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David Letterman to Retire from CBS in 2015
David Letterman is preparing to announce his retirement from CBS next year. Letterman is expected to discuss his plan to retire in about a year on Thursday’s edition of “The Late Show.”
Election Day In Television Land…Special Coverage Sets In these photos from friends prepping now in New York, here is a look at some of the sets that will be used today, starting with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” set being built in Studio 8H for a special live audience show tomorrow. There is more on each photo, […]
In Remembrance of Jim Henson Source
Hate ‘Happy Talk’ News? Me Too! Blame William Fyffe! William C. Fyffe, was the television news executive who pioneered the medium’s controversial “happy news” trend more than three decades ago. From the Los Angeles Times: “The longtime president and general manager of WABC-TV in New York City, Fyffe developed his happy-talk format in the Midwest, […]
February 9, 1953…ABC Is Born Again With A Mega Merger That was the day United Paramount, led by Leonard Goldenson, came to the rescue and saved the company from bankruptcy. On October 12, 1943, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, and the radio station WMCA in New York, bought NBC’s Blue Network […]