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DETROIT, April 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Reverend Horace Sheffield III will lead a delegation of Detroiters to New York City for a Monday meeting with NBC executives and Dateline correspondent Chris Hansen to discuss the NBC Dateline production "America Now: City of Heartbreak and Hope" that focused on Detroit. "I believe that the airing of 'City of Heartbreak and Hope' has caused irreparable harm to the good people of Detroit. Detroit deserves a fair media shake from NBC. We travel...
DETROIT, April 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rev. Horace L. Sheffield, III, executive director of the Detroit Association of Black Organization (DABO), has called on Chris Hansen, Dateline Producers, and executives from NBC and demanded that they meet with him and several leaders and residents from the City of Detroit to defend Detroit and to discuss their reactions and responses to Dateline's "America Now: City of Heartbreak..." which aired on NBC Sunday April 18, 2010. Rev. Sheffield has...
- New Monthly Series Focused on Reinvention to Debut March 9th - WASHINGTON, March 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AARP, the world's largest membership organization, and NBC, today announced they are teaming up to bring Emmy Award-winning journalist Jane Pauley back to the Today show beginning March 9, 2010. One of the most respected figures in broadcast journalism and AARP's "Ambassador of Your Life Calling," Pauley will head back to morning television as a contributor for Today and be...
NEW YORK, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- USA Network announced today that MSNBC's Tamron Hall will replace Mario Lopez as the co-host of the 134th WESTMINSTER KENNEL CLUB DOG SHOW, presented by Pedigree. Hall will be co-hosting the event with David Frei in his 21st consecutive year with the show. Also joining the team again this year will be NBC Sports' Tiffany Simons as a sideline reporter. On Monday, February 15, USA will air the first hour of the show at 8pm and will then switch over to CNBC...
PALM CITY, Fla., Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Connectyx Technologies Holding Group Inc. (Other OTC: CTYX) announced today that Dr. Bob Arnot has joined its management team. Dr. Arnot is one of the most recognized figures in medical journalism. His broadcast career has included: Chief medical correspondent for NBC News, (including Dateline, the Today Show and the NBC Nightly News), and chief foreign correspondent and special foreign correspondent for MSNBC News. Arnot was health correspondent...
Opening Nov. 20, Exhibit Recreates NBC Newsman's Washington Office WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Step into the office of Tim Russert, one of the country's most respected journalists, in a new exhibit offering a unique window into the world of the moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press." (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080919/NEWSEUMLOGO) Inside Tim Russert's Office: If It's Sunday, It's "Meet the Press," which opens Nov. 20, 2009, recreates Russert's NBC Washington...
DALLAS/FORT WORTH, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lone Star Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences recognized the accomplishments of NBC 5 / KXAS-TV with 11 Emmy awards during its 7th annual event on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009, in Dallas. NBC 5 Today at 6 a.m. took top morning newscast honors. NBC 5 Today is anchored by North Texas favorites Brendan Higgins, Deborah Ferguson, Meteorologist Jennifer Lopez and traffic expert Tammy Dombeck. Nada Ruddock, NBC 5 director of...
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- CNN Special Correspondent Soledad O'Brien will be in Charlotte Friday to speak to the Hood Hargett Breakfast Club - the region's premier business networking group. O'Brien covered Hurricane Katrina and the South Asian tsunami for CNN. She has reported breaking news in the war in Iraq, as well as breaking news across the United States. She also anchored major portions of CNN's coverage of President Barack Obama's inauguration. Her recent projects...
VERMILLION, S.D., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Free public seating will be available, first-come, first-served, in Vermillion's DakotaDome when CBS News anchor Katie Couric speaks Thursday night at The University of South Dakota. No tickets are required for DakotaDome sections A, B, C, G, H and I. Doors will be open by 6 p.m. Last seating is at 6:45 p.m. The program will begin at 7 p.m. The USD Jazz Band will perform from 6 to 7 p.m. Couric, managing editor and anchor of the "CBS...
CBS anchorwoman Katie Couric has joined Glamour magazine as a monthly columnist, editor-in-chief Cindi Leive announced Thursday. Couric, the anchor and managing editor of TV's CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, will start her Glamour gig by interviewing First Lady Michelle Obama for the magazine's December issue, Leive said. Couric is expected to explore in a month Q&A column what makes her female subjects so inspiring to other women and girls. Whether she's sitting down with a head of...
