• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Chris Wallace 1-2-3.
• Bias Bash video: Libya, CIA, and the Obama doctrine.
• Coop snags exclusive with freed journalists.
• Michael Scheuer snaps at Christine Romans: video.
• Geraldo in Libya; more pix. CNN’s Pleitgen under fire.
• Feds finally fulfill Fox-filed FOIA.  CNN snags Peabody.
• Video: Donald Trump on The Factor part one, part two.

Tags: ratings 2011, cooper, 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 2011, friends, olbermann, megyn

• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Obama (FNC)-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Q1 program ranker: FNC holds top 12 slots.
• Q1 numbers: FNC #1 for 9 years, Beck down; MSNBC, CNN.
• Video: Bias Bash on media reaction to Libya speech.
• Profile: Stossel. Q&A: D-Rat pt deux. Robin Meade, chanteuse.
• MSNBC.com sharing content from National Journal.
• Rick Sanchez: Did cable news cause the war in Libya?
• Video: Major Garrett on whether Qaddafi should go.
• ICN: The top five stupid cable news gimmicks.
• Weekend numbers. March spin: CNN.
• Kurtz queries Sammon on latest Fox ‘controversy’.  Shuster claim (fwiw): FNC reporters and Bret Baier turning on Sammon.
• Video: Judge Nap delivers ‘the plain truth’ on Libya.

Tags: ratings 2011, icn, shuster, baier, judgenap

Tags: newshounds

• Friday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Angle 1-2-3.
• Video: Trump on F&F continues birther crusade.
• (MS)NBC plans 20+ hours coverage of royal wedding.
• Video: Bill Hemmer on Libya and basketball.
• Uh oh. Did David Brock say too much?
• Profile: Jennifer Griffin. Video Q&A: D-Rat.
• Global events bust budgets of news orgs.
• Hot & Not: CNN vs FNC, Beck, FBN, Roberts, etc.

Tags: ratings 2011, friends, mediamatters, icn

• MSNBC under Comcast: don’t empty the stadium.
• Chris Wallace gives an elbow to the White House.
• Video: Ted Koppel longs for the days of MSM dominance.
• Sunday specials: FNC Ferraro, CNN Muslims next door.
• Video: News Watch on Libya coverage part one, pt two.
• Q&A: Martin Bashir, news anchor and reggae master.
• Rick Sanchez resurfaces, plays Latino card.
• Ferraro remembered: Estrich, Palin, Beckel, Greta.
• R.I.P.: FNC’s Geraldine Ferraro.  Flashback.
• Brock admits goal: sabotage Fox via all-out war.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.

Tags: palin, greta, mediamatters

• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
• Swells gather for NLGJA fete.
• Video: Cavuto w/Imus on Beck, Libya etc, part one, part two.
• O’Donnell attacks on Mormonism stir controversy.
• Unedited video: Bret Baier w/Jon Stewart pt one, two, three.
• Zurawik: What is Michael Steele’s cable future?
• Video: Judge Nap on avoiding the constitution in wartime.

Tags: ratings 2011, o'donnell, baier, judgenap

Tags: redeye, mediamatters

• 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 2011, palin, greta, olbermann, hannity, king

• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
• Greta: Scared kittens need training to defend their beliefs?
• Video: Judge Nap on why they won’t call Libya a ‘war’.
• CNN comes to FNC: On Hannity tonight, Larry King!
• Q&A: CNN’s Kyung Lah in Japan.
• FBN signs on for full Neilsen ratings services.
• Today’s NY Times specularama: The Beck Channel?
• Juliet Huddy: I’ll be back very soon.
• Impartial journalist David Shuster resurfaces.
• David Bauder: CNN seeks to leverage its advantages.
• Yes, Alan Colmes still gets hate mail.

Tags: ratings 2011, greta, mediamatters, judgenap, king, beck, shuster

• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
• Steve Harrigan accuses Nic Robertson of not telling the truth, blasts CNNer as a dull, b-s reporter who has ‘a screw loose’.
• Jennifer Griffin rips CNN’s ‘petulant, indefensible’ comments.
• Video: John Roberts w/Imus, on joining the Fox News team.
• Video: Juan and MK Ham react to Heldman attack.
• Jennifer Griffin audio: CNN should stop personal attacks.
• Video: Jennifer Griffin explains ‘human shields’ story.  Daily Mail confirms.  Did FNC cross the line?  Was CNN outburst payback for Harrigan comments?  Did Nic Robertson change his tune?
• Greta remembers Susan Bunda.
• Today’s Glenn Beck advertisers specularama.
• Weekend numbers.  Weekly ranker: FNC tops CNN, MSNBC.
• Video: Judge Napolitano on wars of intervention.

Tags: ratings 2011, greta, beck, judgenap, audio

Tags: newshounds

• CNN’s Nic Robertson compares Jennifer Griffin to Qaddafi!
• Friday’s numbers: Juan Wms (for O’Reilly)-Beck-Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: News Watch panel on coverage of Japan.
• Will MSNBC ever give up on predators and prisons?
• Glenn Beck to hire FNC bigwig for his own company?  FNC insider: Cheatwood’s contract was not going to be renewed anyhow; more.
• Jennifer Griffin: CNN, Reuters crews used as human shields.
• VIdeo: Trump tells F&F how he ‘screwed’ Qaddafi.
• Supreme Court sides w/FBN, Bloomberg on Fed disclosure.
• Profile: Adam Housley.  Q&A: Bill Wolff.
• Barry Kaufman: Don’t cry for me, CNN.
• Hot & Not: Japan, Libya, going left, CNN, evacuations etc.

Tags: ratings 2011, beck, friends

• Sunday Fox & Friends line-up triggers speculation.
• Video: Reliable Sources on shallow Libya coverage.
• Alex Witt sued over failure to repay debt.
• Zurawik: Blitzer and Sesak bring the intensity.
• Video: Harrigan live as missiles hit Tripoli pt one, pt two.
• Video: Steve Harrigan live in Libya interrupted by gunfire.
• Daily Tech: MSNBC reporter lied, sensationalized nuke story.
• Q&A: Lou Dobbs.  Reliable Sources makeover.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.

Tags: friends

Tags: mediamatters, huffpo, mediaite

• Enter the CNN time machine.
• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Shep 1-2-3.
• CNN to send crew of 400 overseas for royal wedding...or not?
• Cable newsers not evacuating Japan. Or are they?
• Kelly Wright in Gainesville.  Q&A: Spitzer, Adam Shapiro [pdf].
• Why your cable system probably won’t carry Al-Jazeera.
• Video: Bias Bash asks if the press is giving Obama a pass.
• Now CNN botches a report on radiation dangers.
• Tragedy gives a boost to Coop 360.  Today’s oops.
• Video: The Judge on diplomatic immunity and Sharia Law.

Tags: ratings 2011, spitzer, cooper, judgenap

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2011, oreilly, shep, hannity

• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Baier 1-2-3.
• The ‘redemption’ of Rick Sanchez?  Bahrain ejects Jamjoom.
• Video: Juan Williams w/Imus on media coverage of Japan.
• Cable coverage of Japan lacks planning, perspective (via ICN).
• Video: Bias Bash on media double standards.
• Newsers move quickly in fluid environment.
• Q&A: Soledad in Japan.  Should reporters rig reunions?
• Firedog Lake: Hey, let’s suggest Joe Scarborough is a murderer!
• Guardian: FNC’s well-educated audience makes it dangerous!

Tags: ratings 2011, mojo

• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
• Profile: Nicole Lapin.  Trish Regan quits CNBC.
• Q&A: Adam Shapiro, Soledad, Big Ed Schultz.
• Twins span cable news divide.  Today’s oops.
• Chad Meyers, CNN’s all-purpose expert.
• Video: Chris Matthews w/Leno pt one, pt two.
• Judge Napolitano gets Beck-type numbers.
• CNN to launch ’tv everywhere’ mobile service.
• Larry King taping CNN special in Las Vegas.
• Lou Dobbs’s new show makes a surprise move.

Tags: ratings 2011, schultz, matthews, judgenap, king

• 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.
• 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.

Tags: ratings 2011, shep, palin, king, icn, mojo

• 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, shep, cooper

• Julie Banderas back in anchor chair (via ICN)...or not?
• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3. Overnite.
• Hecklers disrupt MSNBC, thinking it’s FNC.
• Where do netizens turn for breaking news?
• Cablers cover quake, MSNBC not so much.
• Video: CNN previews Unwelcome: Muslims Next Door.
• CNN Español revamps for growing market.
• TJ Holmes ends A.M. run.  Swells gather at RTDNF.
• Video: Keith Ellison on The O’Reilly Factor.
• Big Ed gets the Spike treatment in Hampton Roads.

Tags: ratings 2011, oreilly, schultz

• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Larry King tweaks Coop...with a gay joke!
• Greta on Couric, contracts, and bad journalism.
• Bloomberg covers Silicon Valley, with a twist.
• Video: Chris Wallace w/Don Imus part one, part two.
• Blitzer, Leventhal et al honored at RTDNF dinner.
• Cablers hustle to cover surprise Wisconsin vote.
• Was CNBC Fast Money story on welfare misleading?
• Ronald S Martin at SSU.  Q&A: HLN’s Scot Safon.

Tags: ratings 2011, king, cooper, greta

Tags: newshounds

• Greta responds to ‘pathetic’ Keller and other Fox haters.
• Reese’s piece: CNN should’ve hired Clinton, not Spitzer.
• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Shep 1-2-3.
• MSNBC airs fake news story it already debunked?
• Kurtz: Can the NY Times be fair to Fox News? More.
• Martin Savidge returns to CNN.
• Q&A: Tucker part tres, John Roberts, CNN’s Tony Maddox.
• Conflict of interest at Morning Joe?
• Put away the torches: Big Ed gets his very own promo.
• Westlake profile: FBN’s Lori Rothman [pdf].
• Video: Bias Bash on the NPR hidden camera video.
• Video: Juan Williams reacts to NPR video pt one, pt two.

Tags: greta, spitzer, mojo, ratings 2011, schultz

• MK Ham’s Factor appearance triggers obscene repsonse.
• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
• Greta defends her questioning of Newt.
• Q&A: Tucker Carlson part deux.
• Megyn Kelly only tv newser on 2011 people to watch list.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on NY Times attacking FNC.
• Scarborough denies Page Six ’shopping show’ story.
• CNN’s Keilar to WH beat.  Kiran in Larchmont (via ICN).
• FNC to be aggressive in seeking increased carriage fees.
• Video: Judith Miller on the treatment of Bradley Manning.

Tags: oreilly, ratings 2011, greta, megyn, mojo

• Juliet Huddy news...or not?
• Friday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Video: Kelly’s Court rules on Fred Grandy flap.
• Like Roberts, TJ Holmes irked by Kiran typing?
• Video: Leland Vittert caught in the crossfire.
• HLN emulates MSNBC, reruns crime shows.
• Pix: Bret Baier in Afghanistan.
• CNN’s Freedom Project.  King to host Peabodies.
• MacNicol: NY Times Beck blast not believable?
• Q&A: Don Lemon (via TVN), Tucker Carlson, Lawrence O, Norah O.  Profile: Andrea Mitchell (via ICN).
• Hot & Not: Dobbs, Sheen, Maddow, Schultz, King.

Tags: ratings 2011, megyn, baier, king, beck, o'donnell, icn, lemon

Tags: newshounds

• NY Times specularama over supposed Beck/FNC split.
• Video: Chris Wallace vs Margie Phelps; more.
• Video: Reliable Sources piles on Glenn Beck.
• Again? CNN skeds Piers/Sheen for third night.
• Video: Fox News Watch on media confusion; more.
• VIdeo: Huck defends his Natalie Portman comments.
• Piers rips Vanity Fair over unflattering profile.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
• VIdeo: Judge Napolitano vs Donald Rumsfeld. More.

Tags: beck, piers, judgenap

• Video: The Judge previews his showdown w/Rumsfeld.
• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Loeb: Rumsfeld’s toughest interview was O’Reilly’s.
• Q&A: Lou Dobbs; Greg Gutfeld part one, part two.
• O’Reilly at Chaminade.  Vanity Fair profile: Piers Morgan.
• CNN pre-empts Spitzer for Rodney King special.
• Keaton Fox: Why Anderson Cooper is wrong.
• Video: Freedom fighters on spending and regulations.

Tags: judgenap, ratings 2011, oreilly, redeye, piers, spitzer, cooper

Tags: shuster

Tags: thinkprogress, newshounds

• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Obama helps O’Reilly raise $750,000.
• Will CNN have to suspend Spitzer?
• FBN to put Lou Dobbs at 7:00 pm, ANS at 9, FtM at 10.
• Michael Ware resurfaces (via ATCNN).
• Video: Chris Wallace with Don Imus.
• CNN’s Wedeman has close call in Libya.
• Peaceful WI protester goes after Fox News van.
• Profile: John Stossel’s battle with stuttering.
• Video: The Judge talks money and more with Ron Paul.

Tags: ratings 2011, oreilly, spitzer, judgenap

• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Audio: David Shuster unleashed, calls Mike Tobin a liar, says FNC more dangerous than terrorism, blames FNC ‘lies’ for popularity of Sheen coverage!
• Video rematch: Megyn Kelly and Anthony Weiner.
• Whoops! Fox haters try to ‘Breitbart’ O’Reilly.
• FNC suspends Santorum, Newt. Kurtz: how and why.
• Video: Frank Luntz with Don Imus.
• CNN cooking up new program ideas?
• Joe & Mika shop show (unsuccessfully) to CBS?
• MSNBC denies Lanny Davis right to respond.
• The hidden meanings behind CNN’s logo.

Tags: ratings 2011, shuster, megyn, oreilly, audio, mojo

Tags: huffpo

• February program ranker: FNC holds top 11 slots.
• Zurawik: Fox News dominates...again.
• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• February numbers summary; spin: MSNBC, CNN.
• CNBC numbers continue to plummet.
• In the Arena premiere: E.D. Hill waits 50 minutes.
• Page Six: Soledad O’Brien to replace John King?
• Weekend numbers.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on coverage of Fox haters.
• Politifact strikes again: this time they fact-check Mr Bill.
• Behind the scenes: how Piers snagged Sheen (via TVN).
• Fretts: Piers/Sheen suckup interview a blown opportunity.
• Zurawik: Piers promotion of Sheen Q&A empty-headed tv-think.

Tags: ratings 2011, spitzer, oreilly, piers