In an unusual arrangement, PBS NewsHour will provide its feed of Thursday’s faceoff between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton to the cable news network while also distributing it to its 350 “member” stations around the country. The debate will thus be the first of this campaign carried on two networks.
CNN is replacing NBC News as the host of the Republican National Committee’s Super Tuesday debate in February. “The Republican National Committee has decided to move forward without NBC’s participation in our February debate in Houston, Texas. The RNC has awarded the debate to CNN, who will broadcast it on Thursday, Feb. 25, in Houston at a location to be decided,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said yesterday.
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In 2015, primary debates fueled massive ratings increases for Fox News and CNN, while MSNBC began to rebuild.
Nielsen said on Wednesday this made it the third most-watched among the five GOP primary debates that have taken place so far this year.
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Digital leaders at CNN, Tegna and the BBC said Tuesday at the NewsTECHForum that the shift was necessary, and pointed to their own incremental improvements toward story-centricity as evidence of its attainability.
The Federal Aviation Administration has approved an application from CNN to fly drones. The agency issued the approval for CNN to use drones “to conduct aerial photography, aerial videography, and closed-set motion picture and television filming.” In doing so, it waived requirements for FAA approval of drone flights that are operated outside restricted airspace and below 200 feet.
NEW YORK (AP) — Following protests online, CNN removed a description of Baltimore’s Freddie Gray as “the son of an illiterate heroin addict” in a story posted about the first […]
Donald Trump on Monday night threatened to boycott the next Republican debate unless hosting network CNN donates $5 million to a charity
A conference call Monday among ABC, CBS, CNN ,Fox and NBC to discuss issues related to press coverage of the Trump campaign reportedly ended without any set plans, and may lead to no formal action of any kind.
Facebook will unveil a news notifications app dubbed “Notify” next week in partnership with some high-profile media brands. CNN, Mashable, CBS News, The Washington Post and Vogue are the inaugural partners for the app.
NEW YORK (AP) — Liberals are urging CNN to add a left-leaning questioner to its panel at this week’s debate of Democratic presidential candidates, saying it’s only fair because conservative […]
In a Tuesday letter to the cable news network, the billionaire says he’s the reason the network sharply increased its rates ahead of the Sept. 16 debate in Simi Valley, Calif. CNN should view debate coverage as a public service and give up profits, he said.
CNN has moved its primetime Sept. 16 Republican debate from 9 p.m. ET to 8 p.m., eliminating the long gap between its main event and the earlier forum for second-tier candidates, the network told campaigns in a conference call Tuesday afternoon.
CNN says that only one commercial slot is still available for its coverage of the Sept. 16 debate between top Republican presidential contenders, and it’s expected to draw top dollar.
CNN is asking 40 times its normal rate for commercial time in the next Republican debate. The cable news network is charging as much as $200,000 for a 30-second spot in the primetime brawl taking place on Sept. 16, according to a media buyer. This is on par with the cost of buying commercial time in some broadcast primetime series.
CNN announced on Tuesday that it has changed the criteria for its upcoming debate, making space for Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina on the primetime stage. Fiorina had argued for weeks that CNN’s debate criteria unfairly weighted early field leaders over contenders like her who have polled better since the Fox News debate on Aug. 6.
Donald Trump’s surprisingly durable campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination continues to be ratings rocket fuel for TV news. An hour-long interview with Trump taped earlier in the day with CNN’s New Day co-anchor Chris Cuomo drew 1.1 million in the 9 p.m. ET time slot on Wednesday. The audience is the largest for the cable news channel in that hour since April 28, when it covered the anti-police riots in Baltimore.
Produced and directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy Newberger, Evocateur on CNN traces this blink-of-an-eye rise and fall of the earth-shaking talk show host.
