NBA Coach Goes off On DC Reporter

NBA Coach Goes off On DC Reporter

The coach of the NBA's Washington Wizards went off on WUSA Sports Reporter Kevin Jones, after he compared the struggling team to the circus.

Jones asked Wizards head coach Randy Wittman  ‘The circus was here this past weekend. Is it a relief to you that this is no longer a circus?’

The exchange after the Jump and the Reporter's Twitter post about the incident after the Hop  ​

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Leading from the Back of The Pack

Leading from the Back of The Pack

​The New Face off CNN (until Jeff Zucker hires another new face) Jake Tapper's show is leading the way when it comes to be last in the ratings.​

Tapper's show 'The Lead'  is a week old and the good news it has nowhere to go but up.

The Lead was last if Tapper's first week on air.​ The show pulled in 352,000 Total Viewers putting it firmly in last place in its time slot.

More after the Skip  ​

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Guy gives Wet Willie During Live Shot

Guy gives Wet Willie During Live Shot

​WCAU in Philly was doing a local angle to the New Pope story. Like most times when a station tries to localize a international story it was boring.

But watch the guy on the back left of the screen give his buddy a wet willie during the live shot. ​

The guy that shot this video I'm sure had watched it a few times before he decided to record it and post it to YouTube. But he still snickered like a 5th grader as the guy gives his buddy the wet digit.

I'm betting you'll snicker as well when you watch it. ​

The video after the Jump   ​

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Miami Station Owner Loses Lawsuit against Nielsen

Miami Station Owner Loses Lawsuit against Nielsen

We have to admit, we were pulling for WSVN owner Ed Ansin on this one. ​

Ansin's company,​ Sunbeam Television, which owns WSVN (Miami) and WHDH (Boston) has lost it's legal battle against Nielsen Media Research.

Sunbeam claimed that Nielsen was a monopoly, which in our opinion they totally are.​

But the courts didn't see it that way.​

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Howie Kurtz Plays Nice with Candy and Poppy

Howie Kurtz Plays Nice with Candy and Poppy

​Howard Kurtz's show on CNN with the very ironic title of “Reliable Sources” had some good stories to cover this past week. 

His show is supposed to be about the media and their coverage of the news.​

This week Howie picked a number of topics to cover. ​

The Jay Leno debacle at NBC.  Another new  about Fox Boss Roger Ailes. The Daily Caller’s ailing story on Sen. Robert Menendez and a few other stories were packed into Howie's show.

But one story that seemed to get at least as much play as some of those above was CNN's awful coverage of the Steubenville Rape Case Verdict.

Howie's excuse as to why he didn't cover the story after the Jump  ​

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MSNBC Boss Expects to Pass Fox News Next Year

MSNBC Boss Expects to Pass Fox News Next Year

MSNBC Boss Phil Griffin is either, Very confident,  very optimistic , or he's smoking crack.

Griffin thinks that MSNBC has Fox News on the ropes and the cable giant is going down in the next year.​

In a story in The New Republic in which glows so much about Griffin, you might think he wrote it himself. Griffin feels MSNBC is hitting it's stride and will soon be running right past Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and the rest of the gang at Fox News.

What does the gang at MSNBC called Fox News? Find out after the Jump  ​

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Shepard Smith Talks about His Sleeping Partner

Shepard Smith Talks about His Sleeping Partner

​Shepard Smith has a ritual ​every morning when he wakes up.

Before he even goes to the bathroom, Shep checks in with his partner that sleeps in bed with him every night.​

In the LA Times they ask Shep about sleeping with his Samsung Galaxy phone in the bed with him?

Shep sets the record straight and says that's not true.

​He sets the record straight about the Bounce  
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NBC Wouldn't Let Curry Tweet Support for Robin Roberts

NBC Wouldn't Let Curry Tweet Support for Robin Roberts

​When ABC's Robin Roberts returned to the air just 5 months after a bone marrow transplant, everyone was happy to return.

It was an amazing story of a woman that had courage and the fight to take on a procedure ​that quite frankly is often fatal to the patient.

When Roberts was leaving GMA to have her transplant, the ousted Today Anchor wanted to show her support in some small way. She wanted to send out a Tweet to her million plus followers showing Roberts that she was in her thoughts.​

It was another class act by Ann Curry, but it was never seen by her followers or anyone else.​

Find out why after the Hop  ​

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Judge Clears Scary Larry in Lawsuit

Judge Clears Scary Larry in Lawsuit

Former Philly Larry Mendte has been cleared in a lawsuit filed by the co-anchor who's email he hacked.​ But as Yogi Berra used to say "It ain't over till it's over." 

The Philly Daily News writes that Common Pleas Judge Allan L. Tereshko has dismissed the remaining claims filed against the former KYW anchor by ex-colleague Alycia Lane.

But Lane's attorney, Paul Rosen, made it very clear that he planned to appeal the ruling.

More after the Jump  ​

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Lauer and Agent had ABC Believing he was Headed There

Lauer and Agent had ABC Believing he was Headed There

The long story in Today's NY Magazine about Matt Lauer has a interesting item.​

It says that the folks at ABC were sure they had a deal for Lauer to come to their network.​

NY Mag writes "For a few days in late March, Iger, Zucker, and Sherwood all believed they had been told by both Lauer and his agent, Ken Linder, that Lauer was coming to ABC. In their minds, the deal was done, with only the legalities to be worked out."

But it didn't and ABC was pissed. Read that after the Jump  ​

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Up is Down at MSNBC

Up is Down at MSNBC

Chris Hayes (a guy you don't know) signed off from MSNBC's 'Up'​ (a show you never heard of) for a new show that you'll never watch.

​Hayes is taking over Ed "I was Not Demoted" Schultz's 8PM time slot at MSNBC. 'Up' is being taken over by Steve Kornacki, currently co-host of "The Cycle" (you haven't heard of him or that show either).

More on what Hayes is promising for his new show after the Jump  ​

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News Director Tries to ​Bring Buffalo Station Back from the Dead

News Director Tries to ​Bring Buffalo Station Back from the Dead

​WKBW (Buffalo) News Director Polly Van Doren has monumental task before her. 

It's kind of like being handed the steering wheel of the Titanic after it hit the iceberg.

Doren is the relatively ​new News Director of WKBW, a station that used to be one of the most dominate in the country.

But that was over a decade ago.

KBW went from First to Worst in the matter of just a couple of ratings books back in the early 2000's and it continues to live in the ratings basement ever since. ​

After the Jump, find out why Van Doren is moving a picture out of the station's lobby to try and help ratings.​

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Small Market Station Gets News Chopper

Small Market Station Gets News Chopper

In big markets it's not uncommon for stations to have news helicopters that have 3, 4, 5 or even more cameras on board.​

But, when you're in a small market, you have to do it more economically, which is the fancy word for cheap.​

WTXL in Tallahassee, Florida has teamed up with a helicopter school to get the market's first ever news chopper.

Don't look for 5 on board cameras in this baby. 

More on Eggbeater ​27 after the Hop

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