Sandra Lee
The 2010 Census road trip is now officially synonymous with simpering network news coverage…but of course! Jeff Immelt’s NBC was pandering to the administration without even a pretense of actually doing an interview. Today Show on You Tube.
The 2010 Census “Portrait of America Road Tour” set off from New York City this week. And the media types at NBC News and the Today Show ate it up with the proverbial spoon. read more…
Senator John Kerry didn’t want Time Warner Cable and News Corp. messing up everyone's New Year's Day football plans
Click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2
New Year’s Day came complete with hangover remedies and football…but no government assistance required, thank you very much. We should thank the gods of television for the latter because John Kerry was willing to invoke Capitol Hill to make sure no American would be deprived of the pigskin classics. read more…
The epic battle of television titans was quietly and peacefully concluded in the waning hours of 2009. At least it was reported like an epic battle, but was actually no more and no less than the free market system at work.
When MSNBC headlined Friday night at 9:17pm
“Millions could have lost channel if News Corp cable giant didn’t agree”
it was disingenuous at best. read more…
CNN reported late Friday that FOX was not going to “pull” its programming from some 15 million Time Warner subscribers after all. Pull? Interesting word choice. Thank God no American will be deprived of American Idol.
The FOX television network spent the month of December negotiating with Time Warner Cable on behalf of it’s 18 large-market television stations…the contract for cable carriage was expiring and FOX wanted payment for it’s popular programming ala the payments Time Warner Cable makes to ESPN, TNT, HBO, etc.
Both CNN & NBC missed the point. FOX was not depriving anyone of anything. They were simply & finally insistent that Time Warner Cable, who profits from the FOX programming compensate FOX as the programmer. Wow, what a concept. (And one that NewsReal’s Joe Klein had a post about last week.) read more…
