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CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood had its most-watched February since 1994. The 90-minute feature-driven news program averaged 6.22 million viewers, growing 1% from February 2015. Osgood was in for most of the month, but Jane Pauley filled in last Sunday, as the longtime host recovers from knee surgery.

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s about to be a family affair at 30 Rock for NBC News anchor Lester Holt and his son, Stefan Holt, who soon will be anchoring […]

Saturday’s contentious GOP debate from South Carolina has drawn another impressive audience — 13.51 million viewers and a 3.0 rating in adults 25-54 from 9 to 11 p.m. ET — edging last week’s event on ABC to become the most-watched of the seven Republican and Democratic debates so far this year.

NEW YORK (AP) — Four journalists from The Associated Press are among the winners of the 67th annual George Polk Awards in Journalism for a series of articles documenting the […]

The veteran newsman will be presented with the Dick Clark Lifetime Achievement Award at the Broadcasters Foundation of America’s Golden Mike Award Dinner on Feb. 29.

CBS’s telecast of the big game is expected to give extra attention to the network’s CBS This Morning, which is steadily becoming a player in the morning TV world. CBS hopes new viewers tune in, and the show’s Gayle King has the spotlight of an interview with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama during the pregame show.

Social media users are breathing fire over several reports of lavish overhead spending and curious practices by the Wounded Warrior Project. The nonprofit, which raised more than $372 million last year, reportedly invests just 60% of its earnings into programs for veterans. And employees who question the nonprofit’s practices get the ax, according to two separate investigative projects, one from CBS News and the other by the The New York Times.

ABC News President James Goldston’s announcement today made formal what has been the practice over the past few months on This Week With George Stephanopoulos. Stephanopoulos has cut back on his weekend schedule since he co-hosts Good Morning America during the week. Chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl will be the substitute host on weeks that the other two aren’t available.

The news that former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin would appear at a rally and endorse Donald Trump broke hours before the broadcast networks’ evening newscasts, but the story still earned across-the-board lead coverage.

ABC’s Good Morning America had the most viewers last week. The program has won the count for 16 weeks in a row this season, and it ranks first for the fourth season in a row. NBC’s Today was first in the 25-to-54 age group, which is most important to news advertisers. But CBS This Morning, which ranks third, was up 8% from the comparable week last year while ABC was off 10% and NBC was down 6%.

Charles Osgood, 83, the bow-tied anchor of CBS Sunday Morning has met with network brass to discuss his future and is expected to end his two-decade run as host of the popular weekend show this year.

Jan. 14 is the 64th birthday of NBC’s Today show. In 1952 there was no reason for families to turn on their newfangled TV sets in the morning … until NBC gave them a reason. This was a big deal because once they turned the TV set on in the morning, the set tended to stay on — a factor in the stunning rise in the amount of television consumption since.

NBC and producers are feeling more optimistic about the morning-show’s prospects. ABC’s Good Morning America remains the nation’s most-watched morning program — a position it swiped from Today in 2012 amid viewer backlash over the ouster of then-host Ann Curry — but Today has beat GMA steadily among people between 25 and 54, the audience most desired by advertisers.

The new role marks Schieffer’s return to television after stepping away as chief Washington correspondent and anchor of Face the Nation in June 2015 after a 24-year run in that seat.

Brent Budowsky: “Today we witness one of the greatest scandals in the history of professional journalism. Many of America’s leading television news companies are so fully in the tank for Donald Trump that they should file with the Federal Elections Commission and report their coverage of the 2016 election as political donations to his presidential campaign.”

Norman Lear dissed broadcast networks Tuesday, saying the broadcasters are too afraid to offend. “I don’t think the network point of view serves the American people well,” he said at the 2016 Television Critics Association winter press tour. “I don’t think the bumper sticker quality of news and discussion helps us understand.”

While TV ratings are falling for just about everything else, from primetime TV to awards shows to sports, viewership for the Big 3 nightly newscasts is growing.

Militiamen? Activists? Terrorists? In the wake of the seizure of a federal wildlife management building in eastern Oregon by armed protesters on Saturday, the news media have struggled with how to refer to the people involved. The media’s attempts to find a neutral formulation were in stark contrast to the partisan fray on social media.

When 2015 began, it seemed unfathomable by the end of the year that Brian Williams would no longer anchor “NBC Nightly News” or that Donald Trump would be leading in the polls for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. But both circumstances factored into the mixed ratings performance for TV news on cable and the major broadcast networks. Here’s how they performed in the ratings over the last year.

The former Good Morning America co-anchor was part of the core ABC anchor team that, in 2012, snapped the 16-year winning streak of NBC’s Today. Now he’s leaving NBC after less than two years.

In an extended discussion of Donald Trump‘s latest attack on Hillary Clinton, NBC’s Matt Lauer talked about Trump’s language as “demeaning” and “degrading” and “juvenile,” but he didn’t repeat the word that sparked the discussion: “schlong.”

Last summer, Gregory was let go from his gig as host of NBC’s Meet the Press. Here’s an inside look at his fall from the top — and what it says about the state of TV news.

A growing list of mass killings, including the on-air murder of two young TV journalists, was among the more prominent stories occupying airtime at both local and network news organizations this year. Also leading newscasts and special broadcasts in the past 12 months was the increasingly contentious political campaigns that will culminate in the 2016 elections. And broadcasters themselves made news as they looked to broaden their distribution platforms by forming a variety of mobile ventures. This is the first part of TVNewsCheck’s annual look back at the year. Tomorrow in Part 2 we’ll reprise the major developments in business, regulation, programming and new media. Part 3, the year’s big stories in technology, will be featured on Wednesday, while Part 4 on Thursday will highlight some of the media luminaries who died during 2015.

It was a tale of two Baltimores on Wednesday afternoon and evening, depending on whether you were watching local or national coverage of the city in the wake of a hung jury in the first trial in the Freddie Gray case. Some network and cable journalists described a city on the edge, about to break out in violence — while local TV reporters and anchors repeatedly used the word “peaceful” to accompany overhead helicopter shots of protesters downtown and in the Penn North neighborhood.