby blames Beck, Palin, Bill etc. Kurtz responds.
• Cablers cover Giffords shooting. Special coverage skeds.  FNC brings in weekday talent for Sunday coverage.
• Video: Bill Hemmer talks to Rep Giffords [Jan 7 2011].
• The Olbermann/Gabrielle Giffords connection.
• Fired CNNer escorted out of building. Greta comments.
• Cablers set to cover Haiti anniversary.
• Olby week in review: starting the new year right.
• Video: The most fascinating Park & Spit moment yet.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet.

Tags: cnn, parker, spitzer, megyn, olbermann, msnbc, greta

• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
• O’Reilly snags exclusive pre-Super Bowl interview with Obama.
• NPR/Juan Williams fallout: Weiss resigns.  Video: Juan reacts.
• MSNBC hires homeless man for voice-overs.
• Hill reporter slams Olbermann’s ‘journalism’.
• Audio: Brian Kilmeade talks with Major Garrett  [ipad].
• CNN explains ‘freedom project’.  Piers snags Oprah.
• Reena Ninan’s good news: it’s a boy!
• Coop rolls eyes at mention of Kathy Griffin.
• Big Ed walks back ‘bastard’ crack; Joe breaks House rules.

Tags: ratings, oreilly, fox, msnbc, olbermann, friends, piers, cnn, cooper, schultz

Tags: newshounds, olbermann, maddow, msnbc, mediamatters, huffpo, crooks, turks, schultz, boehlert

• Ultimate Fox hater resorts to vulgarity.
• Tuesday’s numbers: Bream-Bolling-Beck 1-2-3.
• Today’s firing demand.
• FNC adds extra hour, starts New Years special at 10pm.
• ICN’s New Years resolutions for cablenewsers.
• Fox News: #1 for nine years and counting.
• Despite losses, Olbermann’s job is safe...for now.
• Q&A: CNNI’s Ellana Lee.  Engel on anchoring.
• Part three: The Ricardo Amerigo Matter  [ipad].

Tags: olbermann, msnbc, ratings, fox, icn, cnn

• 2010 program ranker.  FNC dominates.  Olby, Maddow, Coop all down double digits.  One newser in top ten cable channels.
• Monday’s numbers: Bolling-Bream-Beck 1-2-3.  Friday’s numbers: F&F Christmas-Special Report-Fox Report 1-2-3.
• Mickey Sherman (Mr Lis Wiehl) headed for the pokey.
• Greta responds to TV Newser.
• Chris Knowles (Mr Kiran Chetry) turns up on CNN.
• Video: Fox & Friends 2010 highlight reel.
• David Shuster resurfaces; Q&A.
• Piers gets support from Jack Bauer.
• Part two: The Ricardo Amerigo Matter  [ipad].

Tags: ratings, fox, cooper, olbermann, maddow, msnbc, cnn, greta, friends, piers

• Video: Christmas is about the journey.
• Video: The Louie Zamperini story. More.
• John Roberts signs off American Morning, TJ takes over.
• Video: Inspirational Americans.
• Sunday talkers: tip sheet.
• A very MSNBC Christmas!  Skeds: FNC Sat, Sun; CNN.
• The year’s top ten Countdown moments.
• Cenk Uygur attacks Fox, misses the target.
• FNC videos: holiday reflections, Megyn’s most memorable Christmas, funniest Yuletide memories, Christmas songs, holiday gifts.
• Part one: The Nick Shurn Matter  listen  [ipad].
• Part two: The Nick Shurn Matter  listen  [ipad].
• Part three: The Nick Shurn Matter  listen  [ipad].
• Part four: The Nick Shurn Matter  listen  [ipad].
• Part five: The Nick Shurn Matter  listen  [ipad].

Tags: fox, cnn, msnbc, olbermann, turks, megyn

• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Beck 1-2-3.
• Again? Olbermann tweets false information.
• Brian Wilson resurfaces.
• Olbermann mocks hair of cancer survivor.
• Maddow thinks Jewish center is a YMCA.
• Breaking: chyron blooper at F&F.
• Video: Maddow and Michael Moore.
• Part three: The Nick Shurn Matter  listen  [ipad].

Tags: ratings, olbermann, msnbc, fox, maddow, friends

• Friday’s numbers: Bill-Stossel-Baier 1-2-3.
• Olbermann throws gasoline on twitter fire.
• Benzinga Q&A: Charlie Gasparino.
• Tennis mag profile: Sean Hannity.
• CNBC goes off the tracks, defends insider trading?
• The Presidential primary debates keep coming.
• 2010 spin: MSNBC tops CNN prime.
• Media Afghanistan focus fades.
• Hot & Not: Baier, John Roberts, Olbermann, more.
• Olbermann’s twitter ‘suspension’ short-lived.
• Part one: The Nick Shurn Matter  listen  [ipad].

Tags: ratings, olbermann, msnbc, fbn, hannity, fox, cnbc, cnn, icn

Tags: mediaite, olbermann, msnbc, newshounds, boehlert, mediamatters

• Video: Reliable Sources, liberal revolt, pundits out of touch.
• Greta: Guess who’s #1 again?
• Zurawik: So who defines ‘misinformed’?
• Video: News Watch on Obama media narrative; more.
• Video: Alisyn models the Hoodie-Footie.
• Olby week in review: conspiracy time.
• Financial Times profile: Rachel Maddow.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet., HuffPo recap.
• The Missing Mouse Matter [ipad].

Tags: cnn, greta, fox, friends, olbermann, msnbc, maddow

• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Larry-Bret 1-2-3.
• Christopher: Olby faces his ‘Shoeless Joe’ moment?
• Sady Doyle: Olbermann quit Twitter because of me.
• FNC’s Nancy Harmeyer promoted to West Coast.
• DGA/FNC complaint tossed out by unanimous vote.
• Another debate set: CNN/Tea Party Express.
• Q&A: Adam Shapiro on Madoff matters.
• WPO study of ‘misinformed’ viewers fingers FNC, MSNBC.
• When in doubt...blame Beck!
• Larry King signs off: Buckman, de Moraes, Cromwell, Poniewozik, Bauder.  After-party.  Filling the gap.
• The Carmen Kringle Matter [ipad].

Tags: ratings, olbermann, msnbc, fox, cnn, fbn, beck, king

• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: At the Fox News DC holiday party.
• Fox News announces more 2011 debates.
• Feature and Q&A: Connell McShane in Ireland [pdf].
• Olbermann/Moore rape comments stir outrage.  Keith stonewalls, then suspends his Twitter account!
• Video: The Insider behind the scenes at Fox & Friends.
• Audio: Trump calls Ailes ‘a phenomenal guy’ [ipad].
• Video: Chris Wallace with Imus part one, part two.
• MSNBC sending D-Rat up the river.
• CNN promises surprises for Larry King finale. More.
• Who is Zach Wamp and who wants to hire him? Not Fox.

Tags: ratings, fox, fbn, olbermann, msnbc, friends, cnn, king

• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
• Zurawik: FNC signs Bret Baier to new multi-year contract.
• Juan Williams signs book deal with Random House.
• Olbermann tries to wriggle out of latest Nazi comparison.
• Video: Geraldo on sleeping nude etc part one, part two.
• Video: Greta and Sarah Palin in Haiti.
• American Morning makeover: more upbeat, fast-paced.
• Video: Bill O’Reilly w/Don Imus part one, part two.
• Larry’s sign-off has people talking.
• CNN on the iPad.  Amid changes, CNBC launches Pro.
• Talkative Joe vs Ice Princess Mika.
• ‘No Labels’ rally attracts a host of MSNBC hosts.

Tags: ratings, baier, fox, olbermann, msnbc, friends, greta, palin, cnn, oreilly, fbn, king, cnbc

• Video: Reliable Sources on tax deal coverage.
• Without Larry, who will personify CNN? More.
• Video: Fox News Watch on tax deal coverage.
• Zurawik: Bret Baier revisits Florida 2000.
• Video: Red Eye rips Olby’s Nazi comparison [ipad].
• Non-eye-contact Q&A: Chris Matthews.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.

Tags: cnn, fox, king, baier, redeye, olbermann, msnbc, matthews

• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Potter: CNN has gone off the rails.
• Why is CNBC dumping Matt Nesto?
• Video: O’Reilly w/Letterman pt one, pt two [ipad1, ipad2].
• Olby week in review: peaches and doorbell.
• Maddow ‘verifies’ Fox rumor that isn’t true?
• Kathy Griffin set for CNN New Year’s Eve again.
• CNN: America’s Most Wanted?  Coop faces the Taliban.
• Video: Beck talks boycotts and ‘the revolution’ [ipad].

Tags: ratings, cnn, cnbc, oreilly, olbermann, msnbc, fox, maddow, cooper, beck

• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Wendy Walker’s 30 years in cable news.
• Q&A: ‘nonpartisan’ host Chris Matthews (via NB).
• Blue blogs erupt at O’Donnell, want him off the air.
• Olbermann’s top ten Nazi comparisons.
• Fonzie hearts Maddow, Matthews, MSNBC.
• Video: Chris Wallace w/Don Imus part one, part two.
• Option lingo called ’spin’ in Fox flap. But is it really? More.
• Diversity (of a sort) emerges at MSNBC.
• CNN’s Dana Bash wins Dirksen Award.
• Video: Luntz focus group on the tax deal.
• Media buyers rate Fox & Friends over GMA, CBS Morning.

Tags: ratings, cnn, matthews, msnbc, o'donnell, olbermann, maddow, fbn, fox, luntz, friends

• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
• News Corp again seeks higher FNC sub fees.
• Video: Anthony Weiner gets feisty with Megyn Kelly.
• Will CNN dump Kathy Griffin from New Year’s Eve?
• Video: Juan WIlliams w/Don Imus part one, part two.
• Which cablenewser is the #1 charity giver?
• Fox News a hit...in Saudi Arabia!
• Tensions roil at floundering Park & Spit.
• Zurawik: Olbermann steps up to the plate.
• Video: Glenn Beck explains the Assange ‘rape’ case.

Tags: ratings, fox, megyn, cnn, fbn, beck, parker, spitzer, olbermann, msnbc

• Olbermann promotes writings of Holocaust denier.
• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Hannity.
• MSNBC hires Jeff Johnson; CNBC adds two.
• VIdeo: O’Reilly with Don Imus part one, part two.
• John Roberts to leave AM, as Tony Harris exits CNN.
• Weekend numbers.
• Kurtz Q&A: Luke Russert.
• Olbermann ‘called on the carpet’ over Bristol bashing?
• Rachel Maddow to spend three days at the Y.

Tags: olbermann, msnbc, ratings, cnbc, oreilly, fbn, cnn, maddow

Tags: mediamatters, crooks, newshounds, olbermann, msnbc

• Video: Reliable Sources on Wikileaks.
• Video: Fox News Sunday panel re Wikileaks.
• Adam and Tamera: the official announcement.
• Video: Fox News Watch re Wikileaks.
• Video: Newt Gingrich vs The Judge re Wikileaks.
• An offer Olbermann can (and will) refuse.
• The biggest cable news Palin promoter: MSNBC!
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.

Tags: cnn, fox, judgenap, fbn, olbermann, msnbc, palin

• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Rangel 1-2-3.
• Lennon flashbacks: FNC Friday, CNN Saturday.
• Media Matters mystery: why did they call Greta’s husband?
• Men’s Journal profile: Bill Hemmer [pdf].
• Needed: fewer race cards, more journalism.
• Olby week in review: crusader for truth.
• Video: Piers Morgan makes debut on CNN.
• Beck fans line up in Pittsburgh.
• So who’s a sexist now? Joe Scarborough!

Tags: ratings, fox, cnn, mediamatters, greta, cooper, olbermann, msnbc, piers, beck

• Scarborough teams with big-bucks anti-partisan group.
• November: FNC in a league of its own.  Bret Baier beats Beck, Hannity.  Park & Spit craters.  MSNBC again tops CNN.
• Friday’s numbers.  Thursday’s numbers.
• Impartial MSNBC anchor labels guest ‘radical right-winger’.
• Video: Bill O’Reilly with Don Imus.
• Alan’s hate mail keeps pouring in.
• Thomas Roberts talks suicide and more.
• Rampant conspiracy theory suddenly loses steam.
• Olby attacks Palin daughter over old story, recently rehashed.

Tags: ratings, msnbc, fox, parker, spitzer, baier, cnn, oreilly, fbn, olbermann, palin

• Video: Reliable Sources on hyper-journalism.
• Video: Fox News Watch on Twitter.
• News Watch breaks off breaks?
• Eric Boehlert still banging out boehloney.
• Thomas Roberts: in or not?
• Olby mini-week in review.
• Murdoch’s Daily stirs interest.
• Coop: drinking with Lady Gaga.
• Sunday talkers: tip sheet.
• Intramural spat: Bolling vs Geraldo and The Judge; more.

Tags: cnn, fox, mediamatters, msnbc, olbermann, cooper, judgenap

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• Man bites dog? HuffPo criticizes Olbermann.  Whoops, that didn’t last long: HuffPo pulls the post!
• Coop to interview Chilean miners.
• Video: Reliable Sources on the platforms of Palin.
• Murdoch and Apple prep iPad newspaper.
• Video: Fox News Watch on Koppel vs cable.
• Big audiences for Bret Baier.
• Did Scarborough get a raw deal?
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.

Tags: huffpo, olbermann, msnbc, cooper, cnn, palin, fox

• Thursday’s numbers: Laura-Bret-Beck 1-2-3.
• Video: Shep interviews El-Al security expert.
• Olbermann’s revenge? Scarborough suspended by MSNBC!  Christopher: Will this make Olby’s WPitW?
• Yowza! Megyn Kelly profiled in GQ.
• Juan Williams hosting tonight’s Factor.
• Tyndall: MSNBC vs FNC...guess whom he likes better?
• David Axelrod to discuss daughter on FNC: preview.
• Olby week in review: false equivalency.
• In depth analysis: a day of watching CNN.
• Friedman: Four steps to saving CNN (and Newsweek).
• Coop at Drew University, Varney in Nevada.
• Big Ed loses at his own numbers game.
• Video: Lou Dobbs makes FBN debut.

Tags: ratings, shep, fox, olbermann, msnbc, megyn, cnn, cooper, fbn, schultz

• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Bret-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Video: Shep grills TSA’s John Pistole.
• Surprise: Obama admin wants more politics coverage on MSNBC.
• Jewish group slams Jewish groups slamming Beck.
• Worst Persons ‘suspension’ almost as short as Olbermann’s!
• Video: dramatic car chase ends in crash.
• Kurtz Q&A: Roger Ailes. Analysis (via ICN).
• The savior of tv news is...Rachel Maddow!?
• IBD: Television’s latchkey journalism.
• Fineman: Scarborough mulling a run for Veep? Or not?

Tags: ratings, shep, fox, msnbc, beck, olbermann, maddow

• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Bret 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
• Ted Koppel responds to Olbermann (via TVN).
• TCG: Rolling Stone planning an FNC hit piece?
• Chris Wallace re-ups with Fox News.
• Bashir’s MSNBC debut: royals get engaged.
• Video: Eric Bolling’s ‘junk’ gets touched.
• Greta to HuffPo: get your facts straight!
• Video: Lou Dobbs on Imus in the Morning.
• Garvin: Why did Olbermann get spanked?
• Poniewozik: The battle of high horses.

Tags: ratings, olbermann, msnbc, fox, fbn, greta, huffpo

• Friday’s numbers: Bill-Bret-Beck 1-2-3.
• The Krak leaves Mediaite for CNN’s Morgan.
• Skype Gripe video: Olbermann runs MSNBC. (h/t Mediaite)
• Kurtz: Civil war at MSNBC leaves Olby without allies; more.  Olbermann response: a non-denial denial.
• Video: Are my testicles black? [iPad link]
• Friedman: What will Comcast do with Olbermann? More.
• KO to lecture Ted Koppel about journalism.
• Video: Bill O’Reilly with Imus part one, part two.
• Rachel Maddow in Cambridge.
• Hot & Not: Olby, Maddow, Dobbs, Tucker, missile mirage, etc.
• Today’s deep thought.

Tags: ratings, cnn, piers, olbermann, msnbc, fox, friends, oreilly, fbn, maddow, icn

• An MSNBC mystery: who said it?
• Swells swarm to Soledad’s soiree.
• Video: Fox News Watch on Bush’s book tour; more.
• Another Olbermann disclosure controversy?
• Bill O’Reilly in Palm Beach.
• Is Mario Cuomo boycotting CNN?
• Prolific pundit: 12 appearances in 14 hours.
• Sunday hosts gather.  Sunday talkers: tip sheet, HuffPo recap.

Tags: msnbc, cnn, fox, olbermann, oreilly, cnn, spitzer

• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Bret 1-2-3.
• Larry King prepares for his swan song.
• ADL head apologized to Glenn Beck.
• Ted Koppel has today’s lament for cable news.
• NPR hires law firm to probe Wililams firing.
• So who’s the real news channel again?
• MSNBC sends Chris Jansing to DC.
• Video: Cloris Leachman licks Brian Kilmeade...literally.
• Video: Major Garrett w/Don Imus part one, part two.
• MSNBC news rules not illegal after all.  Olby week in review.
• Video: Ted Turner talks green energy and Lou Dobbs.
• CNN slayings special well-received.
• Uncut video: GW Bush in the No-Spin Zone part one, part two.

Tags: ratings, king, cnn, beck, fox, msnbc, friends, fbn, olbermann, oreilly

• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
• Video: Scarborough discusses Olby on The View [iPad].
• Kurtz Q&A: FBN’s Lou Dobbs (via ICN).
• Video: Imus with Chris Wallace part one, part two.
• Beck Soros series rankles ADL.
• Peyser: MSNBC’s intellectual bankruptcy.
• Video: Bill O’Reilly on Follow the Money.
• New FBN sked: The Judge 8:00 pm, Eric Bolling 9:00.
• So who’s the real news channel?
• Review: Soledad’s Next Big Story.
• Nov 11 2010: Veterans Day.

Tags: ratings, msnbc, olbermann, fbn, beck, fox, oreilly, judgenap, cnn

• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
• Report: Olby return uncertain until 30 minutes before airtime!
• Kelly’s Court video: Father of girl who was bullied on school bus.
• Lou Dobbs joining FBN (via TVbtN). Analysis.
• Pat Sajak’s mea culpa; KO’s reax.  Lanny Davis on Maddow, Olby, Hannity.  Deggans: KO’s secret allegiance worthy of debate.  Why are tv journalists so stupid?
• Video: Missile or mirage? Michio Kaku explains.
• Soledad: Jesse Jackson told me I’m not black.
• Judge Nap’s Freedom Watch starts nightly Nov 15. J$P hears: Follow the Money will continue in primetime; announcement to come.
• The Strategy Room rebranded as Fox News Live.
• Juan Williams tells Gettysburg College about his NPR ouster.
• Magic Wall (or something) drove John King up the wall.
• Dana Milbank pretends Bill O’Reilly endangered his life.
• HuffPo posts false attack on Sanjay Gupta, then pulls article!

Tags: ratings, olbermann, msnbc, megyn, fox, fbn, maddow, hannity, cnn, judgenap, oreilly, huffpo

• Video: Soros rep requested and got meeting with FNC exec.
• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Bret 1-2-3.  FNC’s big week.
• Fake ‘Olbermann’ emails sent by Tucker Carlson?
• Keith’s konfusing ethics.  Olby ‘apology’ translated: I win.  Suspension helped Fox News?  MSNBC’s mixed messages.  Slate: let Keith be Keith (via ICN).  CJR: The Olbermann question.  KO got a raw deal?
• Maddow books Stewart; O’Donnell hosts town hall.
• The problem with MSNBC: it’s not left enough!
• Beware! Comcast is going to take over MSNBC!
• Q&A: Fox & Friends gets the last laugh.
• Beck radio plays J$P video, sans attribution (clip via TRS).
• Who’s ridiculous, self-destructive, and pathetic? Answer.
• O’Reilly hacker gets 30 months in the pokey.
• Monday’s other numbers.

Tags: beck, fox, ratings, olbermann, msnbc, maddow, o'donnell, friends, oreilly

• Olbermann issues ‘apology’ while blasting MSNBC: analysis.
• Friday’s numbers: Bill-Bret-Beck 1-2-3. Irony: Countdown without Olbermann up 13% from 10/29 Countdown with Olbermann.
• Grace under fire no longer.
• CNN’s Abbie Boudreau has left the building.
• Report: MSNBC apologized to Keith?!? More.  KO flashback: office election pool ‘conflict of interest’.
• Zurawik: Olby ‘suspension’ a joke.  Should KO resign?  The progressive wing of the MSNBC party.  A genius ratings ploy?  Will he say it?  KO: most powerful man at MSNBC?
• Scarborough distanced himself from MSNBC’s election night.
• Mike Emanuel: Beck, Olby, political donations. Q&A: Richelle Carey.
• Hot & Not: Olbermann, Maddow, FNC, the matrix etc.

Tags: olbermann, msnbc, ratings, hln, cnn, fox, icn

• Kurtz: Olby should apologize.  Tyndall: Olbermann self-destructive.  ICN: rebuild that wall!  Zurawik: MSNBC had little choice.  Audio: John Gibson reacts [iPad link].  Insiders: KO won’t be back!  Mediaite: Olbermann’s Waterloo; a stupid move.  Jeff Jarvis: It was the coverup.  Craig Crawford: it was inevitable.  Krakauer: two underlying reasons.  Bercovici: will KO quit?  Twitter reactions.  Kristol: Keep Keith!  Richard Greener: Boycott MSNBC!
• Keith Olbermann suspended indefinitely!  More: TVN, Calderone, Stelter.  Olby flashback: ‘Phil Griffin thinks he’s my boss.’  Flashback: Ratigan to replace Olbermann?
• Ethics, shmethics! Olbermann contributed thousands to Democratic candidates, then anchored election coverage!  Mediaite: any pretense of objectivity gone.  ICN: three big questions.  Video: Beck mocks Olby.
• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly (4M)-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• NY Times Q&A: Keith Olbermann (pre-suspension).
• After ducking, Christine O’Donnell on tonight’s Factor.
• Milestone? FBN tops CNBC on election night.
• Update: Fox/EEOC/Herridge lawsuit (via ICN).
• Video: Imus rips CNN election coverage.
• MSNBC business opportunity: double down on leftism.
• Olby week in review; DC review of ‘Pitchforks’.

Tags: olbermann, msnbc, icn, beck, ratings, oreilly, fbn, cnbc, cnn

• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• FNC announces changes, promotions, assignments.
• Shocker: O’Reilly welcomes opposing views, Olby: an echo chamber.
• Zurawik: MSNBC’s outrageous misbehavior crosses the line.
• Videos: Chris Wallace w/Imus pt one, two; with Jon Stewart.
• Today’s bright idea: MSNBC should team Christine O’D and Cenk Uygur!
• Stop the presses: FNC not hiring Christine O’Donnell, as Laura re-ups.
• Romney ducks interview with Bret Baier.
• Q&A: Client Number Nine, D-Rat.
• Who will stay and who will run?
• Profile: Robin Meade’s country roads.
• Election eve behind the scenes at CNN.
• Olbermann a wee bit testy about FNC ratings?

Tags: ratings, fox, oreilly, olbermann, msnbc, turks, baier, spitzer, cnn, hln

• Tuesday’s numbers: an FNC blowout!  FNC tops NBC-CBS-ABC coverage!  Ailes sends congratulary memo.
• Zurawik: MSNBC fear mongers, debases the term ‘anchor’.
• Demeaning interview? So sez not the subject, but the interviewer!
• Video: Top five apocalyptic MSNBC moments.
• Audio: Chris Wallace reacts to Chris Matthews [iPad link].
• Coverage reviews: chaotic sense, lots of metaphors, FNC standout.  Mediaite: Fox fair and balanced, MSNBC not.  ICN: When pundits run wild.  CNN: one analyst for each viewer?  Big loser: CNN’s matrix.  Behind the scenes at CNN, MSNBC.

Tags: ratings, fox, msnbc, olbermann, msnbc, matthews, cnn

• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Bret-Beck 1-2-3.  October numbers: FNC still dominates.  Program ranker.  MSNBC gains, Olby slips.  HLN falls.  CNBC sinks; Kudlow crashes.  Park & Spit a dud.  Coop only CNNer to gain.  Weekend numbers.
• Video: Shep and panel with three races to watch tonight.
• Imus video: Bill O’Reilly on midterms, Jon Stewart.
• Olbermann vs the truth: Christie, ‘cocky’, and Kilmeade.
• Why the Fox boycott is doomed to failure.
• MSNBC recruits distinguished journalist for 3:00 pm slot.
• Zurawik: MSNBC’s lack of standards, Olby’s ‘delusional self-importance’.
• Video: Shep’s behind-the-scenes tour at Fox.
• CNN debuts its own take-off of MSNBC ads.
• Olby drops ‘worst persons’ attacks...for now. More.
• Election night coverage rundown.

Tags: ratings, fox, msnbc, cnn, hln, shep, oreilly, olbermann, turks

• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
• FNC dominated terror scare coverage.
• Kelly’s Court video: Alaska radio host suspended.
• Greta has some questions for Politico.
• Video: Bill Hemmer demonstrates the Bill Board.
• Pix: Swells gather to Lean Forward.
• Video: Major Garrett on the coming power shift.
• Wald to produce Piers Morgan Tonight; Q&A (via TVN), Q&A.
• Six questions with Neil Cavuto; seven more.  Kneale’s back.
• American Morning staffers snipe as shake-up looms (via CB).
• MSNBC seeks to spread its tentacles worldwide.
• Today’s Fox controversy: proposition 24.
• Hot & Not: Shep, Brooke, Shuster, the matrix, the rally, etc.
• Video: Great moments in broadcast journalism, #735.

Tags: ratings, fox, megyn, greta, msnbc, fbn, piers, cnn, icn, olbermann

• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Bret 1-2-3.
• Olby Week in Review: he doesn’t know any better.
• Fox & Friends Weekend start time moved up to 6:00 am.
• Dennis Kneale to make FBN debut on Monday.
• Video: Chris Jansing vs the Spider (via ICN).
• Imus video: Glenn Beck on his book and Stewart’s rally.
• Mediaite: purpose of Olby/Crist interview was to defeat Rubio.
• Q&A: Candy, Joe.  Profile: Todd; party for Lean Forward (via ICN).
• FNC weekday stars working overtime this Sunday.  MSNBC plans.
• Video: O’Reilly with Rachel Ray: part one, part two.
• Videos: Jennifer Griffin returns to Jerusalem; Q&A.
• Today’s rumor: O’Reilly to do another turn on The View.

Tags: ratings, olbermann, msnbc, fox, friends, fbn, beck, cnn, oreilly

• Friday’s numbers: Juan-Beck-Baier 1-2-3.
• Mediaite: Phil Griffin asked for examples, he got ‘em.
• CNN: Heroes update; into the matrix; missing Brooke.
• Inevitable: Jesse Watters ambushes NPR CEO. Preview.
• Major Garrett talks Juan Williams.  TCG: Et tu?
• Gingrich disses Joe Scarborough.
• CNBC Remington documentary raises eyebrows.
• Surprise: Olbermann attack turned out to be false.
• NPR CEO apologizes...but not to Juan Williams.  NPR affiliates voice discontent over firing.  Blame Uranus!
• Hot & Not: Juan Williams, Phil Griffin, ad wars, Abrams, Maddow.

Tags: ratings, msnbc, cnn, oreilly, cnbc, olbermann, icn

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• Thursday’s numbers: Bill (4+ mill)-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
• Peter Johnson: media ‘watchdogs’ create new McCarthyism?
• Olby week in review: who’s the un-American bastard?
• Alan Colmes has an open-mic moment; more.
• Video: Red Eye riffs on Rachel Maddow’s apology.
• Juan Williams on GMA, Imus, America’s Newsroom, Ingraham. Q&A: WaPo.
• Joe: Obama should weigh in on Juan/NPR dispute.
• WaPo: NPR didn’t learn from Sherrod affair.  Zurawik: Juan Williams and the culture wars.  Estrich: NPR will pay the price.  Rainey: Shirley Sherrod, meet Juan Williams.  Holland: good riddance to a stupid bigot.  Iftikhar: NPR was right.  Battle: fire Schiller.  Hutchinson: Juan Williams is a fraud.
• Videos: Beckel and Perino on NPR’s bad move; Chris Wallace.
• Q&A: Gerri Willis, Willie Geist.  Profile: Donny Deutsch.
• Soledad: Survival of the fittest (via ATCNN); injury report.
• Greta: Why didn’t CNN say something?

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• NB: Maddow at her ‘most shameless’?
• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Sean-Bret 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
• Chris Jansing channels Howard Beale?
• Video: Bill O’Reilly on Red Eye.
• MSNBC election ‘anchors’: Olby, Maddow, Matthews etc.
• Deals wrapped for FNC election-night sponsors.
• Q&A: Soledad, FBN’s Lori Rothman, Liz Claman.
• MoJo plans ‘live studio audience’ edition.
• Sealing the deal: Comcast candidate contributions.
• ICN: Why is NewsNation called NewsNation?
• CNN steals interview with contracted FNC contributor.

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• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly (4+ mill)-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
• Video: News alerts you may have missed.
• CNBC’s Dennis Kneale jumps to FBN.
• Today’s outrage: Brian Kilmeade and terrorism.
• Coop’s executive producer leaving AC360.
• Olby week in review: he’s not Superman.
• Zurawik: NBC’s news brand has been diminished by Olbermann.
• Video: Ventura claims Afghan war fought to benefit Big Lithium.

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• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
• When Coop speaks, Hollywood listens.
• Olby week in review: Keith the fundraiser.
• Video: Bill O’Reilly on Imus, part one, part two.
• Park & Spit does worse than Sanchez; words that didn’t work.
• Glenn Beck to undergo medical tests.
• Today’s rumor: Katie Couric to CNN (via ICN).
• Video: Maddow takes on Art Robinson; fireworks ensue.
• Sanchez begins rehabilitation tour on GMA: Video; analysis. Sanchez ends twitter silence, talks Stewart, Olbermann. Sanchez/CNN twitter account not closed.
• CNN teams with Cartoon Network over bullying.

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• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Hannity 1-2-3. Park & Spit an instant ratings disaster. Weekend numbers.
• Olby hearts Thurber, thinks Spielberg did Star Wars (via ICN).
• CNN/WaPo Howard Kurtz joins The Daily Beast. More.
• Video: SE Cupp, Kirsten Powers pan O’Donnell ad.
• Park & Spit reax: obnoxious self-important noise; a colossal thud; hard to watch; surprising; not bad; a car crash; middling; a freak show; desperate; awkward; a nothingburger.
• Injury reports: Soledad’s knee, Jon Scott’s arm.
• Fox & Friends video: Trump considering run for Prez.
• Rick Sanchez apologizes...to Jon Stewart. Flashback.
• MSNBC slogan Lean Forward, has Olby leaning backward!
• Aaron Brown resurfaces...in Seattle.
• Shep Smith doesn’t like John Calipari.

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• Friday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Hitchens wants CNN to re-hire Rick Sanchez!
• Fox live streaming CT Senate debate w/Bret Baier.
• CNBC follows FBN’s lead.
• Park & Spit pre-taped segment already online.
• CNN’s Cal Perry has left the building.
• Charlie Gasparino makes top biz commentators list.
• NY Daily News slams Spitzer: a ‘disgrace’ (via C-boomer). CNN’s Kurtz profiles Park & Spit. Q&A: Spitzer (Mediaite), Park & Spit (TVN), Park & Spit (HuffPo).
• Cable news bloodsport: Olby claims CNN tried to hire him; MSNBC’s twitter rule; Olby/Joe tensions; the Campbell Brown experiment; more.
• O’Reilly/Nolan/Comcast flap rehashed; Olby quoted.
• Hot & Not: Sanchez, Coop, O’Donnell, Allred, EEOC, Shultz.
• Profiles: Gerri Willis, Robin Meade. Q&A: Sanchez pt one, two, three.

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• Breaking: CNN fires Rick Sanchez! Reax: ICN.
• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
• Zurawik: Why does CNN allow Sanchez on its air? More.
• Whom does the President talk to?
• Trig Truther Sullivan claims O’Reilly speaks ‘nonsense’!
• FNC: years-old, settled EEOC flap ‘politically motivated’.
• Coop tapes special on bullying.
• FNC top newser on ‘most valuable’ list.
• Sanchez’s bizarre rant about Jews, Jon Stewart.
• Radio comic gets CNN weekend try-out.
• MSNBC dayside revamp begins: ‘Jansing & Company’.
• Olby week in review.
• Profile: Piers Morgan. Q&A: Lawrence O’Donnell.
• Uncut video: Bill O’Reilly vs Bill Maher.

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• Beck launches preemptive strike against Ed Schultz rally.
• Q3: FNC dominates, has top 11 programs. Program ranker. CNN AM, Coop: worst ever. MSNBC tops CNN. HLN’s Express beats MSNBC’s Joe.
• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Bret 1-2-3. O’Donnell tops Maddow, Olbermann. Weekend numbers.
• Beckel, Geller erupt in raucous mosque debate.
• Obama revives war, says Fox News ‘destructive’ to USA. White House praises MSNBC. Zurawik: Obama comments show contempt for the press.
• Q&A: Bill Hemmer, Liz Claman.
• Greta explains her booking policies.
• CNN founder: Klein timing is ‘beyond strange’.
• Again? Scarborough needling Olbermann?
• Video: O’Reilly goes on The Daily Show.
• Alan is still getting hate mail.
• Larry O’Donnell won’t be drinking Greta’s wine. 1st review.

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• Steve Burke to be named NBCU CEO.
• News Watch on Woodward book, Colbert.
• Don Lemon’s on-air revelation.
• Greta: HuffPo is ‘delusional’, NYT’s Stelter is biased.
• Profiles: Lawrence O’Donnell.
• Joe and Mika at DePauw: more.
• Q&A: Major Garrett, Dick Morris, Joe.
• Sunday talkers: preview. HuffPo recap.
• Olby week in review.
• Studio audience member profiles Glenn Beck.
• CNN dumps Klein: an unusual move; odd timing; Ailes praises Jon; Jamie McIntyre doesn’t (via Chickaboomer).

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• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Bret 1-2-3; townhall. Weekend numbers.
• Wolf to moderate Delaware Senate debate on CNN.
• Again? Scarborough needles Schultz, Olbermann.
• Fox Business shuffling its daytime lineup: details.
• Michael Ware: CNN spiked video of Iraq war crime.
• Q&A: Fareed Zakaria. Profile: Betty Liu (via ICN).
• Nylon magazine Fox & Friends profile [pdf].
• Lynne Russell, Jodi Applegate & Lauren Sivan resurface.
• Will media obsession Christine O’Donnell go on The Factor?

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• Greta has a fan at the Washington Post.
• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
• Megyn Kelly interviews Bill O’Reilly.
• Rick Sanchez book not selling like hotcakes.
• Olby week in review.
• Jennifer Griffin and Isaiah Mustafa on self-esteem.
• Chris Matthews becomes a campaign issue.
• Convicted felon blames MSNBC’s ‘recycled news’.
• Q&A: Lawrence O’Donnell, Geraldo, Soledad.
• Beck top cablenewser on list of media influentials.
• Carnahan flouts lawsuit over ad footage. Madoff flap settled.

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• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Bret-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Fox didn’t take the bait.  Kurtz praises.  Zurawik: FNC gets full credit.
• Rick Leventhal and panel reflect on 9/11.
• Bret Baier takes center stage.
• Olby week in review.
• New, bizarre MSNBC interview technique.
• MSNBC changes.
• 9/11 schedules: FNC, CNN.
• Surprise: Park & Spit agree!
• Q&A: Rick Sanchez.
• Grace’s Swift Justice imminent.

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