<![CDATA[Gawker: Wnbc]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: Wnbc]]> http://gawker.com/tag/wnbc http://gawker.com/tag/wnbc <![CDATA[ • An estimated 25 million people tuned...]]> • An estimated 25 million people tuned into last night's broadcast of the Grammy Awards on CBS, earning it its highest ratings in six years. [AP] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=508710&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Us Weekly's Windfall, More Trouble For Olbermann]]> • It's not just TLC that is happy about the Jon & Kate nonsense. Putting them on the cover of Us six times in a row has been a "windfall" for Janice Min. [NYP] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=505998&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Live at Five, Richard Branson, NBC, & Wolff]]> • Say it ain't so, Sue: WNBC may be planning to drop the 5 o'clock newscast, Live at Five, in favor of a "lifestyle show" of some sort. [NYO] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=505978&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[WNBC Helicopter Grounded]]> New York has never had the same car chase culture of LA. But if you were hoping the day would come when you'd be able turn on the TV at any moment of the day and watch felons flee the scene of a crime from a news helicopter overhead, don't get your hopes up. After dumping many of its human assets over the past few months, WNBC has announced it plans to save cash by getting rid of NewsChopper 4. [NYDN] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=505619&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Splits at the NYO and MySpace; Viacom's New Channel]]> • Chris DeWolfe is out as the CEO of News Corp.-owned MySpace. [CNN] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=505480&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Big Pay Days at the Times, Big Cuts at Yahoo]]> • The New York Times Co.'s bank balance is running a bit low, but that hasn't detered the company from handing out lavish pay packages. The company's CEO, Janet Robinson, received a total compensation package valued at $5.58 million in 2008, up from $4.14 million in 2007. [NYP, HP] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=505459&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Blooper King Len Berman Leaving WNBC a Rich Man]]> It's good to be a local news anchor in NYC in the sense that you very well might make a multimillion-dollar salary. But it's bad because you would be getting laid off. Adios, Len Berman. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5193799&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[WNBC Drops Berman]]> Chuck Scarborough has yet to be given a pink slip by WNBC, as per the rumors making the rounds yesterday, but the same can't be said for sports anchor Len Berman. The 20-year veteran of Ch. 4 will stick around for the next 30 to 60 days before bidding goodbye to his $1-million-a-year salary. Whether his "Spanning the World" bit lives on without him is unclear, although on a positive note, he'll no longer have to commute home to Long Island at 11:30pm every night. [Newsday] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=505135&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Scarborough in Jeopardy?]]> Is Chuck Scarborough's tenure at WNBC coming to an end in the near future? He's been at the station for 35 years now, but Gawker reports his reported $3 million-a-year salary may be too rich for the local station, and it may be seeking to buy him out of his contract. In the meantime, a WNBC rep is denying the story: "He is not being bought out. Chuck is a big part of our station." [Gawker] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=505112&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[NBC News to Axe Chuck Scarborough and Paul Moyer?]]> A tipster says a "pervasive rumor" is making the rounds at NBC News that the network is putting long-time local anchors Chuck Scarborough of WNBC and Paul Moyer of KNBC out to pasture. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5190554&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[WSJ Scales Back, Dan Rather Now Hiring]]> • The Wall Street Journal's new glossy mag, WSJ, will remain a quarterly and will not be going monthly as planned due to "market conditions." [WWD] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=504698&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Think You Have It Rough? Talk to Carolyn Gusoff]]> Carolyn Gusoff covered the Long Island beat for WNBC until the station let her go in December as part of a round of budget cuts. It's been a rocky transition for the vapid TV reporter—or so she says in a Newsday opinion piece—as she details the "harrowing and debasing ordeal" involved in filing for unemployment, and the challenge of paying for gas, parking and phone bills when you don't have any income coming in. Even tougher? Just looking for a job is more expensive than keeping one, since job interviews require that her nails "be perfect" and her hair has to be coiffed just right. It's a good thing she won't have to worry about paying out of pocket to keep up with her plastic surgery habit. Her husband—as she neglects to point out amid all the worries of mounting phone and cable bills—is prominent plastic surgeon Jon Turk. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=504176&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Nepotism For Roger Ebert's 26-Year-Old Replacement?]]> "Ben Lyons admitted, 'It has definitely helped to have my dad to open some doors for me.'" [Daily News] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5031882&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sue Simmons Will Apologize To You On Email, Good Luck Finding Her]]> Sue Simmons gets it: You don't like that she said the f-word on WNBC Monday, all angry like. So the news anchor has yanked her email address from the WNBC website, according to an email tipster. Comparing Simmons' current WNBC Web page with the latest one in archive.org, from 2007, does show that her email address was dropped at some point (images after the jump). But! If you can track down Simmons' address, she will send you a nice note of apology, as she did for Animal New York: More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5009101&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Kathie Lee Gifford Scared She'll Have Meltdown Too]]> Today hosted a very meta discussion this morning about Sue Simmons' WNBC f-bomb and Bill O'Reilly's old Inside Edition eruption, and anchpr Kathie Lee Gifford is extremely sympathetic toward both of the old TV hands and their embarassments. She told co-host Hoda Kotb there's always a chance she'll have her own "FUCK IT! DO IT NOW!" breakdown: "We're having fun, because tomorrow it could be you and I." Or maybe she was thinking of a more mild "what the FUCK are you doing" outburst. After the jump, listen to Gifford talk about how you can barely cuss anyone out in a TV studio any more because of all the satellites and bloggers and so forth. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5009021&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[WNBC Anchor's Swearing Was All Co-Anchor's Fault]]> The Times got to the bottom of WNBC anchor Sue Simmons' on-air cuss out Monday night and discovered the whole incident can basically blamed on Simmons' co-anchor Chuck Scarborough for not paying enough "fucking" attention. During the live promo, Simmons read her tease for a grocery store story, but then when the video changed to something else, Scarborough was screwing around on the computer instead of doing his own voice over, and Simmons, not knowing she was live on the air, unleashed her now-infamous line, "what the fuck are you doing?" Of course, Simmons' meltdown was just maybe exacerbated by what the Post described as her habit of drinking a few cocktails between shows: More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5008988&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[WNBC Anchor: "What The Fuck Are You Doing?!"]]> Exploring, perhaps, her inner Bill O'Reilly, WNBC news anchor Sue Simmons turned what should have been a straightforward promo for the evening news into an angry cuss-out of one of her co-workers. And Simmons' cursing made it onto the air, unlike Fox News anchor O'Reilly's recently-publicized meltdown. We've received several emails from viewers who caught the cursing during a break in the season finale for NBC drama Medium, and now there's video, posted after the jump. UPDATE: And Simmons has now apologized for scandalizing the entire city of New York with the f-word. UPDATE2: Since these things come in threes I'm now waiting for Anderson Cooper to have a meltdown involving lack of skin moisturizer or something. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5008813&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[New York Blogger Summit To Be Held Somewhere Other Than The Magician]]> So you've finally made it in the big time world of New York City blogging, and all the fame and fortune that are accorded to that profession's most celebrated members is starting to come your way: nubile young groupies, book deals, invitations to all the hippest parties, crazy e-mails from Andrew Krucoff threatening to ruin you, etc. But the sweetest plum of all is the clamor of big media as it seeks to harness your unfettered energy. That's right, you've been invited to the main event,
the NYC Blogger Summit, hosted by WNBC NewsChannel 4. Join other bloggers who cover news, politics, entertainment, arts, culture, sports and more from the New York area for an evening of discussion and networking.Rob Morrison of Today in New York will lead the discussion, with appearances by other WNBC anchors, reporters and management.
Think of it! You, rubbing shoulders with Rob Morrison, and even possibly Sue Simmons if she happens to stop by the office that day! All those minutes you've spent drunkenly typing out your opinions of "America's Next Top Model" have finally paid off. Congratulations. Full e-mail, which includes a blogger's second favorite come-on ("Food will be served") after the jump. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=228010&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Media Bubble: Mixed Bag]]>
  • David Carr discovers TMZ.com, "the limitless appeal of the famous performing the mundane ." [NYT] More »
    ]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=215993&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Media Bubble: Try and Act Surprised]]>
  • Jeff Zucker may take over for Bob Wright as head of NBC by the end of the year. Honestly, you get the feeling that Zucker could rip the head off a transgendered prostitute and skullfuck it in the middle of a board meeting and he'd still get promoted. [NYP] More »
    ]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=215219&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Irresponsible Rumormongering: WNBC Layoffs?]]> It's that time again where we float a rumor currently making the rounds and ask you to do our work for us: Has the NBC axe fallen on some local "favorites"? A tipster writes:
    I can confirm that "Dr." Max Gomez, Joe Avellar and Jane Hanson all got the boot from WNBC today.
    Oh, "Dr" Max - we think we'll miss you most of all. If you've got anything else, hit us up. More »
    ]]>     http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=215053&view=rss&microfeed=true     <![CDATA[DOJ can now arrest Martha Stewart]]> DOJ officials believe they have "a solid criminal case" against Martha Stewart. According to a WNBC poll, 49% of women and 66% of men believe Stewart did something illegal. More »
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