Inside Cable News

July 3, 2006

On The Record to London…

GretaWire says the show is headed to London this week…

“On the Record” is “on the road” this week: in London. We are going to London to cover the one-year anniversary of the terrorist bombings that struck that beautiful city. We have a number of special things planned for you.

Wald/Howard profile…

The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz has a profile of CNBC’s Jonathan Wald and Josh Howard in conjunction with a story on CNBC’s re-tooling…

When Jonathan Wald was fired as executive producer of the “Today” show, he says, “I wanted to stay in the game and get back into the daily battle.”

When Josh Howard was forced to resign as executive producer of “60 Minutes II” after the botched story on President Bush and the National Guard, “I frankly wasn’t sure, after my last experience, whether I wanted to work in television again.”

Both men landed at CNBC, where they are helping to retool programming on a business channel that has struggled in the ratings since the dot-com bust six years ago.

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Abrams on primetime changes

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Gail Shister has MSNBC GM Dan Abrams spinning last week’s primetime re-shuffle…

For a rookie, MSNBC’s Dan Abrams throws major-league spin.

In his first move as general manager, Abrams last week canceled Rita Cosby’s 10 p.m. talk show and bumped Tucker Carlson from 11 p.m. to 4 p.m., with an updated repeat at 6. The changes begin next Monday.

Instead of five hours’ live face time a week, Cosby will appear several times weekly as primary anchor of the taped documentary series MSNBC Investigates, at 10 and 11 weeknights. She’ll also head a four-person unit to produce Rita Cosby Specials.

Here’s the spin: Cosby isn’t losing a show, she’s gaining a more important gig.

“This would be the ultimate offer for most TV correspondents,” says Abrams, 40, formerly anchor of the legal-oriented Abrams Report at 4 and 6 p.m.

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