• The Five video: Is Romney making it easy for the media?
• Tuesday’s numbers: FloridaFNC-Hannity-Shep 1-2-3.
• Fishbowl DC kvetches about Politico ‘buttering up’ Fox News.
• Fox News: a decade on top.  Politico: How FNC pulled it off.
• January program rankers.  CNBC’s Kelly girl.  Reena Ninan to ABC.
• Harris-Perry debut pushed back two weeks.  Changes at CNNi.
• Q&A: Neil Cavuto, Jenna Lee, Bret Baier.  Liz Claman in Davos.
• MSNBC produces another promo attacking the GOP.  Flashback.
• Hollywood Reporter interview with a semi-snarky Shepard Smith.
• After MSNBC tags him (D), Herman Cain gets into tiff on Now w/Wagner.

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• 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

• 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

• 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

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-AmandaKnox(CNN)-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Palin opts out of 2012 race; does she re-up with Fox, or go rogue?
• Greta debunks another purported Fox News ‘controversy’.
• H’wood Reporter Q&A: Maddow.  Caruso-Cabrera goes international.
• Lean Forward: Impartial MSNBC journalist anchors from protests!
• Ten cablers from MSNBCNN make Root 100; not on list: Juan Williams, Harris Faulkner, Lauren Green, Wendell Goler, Kelly Wright, anyone on FNC.
• CNN signs Maria Cardona, David Frum.  Coop targets bullying.
• Video: Andy Levy fact-checks the Hank Williams Jr controversy.
• Roger Ailes and Shep Smith look back at 15 years of Fox News.
• Neil Cavuto talks FNC, MS, and more.  Bloomberg’s economic debate.

Tags: ratings, palin, greta, fox, maddow, msnbc, cnbc, cnn, cooper, redeye, shep

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
• Video: Bill O’Reilly on The View part one, part two.
• Ed Schultz interrupts Dem fundraising to narrate Chile doc.
• Journalist Shuster’s Fox attacks succeed: he got attention.
• Q3: FNC #1 in every hour, beating CNN+MSNBC combined.
• Battle for distant second place sets off analysis frenzy.
• Erin Burnett: profile, Q&A, Q&A.  Juan Williams in Sioux City.
• Video: 15 years of Shepard Smith.  O’Reilly on NPR.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on public trust of the media.

Tags: ratings, oreilly, fox, schultz, msnbc, shuster, cnn, shep

• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Carpe Diem: Will The Five be around longer than expected?
• September numbers: FNC holds top 16 programs; The Five grows.  September spin: MSNBC, CNN.  Q3 spin: CNN, HLN, MSNBC.
• Bill O’Reilly videos: Imus in the Morning part one, part two; Fox & Friends; Good Morning America part one, part two.
• Lean Forward: MSNBC’s Ed Schultz fundraises for Democrats.
• John King: changing of the guard.  Weekend numbers.
• Is MSNBC sinking into third place? Maybe, or maybe not.
• CNN debate may exclude Huntsman.  Q&A: Erin Burnett.
• FNC 15th celebration: Shepard Smith is live in Las Vegas.

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• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Ailes & Company celebrate 15 years of Fox News. More.
• Megyn ready for debate, and ready to interrupt if necessary.
• FBN goes live 7-10pm tonight with Dobbs and Asman.
• Soledad’s newest exposé: female boxing.
• Cablenewsers focus on cop-killer’s execution.
• Shepard Smith is still holding a hot hand.  Q&A: Bret Baier.

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• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: Megyn grills Keith Ablow over Chaz Bono.
• FNC travels cross country to celebrate 15th year.
• ICN: Print journalism snobbery.  Q&A: Big Ed.  Hayes gets Up.
• Shep Smith pulling up stakes.  CNBC: That’s entertainment!

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• Friday’s numbers: Juan Williams-Chris Wallace-Harris Faulker 1-2-3. Two of the top three programs: anchored by Fox News African-American journalists.
• Video: Jeff Flock takes a direct hit from Hurricane Irene.
• Nancy Grace trips the light fantastic.  Maddow in Cummington.
• Salon: The worst hurricane Irene coverage was from...guess who?!
• Profile: The Rev Al.  Q&A: The Root, Eric Deggans.  NPR: Sharpton hire part of a larger trend.  Washington: He’s cable catnip.
• Shep Smith remembers 9/11.  Bauder: Irene attracts media big guns.
• Lemon’s iPhones.  FBN live at 5:00 am; F&F Monday extra hour.
• Hot & Not: Sharpton, Childers, Irene, Herridge, Gawker, Contessa etc.

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• Fox & Friends weekend stirs speculation yet again.
• Kurtz: Hurricane coverage hype and scaremongering.
• MSNBC, biznets bug out early; CNBC skips PotUS for informercial.
• Q&A: John Roberts, John Roberts.
• HuffPo’s oops.  Sunday talkers: tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
• Irene: FNC 46 hours continuous live coverage; Shep anchors 13+ hrs.  FBN simulcasts WNYW Sun 6am-8pm, then Casone. More skeds: CNN/MSNBC, CNBC.

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• Monday’s numbers: Laura-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.  FNC #2 in all cable.
• Schultz and MSNBC use special Ed-it to falsify Perry speech.
• Video: Bill O’Reilly with Imus on Elvis and Iowa, part one, part two.
• The Rise of Freedom e-book to feature exclusive WTC footage.
• Video: Bias Bash on theological campaigns, jobs in Texas, etc.
• The truth about Fox News.  Lemon provokes second incident?
• Rick Sanchez resurfaces.  Video: Ali Velshi with Jon Stewart.
• O’Donnell goes on leave.  Biznet ad wars.  Weekend numbers.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on uncomfortable questions for Bachmann.

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• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Reuters retracts story promoted by Fox haters. ‘Whopper’.
• VIdeo: Bias Bash on media non-coverage of Syria.
• Water breaks at CNBC.  Piers vs Piers.
• Video Q&A: Shep in AZ.  Another very Casey weekend.
• CNN cheap shots Fox, but what about Piers Morgan?
• Video: Laura Ingraham with Don Imus part one, part two.

Tags: ratings, fox, newscorpse, newshounds, cnbc, piers, cnn, shep, hln, fbn

• Monday’s numbers: HLNSpecRpt-HLNNews-Grace 1-2-3.
• Zurawik: Revised CNN lineup impressive.  ICN: A losing gamble?
• CNN dumps Spitzer, adds Burnett, moves Coop to 8:00 pm.
• Reese’s piece: HLN surge is the triumph of sleaze.
• VIdeo: A horrified Shep reacts to the tragedy of Caylee Anthony.
• Video: Bias Bash on media malpractice covering legal cases.
• Video: Peter Johnson Jr rips ‘vigilante host’ Nancy Grace.
• Grace snags 2.8M, HLN peaks at 5.2M viewers.  CNBC’s scoop.
• Q&A: Velez-Mitchell, Nancy Grace, Ken Jautz.  Weekend numbers.
• What took Twitter so long to deal with the Fox account hack?
• Friedman: Another portrait to hang on MSNBC’s Wall of Shame.
• Jamie Colby to go on jury duty...with Jackie Mason!
• Video: Bernard Goldberg excoriates the media’s Anthony frenzy.

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• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Grace 1-2-3.
• Liz Claman’s guide to L.A.  Coop: I’m not the new Oprah.
• Shep Smith responds to NY Times and Bill Keller.
• Hardball in Philly.  Guthrie sign-off simulcast on NBC.
• Friday: Baier extra hour at 5:00 pm, special at 10:00 pm.
• CNN debate line-up set: Huntsman a no-show.
• The secret Fox conspiracy to sabotage Sarah Palin!

Tags: ratings, fbn, cooper, cnn, shep, fox, msnbc, palin

• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: Debater is interrupted, but when given the floor walks out!
• Video: Bias Bash on DSK, Paul Ryan, and more.
• Imus videos: O’Reilly part one, part two; Chris Wallace.
• Video: Ed’s sorry.  One-week suspension more like three days.  Zurawik: Why let Schultz set his own punishment?  VIdeo: Dr Ablow offers counseling.
• Prof Shep Smith.  Burnett in, King out...or not?  CNN/Nokia deal.
• Lean Forward: Coming soon to a snooty art house near you.

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• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Shep 1-2-3.
• Beck plans online channel: GBTV.
• Big Ed calls Laura Ingraham a ‘right-wing slut’.  She responds.  MSNBC suspends Ed Schultz: one week without pay.
• Video: Bias Bash on NY-26, Libya, and more.
• R.I.P.: Mark Haines of CNBC; more.  Today’s Ailes hit-piece.
• Thousands read fake CNN site daily.  Shep Smith at Overby Ctr.

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• 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.

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• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3. Piers plunges.
• Video: Breitbart and Bashir bicker on MSNBC.
• Video flashback: Shep interviews journalist killed in Libya.
• CNN sues Haiti Live Networks for calling themselves ‘HLN’.
• Exposed! The CNN-UFO-CIA-Obama conspiracy!
• Q&A: Andrea Mitchell, Lori Rothman (via TVN); Eric Bolling.
• Profile: Juan Williams.  Matthews at Daemen.  Kiran caught.
• Video: Sanjay Gupta with Conan.  CNN releases android app.

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• 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.

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• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Beck 1-2-3.  Weekend numbers.
• Video: Bill O’Reilly w/Don Imus part one, part two.
• Why is Thomas Roberts doing a bit on 30 Rock?
• Q&A: CNN’s Jim Walton (via TVN).
• Juan Williams to receive Freedom of Speech award.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg w/O’Reilly on Trump’s run.
• Couric replacement specularama: John Roberts, Coop, Shep?

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• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Hannity 1-2-3.
• How The Factor got his name.
• Video: Evan Bayh debuts as FNC contributor.
• Profile: Adam Shapiro.  Q&A: Sanjay Gupta, Soledad.
• Video: Chris Wallace with Don Imus.
• Video: Shep apologizes for Greg Palkot?!
• MSNBC botches report on nuclear dangers.
• Video: Reps Weiner and Bachmann slug it out.
• FNC top cable source for political news; MSNBC, CNN drop.

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• Friday’s numbers: Bill-Blitzer-Shep 1-2-3.  Analysis.
• Fox News signs former Senator as a contributor; more.
• Video: Shepard Smith first report from Japan [ipad].
• Sarah asked Roger for advice and didn’t take it. Mika chimes in.
• MSNBC centerpiece series renewed.  Larry’s got a new tv gig.
• Lou Dobbs profiles: AP, Daily Mail, Daily News, Post-Gazette.
• New Pew: 2011 report on cable news part one, part two.
• Hot & Not: Japan, Keilar, Sheen, Morning Joe etc.
• FBN: 5:00 am McDowell/McShane market report on Monday.

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• Greta: Is CNN being tasteless and crass?
• Video: Reliable Sources w/O’Keefe, analyzes NPR sting.
• Shep to Japan, FNC expanded Sunday programming.
• VIdeo: Greg Palkot’s return to the air after Egypt attack.
• Kudlow ‘grateful’ human toll worse than economic toll.
• CNN gets bump, skeds Sunday Coop 360, sets web record.
• Video: Saturday pre-empted News Watch covers NPR, NYT etc.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.

Tags: greta, fox, cnn, shep, cnbc, cooper

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• Surprise! ‘Juliete’ Huddy suddenly gets a bio page.
• Piers’s secret, ‘must-watch’ guest is...Larry King! ICN scoffs.
• Soros, Fox News, and Nazis: today’s question (via TCG).
• Shep ‘bear alerts’ continue to stir controversy.
• Video: Bias Bash on Al-Jazeera fomenting revolution.
• Profile: Lori Rothman.  Q&A: Kiran Chetry.
• The ‘brains’ behind MSNBC’s brand.
• Piers: a cold dish of toad-in-the-hole? (via ICN)
• Greta tapped for Civility Institute board.
• Stuever: Matthews Clinton hour a superficial mash-note.

Tags: fox, ratings, piers, king, cnn, icn, shep, fbn, msnbc, greta, matthews

• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Video: Leland Vittert in Tahrir Square. [ipad]
• Even CNN doesn’t watch Park & Spit?
• Q&A: Piers wants to interview Palin.
• Video: Shep Smith w/Don Imus part one, part two.
• A night with Piers Morgan and The Donald.
• While FNC dominates, Egypt an opportunity for CNN.
• Video: Freedom Fighters on Egypt, wifi, and more.

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• 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.

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• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: Shep explains FNC employees’ snow options [ipad].
• Zurawik: Maddow’s uninformed SotU snark is not journalism.
• Deggans: CNN’s SotU highlights problems w/Piers & Spit.
• Dean: Getting ready for the baby.  Claman: women in Davos.
• Video: Chris Wallace w/Don Imus part one, part two.
• CNN hackles raised when Spitzer goes off-script (via CB).
• Goldstein: Piers shows real potential (as viewers dwindle).
• Video: Anthony Weiner gets snippy with Judge Nap.
• Rainey slams FNC focus group; Frank Luntz explains.
• What are Comcast’s plans for (MS)NBC News?
• Video: Bill O’Reilly takes issue with Jon Stewart.
• Soros-backed group targets Beck, Ailes. FNC responds.

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• Wednesday’s numbers: Laura-Bret-Greta 1-2-3.
• Greta’s Haiti special airs tonight.
• Spend New Year’s Eve with Rick Sanchez!
• Video: Leventhal in Afghanistan w/David Asman’s son.
• Shep interview stirs Mediaite controversy.
• Part four: The Nick Shurn Matter  listen  [ipad].

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• 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.

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• 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?

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• 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.

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• CNN’s ridiculed election matrix off to a shaky start.
• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Bret 1-2-3.  Weekend numbers.
• Karl Rove and Howard Dean debate Fox News.
• Beck boycott backwash: a bust?
• Video: Chris Jansing, a Snuggie, and a missing child (via ICN).
• Emails flood after cartoon of O’Reilly calling Obama ‘Hitler’.
• Videos: Shep on The View, O’Reilly on Imus, Maddow on Today.
• Shepard Smith signs new contract with Fox.
• Larry King confuses old video with his live guest.
• Q&A: Lori Rothman on moving to FBN and HD.
• Cable sub fees: FNC #5, CNN #7, MSNBC not in top 25.
• Video: Alicia Menendez (D) on why she likes going on FNC.
• New wrinkles in Carnahan ad flap push resolution into 2011.

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• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
• Video: Glenn Beck unloads on Lawrence O’Donnell.
• Profile of the ‘worst person in the world’: Steve Doocy.
• Q&A: Greta van Susteren, Willie Geist.
• Videos: Greta vs Allred round two; ICE addresses Diaz.
• FNC: then and now.
• New feud? Breitbart vs Shepard Smith.
• Park & Spit: thin gruel. Changes coming soon?
• This Apprentice wasn’t fired (via ICN).
• Murdoch on contribution flaps. DGA withdraws complaint.
• O’Donnell apologizes for Michael Steele intro.
• Larry King: CNN was right to fire Sanchez. More. Was firing connected with Park & Spit (via ICN)?

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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-Bret-Beck 1-2-3.
• MSNBC hires Shep’s producer.
• Q&A: Ken Jautz (via ICN), Lawrence O’Donnell, Klein.
• The Fox primary: contracts complicate coverage. Greta reax.
• Poll: FNCers influential, MSNBCers largely unknown.
• MSNBC Digital revolutionizes...ad placement.
• Hot & Not: Klein, Capus, Scarborough, etc.
• WND claims credit for FNC’s A-jad interview?!?
• Mike Jerrick reviews Fox & Friends Weekend history.

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• State Dept panic when MSNBC channel shows FNC.
• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Bret 1-2-3. Site stats.
• Bob Woodward intervenes, Greta Q&A back on.
• Geraldo: Colbert ‘brilliant’. Wallace: not a shining moment.
• A-jad cancels on Shep, talks to Eric Shawn: video.
• Zucker leaves NBC. Biznets cover. Gasparino: it’s all-out war? ICN: Just the tip of the iceberg. Don’t cry for Jeff.
• CNN fires Jon Klein; Jautz takes over. Analysis: Zurawik, Friedman, Greta. ICN: Why now? Klein: I got shot! (via ICN). CNN seeks new editor.
• Larry King wants to appear on SNL.
• CNN announces Jiabao interview, ten Heroes finalists.

Tags: msnbc, fox, ratings, greta, cnn, shep, icn, king

• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
• Shep interviews O’Reilly on his book, Jon Stewart, etc.
• Stossel special slated for Saturday.
• Even Rick Sanchez watches Fox News.
• Shape Magazine profile: Jennifer Griffin.
• Q&A: Liz MacDonald, Gerri Willis, Aaron Brown, Joe.
• Anti-O’Reilly gadfly loses suit, stays fired.
• Cablers cavort in Wall Street sequel.

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• More Democrats watch FNC than CNN or MSNBC.
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Timeline to Terror-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Spitzer replacement volunteers.
• Groovin’ with Shep [pdf].
• Richard Lui’s MSNBC debut, part of new lineup.
• Larry is still the king. Of sports?
• Pew: News consumers transitioning; MSNBCNN down.
• Morning anchor’s undergarments.
• Q&A: Rick Sanchez, Jamil Smith.

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From Studio B, May 4 2010

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