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Fox has decided not to air President Obama's first-100-days press conference this Wednesday—the only Big Four network to turn down the White House's request for time. ABC, CBS and NBC have all announced plans to carry the president's appearance. But Fox today said: No go. “The Fox Broadcasting...
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The President Obama Show will be making an appearance in the May sweeps. Officials from the Obama administration have asked the major broadcast networks for up to an hour of primetime next Wednesday at 8, according to sources familiar with the request. Mr. Obama wants the time for a news conference outlining...
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President Barack Obama’s primetime press conference Tuesday night drew 40.4 million viewers across 11 broadcast and cable networks. Last night’s press conference was down 18% from President Obama’s first primetime press conference on Feb. 9, which was watched by 49.5 million viewers across eight networks...
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President Obama has joined Johnny Carson, Jerry Seinfeld and the cast of "Cheers" in the pantheon of guests who have given Jay Leno his best "Tonight Show" ratings. Thursday's presidential appearance—the first by a sitting president on a late-night talk show—scored...
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President Obama’s decision to hold another primetime news conference is playing havoc with the networks’ sweeps schedules—and causing some in the industry to grumble about the financial impact. The president has slated a news conference for Tuesday at 8 p.m. EDT, his second since taking office two months...
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President Barack Obama will be interviewed Sunday on CBS’ “60 Minutes.” Steve Kroft will interview President Obama on Friday in the Oval Office, covering topics such as the economy, bailouts, his budget and America’s involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mr. Kroft spoke to the president in his first...
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Jay Leno may be leaving “The Tonight Show,” but before he departs, he’s going to get one last appearance from Barack Obama. The White House is confirming that President Obama will be a guest on Thursday night’s program, during the president’s visit to the West Coast. Generally presidential candidates...
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As the welcomes roll in for Julius Genachowski, whom President Obama formally announced Tuesday as his nominee for FCC chairman, so are hints of some of the challenges and changes he could bring. Expectations for change from Mr. Genachowski quickly started to surface on issues ranging from indecency...
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More than 52 million viewers tuned in for President Barack Obama’s address to Congress Tuesday night, Nielsen Media Research said. Drawing 52.37 million, the speech pulled in more viewers than last year’s by nearly 15 million people. Although technically it was President Obama’s first State of the Union...
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The Federal Communications Commission late Wednesday rejected, at least temporarily, a quarter of the requests from the 491 TV stations that had asked to switch to digital-only signals on Feb. 17. President Barack Obama earlier Wednesday signed legislation pushing back the national switch to June 12...
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President Barack Obama today signed legislation postponing the national digital TV transition until June 12. “During these challenging economic times, the needs of American consumers are a top priority of my administration,” the President said in a statement. The signing caps a month of political back...
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A total of 49.5 million viewers across eight broadcast and cable networks watched President Barack Obama’s first press conference during primetime Monday night. Updated figures from Nielsen Co. found that 49,455,133 viewers tuned in last night for President Obama’s press conference on the economic stimulus...
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In the end, a bad brew of poor planning and politics led Congress to delay the nation’s transition to all-digital television signals by three months to June 12. In the poor planning column: An underfunded coupon program to help pay for analog converter boxes; public outreach in some markets that raised...
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ABC News’ Charles Gibson will sit down with President Barack Obama on Tuesday. The interview, which will take place in the Oval Office, will air during “World News With Charles Gibson” on Tuesday night. Mr. Gibson’s interview will tackle the president’s economic stimulus proposal, the tax issues facing...
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On Tuesday, the House of Representatives will vote on whether the transition to digital broadcast television will be delayed, setting off a new scramble by broadcasters to adjust to a changing DTV switch deadline. After a political back-and-forth that kept station managers off-balance for two weeks,...