• Friday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-MacCallum-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Nolte: FNC’s Outnumbered tops The View in multiple cities.
• Hogue: Dana’s new gig.  Q&A: Sara Sidner; Mika Brzezinski.
• Smackdown: Mrs Larry King slams ‘nasty jerk’ Piers Morgan.
• Wemple: Another look at Fox, hard news, and diverse views.
• FTV: Is Stelter the new Olby? ICN: That’s an overreach. More.
• Campbell: Killing Jesus soiree will be Kludt-less (via CNNC).
• Killing Jesus meets A.D.: The Bible Continues.  Today’s oops.

Tags: ratings 2015, mojo, oreilly, olbermann, icn

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Lewis: Unscripted authenticity key to FNC ensemble shows.
• Video: Netanyahu coverage.  Profile: Katherine Julia Harlow.
• Dr David Samadi launches health site.   HLN gets new digs.
• Adams: Does Fox News have too much influence on the right?
• Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on Fox vs mainstream media.
• FTV: Maddow furious with Todd; Griffin wants to re-hire Olby!
• FTV: MSNBC stuck between rock and hard place with The Rev.
• The murder suspect who worked for CNN.  Today’s conspiracy.

Tags: ratings 2015, oreilly, maddow, olbermann, cooper, friends

Tags: olbermann

• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-MacCallum-Baier 1-2-3.
• February program ranker: Fox News holds top 14 slots.
• A simpler MSNBC.  Ground-breaking show set for Sundays.
• NY Times: O’Reilly/Fox News symbiosis.  Sherman: Backfire.
• Imus video: Bret Baier.  Farhi: No-spin zone crisis control.
• Q&A: Maria Bartiromo on building a career; Mika Brzezinski.
• Rachael Ray video: Elisabeth Hasselbeck.  A matter of time.
• Jamie Colby’s comics story (v/TVN).  Insider video: Megyn Kelly.

Tags: ratings 2015, oreilly, baier, mojo, friends, olbermann, megyn

• The Five video: Peter Doocy discusses UBL special.
• Fox News UBL special tops MSNBCNNHLN combined.
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-ShotUBL-Megyn 1-2-3.
• Kurtz: FNC taking ‘serious look’ at Huckabee status.
• Somerby: Maddow ‘one of the most dishonest’ ever.
• Back to the Future: MSNBC to meld cable and online.
• He’s got a Kate Upton crush.  F&F video: Peter Doocy.
• Easley: MSNBC’s decline began when Olbermann left.
• Rothstein: CNNer embroiled in conflict of interest flap.
• Zucker play: Road trip!  Non-news, brought to you by VW.
• Q&A: Melissa Francis, Charles Payne.  CNN execs upped.

Tags: ratings 2014, maddow, friends, olbermann

• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• From the ‘nothing succeeds like failure’ department...
• More honors: Megyn, Maria, Maddow make ‘impact list’.
• Q&A: Maria Bartiromo, one of ’50 women who run NY’.
• Video: Megyn Kelly named to Time 100 influentials list.
• The Mole, part deux.  Wemple: What now, Mr Hannity?
• Coop’s crib is up for bids.  Keith Olbermann resurfaces.
• Video: Juan Williams questions Media Matters’ tax status.
• Roller: Scarborough takes a page from Trump’s playbook.
• Hannity video: Judge Napolitano on eminent domain abuse.

Tags: ratings 2014, megyn, maddow, olbermann, hannity, friends, judgenap, mojo

• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Things are looking Rosie at CNN...or are they?  And more.
• Video Q&A: Greta with Janice Dean on living with MS, etc.
• Somerby: More Maddow false facts, and some from Greta?
• Maria Bartiromo recalls Joey Ramone. Fareed reconsidered.
• Olby fesses up.  Brian Schweitzer joins MSNBC.  Flashback.
• I’ll take Fox News for $200, Alex. Serious is as serious does.
• Friedman: This is going to end in tears.  CNN app updates.
• Salon: Will you fall for his dreamy blue eyes?  Mr Humility.
• Zucker play: CNN’s Chicagoland, a ‘paean to Rahm Emanuel’.

Tags: ratings 2014, piers, greta, maddow, olbermann

• Videos: The war on Fox...Neil Cavuto, The Five.
• Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-TheFive-Baier 1-2-3.
• Controversy continues over CNN translation spat.
• Video: Elisabeth’s run.  Geraldo: Not one penny!
• Wemple: Where did Bill Clinton get his numbers?
• Larry King resurfaces for a resurfaced Olbermann.
• CNN’s Diversity Council…disbanded!  Or is it?
• Hogue: Alisyn Camerota ‘more than paid her dues’.
• Imus video: Juan Williams on Cruz, sports, and more.
• Another Crossfire co-host caught in a controversy.
• Video: Kurtz eyes Sharpton, challenges Bill O’Reilly.

Tags: ratings 2013, friends, king, olbermann, oreilly

• The Five video: Dana Perino in The Congo.
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Kurtz: Was the DC march an MSNBC production?
• This is not CNN.  Fox hater smears boomerang.
• It’s Awwwnnnn! Olby vs Piers.  Today’s outrage.
• Fox & Friends video: Anna Kooiman in ‘hog heaven’.
• Sanjay in the A.M.  New FNC contributor. Flashback.
• Factor video: Dennis Miller on Miley, Manning, and more.

Tags: ratings 2013, olbermann, piers, friends, oreilly

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Barone: Do cable news ratings tell a larger story?
• August program ranker: Fox News holds top 13 slots.
• Dana Perino’s Mercy Ship voyage to the Congo (v/FDC).
• Q&A: Soledad.  Kinder, gentler Olby?  ‘Dream’ coverage.
• CNBC craters.  Maddow hits bottom.  CNN: Zuckered.
• Video: Tot Titus faces his fears in rematch with Kilmeade.
• ICN: Brian Lewis lawyer engaging in…a negotiating ploy!
• Thought experiment: What if Rev Al was Rick Santorum?
• Factor videos: Debating a Syrian adventure…pt one, pt two.

Tags: ratings 2013, olbermann, maddow, friends, icn, oreilly

• Friday’s numbers: TheFive-ScottBrown-Baier 1-2-3.
• Howard Kurtz MediaBuzz debuts Sept 8 11am.
• Even POTUS Q&A can’t lift stagnant New Day.
• Today’s oops.  Spell check.  Swells gather.
• Hayes hour is hardly a huge hit.  Dream on.
• Miller: Mr Olbermann is ready for his close-up.
• Q&A: Mika B (via TVN).  Video Q&A: Ali Velshi.
• Video: The Donald slams ‘hack’ AG over lawsuit.
• Hot & Not: Big Ed, Al-Jazeera, Kristol, Nichols, etc.

Tags: ratings 2013, oreilly, friends, olbermann, mojo, hayes

• The Five video: Dana is fired up over a fired clown.
• Video: Bob Beckel lets slip some verboten verbiage.
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Somerby: Hack Maddow tells a tabloidized Tsarnaev tale.
• Zucker play: CNN preps for an online extreme makeover.
• Profile: Olbermann unplugged, unleashed, and unhinged.
• Today’s oops (via ICN).  Video: On the set of Persecuted.
• Factor video: O’Reilly hammers, and nails, Nicholas Kristof.

Tags: ratings 2013, maddow, olbermann, friends, oreilly

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: Megyn Kelly’s new baby boy...Thatcher Bray.
• Jon Scott: Sending my soldier son off to Afghanistan.
• Video: Did the NY Times enable Weiner’s comeback?
• Somerby: On cablenews, fake facts simply never die.
• VIdeo: Maria Molina on Entertainment Tonight.
• World’s fastest flip-flop: Now Olby promises ‘no politics’!
• Is Gretchen Carlson Persecuted?  CNN plans makeover.
• On the Record video: This Benghazi victim is not ‘phony’.

Tags: ratings 2013, megyn, friends, olbermann, greta

• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
• Zucker play: New Day sinks to its lowest ratings yet.
• Somerby: Sunny Hostin doesn’t correct her mistakes.
• Rothstein: CNN’s John King stays away from the Wiener.
• Richard Grenell gets into a twitter spat with Mr Xtopher.
• Fox & Friends video: Gretchen Carlson is filming a movie.
• Imposter fools newsers: video.  Rob Lowe’s O’Reilly link.
• Gibson: The seeds of Bathtub Boy’s next firing; audio.
• Olby: Politics won’t be off-limits, plus more worst persons.
• Bias Bash: Judy Miller on a national journalists’ shield law.

Tags: ratings 2013, friends, oreilly, olbermann, audio

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
• Somerby: Pundits are inventing a new fake fact!
• Lean Forward: Cycle signs ‘Republican’ Huntsman.
• Videos: O’Reilly on This Morning, Fox & Friends.
• HLN oddly silent about Nancy Grace racial slurs.
• Zurawik: Coop stands out in Zimmerman coverage.
• Video: Surprise! Hannity discussion turns rowdy.
• Imus video: Juan Williams reacts to Hannity wrangle.
• It’s yesterday once more: Olbermann returns to ESPN.

Tags: ratings 2013, oreilly, friends, cooper, hannity, olbermann

• Zurawik: Cablenews verdict coverage problematic.
• FNC skeds special live Sunday night programming.
• News Watch video: Media miss Obamacare flaws?
• Sunday talkers: tip sheet, Turn the Table.
• Hannity video: Expert panel discussion turns rowdy.
• Did Gutfeld ignite a twitter frenzy?  Olby resurfaces?
• Kelsey: Zimmermanarama hints at CNN’s new path.
• Zucker: Criticism of CNN trial mania is ‘bunk’. Update!

Tags: hannity, redeye, olbermann

• News Watch video: Glenn Greenwald and the NSA.
• Fox News first in scramble to cover SF plane crash.
• Chris Matthews in NOLA.  Olbermann’s twitter spat.
• John Avlon in Kurtz chair.  Sunday talk: HuffPo recap.
• Somerby: Ugly behavior by ratings-driven Chris Hayes?
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The FIve-Bream 1-2-3.
• Zucker play: CNN bans Nancy Grace from going on GMA.
• Lean Forward: Impartial MSNBC journalist strikes again.
• Video: Smart tech for wounded warriors part one, part two.

Tags: matthews, olbermann, hayes, ratings 2013, megyn

• The Five video: Susan Rice receives her reward.
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-The Five 1-2-3.
• Lean Forward: Alter alters truth about Ailes?  More.
• Al-Jazeera hires its WH correspondent from (MS)NBC.
• America Live video: Megyn grills Rep Jim McDermott.
• Zucker play flops: HuffPo calls CNN ‘pretty terrible’.
• Q&A: Bret Baier, minus 48 pounds.  Today’s twitter tiff.
• Rosen warrants challenged as improperly obtained.
• Imus video: Blonde on blonde.  He’s baaaaack (v/TVN).
• Arria: MSNBC in alignment with objectives of the state?

Tags: ratings 2013, megyn, huffpo, baier, olbermann

• The Five video: Storm chasing…foolhardy or heroic?
• Friday’s numbers: Shep/tornados-Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
• Why does MSNBC promote reckless, hateful Sharpton?
• Q&A: Sean Hannity.  (MS)NBC teams with Scotusblog.
• Mrs Cuomo gives hubby free PR. Mr Amanpour resigns.
• Zucker play: CNN skeds Scott’s Crimes of the Century.
• Bench Blitzer? Disputed report spurs non-denial denial.
• Nolte: Red Eye beats insufferable blowhard Scarborough.
• Somerby: Could MSNBC primetime be more irrelevant?
• ICN: What MSNBC really needs is another Olbermann?
• NY Times discovers MSNBC not a news channel. Analysis.

Tags: ratings 2013, hannity, redeye, olbermann, icn, mojo

• Wemple: Ailes memo a ‘masterpiece’.  ICN: analysis.
• The Five video: Latest skirmishes in The War on Fox.
• Weds numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier. FBN milestone.
• Video: Judge Nap on taking the 5th part one, part two.
• Broadening the definition: CNN’s Stroumboulopoulos.
• FNC unveils Raysat-equipped ‘quick response vehicle’.
• Rothman: All In w/Hayes is a bomb because it’s a bore.
• Video: AG’s James Rosen warrant based on ‘rubbish’.
• Q&A: Adam Shapiro. Music of the morning. Olby emails.
• Video: Bill O’Reilly with Jon Stewart part one, part two.
• Special Report videos: All-star panel part one, part two.

Tags: icn, ratings 2013, judgenap, hayes, friends, olbermann, oreilly, baier

• The Five video: Amazing insensitivity on The Amazing Race?
• Cable beats broadcast: The Factor tops NBC primetime!
• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Hannity-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• O’Donnell next on chopping block?  Kiran, Ratigan resurface.
• Q&A: Cheryl Casone; Roger Ailes on Palin and more (via TVN). 
• Fox & Friends video: Ailes biographer Chafets part one, part two.
• Unemployable Olbermann still baring his claws at ex-colleagues.
• Melber preparing to lean forward?  Big Ed meltdown over Politico.
• Video: Krauthammer on tv news in decline. Shield standoff drags on.

Tags: ratings 2013, oreilly, o'donnell, friends, olbermann, schultz

• The Five video: Eric Bolling gets a call from Jay Carney.
• None of the many channels Olby approached would hire him.
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-The Five 1-2-3.
• Byers: Contrary to Big Ed’s cover story, he was pushed out.
• What show is like watching parrots compete to mimic each other?
• Lean Forward: Schultz slot to dynamic Chris Hayes.  Analysis.
• Olby settlement: ten cents on the dollar.  Q&A: Tapper (via FTV).
• Imus video: Lively Mensa Meeting megapanel part one, part two.
• One America News Network: It’ll be like Fox, only not so liberal.
• Factor video: O’Reilly confronts the writer who called him bigoted.
• Lean Forward: Schultz leaves primetime for ‘prisoner’s row’; more.

Tags: ratings 2013, olbermann, schultz, hayes, oreilly

• The Five video: White House backing off tour shutdown threat?
• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Hannity-The Five 1-2-3.
• Bogus CNN chyron.  Imus video: Mike Baker on Egypt, Korea, etc.
• Zucker’s Erin Burnett: Isn’t it worth it to support anti-Semitism?!
• Video: Shep’s comments on the Catholic Church stir controversy.
• Factor video: O’Reilly vs Colmes rematch over federal spending.
• Q&A: Shep (via ICN); Charlie Gasparino on ‘sticking it to CNBC’.
• Q&A: Soledad, Jake Tapper. Maddow in Houston.  Olby settles.

Tags: ratings 2013, shep, oreilly, maddow, olbermann

• Reliable Sources videos: Ailes, the White House, and more.
• Profile: Larry King (via TVN).  Q&A: Soledad (via ICN).
• News Watch videos: Sequester blues, busting the filibuster.
• Latest Olby filing slams Current TV.  Sunday talkers: preview.
• Sunday specials: Myths, Lies, and Complete Stupidity; Escape Fire.
• Concha: MSNBC and CNN ego trips are driving their viewers to Fox.

Tags: king, olbermann

• Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Hannity-The Five 1-2-3.
• Video: Judge Napolitano on gun legislation vs federal law.
• Is CNBC running scared?  FBN jeers CNBC pseudo-biz block.
• F&FF at one.  Weekend numbers.  Profile: Big talker Big Ed.
• Latest Kurtz insight: Wouldn’t it be great if ESPN hired Olby!?
• Site trumpeted Burnett move as ‘dead’, now saying the opposite.
• Video: The Political Insiders on spending cuts etc.  Today’s outrage.

Tags: ratings 2013, judgenap, megyn, friends, schultz, olbermann

• The Five video: First female footballer fails.
• Friday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Hannity-The Five 1-2-3.
• Roger Ailes embroiled in a battle of biographers? Or not?
• Video: FBN zings CNBC reality shows.  Carville to MSNBC?
• Video: Chris Wallace Romney interview stirs controversy.
• Video: Labor of love.  Zucker’s Plan B: Tamron Hall?
• Other shoe drops: Big Ed, Morning Joe in on it too? Update.
• Imus video: Bret Baier on Kerry, Dennis Rodman, and more.
• Don’t call us, we’ll call you: Olbermann wants a job at ESPN.
• Zurawik: Could coverage of the sequester possibly be any worse?

Tags: ratings 2013, friends, baier, olbermann, mojo

• Video: Why have the media turned on Bob Woodward?
• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Chase unseen.  Q&A: Gerri Willis.  Olby resurfaces.
• CNN buys healthcare doc promoting ‘alternative medicine’.
• Burnett bargains for big bucks.  Soledad honored.  CNN sues.
• Video: Rachel Maddow with Jon Stewart part one, part two.
• Video: Hannity exclusive with Bob Woodward part one, part two.

Tags: ratings 2013, olbermann, maddow, hannity

• Reliable Sources videos: Hillary, Geraldo, and MSNBC editing.
• Harris: CNN may oust ‘respected journalist’ Soledad O’Brien.
• News Watch video: Another editing controversy at MSNBC.
• Today’s Steve Capus specularama: Joining Zucker at CNN?
• Video: Greg Gutfeld complains about The Five to Andy Levy.
• Flip-flop: MSM now encourage Murdoch to slant FNC coverage.
• CNN wanted to hire Olbermann?!  Sunday talkers: preview.
• Profile: Dr Sanjay Gupta. Video: Sanjay w/Conan part one, part two.

Tags: redeye, olbermann

• The Five video: Shooting from the lip?
• Friday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Bret Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
• Q&A: Tucker Carlson on CNN, MSNBC, Olby, and more.
• Greta: What I will do in my 12 minutes with Hillary Clinton.
• Lean Forward: Obama fundraisers target (MS)NBC.
• Today’s Palin specularama: hired by Zucker? Or maybe not?
• Colin Powell enters the no-spin zone.  NBC snubs CNBC?
• Video: 60 MInutes Q&A like ‘state-run media’?  Foul weather.
• Imus videos: Bill Hemmer; Juan Williams part one, part two.
• Tougher than 60 Minutes?  Zoraida ringed.  Curry clamp-down.
• Videos: Obama attacks Fox, Trump and Peter Johnson respond.
• Hot & Not: Coop, Curry, Cashin’ In, contracts, CNBC, and more.

Tags: ratings 2013, friends, olbermann, greta, palin, icn

• The Five video: Who is responsible for student loan debt?
• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
• Demo derby: MSNBC wins 25-54 primetime for the week.
• Lean Forward: MSNBC signs Olbermann amigo as contributor.
• VIdeo: Rick Reichmuth goes over a non-fiscal cliff.  Q&A: Gutfeld.
• Zucker severs Couric ties.  ICN: CNN plans beget ‘abject horror’.
• Zucker talk: tells Kurtz ‘more passion’; speaks of ‘endless potential’.
• Video: A War on Christmas rumpus…Bill O’Reilly vs Lincoln Chaffee.

Tags: ratings 2012, olbermann, redeye, icn, oreilly

• Major Garrett resurfaces…but not at Fox.  Flashback.
• Reliable Sources videos: Petraeus, Benghazi, and more.
• Today’s example of...Who is the real news channel?
• News Watch video: Benghazi coverage...spin or facts?
• Video: Andy Levy ombudses Benghazi, Twinkies, and more.
• Sunday: Fox Files special.  Sunday talk: tip sheet, HP recap.
• Video: Chris Matthews with Jay Leno part one, part two.
• Romenesko: Why did Ailes talk to tvnewser?  Olby resurfaces.
• Lean Forward: Obama meets with MSNBC host for fiscal advice.

Tags: ratings 2012, redeye, matthews, olbermann

• The Five video: Is Weinstein Obama’s Hollywood helper?
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
• Lean Forward: MSNBC’s Benghazi blackout continues.
• Video: Hillary’s Benghazi promise: we’ll arrest…video maker!
• DePaolo: How Joe Trippi found happiness at Fox News.
• Krystal is having a Ball.  CNN manning up in swing states.
• Halloween Resurrection? Ex-’journalist’ wants another show!
• Red Eye video: Andy ombudses Trump, NatGeo, and more.
• Videos: Bill O’Reilly vs David Letterman; Greta cross-examines Donald Trump; Rachel Maddow schmoozes with Wendy Williams.
• ITV’s Keir Simmons to (MS)NBC.  Big Ed does some GOTV.
• CNN gets cold feet over hormones, stays mum regarding Piers.

Tags: ratings 2012, olbermann, redeye, oreilly, greta, maddow, schultz, piers

• The Five video: Cracks in the media’s Benghazi blackout?
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.  Another Olby oops.
• Profile: Ed Henry on social media; Tucker Carlson, provocateur.
• Lean Forward: Was Joe against Jim Lehrer before he was for him?
• Video: Lehrer and Imus talk debates and more part one, part two.
• Hot & Not: Debate, FNC, Matthews.  CNN’s doc: they didn’t build it.
• Lean Forward: MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell featured in Obama ad. More.

Tags: ratings 2012, olbermann, mojo

• The Five video: Are the media abdicating their responsibilities?
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3. MS demo strong.
• Lean Forward: MSNBC aired Obama clip before they didn’t!
• Red Eye video: Andy Levy ombudses the Romney video.
• Roeper: The real punk in the Fox & Friends prank.  Ainsley update.
• Video: Did Olbermann send this email to F&F?  Melissa in Houston.
• Q&A: Soledad, Tamron Hall, MSNBC ‘crack talent’.  Profile: The Rev.
• Paging Maddow: Another MSNBC contributor raising money for Dems.

Tags: ratings 2012, redeye, friends, olbermann, maddow

• The Five video: They don’t need a movie to hate America.
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier-The Five 1-2-3-4.
• Somerby: Why Mika and MSNBC are gender throwbacks.
• Lean Forward: MSNBC’s Phil Griffin caught lying about Fox!?
• People mag profile: Megyn Kelly part one, part two [pdfs].
• Video: Larry King resurfaces...on Fox!  Claman’s three days.
• Q&A: Bill Hemmer re twitter; Phil Griffin.  F&F clarification.
• Speculation: Gretchen could be replaced...by Kiran Chetry?
• ICN to MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts: You’re deluding yourself.
• Olby holed up reliving ancient feuds.  Revealed: Faux News!

Tags: ratings 2012, megyn, king, friends, icn, olbermann, mojo

• Report: Roger Ailes negotiating contract renewal with FNC?
• The Five video: Debbie Wasserman Schultz and The Big Lie.
• Wednesday’s numbers: DNC MSNBC-CNN-FNC 1-2-3.
• Video: Behind the scenes inside the Fox News DNC trailer.
• DNC II: MSNBC 3.3M tops cablenewsers, FNC grows 14%.
• Olby: ‘She’s going to hell!’.  Lean Forward: ‘straight news’?!?
• Neil Cavuto: CNBC has peaked, FBN rising.  Q&A: Lou Dobbs.
• Tuesday’s numbers: DNC(MS)-DNC(CNN)-O’Reilly 1-2-3.
• Video: Anna Kooiman’s outdoor adventures.  Profile: Ed Henry.
• Atlas Shrugged Part II: an all-star cast. Laurie Dhue resurfaces.
• Scoop: CNBC interviews distinguished economist.  Q&A: Piers.
• Video: Tom Brokaw talks media and 2012 politics with Hannity.
• Lean Forward: Black Romney backer ejected from MSNBC pavilion.

Tags: ratings 2012, olbermann, friends, piers, hannity

• Video: Why Neil Cavuto says ‘I don’t have time...’
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta-The Five 1-2-3-4.
• Even without Dobbs, Dobbs tops CNBC.  Weekend numbers.
• Farmer: A CNN turnaround plan.  Frightening flashback.
• CJR list cites Harris-Perry.  Q&A: Chris Hayes, Sanjay Gupta.
• Video: Neil Cavuto talks to Les Gold of Hardcore Pawn.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on Obama’s treatment by the media.

Tags: ratings 2012, olbermann, oreilly, hayes

• The Five video: Is the WH revising history?
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-Hannity-The Five 1-2-3-4.
• Piers plummets: lowest in 15 years.  Weekend numbers.
• Cable newsers flock to Women in Media fete.
• How Beck bests Olbermann.  Gasparino: Man of the Year.
• Faber didn’t lose on Jeopardy!  The striking Erin Burnett.
• I’m ‘the conscience of Fox’, sez Geraldo to...Media Matters!?
• MSNBC: The Place for Badminton?  Maddow lawsuit update.

Tags: ratings 2012, piers, olbermann, maddow

• Video: Greta with Jake Tapper et al part one, part two.
• Reliable Sources videos: Afghanistan, UBL, and more.
• Fox News Watch video: Obama’s UBL anniversary.
• Current proves they can go lower than Olby (via NB).
• Video: Coop with Letterman.  Alan still gets hate mail.
• Why CNN is terrible.  CNN reporter ‘soliciting bribes’?
• Sunday talk: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.  Greta accepts.

Tags: greta, olbermann, cooper

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Shep 1-2-3.
• MSNBC Journo-lister bewails ‘breaking news’ alerts (via ICN).
• Fox Business shakes up daytime sked; changes start Monday.
• Cable beats broadcast: Fox & Friends doubles CBS in key markets.
• Olbermann seen wandering aimlessly through Central Park.
• Profile: Melissa Harris-Perry.  Shep and Eli return to Ole Miss.
• The $50 million defamation lawsuit that Maddow wants dismissed.
• Sherman: Is CNN’s news strategy obsolete?  Speed kills (credibility).

Tags: ratings 2012, friends, olbermann, shep

• The Five video: A surprise guest rates Obama’s oil policy.
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
• Fox ‘mole’ sinks Reliable Sources.  Weekend numbers.
• CNBC counter-programs Lou Dobbs...with hockey games!
• Q: Who will hire Olbermann now? A: It won’t be tv news.
• Video: Is Roger Clemens being prosecuted or persecuted?
• Sandra Smith: tax tips.  Gasparino: top twitter cable biznewser.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on mixing politicos and news on cable.

Tags: ratings 2012, olbermann, judgenap, oreilly

• Video: Chris Wallace pays tribute to his father Mike Wallace.
• Reliable Sources videos: Hillary Rosen, the mole’s 15 minutes.
• Mushnick: Olby lawsuit puts Current in an untenable position.
• News Watch video: The media cover attacks on Ann Romney.
• Much ado about a lapel pin.  Sunday talk: tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
• Your honor, the people call...Sean Hannity?!  Well...hardly ever.
• Specials: Summer of Evil: The Manson Murders; The Numbers Game.

Tags: olbermann, hannity

• The Five video: Is the problem with fracking that it works?
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Shep-TheFive 1-2-3-4.
• Cable beats broadcast: Fox & Friends tops CBS mornings.
• Mika Brzezinski: another conflict of interest at MSNBC?
• MSNBC exhaustive investigation stuns the world this week.
• Status symbol: your own home studio.  Harlow to CNN/NYC.
• CNN anchor quotes the f-word.  Greta: Why shouldn’t she?
• Hot & Not: (MS)NBC, Olbermann, CNN, Heather, Taxmasters.
• Maddow exposé looks shady, but swells attend fete anyhow.
• Zurawik: even if Olbermann wins lawsuit vs Gore, he still loses.

Tags: ratings 2012, friends, greta, icn, mojo, olbermann, maddow

• Videos: Roger Ailes, Brit Hume remember Mike Wallace.
• Reliable Sources videos: Olby, Mike Wallace, and more.
• Mushnick: Even for Olbermann, this is pathetic.
• Under fire, (MS)NBC news chief Capus answers critics.
• News Watch video: Media coverage of the budget battles.
• Another Trayvon controversy.  Sunday talk: preview, tip sheet.
• Video: Jim Pinkerton and Sally Kohn on NBC’s Zimmerman edit.
• Bill Hemmer in Greenwich.  Politico’s four pages on Huck vs Rush.

Tags: olbermann

• The Five video: Can Americans understand a law professor?
• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
• (MS)NBC probe blames a ‘seasoned’ producer. Update: Fired!
• Video: Megyn Kelly on the line between news and entertainment.
• Video: Obama gives a shout-out to Mika Brzezinski.  Flashback.
• Videos: Bill O’Reilly with Jon Stewart, Piers with Carson Daly.
• Current’s countersuit quotes Keith: ‘Assassinate him, please’.
• Hinckley: Olby’s best bet...radio or the ‘net.  Maddow tops list.
• Olby lawsuit disses Cenk.  Courtney: It’s a girl.  Q&A: Don Lemon.
• From the Dept of Headline Incongruity.  MSNBC online ad strategy.

Tags: ratings 2012, megyn, oreilly, piers, mojo, olbermann, maddow, lemon

• The Five video: Should the government monitor facebook pages?
• Emails: Olbermann temper tantrum smashed glass on set.
• Least surprising news of the day: Olbermann sues Current.
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Greta-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Video: Judge Nap rules on Eric Holder vs the 5th Circuit Court.
• Low ratings may get Current kicked off Time Warner...or not?
• ICN: MSNBC goes partisan, ensnares journalists.  It began with Olbermann and Matthews.  The first, unsuccessful attempt to turn dayside partisan.
• MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts airs HuffPost satire as real news!
• Video: Kilmeade and Doocy make a splash with Dara Torres.
• Profile: Neil Cavuto (pdf: scroll down).  Q&A: Melissa Francis.
• Goodale: Media experts say Olbermann’s problems are self-made.

Tags: olbermann, ratings 2012, icn, judgenap, friends

• The Five video: ‘Social Darwinism’ is the new talking point.
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg says NBC’s apology is not enough.
• Fox News hires a new contributor: Santita Jackson.  Flashback.
• Emails: Keith needed ‘Diva’ limos.  TaxMasters stiffs cablenewsers.
• Profile: Robin Meade (v/ ICN).  Q&A: Willie Geist.  CNN’s Peabodies.
• Olbermann compares himself to $10 million dollar chandelier: video.
• Video: Debbie Wasserman Schultz w/Greta.  NBC’s evasive apology.

Tags: ratings 2012, oreilly, olbermann, greta

• Video: Bret Baier interview with Jay Carney turns contentious.
• After O’Reilly Factor airing, NBC admits error in doctored 911 audio.
• The Five video: Send in the clowns...on the taxpayers’ dime.
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five (!)-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Video: S.E. Cupp offers best wishes to Keith Olbermann.
• Video: Bill O’Reilly fact-checks Brian Stelter.  Heather hubbub resolved.
• MSNBC signature program announces landmark.  Weekend numbers.
• Olbermann’s ‘silent treatment’: he wouldn’t even talk to his boss!
• Bercovici: What’s next for Olby...CNN?  Lowry: Divorce—media-style.
• Simon: Olbermann is just one ironclad contract away from a new job.
• Q&A: Carl Cameron on the MD primary and staying fit; Rich Edson.
• Zurawik: Does anyone at Comcast care about journalistic standards?
• Video: Bernard Goldberg has a solution for Comcast’s (MS)NBC problem.
• Today’s deep (i.e. sick) thought.  Tonight’s cablenews primary coverage.

Tags: baier, ratings 2012, oreilly, olbermann, shep, audio

• The Five video: Juan Williams responds to Rush Limbaugh.
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Audio: John Gibson reacts to the firing of Keith Olbermann.
• Burgeoning book battle begins (via ICN).  Q&A: Rich Edson.
• Feldman: CNN’s Howard Kurtz tries too hard to knock Fox.
• Stelter: Critics of Keith fear retaliation.  Maddow in Manchester.
• Hot & Not: The Rev, Olby, Thomas Roberts, MSNBC non-response.
• Video: Geraldo apologizes anew for hoodie heresy to Trayvon’s parents.

Tags: ratings 2012, audio, olbermann, maddow, icn

• MSNBC drops $100K on the NY Times to hype Maddow book.
• Reliable Sources videos: Geraldo’s hoodie, Olbermann ousted.
• Carr: Someone will hire Olbermann because he’s...such a star!?
• Kurtz: Leaked emails trace the bitter Olbermann/Current break-up.
• Keith’s hissy fits: rejected custom-built set, limo drivers spoke to him.
• Davis: Sharpton’s dual role strains credibility of MSNBC.
• Rainey: Trayvon coverage abounds, and so do perspectives.
• News Watch video: Media treatment of the Obamacare arguments.
• Gutfeld: I scrapped Thurs Red Eye, it didn’t meet expectations. More.
• Zurawik: Replacing Olby with Spitzer shows how low Current will go.
• Hagey: Current got all the drawbacks of Olby and none of the benefits.
• Reese Schonfeld: CNN, thirty years later.  Sunday talkers: tip sheet.

Tags: maddow, olbermann, redeye, spitzer

• Current fires Olbermann! Olby responds. Current preps for battle.
• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier-TheFive 1-2-3-4.
• Again?! Bill O’Reilly on cable beats Brian Williams on NBC.
• Cablenews swells gather for Lemon-cohosted NLGJA fundraiser.
• Why didn’t last night’s Red Eye air? Explanation may be coming.
• Where’s Margaret Hoover? J$P asked FNC; spox confirmed: contract ended 12/2011, parties unable to come to terms on a new agreement.
• Forbes: If anyone can take on ESPN and win, it’s Roger Ailes.
• Juan Williams to receive honor for excellence in journalism.
• CNN Trayvon Martin special tonight.  Maddow Q&A, w/Stewart.
• Impartial MSNBC ‘news anchor’ rips ‘ugly, dirty’ marriage group. More.

Tags: olbermann, ratings 2012, oreilly, redeye, lemon, maddow

• Video: The Five discuss the new 17-minute Obama promo.
• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• MSNBC Einstein Donnie Deutsch to substitute host...on CNN?!
• Q&A: Sally Kohn on working w/Hannity at Fox; Melissa Harris-Perry.
• Chris Wallace thanks ‘three giants of broadcasting’.
• Video: Eric Cantor confuses Neil Cavuto with Bret Baier.
• Kirsten Powers returns fire at Olbermann. VIdeo: Powers with Greta.

Tags: ratings 2012, olbermann, greta

• The Five video: Should Obama PAC return Bill Maher’s $1M?
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
• Video: Bill O’Reilly crosses swords with the ladies of The View.
• Olby’s campaign against Kirsten Powers: here, here, here.  Flashback.
• Soledad and CNN step in it with world’s most fallacious charge of racism.
• Video: Ed Henry w/Imus on Obama’s snippy reply to gas prices question.
• Carpe Diem: On desks, legs, and the evolution of Fox & Friends First.
• Chris Wallace accepts journalism award.  New ad flap, this time MSNBC.
• Now Olby ‘apologizes’ to Cupp and Malkin?  Reaction.  Reaction.  More.

Tags: ratings 2012, oreilly, olbermann, friends

• MSNBC fires Pat! Buchanan: I’ve been blacklisted.  Analysis.
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Suppose CNN holds a debate and nobody shows up?
• Schaeffer: Why Judge Nap’s Freedom Watch will be missed.
• Olbermann vs Breitbart: Fishbowl DC calls it for Breitbart.  Mediaite’s Christopher defends Olby, as Breitbart posse redoubles their Olbermann slams.
• Cal Thomas to Maddow: Let’s do lunch.  Q&A: Harris-Perry.
• VIdeos: Bill O’Reilly on Today and Fox & Friends.  CNN temp sets.
• Propagating propaganda: from Media Matters to MSNBC airwaves.

Tags: ratings 2012, judgenap, olbermann, maddow, oreilly, friends

• The Five video: The Constitution don’t get no respect?
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• It’s a Roger Ailes book boom.  Is Olbermann hanging by a thread?
• New Pew: Cable channels take the lead for campaign news.  MSNBC, FNC viewers most politically knowledgeable.  Analysis.
• Weekend numbers.  Michael Barone in Peoria.  Caucus coverage.
• Video: Red Eye five-year anniversary retrospective part one, part two.
• Q&A: Neil Cavuto, Liz Claman.  Dylan Ratigan’s anger management.
• Wemple: Roland Martin hasn’t been anti-gay on CNN so he’s ‘clean’?

Tags: ratings 2012, olbermann, redeye

• The Five video: Is Obama at war with the Catholic Church?
• Another news channel? ABC/Disney and Univision ponder.
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Reynolds: Fox News riding high in ratings and revenues.
• Bauder: Presidential campaign raises Bret Baier’s profile.
• Fareed Zakaria given Justice award, Maddow gets Steinbeck.
• Nevada caucus numbers.  Today’s firing demand.
• Dana: Erratic Olbermann the key to Current’s future.
• Q&A: Liz Claman.  Orman controversy continues (via ICN).
• ‘Mayor of the Morning’ demoted, Acosta promoted, Marquez hired.
• Hot & Not: Fox News, Page Six, Amanpour, Backstory, Nevada etc.

Tags: ratings 2012, baier, maddow, olbermann, icn

• 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 2012, shep, friends, redeye, olbermann, 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: olbermann, piers, baier, icn, friends

• 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, ratings 2012, piers, matthews, oreilly, mediaite

• The Five video: New Years resolutions are made to be broken.
• Rick Santorum picks a fight...with O’Reilly! Bill to respond?
• Lowry vs Colmes turns personal.  FBN covers Iowa showdown.
• MoJo ad elicits mockery (via ICN).  CNN morning shows debut.

Tags: ratings 2012, friends, icn, 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: ratings 2012, 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: matthews, olbermann

• 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 2012, olbermann, greta

• 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 2012, 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 2011, megyn, icn, shep

• 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: ratings 2011, olbermann

• 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 2011

• 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 2011, olbermann, oreilly

• 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 2011, baier, olbermann, icn, greta, matthews

• 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, cooper, schultz

• 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 2011, oreilly, icn, piers, olbermann

• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Jenna Lee gets ready for her close-up.
• Video: Matthews w/Colbert.  Lewis: MoJo and me.
• Ad Age: FNC may see an election-year windfall.
• Rob Marciano’s a new father.  Today’s Piers PR stunt.
• Kessler: The Five shows why Fox News is a success.
• Video: Chris Wallace with Imus on Penn State and more.
• Video: Dana Perino demonstrates how she gives The Look.

Tags: olbermann

• 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 2011, greta, oreilly, shep, 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 2011, olbermann, cooper, friends

• 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: palin, greta, hannity, 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 2011, greta, oreilly, olbermann, friends, icn, hayes

• 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 2011, icn, baier, megyn, 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: ratings 2011, olbermann, oreilly, redeye, 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 2011, cooper, oreilly, 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.
• 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 2011, olbermann, oreilly

• 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 2011, megyn, olbermann, 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 2011, maddow, olbermann, lemon

• 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.
• Juan Williams’s story.  New Piers problems?  Q&A: Tony Maddox.

Tags: ratings 2011, oreilly, greta, turks, olbermann, piers

• 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 2011, 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: ratings 2011, olbermann

• 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 2011, redeye, cooper, 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: olbermann, 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 2011, olbermann, friends, mojo

• 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’.
• 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 2011, olbermann, audio, beck, mojo, 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 2011, olbermann, mojo

• 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 2011, olbermann, mediamatters

• 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.
• 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 2011, olbermann, oreilly, icn, audio

• 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: olbermann, turks

• 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 2011, olbermann, oreilly, 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.
• 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 2011, matthews, olbermann, audio, mojo

• 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, ratings 2011, beck, o'donnell, 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 2011, cooper, palin, matthews, olbermann, mojo

• 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: olbermann, greta, mojo

• 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 2011, beck, olbermann, maddow, friends, king, mojo

• 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 2011, oreilly, olbermann, shuster, beck, o'donnell, matthews, cooper, mojo

• 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 2011, olbermann, mojo

• 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 2011, shep, olbermann, greta, schultz, huffpo, oreilly, lemon

• 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.  Q&A: D-Rat (v/TVN).
• Adam’s big day: May 14.  Big Ed sued.  Meade hosts concert.

Tags: ratings 2011, olbermann, schultz, audio, mojo

• 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 2011, olbermann, 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 2011, maddow, olbermann, 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, ratings 2011, 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 2011, olbermann, cooper, hannity, mojo

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.

Tags: ratings 2011, olbermann, baier, 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.
• 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 2011, olbermann, shep, beck

• 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: palin, beck, piers, olbermann, 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.
• Greta: Don’t worry about Cenk Uygur, he won’t be around long.
• Video: Geraldo enraged over pat down of 6-yr-old.
• 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 2011, judgenap, beck, redeye, olbermann, greta, turks, 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 2011, beck, olbermann, 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, olbermann, palin, 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 2011, friends, 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 2011, palin, greta, 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 2011, audio, olbermann, 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 2011, o'donnell, oreilly, olbermann, greta, mojo

• 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 2011, cooper, olbermann

• Video: Reliable Sources on AOL/HuffPo.
• Video: Fox News Watch on AOL/HuffPo and Olbermann’s move to Current TV; 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: olbermann, mojo

• 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!
• PolitiFact dings Maddow over false Fox attack.
• Egyptian crisis continues as newsers depart.
• Coop tells Letterman about being pummeled.

Tags: ratings 2011, audio, olbermann, turks, schultz, greta, 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.
• 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: ratings 2011, redeye, 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 2011, olbermann, cooper, o'donnell

• 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.
• 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, olbermann, 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 2011, piers, schultz, olbermann, parker, spitzer

• 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 2011, olbermann, maddow, 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.
• 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 2011, schultz, olbermann, greta, redeye

• 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 2011, olbermann, beck, cooper, baier, piers, schultz, audio

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• 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.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.

Tags: olbermann, icn, parker, spitzer, 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, ratings 2011, piers, megyn, 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 2011, olbermann, piers, friends, hannity, 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 2011, cooper, piers, olbermann, matthews, 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 2011, piers, parker, maddow, mojo, 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 2011, piers, parker, olbermann, spitzer, icn

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• 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: parker, spitzer, megyn, olbermann, 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 .
• 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 2011, oreilly, olbermann, friends, piers, cooper, mojo, schultz, audio

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• 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.

Tags: olbermann, ratings 2010, icn

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2010, cooper, olbermann, maddow, greta, friends, piers, shuster

• 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.
• Part two: The Nick Shurn Matter  listen.
• Part three: The Nick Shurn Matter  listen.
• Part four: The Nick Shurn Matter  listen.
• Part five: The Nick Shurn Matter  listen.

Tags: 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.

Tags: ratings 2010, olbermann, 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.

Tags: ratings 2010, olbermann, hannity, icn

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• 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.

Tags: greta, friends, olbermann, 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.

Tags: ratings 2010, olbermann, 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’.
• 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 2010, olbermann, audio, friends, 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 2010, baier, olbermann, friends, greta, palin, oreilly, king, mojo

• 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.
• Non-eye-contact Q&A: Chris Matthews.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.

Tags: king, baier, redeye, olbermann, 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.
• 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’.

Tags: ratings 2010, oreilly, olbermann, 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 2010, matthews, o'donnell, olbermann, maddow, 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 2010, megyn, beck, parker, spitzer, olbermann

• 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, ratings 2010, oreilly, maddow

Tags: mediamatters, crooks, newshounds, olbermann

• 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: judgenap, olbermann, 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 2010, mojo, mediamatters, greta, cooper, olbermann, 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 2010, parker, spitzer, baier, oreilly, olbermann, palin, mojo

• 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: boehlert, mediamatters, 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, cooper, palin, mojo

• 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 2010, shep, olbermann, megyn, cooper, schultz, mojo

• 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 2010, shep, beck, olbermann, maddow, mojo

• 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 2010, olbermann, 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?
• 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 2010, piers, olbermann, friends, oreilly, 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: olbermann, oreilly, 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 2010, king, beck, friends, olbermann, oreilly

• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
• Video: Scarborough discusses Olby on The View.
• 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 2010, olbermann, beck, oreilly, judgenap, mojo

• 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 2010, olbermann, megyn, maddow, hannity, 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, ratings 2010, olbermann, 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, ratings 2010, icn, mojo

• Mag turns Gretchen Carlson profile into hate-Fox fest.
• Olby tweets: a sign ‘suspension’ to end soon? Yes: KO back Tuesday.
• Olby suspended on refusal to apologize on air: a game of chicken.  Is the whole thing an elaborate publicity stunt?
• Q&A: Jonathan Wald.  A tribute to the King.
• Video: Reliable Sources on Stewart rally, midterm coverage.
• Video: Fox News Watch on 2010 election coverage.
• Zurawik: Maddow’s petulant pout of false self-importance.
• Mediaite: KO supporters argue irrelevancies.  Flashback: Olby on Juan Williams (h/t jtLOL); more.  KO suspension ignites debate.  MSNBC at a crossroads.  Guardian: back him, don’t sack him.  Malkin: No freaking way!  Top ten Olbermann replacements.
• The Wrap: no donations found for FNC on-air journalists.
• Maddow defends Olby: he broke the rules, but it’s Fox’s fault.
• Video: Bill O’Reilly with Bill Maher.
• Election night at Fox News.
• Sunday talkers: tip sheet, preview, HuffPo recap.

Tags: maddow, friends, olbermann, king, oreilly

• Kurtz: Olby should apologize.  Tyndall: Olbermann self-destructive.  ICN: rebuild that wall!  Zurawik: MSNBC had little choice.  Audio: John Gibson reacts.  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, icn, beck, ratings 2010, oreilly, audio

• 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 2010, oreilly, olbermann, turks, baier, spitzer

• 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.
• 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 2010, olbermann, matthews, audio

• 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 2010, 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 2010, megyn, greta, piers, 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 2010, olbermann, friends, beck, oreilly, mojo

• 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 2010, oreilly, olbermann, icn, mojo

Tags: mediamatters, boehlert, olbermann, schultz

• 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?

Tags: ratings 2010, friends, olbermann, redeye, greta, mojo

• 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.

Tags: maddow, ratings 2010, oreilly, redeye, olbermann, icn, palin

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2010, redeye, friends, cooper, olbermann

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2010, cooper, olbermann, oreilly, parker, spitzer, beck, maddow

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2010, spitzer, parker, olbermann, friends

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2010, parker, spitzer, olbermann, matthews, maddow, oreilly, cooper, mojo, o'donnell