Tag: nbc

NBC and the AP are both reporting the House Appropriations Committee Chairman, David Obey (D-WI) will retire this year.

Mediaite has obtained an email from MSNBC boss Phil Griffin to a viewer who was upset over Shuster not being on the air. Here’s what Griffin said: From: Griffin, Phil (NBC Universal) Sent: Wed 4/07/10 11:16 PM Sorry, but this is a business and I need team players. He was not moral, ethical or professional […]

Looks like the network news is in some trouble: “I just looked out at the next five years and was concerned that we could not sustain doing what we were doing,” said David Westin, the president of ABC News, as he explained the decision last week to jettison up to 400 staff members, a quarter […]

I hate getting into this late night media war, but this is getting to interesting to pass up. Conan O’Brien is telling NBC that if they follow through with plans to return Leno to the 11:35 slot then he is out of there: Last Thursday, NBC executives told me they intended to move the Tonight […]

We knew this was coming: The agreement will create a joint venture, with Comcast owning 51 percent and G.E. owning 49 percent. Comcast will contribute to the joint venture its stable of cable channels, which includes Versus, the Golf Channel and E Entertainment, worth about $7.25 billion, and will pay G.E. about $6.5 billion in […]

Absolutely fucking amazing. Scarborough dishonored the memory of the slain officers just to protect his BFF Huckabee. MSNBC should hang their head very low in shame today and Morning Joe should be cancelled. UPDATE: Within 8 minutes of his show starting, Dylan Ratigan started covering the shootings. NBC even has a reporter on the scene, […]

Another just now moment from Morning Joe. Erin Burnett was on doing her morning economic talk. She then turned to the news that Comcast is looking to buy NBC Universal, something that NBC Universal is strongly denying. Right in the middle of the talk Morning Joe went straight to commercial. When they came back they […]

The new NBC poll has a little bit of good news for the Democrats. When asked how they approve the Democrats in Congress, here is how they respond: They get a net positive of 42, as compared to the Republicans, who have a net positive of only 28: But when it comes to Afghanistan, the […]

That big protest we heard about last night – the one that would force NBC to fire Letterman by show of the will of the people? Well we now have a new definition of fail: A protest rally against David Letterman over a failed joke about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her daughter attracted more […]

Richard Cohen has decided it’s time to defend Jim Cramer: What Jon Stewart needs is Jon Stewart. He could use a droll comedian to temper his ferocity and correct him when he’s wrong, as he was about the financial media, particularly CNBC and its excitable analyst Jim Cramer. They didn’t cover up the story of […]