Televisa president Emilio Azcarraga said his network has plans to launch an English-language channel with its U.S. partner Univision and ABC News.
Walters, 83, fell Saturday night on a step at the residence of Britain’s ambassador to the United States, Peter Westmacott, ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider said. The fall left Walters with a cut on her forehead, he said. Walters, out of an abundance of caution, went to a hospital for treatment of the cut and for a full examination, Schneider said on Sunday. She was alert and was “telling everyone what to do, which we all take as a very positive sign,” he said.
Beginning Jan. 18, On the Radar will examine the defense, intelligence and foreign affairs worlds through the lens of U.S. policy and national security. It’s the latest offering in the Power Players series of shows from ABC News and Yahoo News
ABC had a very good 2012 year for Good Morning America — usurping the decades-long leader NBC’s Today. Going into the December holiday period — where all TV viewing takes a dip — ABC’s GMA had around 430,000 viewer lead over Today.
Jake Tapper, ABC’s senior White House correspondent, is leaving the network for CNN, where he will anchor a new one-hour news program beginning early next year as CNN’s chief Washington correspondent. Tapper’s exit triggered changes at ABC News. Veteran Washington hand Jonathan Karl will be ABC’s new chief Washington correspondent, and Martha Raddatz’s role will expand as the new chief global affairs correspondent.
A former worker at Beef Products Inc. is suing ABC News, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and a food blogger for $70,000, claiming they knowingly and recklessly made untrue statements about BPI’s finely textured beef product during newscasts.
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Univision and ABC News are looking to launch their Miami-based network by July 1, although that could be delayed until later in 2013, a company executive said. Univision has invested $11 million so far as the English-language news and lifestyle channel targeting Hispanics remains in the prep stage.
ABC News and several on air staffers filed a motion yesterday to dismiss claims brought by two companies over the network’s coverage of finely textured beef, referred to as “pink slime.” Beef Products Inc. is seeking $1.2 billion in damages for roughly 200 “false and misleading and defamatory” statements.
At the end of an online story on director Tony Scott’s autopsy, there was the following: “ABC News previously reported that director Tony Scott had inoperable brain cancer and cited it as a possible reason for his suicide. The Los Angeles County coroner’s report on Mr. Scott’s death listed no evidence of brain cancer. ABC News has retracted that Aug. 20 story and extends a formal apology to Mr. Scott’s family and friends.”
NEW YORK (AP) — ABC’s Robin Roberts has come home from the hospital three weeks after undergoing a bone marrow transplant. After thanking her doctors and nurses and singing “Amen,” […]
The still-unnamed English-language service targeting Hispanic Americans also announced that Miguel Ferrer will be its first executive producer, digital.
Beef Products Inc. is seeking $1.2 billion in damages for what it claims are roughly 200 “false and misleading and defamatory” statements about the product officially known as lean, finely textured beef.
NEW YORK (AP) – Robin Roberts says Friday will be her last day co-anchoring “Good Morning America” for a while. On Monday’s edition of the ABC News wakeup program, Roberts […]
The Spanish-language broadcaster has tapped Keith Summa, the head of the CBS News Investigative Unit, to oversee its new partnership with ABC News.
Late Monday, ABC backed off an earlier report saying that Tony Scott, the movie director who committed suicide on Sunday, had inoperable brain cancer.
The new ABC News app for Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet includes news headlines, video and integrated social media tools.
ABC News SVP Kerry Smith on Wednesday reiterated that the network was taking full responsibility for last week’s inaccurate report suggesting a possible link between the Colorado theater shooting and the tea party. In a written response to the Gotham Tea Party, a New York City-based tea party affiliate, Smith rebutted accusations that the network’s apology for the report was “a transparent effort to avoid responsibility.”
The network apologizes for erroneously linking the suspected Aurora, Colo., theater shooter to the Tea Party.
Consumer trends guided their design and content. Customized versions including regional news, weather and traffic will also be available from all eight ABC-owned stations, beginning today with KABC Los Angeles’ iPad app.
The Good Morning America anchor announced on the show Monday morning that she has been diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood and bone marrow disease once known as preleukemia.
On-air and digital offerings in English will target Hispanic Americans 24/7 with content featuring ABC News and Univision news anchors and correspondents. The currently unnamed TV channel will launch next year.
ABC Gives WFTV Investigation Bigger Platform
NEW YORK (AP) — George Stephanopoulos doesn’t really get days off. He gets hours. The co-host of ABC’s “Good Morning America” during the week and host of the Sunday political […]
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) has selected Pierre Thomas, senior justice correspondent for ABC News, as its 2012 Journalist of the Year, an award that recognizes signature reporting […]
The television interview of Marianne Gingrich, a former wife of Newt Gingrich, that was broadcast on Thursday night was initiated back in November, when ABC News was looking into an old federal investigation that involved the family.
Excerpts from the interview with Marianne Gingrich will be released during the day Thursday, ahead of both a Republican candidate debate Thursday evening in Charleston, S.C., and ABC’s latenight news program Nightline, which will air the complete interview. The GOP’s South Carolina primary is Saturday.
Sherwood: Couric To Be ‘All Over The Place’
ABC News isn’t giving Katie Couric much time to relax before her syndicated talk show starts later this year. Ben Sherwood, the president of the network’s news division, told reporters Monday that viewers will see a lot of Couric before the September launch of her daytime chat fest.
ABC News Chief: We’re Going For Relevance
ABC News President Ben Sherwood said his goal is to make ABC News one of the world’s premier providers of nonfiction content. While that doesn’t mean producing cheesy reality shows, Sherwood said his journalists need to have a more entrepreneurial eye about how they present information.
The broadcast network’s new political news site, OTUS News, features political reporting and analysis from ABC News journalists, as well as a “Political Stock Market” ticker that tracks the current “value” of each 2012 presidential contender.
