Keith Olbermann, who last month abruptly left his MSNBC talk show, is headed to the Current TV public-affairs channel.
Current announced Tuesday that Olbermann will host a nightly prime-time news and commentary show. His program will begin later this year.
The network said Olbermann will also serve as chief news officer and have an equity stake in Current Media.
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Larry King began his career in 1957 at a Miami Beach radio station. (Photo by AFP)
By GLENN GARVIN
Five decades and 50,000 interviews after he first jabbed a microphone into a surprised pop singer’s face at a Miami Beach diner, Larry King is hanging up his suspenders. His Thursday night show on CNN will be the last of a broadcast career that eternally careened between pinnacles of wild success and pits of utter catastrophe.
King and his producers are being uncharacteristically tight-lipped about who will appear on the final edition of Larry King Live, which airs at 9 p.m. Comedian Bill Maher and American Idol host Ryan Seacrest will be at King’s Hollywood studio — but 14 mystery guests will also beam in from around the world via satellite.
Could President Barack Obama be among them? He’s already shared a microphone with King, as has every American president since Richard Nixon. O.J. Simpson? King’s mile-by-mile coverage of Simpson’s 1994 slow-motion car chase by Los Angeles police inaugurated the age of crime as entertainment. LeBron James? Bill Gates? Lady Gaga? They’ve all been chatted up on the nightly show.
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Read related story: Morning glory just another name for Channel 5′s Roxanne Stein
Palm Beach Post reporter Barbara Marshall
At least Rachel McAdams never had to go out to the parking lot, shake a drunk technician awake and get him to turn on the TV station’s transmitter.
That’s what I did regularly in my first TV job, broadcasting the morning news cut-ins at a tiny Fort Pierce TV station.
In Morning Glory, a new movie about a failing network morning news show, McAdams plays Becky Fuller, an incandescently perky executive producer determined to boost the ratings of a show anchored by a former beauty queen, played by Diane Keaton, and Harrison Ford’s cranky and pompous newsroom legend who refuses to do – or even say the word – fluffy.
Fuller tries to persuade her anchors to engage in increasingly crazy stunts which probably seemed comically harebrained to the film’s writers. But when Keaton sumo-wrestles in a fat suit and the weather guy does his forecast from a roller coaster, I shrugged.
News Channel 5 anchor Roxanne Stein with her morning co-anchor Jim Favole on November 8, 2010. The pair worked together early in their careers in Chattanooga, Tennessee and teamed back up years later in West Palm Beach when Favole signed with News Channel 5. Staff photo by Brandon Kruse/Palm Beach Post.
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When you wake up all fuzzy at 6 in the morning and flip on your TV, you’ve got to wonder:
How does Roxanne Stein do it?
How does that woman stay so peppy at this beastly hour?
How does she deliver the news in a straightforward and soothing way, then bounce around to traffic and weather and then throw in a jocular jab or two at co-anchor John Favole?
And how does she look so girl-next-door good so early? On high-definition TV!
Dimensional Harmony performs 'September' from Earth, Wind and Fire. (photo courtesy NBC)
Boynton Beach High School’s choir, called Dimensional Harmony, is one of four finalists competing for a chance to perform live on NBC’s Today.
The winning choir will be chosen based on Internet votes. The winner will be announced Friday, and their winning choir will appear (briefly) via satellite. But the big prize is a trip in New York and a chance to sing live as part of the Today Show‘s Choir Showdown!
According to a news release, the finalists were selected on reviews of video submissions from show choirs across the country. In Boynton’s video, they sang September by Earth, Wind and Fire. You can see their performance here.
The other finalists include Butler Headliners from Butler Community College in Kansas, The Ball Sate University Singers, and Celebration Show Choir from Mars Hill Bible School in Alabama.
Voting ends at 8 a.m. tomorrow. To watch the videos and maybe vote for the locals, click here.
It’s gone from viral video, to auto-tuned hit single and now it’s national news: Antonio Dotson and the “Bed Intruder” song has taken on a life of its own.
Last week, “Bed Intruder” climbed the charts after getting the “Auto-Tune The News” treatment by the Gregory Brothers.
NBC’s Today did a report on the phenomenon, catching up with Antonio Dotson, whose initial rant about a serial rapist in the projects where he and his sister live started the whole thing:
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In a no-frills studio in Fox News’ Manhattan headquarters, Bill O’Reilly was wrangling with a guest, as usual.
This time it wasn’t a liberal foe but conservative strategist Dick Morris, who was hammering the Justice Department for hiring a group of lawyers — dubbed the “al-Qaida Seven” by the right-wing advocacy group Keep America Safe — that had represented terrorism suspects in private practice.
But O’Reilly didn’t buy Morris’ argument that the lawyers’ past work made them a security risk. “You shouldn’t be demonized because you take on an unpopular client,” he countered.
The top-rated cable talk-show host, who is coming to Palm Beach to deliver a speech at Mar-a-Lago on Friday night, has always been a contrarian. He’s a self-described culture warrior who touts traditionalism while also favoring gay adoption and some gun-control measures.
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eABC News said it has hired Christiane Amanpour, one of CNN’s best-known personalities for her international reporting over the past two decades, to host its Sunday morning political talk show.
Amanpour, who will start in August, replaces George Stephanopoulos. He left the show in December to take over as co-host of ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Amanpour’s hiring indicates a change in direction for a show that is concerned primarily with politics and domestic issues — like other Washington-based counterparts “Meet the Press” on NBC and “Face the Nation” on CBS.
“With Christiane, we have the opportunity to provide our audiences with something different on Sunday mornings,” said ABC News President David Westin. “We will continue to provide the best in interviews about domestic politics and policies. But now we will add to that an international perspective.”
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According to the Orlando Sentinel, ABC News is slicing its staff by 300-400 through buyouts, probably during the next month.
Hal Boedeker is reporting that the news division is planning a major shift to digital journalism, including intensive training for the remaining employees.
According to Boedeker, ABC News David Westin sent the following in a memo:
An essential part of this intended transformation will be extensive training in the new technology — whether in the field or in-house … When we are finished, many job descriptions will be different, different skill sets may be required, and yes, we will likely have substantially fewer people on staff at ABC News.
Among Westin’s planned changes are the expanded use of digital journalists, staffers shooting and editing their own material and combining weekend and weekday operations on ABC News’ morning show, Good Morning America.
Alex O'Loughlin: The new McGarrett
Jack Lord: The original McGarrett
Meet the new Jack Lord.
Or make that Steve McGarrett.
Alex O’Loughlin, the star of failed TV series Moonlight and Three Rivers, has been cast as the top cop on The Rock in CBS’ planned rebooting of the classic crime drama, Hawaii Five-O, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
O’Loughlin looks handsome enough. But he doesn’t seem to have the hard stare and unmoveable hair that made Lord such a ’60s and ’70s icon. Who can forget such classic badass phrases as “Book ‘em Danno! Murder one!”
The pilot will be filmed later this year, presumably to make the fall schedule. Daniel Dae Kim, of the TV series Lost, has also been cast to play the part of Five-O detective Chin Ho Kelly. No word yet on casting the parts of Danno or Kono or Wo Fat.
One word of advice: Keep the old theme song:
Aloha.
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