25.6 million viewers watched Monday afternoon TV coverage of the eclipse. 27.8 million viewers watched President Trump’s Afghanistan address that night.
ABC News on Tuesday launched a partnership with millennial-focused video news site ATTN: to co-produce videos for social media including Facebook’s Instagram and for Twitter. The two will use ABC’s footage and equipment to produce stories that appeal to both companies’ audiences in a short-length format.
ABC News has reached a settlement with a South Dakota meat producer that filed a $1.9-billion lawsuit against the network over its reports on the company’s lean, finely textured beef product that critics dubbed “pink slime,” the TV network said Wednesday, adding that the terms of the deal are confidential.
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The three major broadcast networks will send their evening news anchors to Washington to host their nightly news shows closer to the location of Wednesday morning’s shooting at a congressional baseball practice.
ABC News chief James Goldston on Tuesday made a surprising admission about the U.S. leader during a keynote address to the Banff World Media Festival — Trump has overseen a renaissance of journalism in America. “This [Trump] administration has given us a true clarity of purpose about what we do as journalists every day. He has single-handedly shaken up journalism, he has reinvigorated journalism,” declared Goldston, before adding, “It feels like a new golden age.”
Renewed interest in the greatest political scandal in American history is already spurring a rush in the TV business to revisit the era. Watergate gives networks a familiar title to help draw big ratings as well as burnish their news legacies. Both ABC News and MSNBC have primetime specials on Watergate airing this weekend to coincide with the anniversary of the break-in of Democratic National Committee headquarters at the complex.
ABC and CBS will break into their daytime programming on Thursday to cover James Comey’s appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee. NBC News has yet to say whether it will carry the hearing live.The decision to break into regularly scheduled programming for a congressional hearing is unusual for broadcasters, indicating the incredibly high level of public interest in what Comey may or may not say regarding his interactions with President Donald Trump.
The highly anticipated proceeding gets underway with Beef Products Inc. telling jurors that the broadcaster killed much of its business with a series of reports in March 2012.
A journey to South Dakota to hear arguments over whether preconceived negative spin in the media should result in massive punishments.
NEW YORK (AP) — ABC News said three of its Twitter accounts were hacked Thursday morning, sending out profanity-filled tweets to its millions of followers. The tweets have since been […]
President Donald Trump labeled reports from two of the major broadcast TV networks on alleged ties between individuals linked to his campaign and the Russian government as “totally biased and fake news” Thursday morning, continuing his tirade against allegations that his election team colluded with the Kremlin.
NEW YORK (AP) — ABC News’ Diane Sawyer is reprising her interview with Caitlyn Jenner, with the former Olympic gold medalist slated to talk about her first couple of years […]
News junkies, rejoice. ABC News is rolling out an updated Apple TV application, live today, which makes the news division the first to offer a simultaneous multi-stream viewing experience in its tvOS application.
The lawsuit claims reporting caused $1.9 billion worth of damage to meat-product maker Beef Products Inc.
A group of former ABC News correspondents, executives and producers have signed a letter urging the network’s current top executive to take a firm stand against any Trump administration effort to curtail press access.
ABC’s David Muir, CBS’s Scott Pelley and NBC’s Lester Holt sat down last week in New York with Variety for a candid conversation about the news business. Among their observations: Pelley: “Our job is unchanged. Find the facts, present the truth, let the audience know what our process is.” Muir: “I think one of the challenges we’re facing right now is that what the president says is often different from what his staff members will tell us.” Holt: “Sometimes I think about our short attention spans these days, it’s like the evening news shows were kind of ahead of their game. Now, 30 minutes is actually a pretty good time.”
NEW YORK (AP) — Princess Diana will be the subject of a four-hour documentary miniseries airing on ABC this August. A joint project of ABC and People magazine, the program, […]
Dr. Richard Besser, ABC News’ chief health and medical editor, is leaving to become president-CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Besser joined ABC News in 2009. and has provided medical analysis and reports for all ABC News programs and platforms.
ABC News said today that Tom Llamas will anchor the Saturday and Sunday iterations of World News Tonight, and Cecilia Vega has been promoted to senior White House correspondent.
The election is over, but ABC is exploring the possibility of a new 24-hour digital news channel, according to sources. ABC News chief James Goldston is spearheading the effort, and is bullish on it given the election bump from recent Facebook live experiments.
Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson, who filed that first sexual harassment lawsuit against former Fox News chief Roger Ailes, will be interviewed by ABC News’s 20/20 for a full hour on the subject of sexual harassment. It airs on Friday.
Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson is set for 20/20 on November 18, marking her first television interview since the Roger Ailes debacle.
Anchors David Muir and Lester Holt are in the midst of a spirited competition for first place in television’s evening news ratings. After several years in second, ABC’s World News Tonight with Muir has lately pulled even with NBC’s Nightly News and some weeks a relative handful of viewers separate the shows.
When Election Day is over and the votes have all been tallied, many TV-news operations see a chance to pull back on the throttle and get back to regular coverage. ABC News believes a new cycle is about to begin. It plans an aggressive bout of coverage on Wednesday, Nov. 9, that Tom Cibrowski, ABC News, suggested would kick off a new effort to draw viewers — and, presumably, the ratings and ad dollars that come with them.
