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Wednesday Links and Open Thread

March 29, 2023March 29, 2023 by johnny dollar

Q1 total/demo: FNC has the top 15 programs.
March total/demo: FNC has top 15 programs.
Weekly top cablenets: total viewers, key demo.
Q1 top cable channels: total viewers, key demo.
Is Live with Charles and Gayle coming to CNN?
Geraghty: Why the Dominion lawsuit might fail.
CNN invented 24-hour news; now it’s an also-ran.
Derek Van Dam new CNN Morning meteorologist.
Q&A: Co-host, producer of struggling Squawk Box.

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Tuesday Links and Open Thread

March 28, 2023March 28, 2023 by johnny dollar

Monday’s numbers: Five #1. Dayside, prime.
Weekend numbers. Late night: Gutfeld #1.
Four in a row: Fox Business tops CNBC again.
Benjamin Hall planing his return to television.
Ron DeSantis won’t talk to Megyn: ‘He’s afraid!’
Greg Gutfeld reveals the title of his latest book.
Breaking a Ruhle: Anchor’s emails subpoenaed.
Peacock to stream Morning Joe and Squawk Box.
Chris Cuomo hatched a plot to smear Janice Dean.

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Monday Links and Open Thread

March 27, 2023March 27, 2023 by johnny dollar

Friday’s numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, prime.
Why Dominion’s FNC lawsuit is no slam dunk.
Licht is making progress on a Herculean task.
Gayle King deal close for a CNN weekly show.
The week’s journalism dishonorable mentions.
Mass shooter trans? MSNBCNN stop coverage.
Video: Jen Griffin hosts medal of honor winners.
Daily Beast scribe watches a week of Fox Nation.
CNN analyst accuses whites of ‘digital blackface‘.

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Weekend Links and Open Thread

March 26, 2023March 25, 2023 by johnny dollar

MediaBuzz: Trump case, DeSantis, Krakauer.
Alex Wagner: ‘We’re figuring out what works.’
Audio: Attkisson and Krakauer. Promise kept.
Bill Barr: Dominion suit threatens a free press.
Why the silence about CNN’s defamation case?
Somerby: MSNBC couldn’t get any more phony.
FNC fires producer for disclosing privileged info.
TWC airs reruns as tornadoes strike. Sunday talk.

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Friday Links and Open Thread

March 24, 2023March 24, 2023 by johnny dollar

Thurs numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, prime.
Fourth Watch: Censorship, Yellowstone, etc.
MSNBC doubles down with Jen Psaki’s show.
Darcy cites Chinese State Media to own GOP.
John Kasich, who backed Biden, joins MSNBC.
Gutfeld! video: This could cause
a new civil war.
Today’s ‘anonymous sources trash Tucker‘ story.
Health scare at Mary Katherine Ham household.

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Thursday Links and Open Thread

March 23, 2023March 23, 2023 by johnny dollar

Weds numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, primetime.
Benjamin Hall’s Saved tops NYT best seller list.
Wolf Blitzer awarded; Martin Fletcher exhibited.
Cooper to headline Whole Story newsmagazine.
Yet again Joe Scarbourough plays the tribal fool.
Fox, Dominion argue over defamation standards.
Gayle King has no intention to leave CBS for CNN.

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Wednesday Links and Open Thread

March 22, 2023March 22, 2023 by johnny dollar

Tuesday numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, prime.
Fox News sharpens its pitch for Madison Ave.
CNN has lowest primetime ratings in 30 years.
Dominion Judge: Issues mainly fault of one host.
Reporter reunites with son after school shooting.
Stephen A Smith piles on Lemon for Haley insult.
Somerby: When CNN hacks present a discussion.
Newsmax and DirecTV/U-Verse kiss and make up.

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Tuesday Links and Open Thread

March 21, 2023March 21, 2023 by johnny dollar

Monday’s numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, prime.
Charles Barkley says he’s still in talks with CNN.
CNN drama spills over to top talent agency UTA.
Week’s top cable channels: total vwrs, key demo.
Weekend numbers. Latenight shows: Gutfeld! #2.
Fans praise ‘inspiring’ Fox reporter. Today’s lawsuit.
The Five video: The Bidens got millions from China.
Somerby: MSNBC smears man cleared months ago.

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Monday Links and Open Thread

March 20, 2023March 20, 2023 by johnny dollar

Friday’s numbers: The Five #1. Dayside, prime.
CNN cancels its promised Alison Roman show.
Friday Bill Maher segment hasn’t boosted CNN.
How Gutfeld suddenly became a late night star.
F&F video: Mark Levin sees a perilous precedent.
Psaki premiere warned GOP not to go ‘anti-woke’.
Somerby: Hacks at MSNBC do not permit dissent.
Glenn Greenwald welcomes Jen Psaki to MSNBC.
Dominion lawsuit could set ‘dangerous precedent‘.
F&F video: Benjamin Hall comes home to his family.

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Weekend Links and Open Thread

March 19, 2023March 18, 2023 by johnny dollar

MediaBuzz vids: Indictment, Ukraine, DeSantis.
CNN plans advertising blitz attacking Fox News.
Lloyd Austin helped get Benji Hall out of Ukraine.
MSNBC surpasses itself with ‘take back’ hypocrisy.
MSM fixate on FNC, but ignore election anomalies.
FNC Digital crushes CNN in February. Sunday talk.
Athey: How corporate media box out real reporters.

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Friday Links and Open Thread

March 17, 2023March 17, 2023 by johnny dollar

Thursday numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, prime.
Kaitlin Collins threatens to move back to DC.
Q&A: Tapper talks news; Jen Psaki at MSNBC.
Somerby: MSNBC can’t say what ‘woke’ means.
Top Biden appointees show up at MSNBC party.
Strom: Tucker Carlson is right … and very humble.
Podcast video:
Tucker on media,
aliens, and more.
Do GOP candidates need to go on MSNBC to win?

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Thursday Links and Open Thread

March 16, 2023March 16, 2023 by johnny dollar

Weds numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, prime.
The Story video: Benjamin Hall and wife Alicia.
CNN’s primetime gambit made matters worse.
CNN boss admits Licht has ‘gotten a lot wrong‘.
Afternoons are ‘the new primetime‘ for tv news.
Kaitlin Collins fires agent who also reps Lemon.
Q&A: Jen Psaki on the next phase of her career.
Jussie’s ‘attackers’ recreate their fake hate crime.
Politics bleeding into the Newsmax/DirecTV flap.

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Wednesday Links and Open Thread

March 15, 2023March 15, 2023 by johnny dollar

Tuesday numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, prime.
Fox News sets new senior editorial leadership.
Tucker trolling the left with his new twitter bio.
CNN woes continue: the worst week since 2014.
Author James Patterson can’t get on MSNBCNN.
FNC marks one-year anniversary of tragic attack.
The Five video: Biden
is bailing out
his top donors.

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Tuesday Links and Open Thread

March 14, 2023March 14, 2023 by johnny dollar

Monday’s numbers: Tucker #1 . Dayside, prime.
GOP candidates answer a question from Tucker.
Weekly cable channels: total viewers, key demo.
Weekend numbers. Latenight shows: Gutfeld #2.
Harris Faulkner returns after ‘medical procedure’.
Eddie Scarry has a problem with Krakauer’s book.
Q&A: Ben Hall on researching his story; Jen Psaki.
NBC News Now schedule grows to 11 hours a day.
Whispers at CNN says Chris Licht is on his way out.
Dominion lawsuit not what media make it out to be.
MoJo segment makes fun of DeSantis pitching form.

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Monday Links and Open Thread

March 13, 2023March 13, 2023 by johnny dollar

Friday numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, primetime.
Two faced: CNN hires two EPs to save Morning.
Benjamin Hall: ‘I was saved by the Heavens, too.’
Genius MSNBC pundit calls Top Gun ‘poisonous’.
Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh mocks Don Lemon.
CNN’s producers make unusual edit in Yeoh clip.
Leaked texts may never be admissible at FNC trial.
Levin video: The scandal that
no one's talking about.

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