Donald Trump

“No, I have no interest in Trump TV,” Trump said on WLW-AM Cincinnati today. “I hear it all over the place. I have a tremendous fan base, we have a tremendous base. We have the most incredible people, but I just don’t have any interest in that. I have one interest, that’s on Nov. 8.”

The Clinton campaign and Priorities USA Action, the super PAC backing Clinton’s bid for president, are spending $29.3 million across 15 battleground states this week, according to ad buyers watching the market. Trump’s campaign and supportive outside groups are spending $15.8 million in 12 battleground states.

The Trump campaign on Monday night kicked off a live Facebook program that some are speculating is a test drive for Trump TV network. The campaign coverage will air every night at 6:30 p.m. ET, which, in one of those incredible coincidences, is the same time as most network nightly newscasts.

Donald Trump suggested in an interview Sunday that America’s protections for the press might go too far and that the country’s libel and slander laws would be better if they were changed to more closely resemble the United Kingdom’s.

At a speech in Gettysburg, Pa., outlining what his priorities would be if elected president, the Republican nominee warned that the anticipated merger of the two media giants would give the surviving AT&T “too much concentration of power. …We’ll look at breaking this deal up.”

The Apprentice has been nominated several times for Primetime Emmy Awards, and its losses have apparently weighed on Donald Trump.

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is finally spending more money than Hillary Clinton’s. Trump’s campaign will spend almost $11.7 million on television ads set to run in 11 states this week, topping Clinton’s spending on ads for the first time. The Clinton campaign is spending $10.5 million on advertising in seven states.

Launching a new TV network could cost Donald Trump $200 million — and take up to three years to get off the ground, cable industry sources say. While some poured cold water over the suggestion that it would happen, others agreed the formation of a Trump TV network — whether a traditional cable affair or an over-the-top streaming project — would be a smart way to capitalize on the developer’s huge and avid following.

If Peter Kafka’s got any chops as a prognosticator, Donald Trump will be having conniptions over more than just an election loss, if he decides to establish a media presence. First he’d have to find someone to sell him a TV network, Kafka writes, and then there are the distribution challenges. If he went the digital route, Glenn Beck’s relative success then precipitous slide provides a useful example of just how hard that is. “Running a network isn’t the same as showing up on a network, and Trump is going to learn the difference,” he writes.

“These conversations that I had with Donald Trump weren’t done in private like the Billy Bush tapes, this was on the radio,” said SiriusXM host Stern, lashing out at reporters who claim to have unearthed the chats. “Why don’t I play all the tapes? I have to tell you why: I feel Donald Trump did the show in an effort to be entertaining and have fun with us and I feel like it would be a betrayal to any of our guests if I sat there and played them now where people are attacking him.”

There is a lot of speculation that Donald Trump, should he lose the election, is going to set up his own television channel. Evidence is building that this is at least being considered. There is logic to it, and Trump is surrounding himself with people who know how to pull it off.

The idea that the press is part of some grand conspiracy against the people, presented in such incendiary terms, goes well beyond the longstanding Republican complaints about liberal bias. It is resonating with a large portion of the American electorate.

Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has informally approached one of the media industry’s top dealmakers about the prospect of setting up a Trump television network after the presidential election in November. Their conversation was brief and has not progressed since, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

NBC is about to pay millions of dollars to Billy Bush to stop hosting the 9 a.m. hour of Today. Bush’s exit from NBC could be announced as early as today, another person with knowledge of the negotiations said.

Donald Trump’s rallies have never been the friendliest places for reporters. But lately, as Trump has come under increasing fire, an unwelcoming atmosphere for the press has turned into outright hostility. Reporters who cover Trump on the campaign trail say his supporters have become more surly and abusive in the past week, egged on by a candidate who has made demonizing journalists part of his stump speech.

For broadcasters, the big election story this week is Donald Trump’s continued ravings about the media and what a Trump presidency might mean for a free press in this country. That’s a story that every broadcast network executive, station owner, general manager, news director, reporter and producer should care about.

House Republicans’ flagship super PAC and its allied nonprofit are infusing an additional $10 million into 15 House races across the country, days after a 2005 recording of Donald Trump’s lewd comments about sexual assault prompted a flurry of defections among Republicans in competitive races.

Billy Bush’s exit from NBC News isn’t going to be as amicable as many thought it would be. The embattled Today show host, who has been suspended for his role in the lewd Donald Trump tape recorded in 2005 when Bush was an anchor at Access Hollywood, has hired a prominent Los Angeles litigator to help work out his separation from the network. And that lawyer is now going on the attack.

The national party breaks with tradition of spending millions on ads supporting its nominees. The lack of air cover has prompted grumbling from Trump aides and allies, many of whom believe that the RNC was never fully supportive of their candidate and that it’s now turning its back completely on the anti-establishment nominee as his poll numbers crater.

Donald Trump on Thursday sought to discredit the women who have accused him of groping and lashed out at the news organizations that have printed their stories, as the GOP nominee seeks to beat back cascading stories about alleged his sexual misconduct toward women.

Donald Trump is threatening to sue The New York Times for defamation in response to a Times article published Wednesday night that quoted two women who accused Trump of kissing and groping them without their consent.

The company said contractual obligations prevent it from making public any unaired, archived material from The Apprentice, which MGM acquired last December when it purchased Mark Burnett Productions.

Pressure continues to mount on Mark Burnett to release potentially embarrassing outtakes of Donald Trump from his 11 years as the star of NBC’s The Apprentice. On Tuesday, attorney Gloria Allred and representatives from several women’s advocacy groups tried to deliver an open letter to Burnett at MGM’s offices in Beverly Hills, but security guards wouldn’t let them in the building.

His exit from the Today show is now a matter of “when,” not “if,” according to two sources with knowledge of the negotiations. One of the sources said his departure will be announced “in the coming days.”

On Entertainment Tonight Monday, host Nancy O’Dell addressed crude, taped comments made about her by GOP presidential contender Donald Trump in 2005 and his response following their release last week. Referring to a previous statement, O’Dell repeated her assertion that “there is no room for objectification of women, or anyone for that matter.” She then added, “not even in the locker room.”

Billy Bush has been suspended from the Today show “pending further review of the matter.” It is unclear if he will ever return to the broadcast. “He will never be on the show again,” an on-air source said Sunday night, reflecting what staffers are saying behind the scenes. A second source at the network confirmed Monday that his return is unlikely.

Donald Trump’s presidential transition team is turning to a crusader against regulation as it seeks to craft a strategy on issues like net neutrality and the future of the FCC, according to three sources familiar with the effort. The newly tapped aide, Jeffrey Eisenach, is a known commodity in Washington tech and telecom circles. Dating back to his time as leader of the now-defunct Progress and Freedom Foundation, he’s argued vigorously in favor of the FCC taking a hands-off approach to digital issues.

A debate full of personal swipes exchanged by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton also included Trump’s snarky suggestion that moderators Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz were favoring Clinton.

Today Executive Producer Noah Oppenheim said in a memo Sunday that “there is simply no excuse for Billy’s language and behavior on that tape.” Bush, who hosts the third hour of NBC’s Today, has been suspended “pending further review of the matter,” Oppenheim said.

Donald Trump tried to head off some of the damage Friday by issuing a statement apologizing if “anyone was offended” by vulgar remarks captured in a 2005 video and made public Friday for the first time. In the recording obtained by The Washington Post and NBC News, Trump describes trying to have sex with a married woman and brags about women letting him kiss and grab them because he is famous.

Donald Trump has famously avoided most of the apparatus of a modern campaign in his run for the White House. But in one area, Trump’s campaign so far comes out on top: online ad spending.

NEW YORK (AP) — The three biggest cable news networks spent more time covering live Donald Trump rallies than they did for Hillary Clinton in September, with the widest disparity […]

Ever since Monday’s debate, Trump has been citing “polls” that are really more like virtual contests, since they allow anyone to vote multiple times. Thursday on MSNBC, anchor Chuck Todd was visibly frustrated by the Trump campaign’s promotion of the “polls.” He called them “bogus.”

Of the total, $40 million is slated for national TV and $40 million for digital, according to Trump’s senior communications adviser. The plan represents a new approach for the billionaire businessman.Through this week, his campaign has put only about $22 million into TV and radio ads for the general election.