Atlanta sources are telling FTVLive that CNN national correspondent Alina Cho is out the door at the cable network.
Sources say that Cho who joined the CNN in February 2004 quietly left the network a week ago.
Word is that her contract was not renewed.
No public goodbye, no memo, no one talking.
Her bio remains on the CNN website. Word is she will file a story or two from fashion week but then you can stick a fork in her....she's done.
You gots to love TV news.
CNN's Don Lemon has been trending on Twitter. Not because he told Black teens to pull their pants up.
He's trending because he got a haircut.
Lemon posted a picture of his "high top fade" and the Twitterverse went crazy.
Word is that Anderson Cooper and Kate Bolduan are getting the exact same haircut later Today.
Stay tuned....
Keith Olberman's ratings are dropping faster than a pass from Tim Tebow (i just put Tebow's name in this story to get traffic from search engines).
Olby's new show debuted on ESPN 2 back in late August. The first show like all those since have been all about Keith Olbermann as seen through the eyes of Keith Olbermann.
Olby's first show pulled a good number with 319,000 total viewers, according to Nielsen.
On night two, that dipped to 200,000. And by night three on Wednesday, “Olbermann” drew less than a third of its opening-night audience, 86,000.
The show did not air in its regular timeslot on Thursday or Friday.
The big decreases suggest that people tuned in the first night merely out of curiosity, to see what Olbermann, who left ESPN in 1997 after a falling out with the network, would say.
Looks like Olbermann might not be as interesting as he thinks he is.
Hoda wasn't even drinking wine when she made a big boo boo on this mornings Today Show.
Hoda and Kathie Lee were getting their first look at the new Samsung smart watch.
Kotb decided to use her cell phone to call herself on the watch's phone she was demonstrating.
She turned her wrist to the camera just before the watch started to ring. When it did, like most phones, it displayed the phone number calling — Hoda's very own personal cell phone line.
Sure enough, within minutes, the calls started pouring in. Stranger after stranger began dialing Hoda, who answered the initial round of calls.
“That was from Bridgeport,” she said after the first caller hung up on her.
“Did it really show my number? Oh my God, it’s doing it again,” she said, looking at her cell phone. “Hello. Hello? Who is this?”
And the calls kept coming.
More plus the video after the hop.
Read MoreYesterday, NBC's Brian Williams had a story on Nightly News that car sales had their best August in years.
And I'm happy to say that I contributed to that.
I have been on the car market for quite awhile, but I really didn't have the guts (or the money) to buy a car.
I kept putting it off and I decided now was the time.
I have my 2006 Hummer H3 that I love, but it is not a practical everyday car. The gas mileage sucks and I knew I wanted something smaller and a vehicle that got good gas mileage.
I was talking to KIRO (Seattle) News Director Bob Jordan a couple of months ago. Bob drives a Chevy Volt which is an electric car that you plug in and charge. The car goes for about 50 miles on a charge and then an onboard gas engine kicks in and keeps the car going after the electric charge has run out.
Bob urged me to go drive the Chevy Volt and he promised I would love it. I took the Volt for a test drive and Bob was right, I loved it.
If Fox News doesn't use this as their new theme song, then I don't know what's wrong with the world.
CBS MoneyWatch Anchor Ashley Morrison is quitting her job over her commute.
Ashley is the wife of former WCBS Anchor Ron Morrison, who was arrested by police for chocking and threatening to kill his wife.
Ashley abruptly resigned from her anchor job yesterday complaining that a new, longer commute from her Darien, CT home to Lower Manhattan was too much to bear.
Ashley broke the news on her Facebook page:
"So after much careful consideration and thought I have quit my job at CBS News," Morrison wrote on Facebook Wednesday. "They want to start doing `Moneywatch 'from the NYSE in the mornings beginning next week and I just couldn't take on the additional 1.5-2 hour commute it would add to my day. I want to THANK YOU all for watching over the past 4 years at CBS and making me a part of your mornings on tv!! I'm very grateful for the opportunity I had at CBS, it was great fun and hopefully you'll be seeing me again soon!! XO"
As for Rob, he took a conditional guilty plea, admitting to "threatening" in the second degree and disorderly conduct for the February fracas. He still has to face the judge on other charges from the incident.
The Morrison's have started living together again after the incident and now it appears that both are unemployed.
Stay tuned....
H/T NY Daily News
WSB in Atlanta went a bit overboard with their proof of performance promo after a gunman broke into an Atlanta school and took hostages.
The gunman asked a school administrator to call WSB. The station turned that fact into a promo.
In other words WSB was crowing at the fact that they are the number 1 news station for hostage taking, school invading gunmen.
Really?!
Watch the promo after the jump.
Read MoreKatie the Cougar admits that when her boyfriend asked her to marry him, it took her awhile to say "yes."
“I knew that I wanted this,” the TV newswoman said of finding a new spouse after her first husband, Jay Monahan, died of colon cancer in 1998.
“I made it a priority, and I pursued it with some purpose,” Couric, 56, told People magazine as she gushed about her Labor Day weekend engagement to John Molner.
Before meeting financier Molner, 50, Couric tried her luck with TV producer Tom Werner and eco-CEO Brooks Perlin, who was 17 years her junior.
Although she’d been hoping for another turn on the marriage go-round, Couric said she was shocked when Molner, 50, popped the question on a Hamptons beach.
“He said that there was a reason he’d brought me there to the beach, and that he loved me and was committed to me, and I said, ‘Yeah, I know that, you didn’t have to bring me here to tell me that,’” Couric recounted.
“Finally he said, ‘Couric, I’m trying to propose to you,’ ” she said. “And I was stunned. [It] took me a while to say yes, because I was so confused!”
H/T Page Six
The Internet has come a long way baby.
CBS boss Les Moonves thinks ads rates on network television and for TV show viewing online will soon be the same, "so we won't care where you watch," CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves told CNBC on Wednesday.
Moonves—fresh from his network's win over Time Warner Cable in their contract dispute—predicted in a CNBC interview that ad parity could come in three to five years. "If you go on a college campus today, most of the kids are watching their shows online."
That's why CBS had pushed back so hard on Time Warner Cable over digital rights. "One of the things that we won," he said, "is the ability to slice and dice our content all over the place. To put it on Netflix, to put it on Amazon, to let people binge-view."
CBS also got TWC to pay higher network retransmission fees. "We are the No. 1 network ... for 10 of the last 11 years," Moonves said. "Don't you think we should get fair value for that?"
More on Moonves after the hop.
Read MoreFormer KVAL (Eugene) and KMTR weather anchor Tim Joyce plans to visit Eugene this week, but not for a walk down memory lane.
KVAL reports that Joyce said his family has been unable to contact his sister, Emily Joyce, since last month.
He said his sister left home in Eugene late Thursday night. On Monday, she visited a friend in rural Lane County near Lorane. She did not say where she was headed.
"We have a report that she was last seen on MONDAY at a house-sit in a rural area SW of Eugene," he posted on Facebook. "According to my source she was also in good spirits as well. I find this highly promising news."
He said the 36-year-old graduated this summer from the University of Oregon with a degree in dance.
Joyce said his sister had been in good spirits. Last week, he got texts from friends about Emily that concerned him.
Joyce said he thinks his sister may have headed toward the coast in her burgundy Toyota Tacoma pickup. He said her friends have already started posting flyers in an attempt to find her.
There's not much police can do when an adult chooses not to contact family members. Joyce hopes people in Lane County will help his family find his sister and let her know they are trying to get in touch with her.
WBDT is expanding their 10PM newscast starting on Monday.
The show is produced be sister station WDTN and it's expanding from 30 minutes to one hour.
Why is the station expanding the newscast?
Because the viewers demanded it of course.
“The main reason for expanding 2 NEWS at 10 on Dayton’s CW to one hour is due to audience demand,” said Joe Abouzeid, WDTN & WBDT President & General Manager. “We listen to our viewers and it was clear to us that they wanted more local news and weather at a time that’s convenient to them.”
WDTN began airing newscasts on Dayton’s CW at 10 p.m. in August 2007.
Now let's see what quote the Creative Services Department made up for the News Director:
“Expanding 2 NEWS at 10 on Dayton’s CW to one hour allows the 2 NEWS team to bolster our coverage of breaking news, 2 NEWS investigations, and the best weather coverage in the market,” said Denise Eck, 2 NEWS News Director. “Our team is committed to working for our viewers and we’re excited to give them more local news and weather.”
WLBZ (Bangor) Sports Anchor Melissa Kim said Maine “will always have a special place in my heart,” but she's putting it in her rearview mirror.
Kim is leaving to take a sports reporter job at WIAT CBS 42 in Birmingham, Ala. She will start there Sept. 16, and her last day at WLBZ is Friday.
“It’s definitely going to be a huge change. But I’m really excited,” said the 29-year-old Kim, who has spent 3 1/2 years in Bangor.
“This was an opportunity I couldn’t say no to … getting a chance to cover football at the University of Alabama,” added Kim. “Football is one of my favorite sports. I love [University of Southern California] football. I got into it because my dad [Kwang Sik Kim] was a professor there.”
Kim said she will get a significant pay increase.
“It’s nice to make more money, but that’s not the reason I’m leaving,” Kim said. “This will give me an opportunity for growth.”
But were sure the extra cash won't hurt.
KMPH in Fresno seems to be losing a number of staffers to the Phoenix market. The station has become a feeder for the Valley of the Sun.
The Fresno Bee writes that Nicole Garcia, an anchor/ reporter for the local FOX affiliate has accepted a job at KSAZ, the FOX television station in Phoenix. Sunday was Garcia's last day on the air here. She had worked in Fresno for more than eight years.
In May, KMPH reporter Erik Rosales announced he was leaving Fresno to take a job at KPNX, the NBC station in Phoenix, as a consumer reporter on the station's morning show. He had been at KMPH almost three years, first as the chief assignment editor and then as a reporter. But, Rosales changed his mind and stayed in Fresno.
Jack Peck, KMPH general manager, says a "nationwide search" has started to find a replacement for Garcia.
And speaking of the Fresno market, The Bee also reports that the 6 p.m. weekend newscasts on KSEE (Channel 24.1) and KGPE (Channel 47.1) have been dropped through the upcoming college and NFL football seasons. Both TV stations will continue to broadcast news at 11 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.
Matt Rosenfeld, president and general manager of both stations, says he will decide whether or not to bring back the newscasts after the football season is done.
PBS has decided to expand its anchor newscast “Newshour” to weekends starting this Saturday and Sunday, and its anchor says don’t worry if you’re not home to watch it.
“Of course we’d love to have everyone tune in at 6,” says Hari Sreenivasan. “But we recognize that realistically, that’s not going to happen.”
Rather, he says, “Weekend NewsHour” is looking for an aggregate audience: some viewers who watch live, some who tape it for later viewing and some who watch feature segments as much as 48 hours earlier.
“Social media has changed the role of evening newscasts,” says Sreenivasan, who worked at NBC, ABC and CBS before coming to PBS in 2009. “We’re no longer the place you go to see something first.
More after the leap.
Read MoreDown Boy....
The fall interns are here...
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