NBC News chief White House correspondent and soon-to-be Meet the Press host Chuck Todd said Monday: “I think the job for all of us, particularly in political reporting is to demystify Washington for the American public, but then also try to translate the American public’s frustrations for out-of-touch Washington people.”
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell has paid tribute on “Meet the Press” to its abruptly departed host, David Gregory. Mitchell told viewers Sunday that the long-running […]
The announcement of Chuck Todd’s appointment Thursday by NBC News President Deborah Turness ended months of speculation that David Gregory’s time was running out on the program, which during his tenure has fallen from first to third place, ranking behind CBS’s Face the Nation and ABC’s This Week.
NBC will name Chuck Todd the new host of Meet the Press as soon as this afternoon, according to people with direct knowledge of the network’s plans.
Fox News Sunday is gaining ratings momentum in Washington, D.C., beating its major-network competition in all categories for the first time in seven years.
The Daily Beast‘s Lloyd Grove says three NBC players are vying for David Gregory’s job hosting Meet the Press. The network denies Gregory’s out, but Grove says that after multiple conversations he’s had with people inside and outside NBC “it was taken as a given that Gregory is toast.”
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The network tried to shoot down rumors that the Meet the Press host is losing his job, callilng the most recent report “false.” The Sunday morning talk show is stuck in third place, sparking speculation that Chuck Todd could take Gregory’s place.
NBC News President Deborah Turness sent a memo to network staff on Thursday reiterating her support for embattled Meet The Press host David Gregory and criticizing recent press coverage about him as “ludicrous.”
If Meet the Press moderator David Gregory were a guest on his own show, he knows the kinds of questions he’d be asked. Why have your ratings been falling? Is the show in trouble? Is your job in trouble?
NBC News President Deborah Turness is in Washington this week and will meet with Meet the Press host David Gregory and executive producer Rob Yarin to discuss changes to the format of the show, network sources say.
NBC News boss Deborah Turness is turning her attention to her troubled Sunday talk show, Meet the Press — asking staff to write a mission statement and explain what works and what doesn’t. Turness has been reviewing individual shows one by one with the aim of having staff focus more clearly on winning the ratings wars, sources say.
NBC News will rerun the Aug. 25, 1963, broadcast of its Sunday Beltway show Meet the Press this Sunday, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.The ’63 broadcast featured an interview with Martin Luther King Jr. three days before he delivered his I Have A Dream speech at the Lincoln Memorial; the episode will be broadcast in its entirety.
The 42-year-old Gregory began as host of the Sunday morning public-affairs program in December 2008. He succeeded the late Tim Russert.
The D.C. police confirmed reports Wednesday that they are looking into an incident in which David Gregory, the host of NBC’s Meet the Press, displayed what he described as a high-capacity ammunition magazine. In its firearms regulations, the The D.C. Code stipulates that “No person in the District shall possess, sell or transfer any large capacity ammunition feeding device” whether or not it is attached to a firearm.
NBC’s Meet the Press accuses CBS of some trickery in the Nielsen ratings and in scheduling designed to make its Face the Nation seem more popular than it actually is. CBS detects the aroma of sour grapes. The incident is a vivid illustration of a newly competitive era on Sundays.
NBC is slamming a report that the network is unhappy with Meet the Press host David Gregory and may fire him. The iPad news service The Daily reported Monday that Gregory is in danger because his Sunday morning show, which has been on top of the ratings for years, has been beaten nearly half the time in total viewers by CBS’s Face the Nation over the past year.
The Today show’s battle with ABC’s Good Morning America isn’t the only dogfight NBC News shows are locked in to maintain the ratings supremacy the network’s news division has long enjoyed. Meet the Press has been beaten lately with some regularity by CBS‘s Face the Nation. In the evening, ABC World News has been slowly gaining on long-reigning NBC Nightly News, which has lost the most viewers this season to date of all the network newscasts in the 25-54 demographic that advertisers covet.
WRC To Air ‘Meet The Press’ Web Feature
NBC’s Washington O&O will follow up its Sunday broadcast of Meet the Press with Press Pass, which is a Web feature that was created in April as an additional interview venue for David Gregory.
Bill Monroe, a Washington journalist best known for moderating the NBC Sunday talk show Meet the Press during the 1970s and ’80s, died this morning in suburban Washington. He later became Washington editor of the Today show and won a prestigious Peabody award for his work. He also served as president of the Radio-Television News Directors Association.
