FNC’s Mike Tobin turns in a piece on the reaction to Hamas being propelled to power in the Palestinian territories…

Our cab driver was on a tirade last night. “The Palestinian people wanted to give Fatah a clap on the face, and now look what they’ve done,” he ranted. “They wanted to punish the old leadership, and who will get punished? We will.” The general consensus I get here in Gaza City is that everyone was surprised by the overwhelming Hamas victory, including Hamas. The vote was all heart and no logic. Now after days drunk on their own emotions — casting ballots, waving flags, and firing their guns in the air — Palestinians are waking up with a wicked political hangover, realizing who they are in bed with and thinking, “Wow, did we really do that?”

Mutlichannel News’ Steve Donahoe chronicles Suzanne Scott’s rise up the FNC News chain to Network Executive Producer… (via FTVLive)

Eighty-hour work weeks are the norm for Scott, who is expecting her first child in March. That doesn’t include the time she puts in on weekends.

“Basically it’s being on call 24/7, which is the nature of our business. It’s what we do,” she notes.

In 2003, Scott was named senior producer of On the Record with Greta Van Susteren. The program quickly became one of the most popular shows on Fox News’s schedule and on basic cable.

Last January, Fox News promoted Scott to network executive producer. She now oversees the network’s primetime programming and its popular Fox & Friends morning show, along with developing the network’s weekend schedule

MSNBC has expanded the size of those three windows on the 12-4 block. Before they took up 1/3 of the screen. Now they practically take up half of the screen. In my opinion they were better the way they were. Though optimally it would be better if they weren’t there at all…

UPDATE: Here’s an example of the new SuperSized graphics…

FTVLive is scooping that Alexis Glick’s days may be numbered on Today and she will soon be removed from the show. If this happens it would be a big hit for Jeff Zucker who almost single handedly forced Glick upon NBC News. Does this mean she might wind up on MSNBC now? Or is she out of NBC News entirely?

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WHICH CNBC star is sleeping on the couch these days? The blustery buffoon’s wife didn’t take too kindly to him when she caught him in flagrante with a comely personal assistant . . .

TV Week’s Michelle Greppi writes about Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace addressing Fox Broadcast affiliates and the upcoming coverage of the SOTU…

Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News and Fox Television Stations, ordered up separate State of the Union coverage from 9 p.m. through the Democratic response for Fox Broadcasting. While Brit Hume anchors Fox News Channel’s coverage on cable, Shepard Smith and Mr. Wallace will do the anchoring and analyzing, respectively, for Fox Broadcasting viewers from 9 p.m. through the Democrats’ response.

The Fox affiliates were clearly impressed with Mr. Wallace’s speech-a reaction many of them phoned home as soon as they’d finished lunch.

Mr. Wallace is not kidding himself that they’ll race home and rearrange their Sunday-morning lineups.

He told The Insider: “We’ve upgraded the show. We’ve gotten a higher visibility. We get quoted routinely and as much as, if not more than, any of our competitors.”