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  • September 2008

    • Letterman Perplexed by NBC's Move to Ditch Leno

      New York Times  |  Sep 3, 08 8:32 AM CDT

      Letterman Perplexed by NBC's Move to Ditch Leno

      (Newser) - David Letterman isn't planning to head off into the sunset when his Late Night contract expires in 2010, the New York Times reports, telling a Rolling Stone interviewer that he would love to keep going at CBS—and that he was confused by NBC's decision to put longtime rival Jay Leno out to pasture next year. "I don’t know why, after the job Jay has done for them, why they would relinquish that,” said the 26-year veteran. More »

    • Cable News Was Biggest Convention Winner

      Los Angeles Times  |  Sep 1, 08 9:33 AM CDT

      Cable News Was Biggest Convention Winner

      (Newser) - The Democratic Convention made it official, writes Scott Collilns in the Los Angeles Times: The broadcast networks have passed the political torch to the cable networks. CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC not only delivered “wall to wall coverage” compared to the broadcast nets' paltry hour of nightly programming. Their ratings soared, while the networks' "stank." More »

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      Democratic National Convention  • NBC  • Republican National Convention  • cable TV  • Fox News  • CNN  • MSNBC  • ABC News  • broadcasting  • CBS News  • PBS

  • August 2008

    • Online Olympics Viewing Shatters Records

      New York Times  |  Aug 25, 08 6:28 AM CDT

      Online Olympics Viewing Shatters Records

      (Newser) - The Internet played an unprecedented role in Olympics viewing this year, with NBCOlympics.com and Yahoo leading the online-coverage pack, the New York Times reports. With 1.2 billion page hits and 72 million video streams, NBC more than doubled its Web traffic from the past two Olympics combined. The Internet lets viewers “create their own broader Olympics experience,” said a ratings analyst. More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • Yahoo  • NBC  • online videos  • streaming content

    • NBC's Olympic Ratings: Gold

      Variety  |  Aug 20, 08 2:02 PM CDT

      NBC's Olympic Ratings: Gold

      (Newser) - NBC’s Olympic coverage smashed the competition last week, in what Variety suggests could be the most decisive rout in television history. Viewership was buoyed by Michael Phelps’ record-breaking gold-medal performance Saturday; in addition, NBC’s various networks reached a staggering 83% of the US. The margins were the biggest in Nielsen ratings history. More »

    • McCain Cries Foul Over NBC Coverage

      ABC News  |  Aug 18, 08 10:20 AM CDT

      McCain Cries Foul Over NBC Coverage

      (Newser) - The McCain camp has fired off a stern letter to NBC objecting to coverage of the weekend's Rick Warren forum, after Andrea Mitchell reported speculation the Republican might have had access to the questions he was asked ahead of time. Commentators wondered if the "cone of silence" designed to keep McCain from hearing questions during Warren's hour with Barack Obama had been breached, judging from McCain's unusually polished answers. More »

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      McCain 2008  • NBC  • Saddleback Church  • bias

    • Olympics Online Coverage Still In Learning Curve

      USA Today  |  Aug 14, 08 6:44 PM CDT

      Olympics Online Coverage Still In Learning Curve

      (Newser) - NBC is offering a nearly endless supply of Olympics coverage online, a laudatory move but one with its share of hiccups, writes Robert Bianco in USA Today . NBCOlymics.com provides live feeds of dozens of events—many of them obscure—for free. But the broadcasts lack much of the polish found on TV, and viewers are often on their own trying to figure out what's what. "You've given us more," Bianco says to NBC. "Now give us better." More »

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      Internet  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • NBC  • webcast

    • Games Give Sap-O-Meter a Workout

      Slate  |  Aug 12, 08 6:06 PM CDT

      Games Give Sap-O-Meter a Workout

      (Newser) - NBC is known for laying it on a little thick in the heart-tugging category of its Olympic coverage, so Slate thinks it's about time we quantified things. Its new Sap-O-Meter will keep track of sentimental buzzwords such as "adversity," journey," "sacrifice," and  "miracle," and announce a daily winner for sappiest story. More »

    • McCain Hopes $6M Olympic Ad Buy a Winner

      Advertising Age  |  Aug 5, 08 2:02 PM CDT

      McCain Hopes $6M Olympic Ad Buy a Winner

      (Newser) - Athletes won’t be the only competitors when the Beijing Olympics open Friday, Advertising Age reports: John McCain’s campaign made a last-minute, $6 million ad buy with NBC, topping the whopping $5 million Democratic opponent Barack Obama is spending. The large national scope of the advertising blitz is a rarity in recent presidential campaigns. More »

    • Forget Olympics: Gladiators Takes Gold for Fun

      Washington Post  |  Aug 2, 08 7:58 AM CDT

      Forget Olympics: Gladiators Takes Gold for Fun

      (Newser) - American Gladiators wraps up just before the Olympics, and the Games will seem mighty dull by comparison, Ben Mathis-Lilley writes in the Washington Post .  Rooting for the team is what makes watching sports fun, he writes, and it's much easier to root for an ordinary joe playing Rocketball than for "mythical, inhuman-seeming champions" competing in arcane events. "Staggering physical ability, in and of itself, is a boring thing to observe on TV," he writes. More »

  • July 2008

    • Obama Buys $5M in Olympic Ad Time

      TV Week  |  Jul 24, 08 6:52 AM CDT

      Obama Buys $5M in Olympic Ad Time

      (Newser) - The Obama campaign has bought $5 million worth of network and cable television airtime to run during coverage of the Beijing Olympics, reports TV Week. It's the first major TV airtime purchase by a political candidate in 16 years. NBC and its cable channels will air 3,600 hours of Olympic coverage beginning August 8. More »

    • Leno Bowing Out in May

      Broadcasting & Cable  |  Jul 22, 08 3:02 AM CDT

      Leno Bowing Out in May

      (Newser) - Jay Leno's last appearance as host of the Tonight Show will be the final Friday in May, reports Broadcasting & Cable . Conan O'Brien will take over the following Monday. In the several months between O'Brien's leaving Late Night and his Tonight Show debut, NBC plans a huge promotional campaign to keep his profile high. More »

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      NBC  • ABC  • Jay Leno  • Conan O'Brien  • Late Night  • The Tonight Show  • Jimmy Fallon

    • Fallon to Launch Late Night Online

      New York Times  |  Jul 21, 08 3:54 AM CDT

      Fallon to Launch Late Night Online

      (Newser) - Jimmy Fallon is launching his career as host of NBC's Late Night on the Internet, reports the New York Times . Late Night producer Lorne Michaels will produce 10-minute segments with Fallon for an online audience months before he takes over on TV from Conan O'Brien, who's set to replace Jay Leno on the Tonight Show . More »

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      NBC  • Jay Leno  • Conan O'Brien  • Late Night  • Lorne Michaels  • The Tonight Show  • online TV  • Jimmy Fallon

    • NBC Chafes Under Olympic Restrictions

      New York Times  |  Jul 21, 08 3:07 AM CDT

      NBC Chafes Under Olympic Restrictions

      (Newser) - NBC paid a record $900 million to cover the Beijing Olympics, but it and other networks are already nervous about how much Chinese officials will actually allow them to cover, reports the New York Times . If political protests erupt, networks will also face the dilemma of covering them and angering the Chinese—or ignoring them and facing charges of censorship from the West. Reporters are already facing intimidation and harassment. More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • NBC  • Beijing  • Olympic protests  • media coverage

    • NBC: Lots of Law , No Order

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 12, 08 5:51 PM CDT

      NBC: Lots of Law , No Order

      (Newser) - NBC's relationship with Law and Order producer/creator Dick Wolf has always been uneasy, but now it’s turned into all-out war, the Wall Street Journal reports. Wolf is furious with the network, which he says sells the show to its cable stations on the cheap, then reruns it too often and doesn’t promote it enough. For its part, NBC accuses Wolf of simple greed. More »

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      NBC  • NBC Universal  • Law and Order  • Dick Wolf

    • Dan Patrick to Join NBC's Football Night

      Broadcasting & Cable  |  Jul 8, 08 10:43 AM CDT

      Dan Patrick to Join NBC's Football Night

      (Newser) - Dan Patrick will join NBC's Football Night in America this fall, in a move that reunites him with Keith Olbermann. The two men changed the field of sportscasting with their 1992 debut on ESPN's SportsCenter , writes Broadcasting & Cable . Patrick will keep his radio show and Sports Illustrated column while joining host Bob Costas at Football Night . More »

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      NBC  • Keith Olbermann  • sports journalism  • Tiki Barber  • Bob Costas  • Dan Patrick

  • June 2008

    • Subdued Meet the Press Now Squirm-Free

      New York Times  |  Jun 30, 08 8:31 AM CDT

      Subdued Meet the Press Now Squirm-Free

      (Newser) - Meeting the press is a much more laid-back experience with Tom Brokaw temporarily in Tim Russert’s old seat, the New York Times reports. Hosting his first standard-format show yesterday, Brokaw “kept the mood at a sober but easygoing tempo,” writes Alessandra Stanley. But with the presidential race heating up, things were perhaps a little too cool in the studio, Stanley notes. More »

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      NBC  • Tim Russert  • Meet the Press  • talk show  • Tom Brokaw  • daytime talk show

    • Where Will Jay Go After Tonight ?

      Hollywood Reporter  |  Jun 28, 08 6:37 AM CDT

      Where Will Jay Go After Tonight ?

      (Newser) - Jay Leno might be losing his beloved "Tonight Show," writes the Hollywood Reporter , but the host still has a ratings punch and an enviable set of options (in decreasing order of probability): Take ABC’s 11:30pm-12:30am slot, displacing Nightline and Jimmy Kimmel Live and competing with Letterman and O’Brien. Launch a show on Fox at 11 or 11:30pm—Fox doesn’t currently run late-night shows, but could use Leno’s brand to push into the new territory. Sony Pictures TV puts Leno’s Tonight Show into syndication, which could eventually lead to another late-night gig. More »

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      NBC  • CBS  • ABC  • news  • Jay Leno  • David Letterman  • Conan O'Brien  • late night talk show  • Tonight Show  • late night host  • stand up comedy  • Jimmy Kimmel  • network TV

    • Minutes Dwindle for Networks' War Coverage

      New York Times  |  Jun 23, 08 1:45 PM CDT

      Minutes Dwindle for Networks' War Coverage

      (Newser) - Middle East correspondents are struggling to get stories on the nightly news as TV networks scale back war coverage, the New York Times reports. With violence in Iraq declining and the US public tiring of an open-ended conflict, network execs have focused on hot topics like the contentious presidential primaries. Keeping, and securing, bureaus in violent areas is also quite costly. More »

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      Iraq war  • business  • NBC  • CBS  • ABC  • Afghanistan war  • media coverage  • network news  • reporting

    • In Internet Age, No Story Can Be Held

      New York Times  |  Jun 23, 08 7:26 AM CDT

      In Internet Age, No Story Can Be Held

      (Newser) - When Tim Russert died on June 13, NBC News held off reporting his death until it had notified the broadcaster's family. But by the time Tom Brokaw announced the news, NBC had been scooped—by Wikipedia, which broke the story 40 minutes earlier. As the New York Times reports, the Internet is ending traditional media's ability to hold a story, for better and for worse. More »

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      media  • NBC  • Wikipedia  • Tim Russert  • NBC News  • Twitter

    • Brokaw to Replace Russert

      Chicago Tribune  |  Jun 22, 08 2:40 PM CDT

      Brokaw to Replace Russert

      (Newser) - NBC has anointed Tom Brokaw as Tim Russert's heir on "Meet the Press" through the 2008 election, the network announced today. "I feel right at home," said Brokaw, who has appeared on the public affairs show since the Watergate days. But Brian Williams—who took over NBC's Nightly News when Brokaw stepped down in 2004—was at the helm today, and he wasn't up to snuff, writes the Swamp's Jon Crewdson. More »

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      NBC  • ABC  • Tim Russert  • Meet the Press  • Brian Williams  • Tom Brokaw  • George Stephanopoulos

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