Inside Cable News

April 27, 2006

Another Chris Wallace interview…

The USA Today’s Peter Johnson has an interview with Chris Wallace…

Fox News has been accused of being pro-Bush, a perception that Snow’s appointment seemed to bolster, but Wallace says FNS gets no special treatment.

“I think we get a fair — although I think not particularly any fairer — shake than anybody else does from the Bush administration,” Wallace says. “We also get all of the top Democrats, because they know if they want to play, they have to come to us.”

Chris Wallace interview…

The Milwaukee Joural Sentinel’s Tim Cuprisin has an interview with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace…

Wallace seems pretty satisfied hosting “Fox News Sunday,” which marks its 10th anniversary this weekend. The program - which airs at 9 a.m. Sundays on Channel 6, with a 5 p.m. Fox News Channel repeat - is a bit different since reporter Wallace replaced pundit Snow at the end of 2003.

“I’m more of an interviewer, you know, and maybe it’s something from the genes, but I think I’m a pretty tough interviewer. And the only instructions I’ve been given by (Fox News czar) Roger Ailes, from the very first day, were just to treat everybody the same,” he says. “I think I have.”

If you didn’t get his “genes” reference, he’s talking about his dad, Mike Wallace.

Incidentally there’s a podcast that contains extra interview material…

Rehearsals for MSNBC’s “The Most”…

The reason the news anchors have been appearing for most of the week in what has been referred to by some people as “The Temporary Set” or “The Duratrans Set” instead of the main MSNBC newsroom is because rehearsals/test runs have been going on for The Most prior to its May 1st debut.

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Air Force One press wants an alternative to FNC?

The Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Ken Herman writes about a strange to-do on Air Force One that occurred today and how the TVs in the press cabin got changed from FNC to CNN…(via Romenesko)

Despite McClellan’s TV options, the record will show that – other than when the movie of reporters’ choice is showing (and that frequently invites a gender-based battle over what to watch), Fox is showing on the screens in the press cabin of Air Force One.

As McClellan and VandeHei talked TV channels, Agence France Presse photographer Tim Sloan volunteered that he was the one who raised the issue.

“I was the Fox victim,” he said, “and I was told, the quote was, ‘No,’ when I asked for CNN. … I was told, ‘We don’t watch CNN here. You can only watch Fox.’”

Fox News Sunday celebrates 10 years

Fishbowl DC has a rundown of the big celebration FNC threw for the show last night…

Yes, even on Prom Week, when the VIP circuit is already overheated, Fox News Sunday managed to pull off a stellar and star-studded event last night to toast the 10 year anniverary of Fox News Sunday.

Or as Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace called it: “Tony Snow’s going away party.”

As we mentioned earlier, the room was abuzz with chatter that sounded something like this (okay, just like this): “What the hell is Hillary doing here?”

UPDATE: Johnny Dollar has audio of Bill O’Reilly talking about meeting Hillary Clinton

Today’s non-story of the day…

…comes from Lloyd Grove in the New York Daily News…

I’m quite sure that Kevin Goldman, vice president of CNBC public relations, outranks an ink-stained gossip columnist. So who can blame him for hanging up on Lowdown - twice - when asked why CNBC superstar Michael Eisner, the deposed CEO of Disney who gets astronomical ratings of almost 100,000 viewers, was a no-show on yesterday’s “Live With Regis and Kelly” - which, after all, gets only a measly 5 million viewers. “I’m not talking to you guys!” Goldman barked. Excellent promotional work, Mr. G!

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Maury and Connie have a luncheon…

The Washington Post’s Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts write about yesterday’s Maury Povich and Connie Chung luncheon…

…yesterday, there were Povich and Chung themselves, in the city where both got their start, taking questions in public. “They could have canceled. I would have understood,” Nathans owner Carol Joynt told our colleague Korin Miller. It was a carefully choreographed affair. An NBC exec was in the room, as were two network security staffers. Joynt made it clear the couple would take no questions from the floor. Instead, she invited the 50 or so paying lunchers (dining on salmon and asparagus) to write down questions and pass them forward. She said later that most she received involved the scandal, which she dispensed with in an opening comment.

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Cooper to join 60 Minutes…

Michael Starr in the New York Post scoops that Anderson Cooper will be joining 60 Minutes as a contributor…

Cooper will stay at CNN as the host of “Anderson Cooper 360″ and will contribute occasional reports to “60 Minutes” - which will also air on Cooper’s show.

It will be the second time the networks have shared on-air talent. Cooper’s CNN stablemate, Christiane Amanpour, contributed to “60 Minutes” for several years.

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