Politico Rebuilds Its Media Desk

Politico announced on Wednesday evening that Michael Calderone, currently the senior media reporter for HuffPost, is rejoining the news organization. Calderone will start at Politico on September 19 and then take over the Morning Media newsletter the following week. Calderone first joined Politico in 2007 when it was still a […]


Newsy Acquires RLTV’s Subscriber Base in Cable Push

Retirement Living Television has sold its carriage contracts to Scripps’s Newsy service, a news service that is primarily streaming and online content. Newsy is already in 14 million homes but the deal with RLTV will boost it to 40 million. “Newsy has already made a name for itself among millennial […]


Fox News Sets Premiere Date for OBJECTified

Fox News has set the premiere date for OBJECTified, its new weekly, 10 episode interview series. The show is hosted by TMZ founder and managing editor Harvey Levin. The series got its start as a special interview with President-elect Donald Trump in November of last year. It was a ratings […]


Cable News’s Day Gets Longer 1

With a seemingly nonstop cycle of breaking news, the cable news day has gotten longer with two networks making 11 PM coverage permanent. MSNBC starts the day at 5 AM with Morning Joe First Look. The night ends however at midnight after one hour of Brian Williams’s The 11th Hour. […]


Who’s Who on the News?

There are a variety of titles on cable news, but confusion about what is expected of each role. Therefore, TKNN has produced a handy guide to the various personalities seen on cable news. ANCHOR/HOST: The two titles tend to be interchangeably in American news. Technically, host should be used for […]