It was Wednesday morning at 9:47 a.m. in the White House Press Briefing Room. The president of the United States of America, Barack Obama, took the podium. Major television networks had interrupted coverage to broadcast the president's address. "Now, let me just comment, first of all, on the fact that I can't get the networks Read More
A series of insane emails that purportedly came from Keith Olbermann were actually the work of Tucker Carlson's Conservative news site, The Daily Caller.
The fake correspondence was published on the Philadelphia gossip site Phawker.com, which has since published a correction. The email exchange began when Philadelphia Daily News reporter Stu Bykofsky contacted Read More
MSNBC host Keith Olbermann donated a total of $7,200 to three different Democrats prior to Tuesday's election. NBC, like many other news organizations, has a policy against its employees making political contributions.
Olbermann gave $2,400 apiece, the maximum allowable by law, to Arizona Reps. Raul Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords, and to Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Read More
Phil Griffin the president of MSNBC sees a lot to admire in Roger Ailes' work at Fox News, according to a piece today in The Chicago Tribune.
Mr. Griffin was in Chicago last week to meet with advertisers. Along the way, he met up with the Tribune's Phil Rosenthal.
Here's what Mr. Griffin told Mr. Rosenthal Read More
Just a few weeks after pulling David Shuster off the air, MSNBC president Phil Griffin has now pulled Mr. Shuster's temporary fill-in, Donny Deutsch, off the air as well.
Chris Ariens of TV Newser reports that the move was made following yesterday's 3 p.m. show, during which Mr. Deutsch did a segment about anger Read More
In early April, when MSNBC President Phil Griffin announced that talk radio veteran Ed Schultz was joining the cable news network to anchor the 6 p.m. hour, he said little about the details of the deal, other than to note that he was “thrilled to have Ed kicking-off our primetime lineup.”
The 6 p.m. Read More
On Wednesday night, Joe Scarborough stood in the back room at Michael's restaurant, and publicly thanked his wife, Susan, who stood a few feet away, for inspiring the evolution of his political punditry at MSNBC. "The first couple of weeks I was on MSNBC, every night I would come home and Read More
On a recent Thursday morning, John Kelly, an NBC executive who, among other jobs, oversees ad sales for MSNBC, sat in his office overlooking Rockefeller Plaza and fired up a presentation called “The Face Behind the Momentum.”
Sitting at a desk, beneath a framed drawing of Uncle Sam with an NBC peacock logo on his hat, Read More
Last night, MSNBC President Phil Griffin officially announced that progressive radio host Ed Schultz would be joining the network and anchoring a new 6 p.m. weekday program, called The Ed Show, premiering Monday, April 6. Danny Shea of the Huffington Post broke the news.
With advertising revenue in freefall and hiring freezes creeping through the TV news industry, it’s not everyday that we hear of a network actually adding a staffer. But on Tuesday, we heard of three new hires.
Three!
The hiring boomlet made for an unusually cheerful day in NYTV’s inbox.
To Read More
On Monday evening, for the third time in less than a month, progressive radio host Ed Schultz filled in for David Shuster as the host of MSNBC’s 6 p.m. show 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
About 10 minutes into Monday’s telecast, Mr. Schultz reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a blue credit card. Looking into Read More
The Observer has learned that MSNBC president Phil Griffin is in discussions with syndicated talk radio host Ed Schultz about possibly joining the network on a full-time basis. It is unclear what exactly the job would entail should Mr. Schultz and MSNBC come to an agreement.
On March 10, Mr. Schultz, who bills himself Read More
On the morning of Monday, March 9th, liberal talk radio host Ed Schultz, who bills himself as the "most listened-to progressive radio talk show host in America," announced on his Web site that he would be guest-hosting MSNBC's 6 p.m. show 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue the following evening.
Word of the announcement promptly touched off Read More
MSNBC President Phil Griffin announced today that the cable news channel has extended Keith Olbermann's contract through 2012.
In February of last year, MSNBC and Mr. Olbermann reached an agreement that would keep the Countdown host under contract through 2011.
The new agreement would seem to extend Mr. Olbermann's commitment to MSNBC Read More
Felix Gillette talks to MSNBC president Phil Griffin, who says, "A lot of people like to make fun of cable... They think it’s something for people who don’t get news. No. It’s for people who really understand news, want depth and want it from people they connect to."
John Koblin gets the details Read More
