Today was Today show anchor Meredith Vieira's last day on the program. It was a very solemn occasion where they took time to recall her important moments like dancing with the Rockettes, falling down while ice skating, being attacked by Robin Williams and Russell Brand, polishing Colin Firth's trophy, and interviewing…
Divers off the coast of North Carolina recovered the third-largest anchor from what's believed to be the remains of the pirate Blackbeard's ship, Queen Anne's Revenge. It's 11 feet and four inches long (seven feet, seven inches wide), and covered — as you can see — with gross ocean stuff. No word on whether or not…
Mark Haines, CNBC's lovable and irascible drunk uncle, has died suddenly, the network reported this morning. Haines was the founding anchor of Squawk Box, one of the financial network's signature shows. He was with CNBC for 22 years. No cause of death has been announced.
The Guardian has a big fat profile of MSNBC's Rachel Maddow today and the most interesting part is that she basically tells every news anchor who isn't out of the closet to just tell the world already. Yeah, that means you, Andy Coop.
Philadelphia's misbehaving news anchors are the most exciting thing to come out of the Philly media scene since AJ Daulerio! Former Philly CBS anchor Alycia Lane (pictured) is famous for slugging a cop and emailing bikini photos of herself; fellow former Philly anchor Larry Mendte made his name by hacking into Lane's…
Is this the first casualty of high-definition widescreen? Houston news anchor Owen Conflenti flipped off his coworkers mid-broadcast, but failed to anticipate his studio's new widescreen cameras. His off-screen obscenity was broadcast to everyone in Houston with an HD-TV.
Former CNN stud Thomas Roberts officially has a job at MSNBC. Congrats! To celebrate, watch this completely gratuitous and rather shirtless report he did about measuring body fat percentage. Yes, he's that gay, and we love him for it.
Last night, CNN's Anderson Cooper did a story about bonobo apes that can communicate. They ordered him to put on a bunny suit and, like a good reporter, he did. This treads the fine line between ridiculous and adorable.
Kimmo Wilska, an English-language anchor in Finland, was fired for drinking on a live television broadcast. Ironically, he was caught while reporting on alcohol violations in bars. Wilska claims it was a prank to entertain his co-workers.
Ex-CNN anchor Rick Sanchez has broken his silence and released a public statement about the regrettable, uh, ethnic comments that led to his firing last week. It's fairly restrained — not a single Jew joke or anything. Full text, below.
Tina Knowles was midway through a plus-sized fashion show during the last hour of Today when Beyoncé burst onto set and surprised everyone. No one was as surprised as Hoda Kotb, who completely lost her sh*t. Hysterical slow-mo video inside!
Granted, noon is the equivalent of 6PM when you host a morning show. In GQ's new profile of Joe Scarborough, the professional chit-chatter reveals his sexual fixations and calls co-host Mika Brzezinski "mommy" while she chugs vodka from a mug.
Anchors/reporters are the celebrities of the news business: a bunch of familiar faces that sometimes won't stop talking. But can you name the newscasters before they became famous? Test your knowledge of these TV mainstays with their yearbook photos, inside.
When Ollie poses the brilliant question "what now?" to Jim back at the station, his reporting prowess is called into question, leading to an all-out old-man cat-fight.
CNN's Larry King, 76, is pulling the plug on his marriage to Shawn Southwick, 50. They were married in 1997 and have two sons together. King now has more divorces than he does viewers in the 18-34 demographic. [Getty]
People falling is funny enough. But news anchors falling when they're trying to reach across the table? That's enough ingredients to get a stew goin'.
Brought to you by a tag-team of morons doing their best just to get through the simple dialogue, the combination of illiterate journalist and an incompetent production team makes for one great newscast fail.
History-making news anchor Katie Couric—beautiful gin dancer, certified anchorbabe—recently did a fashion photoshoot for Harper's Bazaar and she looks faaaabulous. She's got legs for days and arms to rival Michelle Obama's. (Mud wrestling, ladies?) Observe some video stills.
"In the Papers," as you know unless you have the grave misfortune to live somewhere where you are unable to enjoy Pat Kiernan's calm visage and dulcet tones in the morning, is a segment where Pat leafs through the morning papers, pointing out the stories that are interesting to Pat Kiernan. Now Pat's going to "expand…
Monday we heard that WNBC's Chuck Scarborough and KNBC's Paul Moyer, the Kent Brockman and Ron Burgundy of New York, were both potential buyout targets. And now loooooooongtime WNBC sports guy Len Berman—the guy who shows the bloopers!—is getting bought out:
