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Mark Plotkin: “Pelley needs to be commended and celebrated for his six years as anchor. He never backed down or backed away from giving to us the news — straight and true. CBS might change their nightly anchor but they should never abdicate their duty to tell us what is really happening.”

She announced the big “get” on Thursday’s Today show. She’s already in Russia to moderate a discussion featuring Putin at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, and the interview will take place afterward. They’ve been working to land the interview since Kelly agreed to serve on the panel. It will air on her new NBC show on Sunday.

The network promotes Rick Jefferson from director of production at CBS News to oversee the division’s technical personnel and facilities worldwide, including hard news, primetime and public affairs.

When Donald Trump’s candidacy sent TV ratings soaring last year, CBS honcho Les Moonves infamously summed up his reaction: “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” The same emphasis on corporate profits is surely the driving force behind the decision to pull Scott Pelley from the CBS Evening News anchor chair.

The former Fox News star, who called her time away from TV “awesome,” will return Sunday with Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly on NBC.

CBS News announced Scott Pelley’s move from the CBS Evening News to 60 Minutes and said that Anthony Mason, CBS News senior national correspondent and frequent evening-news fill-in anchor, will be taking over for Pelley as anchor of the newscast, for now.

NBCUniversal hopes Megyn Kelly lures new viewers to its morning schedule when she launches a program there in the fall. It’s seeking massive hikes in the rates advertisers pay for the 9 a.m. slot, according to two people familiar with current negotiations. One says NBC is pressing for increases in the cost of reaching 1,000 viewers — a CPM — that could reach as high as 30%.

Two people familiar with the situation confirmed reports on Wednesday that CBS is expected to announce Pelley’s departure shortly. The CBS show is a distant third to ABC and NBC in the evening news rankings, and despite some critical success, has not been able to close the gap. Pelley is expected to return to 60 Minutes.

The BBC is currently reaching a record weekly audience of 372 million around the globe. That’s a 7% rise from the previous year.

Her Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly debuts on Sunday, June 4, at 7 p.m. for a summer run.

Al Vecchione, a television producer who helped broadcast the Senate Watergate hearings to a national audience and who later made crucial contributions that allowed the PBS NewsHour to rival commercial news programs in prestige if not in profit, died May 24. He was 86.

Michael P. Hill: “All of the major networks have all broken into dayside programming multiple times in the past week (including twice within the span of just a few hours) to cover Trump administration press events or appearances. One has to question, however, is if such interruptions are even necessary in a world where live video streams of the same event (and, in many cases, thanks to pool cameras, the exact same video feed) are available everywhere from Facebook to Twitter to one of many 24-hour cable news channels.” Here are some suggestions for how to better present these not-that-important special reports.

Megyn Kelly’s new NBC news magazine show, Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly, will premiere June 4 at 7 p.m.

Though still mourning her PBS NewsHour co-anchor, Gwen Ifill, Woodruff continues to be a pioneering role model in journalism.

Since its launch in January 2012, CBS This Morning, with Gayle King, Norah O’Donnell and Charlie Rose, is the only one of the major morning shows that is consistently adding audience, adding 1.2 million viewers, or 47%, from 2.5 million viewers in the 2011-12 season to 3.7 million now.

NBC News has decided to confirm that Megyn Kelly is getting Today’s 9 a.m. time slot in the fall. Not coincidentally, NBC News confirmed this long-speculated information shortly after Kelly Ripa, star of ABC’s Live with Kelly! that airs at 9 AM in most markets, unveiled her new co-host: Ryan Seacrest.

President Trump cut short a television interview on Saturday after being asked about his unsubstantiated claim that President Barack Obama had spied on him, reviving an incendiary charge even as his re-election campaign released its first advertisement taking aim at “fake news.”

Megyn Kelly has crossed the street, literally, and is now an official NBC News employee. She will host a Sunday night newsmagazine debuting next month as well as a weekday mid-morning show, either 9 a.m. or 10 a.m.

NBC is expected to launch a new Sunday newsmagazine program anchored by Megyn Kelly in June, according to a person familiar with the situation, a move that begins to firm up the former Fox News star’s role with her new employer. The new program is expected to feature Kelly as the lead of an ensemble of reporters, and will be supervised by two veteran NBC News producers who also lead the network’s venerable Dateline, David Corvo and Liz Cole.

Kate Snow is leaving her MSNBC show for expanded duties at NBC News. In addition to anchoring Sunday Nightly News, Snow’s new three-year deal will include reporting stories for NBC’s upcoming Sunday news magazine that will be hosted by NBC News newcomer Megyn Kelly.

Comments Bill O’Reilly made following publication of Megyn Kelly’s book set off a media firestorm and frustrated Kelly, who sent an email to Fox News executives complaining about his behavior and the chilling effect it could have on women at the company and beyond, according to four people with knowledge of the email who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.

Five TV broadcasters — Savannah Guthrie, Jake Tapper, George Stephanopoulos, Bret Baier and Gayle King — swap stories about when guests lie to your face, Megyn Kelly joins your network and the importance of accurate reporting: “I’m not sure there always are two sides to every story.”

Andrea Mitchell has covered seven White Houses. Then came Trump. “I’ve never seen anything like this.” The White House staff, she says, uses the briefing room as a daily disinformation machine and the president and secretary of state outright attempt to undermine the ability of reporters to do their job.

NBC, CBS and ABC as well as the cable news networks CNN, MSNBC and Fox News went wall-to-wall as the U.S. fired a barrage of cruise missiles into Syria Thursday night in retaliation for this week’s chemical weapons attack against civilians.

Megyn Kelly is completely free from her contract with Fox News Channel and able to make appearances for NBC News should her new employer see fit, according to a person familiar with the situation. Kelly’s contract had been slated to end in July. No word from NBC.

NBC News’ Rich Greenberg has officially been named VP and executive editor of the NBC News Investigative Unit. Greenberg had been leading the unit on an interim basis since the departure of Richard Esposito in September 2016.

TV news viewing hours — from TV cable news networks and broadcast programming — are on a high. Pivotal Research Group says that year-to-date “person-viewing” hours of Nielsen live-plus-same day viewing for all national news programming — cable news networks and individual broadcast programs — have seen a 11% gain, and 13% higher in the most recent week ending March 26.

Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity is calling on CBS News to release the full tape of his interview with Ted Koppel for Sunday Morning, in which the veteran Nightline anchor answered “yes” when Hannity asked if Koppel thought he was bad for America. The exchange between two different generations of television news personalities continued to resonate Monday: It was the lead “hot topic” that hosts of The View kicked around on their talk show.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest has joined NBC News as an analyst, making his debut Monday on the “Today” show. Earnest was the last […]

The CBS anchor has set himself apart in covering the Trump administration by abandoning careful neutrality in favor of pointed truth-telling.