Scranton, Pennsylvania ABC affiliate WNEP has admitted accidentally showing test results for the upcoming November 5 general election. The results appeared during an early Sunday evening broadcast of the Formula 1 Mexico Grand Prix. “WNEP regrets the error and apologizes for any confusion,” the station said on its website. “We have taken steps to ensure…
CNN’s deep roster of anchors, correspondents, analysts, and commentators will be out in full force on Election Night. Look for coverage to span multiple platforms, including cable networks CNN and CNN International, as well as the CNN Max streaming service and CNN.com. The main event begins on Nov. 5 at 4 p.m. with the launch…
With Election Night rapidly approaching, TVNewser is here to provide virtual visits to some of the network studios you’ll be watching on Nov. 5. Check out behind the scenes photos and expert commentary from the designers who brought the new and improved sets to life. Peter Blangiforti, Senior Vice President of Broadcast & Media Technology…
Missouri Democratic Senate candidate Lucas Kunce won’t be charged after KSHB reporter Ryan Gamboa was injured by flyaway metal during a campaign event at a shooting range. Clinton County Sheriff Larry Fish in a Monday report said there was no “ill intent” by Kunce or other shooters at the October 22 event on a private…
From the Democratic National Convention in Chicago to MSNBC Live in Brooklyn, Joy Reid and Alex Wagner have been joined at the hip this election season. With mere days to go until America decides the Oval Office’s next occupant, the duo are headlining the live special Your Power, Your Vote, premiering tonight at 9 p.m….
Attendees at ADWEEK’s Mediaweek event received news they could use on Monday. The dynamic CNN duo of NewsNight anchor Abby Phillip and chief media analyst Brian Stelter took the stage for a TVNewser-hosted panel exploring the past, present, and future of presidential election coverage on the major cable networks. The panel was a homecoming of…
Political campaigners have been spending billions of dollars on ads on streaming services, which promise to marry the persuasiveness of TV spots with the precision of digital targeting. What’s still missing from this winning combination is regulation. “The last time they passed a substantial law around campaign finance disclosure … was McCain-Feingold in 2002,” said…
With a week to go until Election Day, emotions are running high on both sides of the aisle. And on Monday night, those emotions boiled over into public view on CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip when conservative commentator Ryan Girdusky made a bigoted remark to fellow panelist, Mehdi Hasan. Phillip immediately took point on lowering…
Although Democrats continue to pour more money than Republicans into presidential advertising on a national level, the 2024 contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will be won or lost in battleground states. On this front, both campaigns and their supporters have run a similar number of presidential ads on local…
Looks like Fox News’ Bret Baier will be trick-or-treating in Pennsylvania this Halloween. TVNewser can exclusively reveal that the Special Report anchor is broadcasting live from a Philadelphia suburb on Oct. 31 at 6 p.m. ET. And he’s taking show on the road the next night as well, heading to a suburb of Detroit, Michigan…
As the host of CNN’s The Source, it’s only appropriate that Kaitlan Collins has regularly been a source of Donald Trump’s ire. In 2018, the Alabama-born journalist was famously barred from a Rose Garden press conference after Trump administration officials objected to her line of questioning during an Oval Office event with the then-president. Five…
WLOX anchor David “Dave” Elliott said he was fired Friday morning because of his political posts on X, formerly known as Twitter. “I’m no longer at WLOX as of 10-25-24,” Elliott wrote on his Facebook page. “The corporation doesn’t like my political views.” The view in question was expressed on X in a video that…
Top of the Ticker: Two major American newspapers–The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times–have chosen not to issue a presidential endorsement, reportedly at the behest of their billionaire owners, Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong, respectively. It’s the first time in almost 40 years that the Post has declined to endorse a candidate. The decision…
Brian Williams has a date with Amazon on Election Night. The former NBC News anchor is headlining the company’s first foray into the TV news space–a live special that will stream globally on Prime Video and will be free to watch for all Amazon customers. With less than two weeks to go until America goes…
Update: The CNN town hall was the most-watched program of the evening among all the cable networks with 3.334 million total viewers, and finished second in the Adults 25-54 demo, behind NBA on ESPN, with 744,000 viewers between 9 – 10:11 p.m. ET. Within that same time period, Fox News and MSNBC had 3.229 million…
Despite its best efforts, Fox News didn’t score a much-coveted presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. But Jimmy Failla didn’t throw away his shot at taking part in his own debate. The conservative comedian and Fox News Saturday Night host matched wits with liberal comic Pete Dominick at Manhattan’s famed Comedy Cellar last…
Top of the Ticker: CNN’s chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward and her crew were briefly detained by a rebel militia in the Darfur region of Sudan earlier this month. Ward wrote about her harrowing 48-hour experience in a post on CNN’s website recounting why they were in that area, how they were captured, and how…
A former general counsel for the Florida Department of Health said he resigned rather than “complying with the directives” of DeSantis’s executive staff to send more cease-and-desist letters to TV stations running the ad. The Washington Post reports that the letters that threatened Florida TV stations with criminal penalties, if they aired a political ad…
Live from Pennsylvania… it’s Alex Wagner Tonight! TVNewser can exclusively reveal that the MSNBC host is embedded in the battleground East Coast state for a special live episode of her primetime show, premiering Tuesday night at 9 p.m. ET. With Pennsylvania polling currently showing a deadlock between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald…
A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order against Florida’s surgeon general after the state health department threatened to bring criminal charges against broadcasters airing an ad supporting Florida’s Right to an Abortion Amendment. “To keep it simple for the State of Florida: it’s the First Amendment, stupid,” said Chief U.S. District Judge Mark…
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