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NEW YORK, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- John Berman, who served as a correspondent for ABC News and regular contributor to Good Morning America, joins CNN as an anchor of the morning program Early Start and will contribute reports to various CNN programs including The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, it was announced by Ken Jautz, executive vice president of CNN. CNN's Early Start, which premiered on January 2, 2012 with hosts Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin, airs weekdays...
BALTIMORE, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Retirement Living TV (RLTV), the only cable network dedicated to covering matters of concern for Boomers, retired and mature Americans and advocating on behalf of seniors, is launching Prime Votes, a series of programs designed specifically to address the issues of fundamental importance in the upcoming election. This November, choices will be made that will directly impact older adults. The outcomes will have long-term repercussions. As part of its...
Diane Sawyer is to take over retiring anchor Charles Gibson's post on the ABC Evening News in January, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday.It has not been an easy decision to make, Gibson, 66, told staffers in an e-mail. This has been my professional home for almost 35 years. And I love this news department, and all who work in it, to the depths of my soul.ABC News confirmed Wednesday that Gibson would retire at the end of the year and Sawyer would replace him.Gibson became the World...
ABC News announced Wednesday the establishment of youtube.com/ABCNEWS, its own branded channel on YouTube. The Internet channel is to feature breaking news as it happens and highlights from newsmaker interviews, as well as ABC News programming, including Good Morning America, World News with Charles Gibson, Nightline, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, 20/20 and Primetime limited series. We look forward to expanding our online audience for ABC News reporting on our new YouTube channel,...
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, have agreed to speak with Barbara Walters for an exclusive interview, ABC said Tuesday. The talk is to air as a 1-hour ABC News special Wednesday on the network. The wide-ranging interview will focus on the failing economy, foreign policy, selection of top aides and the Obama family's transition to the White House, among other topics, ABC said in a news release. Excerpts from the interview are to air across ABC News platforms,...
By Chappell, Kevin AS BOMBS EXPLODED outside his window, Bernard Shaw was as cool as the other side of the pillow. Reporting live from the ninth floor of a Baghdad hotel at the start of the Gulf Wars in 1991, CNN's top anchor, a Black man, was so good at bringing the action from the frontline to the home front that he erased decades of doubt with hours of heroics. In the middle of the desert, in the middle of a war, he not only helped give birth to the cable news industry, but also put to...
By Paul J. Gough NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC sent its anchor back to New York Wednesday after several days in the Middle East and NBC was apparently leaning that way, although both networks were continuing with their expanded reporting presence in the region. The Mideast crisis, now in its eighth day, has engaged high-profile journalists like NBC's Brian Williams, ABC's Charles Gibson, CNN's Anderson Cooper and Fox News Channel's Shepard Smith. NBC and ABC decided late last...
By Paul J. Gough NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC sent its anchor back to New York Wednesday after several days in the Middle East and NBC was apparently leaning that way, although both networks were continuing with their expanded reporting presence in the region. The Mideast crisis, now in its eighth day, has engaged high-profile journalists like NBC's Brian Williams, ABC's Charles Gibson, CNN's Anderson Cooper and Fox News Channel's Shepard Smith. NBC and ABC decided late last...
Please read in fourth paragraph ... Gibson, 63, ... instead of Gibson, 53, ... (correcting age) A corrected repetition follows: By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - ABC morning host Charles Gibson will take over next week as anchor of the network's flagship newscast from Elizabeth Vargas, who is leaving the broadcast for good as she nears maternity leave, the network said on Tuesday. The latest personnel shuffle at ABC News, coming months after co-anchor Bob Woodruff was gravely...
By Steve Gorman and Michele Gershberg LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - CBS News may have hired a media star in Katie Couric, but experts said on Wednesday it will take more than celebrity and a fresh face to revive the once-indispensable network evening newscast. Couric, 49, long the darling of American morning television as co-host of the "Today" show for 15 years, is likely to bring at least a short-term ratings boost to the "CBS Evening News" due mostly to the tremendous buzz...
