Gawker has published an article alleging that Shep Smith wished to come out publicly and due to that, he lost the 7 P.M. timeslot. The article tries to spin Smith’s promotion as a breaking news anchor as actually a demotion. Politico’s Dylan Byers has found many holes in the story. […]
Awhile back, FTVLive posted video from a CNN town hall with President Jeff Zucker answering employee-submitted questions as moderated by Anderson Cooper. The video revealed that many employees, including management, are fearful of Zucker and there is intimidation surrounding him. Zucker responded that he wants pushback with his ideas. Interestingly, […]
This week, Michael Smerconish returns to the 9 P.M. timeslot on CNN. For the past two weeks, Bill Weir has been anchoring using the CNN Tonight branding. CNN Tonight will become a permanent show this summer in the 10 o’clock slot. However, tonight, Smerconish’s show did not use the CNN […]
South Korea’s prime minister, Chung Hong-won, has announced his resignation after a botched government response to the sunken ferry incident. As opposed to other countries with a prime minister, most of the power is concentrated with the President so this move is largely symbolic. A spokesman for South Korean President […]
With the week’s ratings out, the results are that Jake Tapper and The Lead failed to surpass any of Michael Smerconish’s demos in the week-over-week. Although Graph 1 does show that both shows followed similar trends in their weekday programming. Spikes on Monday before slowing down on Tuesday, a spike […]
