Last night on Scarborough Country, Joe Scarborough responded to Bill O’Reilly’s criticism of NBC News’ decision to label the Iraq situation a “civil war”. Segment transcript follows…

SCARBOROUGH: And you know, Matthew Felling, though, when we‘re talking about bias, I got to—let‘s bring in Fox News anchor Bill O‘Reilly because he actually went after NBC News for the decision to use the term “civil war” to describe the situation in Iraq. Take a look at Bill O‘Reilly‘s attack on NBC.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BILL O‘REILLY, “THE O‘REILLY FACTOR”: NBC News has declared that there is indeed a civil war in Iraq. Now, that‘s not shocking because NBC is the most aggressive anti-Bush network these days, as they have made a calculated effort to woo left-wing viewers. The question is, Is NBC wrong about Iraq? The answer is, Yes. Of course, the American media is not helping anyone by oversimplifying the situation and rooting for the USA to lose in Iraq, and that is what some media people are doing.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SCARBOROUGH: I think that‘s insane, that he‘s suggesting there that NBC is rooting for America to lose in Iraq. Bill O‘Reilly has had questions about this war from the very beginning. Bill O‘Reilly knows we‘re engaged in a civil war over there. I‘m stunned. What is going on at Fox News? Why is Bill O‘Reilly claiming that my network, NBC News, is rooting for terrorists? That‘s truly insulting to me.
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Here are two charts comparing, year to year, the gap between Imus in the Morning on MSNBC and American Morning on CNN…
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Johnny Dollar has the audio of John Gibson talking about irate mail, threats, and Fox Security…

Singer Jewel stopped by FOX & Friends this morning and spread some holiday cheer. Jewel’s appearance culminated with her singing along to “Winter Wonderland” with hosts Lauren Green and Steve Doocy.

Attorney General Ablerto Gonzales was interviewed by Wolf Blitzer today in The Situation Room. Transcript highlights follow…

On whether there will be an investigation into the Stephen Hadley memo leak

GONZALES: Oh, I don’t know, Wolf. With respect to any kind of possible leak of classified information, we have a typical process…

BLITZER: So there’s no specific investigation, at least not yet?

GONZALES: No, absolutely not.

On the government’s settlement with Brandon Mayfield, a Muslim man falsely detained
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TVNewser scoops that The Most will be moving to Noon starting Monday December 11.

What was happening on Scarborough Country last night? It was the highest rated show on MSNBC primetime despite Countdown having a decent night by Countdown standards. O’Reilly had a good night for FNC with 2.2 million viewers. Deal or no Deal’s re-air came in 2nd for the hour at 8pm. MSNBC beat CNN in the Primetime Demo.

Cable News Ratings for November 29, 2006

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 838,000 viewers
CNN – 503,000 viewers
MSNBC – 307,000 viewers
CNBC – 212,000 viewers
HLN – 209,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 1,750,000 viewers
CNN – 884,000 viewers
MSNBC – 532,000 viewers
CNBC – 392,000 viewers
HLN – 380,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC – 256,000 viewers
CNN – 167,000 viewers
MSNBC –141,000 viewers
CNBC – 81,000 viewers
HLN – 92,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 429,000 viewers
CNN – 265,000 viewers
MSNBC – 266,000 viewers
CNBC – 159,000 viewers
HLN – 172,000 viewers

Morning programs P2+ (25-54)
FOX & Friends – 746,000 viewers (304,000)
American Morning – 410,000 viewers (157,000)
Imus in The Morning- 363,000 viewers (204,000)
Robin & Co. – 227,000 viewers (103,000)
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This afternoon, CNN announced its coverage plans for World AIDS Day…

CNN and a team of correspondents positioned around the globe provide viewers with a sobering look at the effects of HIV/AIDS upon the world in recognition of World AIDS Day on Friday, Dec. 1. Coverage includes exclusive interviews with former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell and supermodel Iman as well as a replay of the CNN documentary Where Have All the Parents Gone? hosted by chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour.

The coverage begins on American Morning, where co-anchor Soledad O’Brien interviews Clinton about progress of the Clinton Foundation’s HIV/AIDS Initiative and a World AIDS Day address he delivered in New Delhi, India. O’Brien also interviews Obama about his recent trip to Africa to raise AIDS awareness and Iman about her “I Am African” campaign to raise money to fight the disease across the continent.

O’Brien also provides an in-depth look at Rick and Kay Warren, one of the pre-eminent evangelical couples in the United States, and their efforts to raise money and awareness to fight against global HIV/AIDS. The piece also examines an invitation from Warren, author of The Purpose Drive Life, to both U.S. Sens. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and Obama to speak at Saddleback Church during its second annual Global Summit on AIDS in Lake Forest, Calif. Both men have agreed to take an AIDS test as part of awareness campaign.
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FNC announced that Neil Cavuto will be anchoring a financial newscast on Fox News Radio…

Fox News Channel’s (FNC) Vice President and Managing Editor of Business News, Neil Cavuto, will begin anchoring a financial newscast, The Cavuto Money Report, for FOX News Radio beginning on January 15, 2007, announced Kevin Magee, Executive Vice President, FOX News.

In making the announcement, Magee said, “Neil’s keen knowledge of the business and financial world combined with his broadcasting style will bring a new depth to our radio division. We are thrilled to offer the number one business news product to radio stations across the country.”

Cavuto added, “I’m excited to extend FOX News’ business brand onto another platform. Radio is a very influential medium and I’m eager to now become a part of it.”
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Johnny Dollar has the video of Fox and Friends this morning where Steve Brown reported from Montreal on a Howard Dean speech where he took a jab at FNC.

Jossip is saying it’s hearing that The Most and Tucker may get axed…

An insider tattles to us that there have been “lots of closed door meetings” regarding newlywed Alison Stewart’s 3pm show The Most, which debuted in May. Obviously execs don’t appreciate its worldly mix of news and entertainment: We’re told to expect to see it cut next.

Meanwhile, a timeline is arising for the futures of Rita Cosby and Tucker Carlson. We already told you that Rita – who lost her own primetime show Live & Direct – was getting the ax. Her exit from the building, we hear, is imminent. And as for Carlson, whose Tucker has been hanging in there with a downsized staff? A February cancelation announcement is scheduled, says our source. All of this on top of the impending series of layoffs expected at the news channel under NBC 2.0.

UPDATE: An MSNBC insider tells ICN, “The Jossip item is total bs”…

UPDATE 2: TVNewser reveals information suggesting Jossip let itself get played..

CNN announced this morning that it will air the two hour “CNN Presents: After Jesus-The Earliest Christians Explores Surprising History of World’s Largest Faith” Wednesday, December 20th at 10pm ET…

As two billion Christians prepare to celebrate the Christmas season, CNN will debut a sweeping documentary on the tumultuous early years of Christianity – from the crucifixion of Jesus Christ to the conversion of Constantine, the Roman emperor who first legalized Christianity in 313 A.D. CNN examines how the earliest Christians spread their message, despite infighting over the faith and violent persecution by Rome.

The two-hour special, CNN Presents: After Jesus – The First Christians, premieres on Wednesday, Dec. 20, at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. The documentary replays on Saturday, Dec. 23, and Sunday, Dec. 24, at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. All times Eastern.

Immediately following Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection, the first Christians were challenged to define their faith. Two of Jesus’ disciples – Peter, who preached that the followers of Jesus had to be Jewish, and Paul who argued that this new faith must be available to all – would emerge as Christianity’s first and most influential leaders. Their eventual consensus, that Christianity would be available to all through conversion, and their missionary zeal throughout the Roman Empire, helped the new faith to spread rapidly. But Christianity’s growing power was also a threat to the empire, so the Romans killed Peter and Paul and other early leaders. Christians were so brutally persecuted that Christianity’s survival was repeatedly in danger. That Christianity eventually became the world’s largest religion is perhaps the faith’s second biggest miracle.
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FNC’s John Moody a comment about the term “civil war” with regards to Iraq. (tip courtesy of Johnny Dollar)

“Some are using the term [civil war] to indicate failure, not inside Iraq, but of US policy in Iraq. We’re unwilling to fall into that tender trap. We’re not using the term because there are non-Iraqis in the fray, and that makes it something different.”

UPDATE: This was an editorial stance that was discussed on Special Report with Brit Hume. To avoid confusion about whether this was some sort of official PR release from FNC, which it obviously wasn’t, I’m rewording the entry…

Here is the November program ranker…
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Here is a spreadsheet of November 2006 vs. November 2005 ratings for the cable news channels…
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FNC is noting its numbers for November and highlighting its viewer retention in the aftermath of the 2006 Midterms…

FOX NEWS CHANNEL RETAINS LARGEST SHARE OF AUDIENCE POST MIDTERM ELECTIONS

CNN and MSNBC Witness Most Severe Audience Erosion

FOX News Channel (FNC) continued its dominance throughout the month of November 2006, retaining the most viewers since the midterm elections, while MSNBC and CNN were unable to sustain their election gains, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Since November 7th, CNN and MSNBC’s audience have lost nearly two-thirds of their total day audience, down 61% and 60% respectively, while FNC retained 56% of its Election Day viewers. In Primetime, the drop off was more severe with CNN losing 75% of its audience and MSNBC hemorrhaging 77%, while FNC retained 40% of its viewers.
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CNN is noting its numbers for November and highlighting gains for Lou Dobbs Tonight, Glenn Beck, The Situation Room, and the 2006 Midterms…

CNN Posts Double Digit Growth in November While FNC Declines
Lou Dobbs Tonight and The Situation Room deliver highest numbers of the year
Lou Dobbs Tonight up 73% in P25-54–more than any show on CNN or FNC
Glenn Beck on HLN is the fastest growing show in all of cable news

CNN Nov. 06 vs. Nov. 05

CNN posts growth across the board with double digit gains every hour in the coveted P25-54 demo.

Total Day
CNN up 15% in P2+ (516k vs. 449k) and up 44% in P25-54 (186kvs. 129k)
FNC down -12% in P2+ (780k vs. 889k) and up 14% in P25-54 (261k vs. 228k)

Prime (M-F)
CNN up 19% in P2+ (958k vs. 802k) and up 50% in P25-54 (318k vs. 212k)
FNC down -17% in P2+ (1636k vs. 1977k) and up 12% in P25-54 (465k vs. 414k)
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Deal or No Deal re-airings are really inflating CNBC’s primetime numbers. It turned in over 1 million viewers last night placing it firmly in 2nd behind FNC at 8pm. Here’s what I don’t understand. Bearing in mind that I’ve never watched the show on NBC, I don’t know how these viewers are finding the show on CNBC. Is NBC advertising the CNBC re-air on NBC? Whatever the reason, they’re apparently only interested in that show because they left en masse when Mad Money re-aired at 9pm.

Cable News Ratings for November 28, 2006

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 783,000 viewers
CNN – 497,000 viewers
MSNBC – 278,000 viewers
CNBC – 225,000 viewers
HLN – 222,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 1,690,000 viewers
CNN – 964,000 viewers
MSNBC – 485,000 viewers
CNBC – 437,000 viewers
HLN – 453,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC – 245,000 viewers
CNN – 185,000 viewers
MSNBC –105,000 viewers
CNBC – 86,000 viewers
HLN – 96,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 414,000 viewers
CNN – 331,000 viewers
MSNBC – 167,000 viewers
CNBC – 195,000 viewers
HLN – 165,000 viewers

Morning programs P2+ (25-54)
FOX & Friends – 711,000 viewers (313,000)
American Morning – 393,000 viewers (182,000)
Imus in The Morning- 249,000 viewers (99,000)
Robin & Co. – 212,000 viewers (118,000)
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Shepard Smith is now in Jordan for FNC anchoring coverage of President Bush’s trip there…

It’s ten PM here in Amman, Jordan where something is awry, as historic talks were set to take place between President Bush, King Abdullah of Jordan and the Prime Minister of Iraq. Now those three way talks are cancelled. The President’s first meeting with the Iraqi leader will now be tomorrow. Air Force One landed here about three hours ago, word of changes came almost immediately and seemed a surprise to at least some in the President’s entourage

Lost Remote interviews The Situation Room’s Internet Reporter Jackie Schechner. It’s an audio only interview…

GM Dan Abrams’ memo to MSNBC staffers on the November ratings…

You did it again! Congratulations to everyone on another blockbuster month for the newly energized and surging MSNBC! For the total day we were up a whopping 44% in the key demographic and 25% with total viewers compared with November 05. Competitively, this was our best month since February 02! In prime time, we were up more than any other cable news network: up 70% in the demo, and 47% among total viewers. That earned us our best competitive position in prime time since November 01 and made us the 2nd fastest growing channel on all of cable. And once again, Countdown beat CNN for the month in the key demographic.

We also got off to a great start for the month of December (those ratings began Monday). In prime time on Monday, we beat CNN by 29% in the key demographic. In fact, for 11 hours on Monday we bested CNN and beat Fox for three hours.

Its official, we are on a roll.

Let’s keep it going!

Dan

FNC has reached an agreement with the NCTC (National Cable Television Cooperative) the network announced this afternoon…

FOX News Channel (FNC) and the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) have reached a multi-year agreement to continue carrying the number one news network to more than 3 million of their subscribers, announced Tim Carry, Senior Vice President of Affiliate Sales for the network. Financial terms were not disclosed.

In making the announcement, Carry said, “We’re proud to renew out partnership with the NCTC and look forward to continuing to be a part of their systems’ dynamic line-up.”

MSNBC announced this afternoon that Tom Brokaw and John Edwards will be joining Chris Matthews for two Hardball College Tour stops at Fordham University and the University of North Carolina…

MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews” continues its hugely popular “Hardball College Tour” this December with two special guests, NBC News Special Correspondent and former “NBC Nightly News” Anchor and Managing Editor Tom Brokaw and former senator, former vice presidential nominee, and prospective 2008 presidential candidate John Edwards.

Brokaw will join Chris Matthews at Fordham University on Monday, Dec. 4 for a live show at 5:00 p.m. (ET), repeating at 7:00 p.m. (ET). Edwards will join Matthews at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Monday, Dec. 11 for a live show at 5:00 p.m. (ET), repeating at 7:00 p.m. (ET). In keeping with the “Hardball College Tour” tradition, both shows will take place before a live audience where students will have the opportunity to ask questions.
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Cable News Ratings for Monday November 27, 2006

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 734,000 viewers
CNN – 473,000 viewers
MSNBC – 305,000 viewers
CNBC – 146,000 viewers
HLN – 226,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 1,374,000 viewers
CNN – 753,000 viewers
MSNBC – 429,000 viewers
CNBC – a scratch with 89,000 viewers
HLN – 429,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC – 231,000 viewers
CNN – 144,000 viewers
MSNBC –137,000 viewers
CNBC – 55,000 viewers
HLN – 121,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 381,000 viewers
CNN – 175,000 viewers
MSNBC – 220,000 viewers
CNBC – a scratch with 40,000 viewers
HLN – 212,000 viewers

Morning programs P2+ (25-54)
FOX & Friends – 742,000 viewers (240,000)
American Morning – 347,000 viewers (140,000)
Imus in The Morning- 346,000 viewers (160,000)
Robin & Co. – 198,000 viewers (117,000)
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Cable News Ratings for Sunday November 26, 2006

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 484,000 viewers
CNN – 352,000 viewers
MSNBC – 282,000 viewers
CNBC – a scratch with 101,000 viewers
HLN – 209,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 513,000 viewers
CNN – 451,000 viewers
MSNBC – 453,000 viewers
CNBC – 139,000 viewers
HLN – 213,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC – 184,000 viewers
CNN – 134,000 viewers
MSNBC – 116,000 viewers
CNBC – a scratch with 43,000 viewers
HLN – 90,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 160,000 viewers
CNN – 132,000 viewers
MSNBC – 160,000 viewers
CNBC – 57,000 viewers
HLN – 66,000 viewers

Barney Frank will be taking on Bill O’Reilly tonight on The Factor…

Mother Jones’ Sridhar Pappu has a profile of CNN’s Lou Dobbs…

Perhaps more than his peers, Dobbs has used cable’s niche messaging and agitated viewers to refigure the role of news anchor. While Brian Williams may, in gross numbers, have more viewers, Dobbs’ daily interpretation of the news flickers more brightly both on the 13-inchers sitting next to microwaves as supper’s being readied, and on the flat-screens tucked into offices on the Hill.

“One of our goals at CNN is to reassert our primacy in political coverage,” says Jon Klein, the network’s president. “If you think of political coverage, you typically think of Washington-based political reporting. But here’s Lou, in New York, primarily doing stories on the heartland, on the impact of policies on ordinary Americans, and that’s filtering back to Washington.”

“That’s profound,” Klein adds. “It shows you something about the power media can have away from the centers of power. That’s one of Lou’s strengths. He speaks to the people and he also speaks to the influencers.” By design, Dobbs’ show offers little in the way of token rebuttal. He has no use, he says, for “he said, she said” journalism, the kind that has reporters scrambling for an opposing quote five minutes before a story goes to the copydesk. His journalism is a driven, singularly focused, advocacy sort that doesn’t have the time or the patience to toss in a throwaway statement from an opposing think tank.

Needless to say, such fervor is not necessarily shared by his peers. Men like Reese Schonfeld, the former CNN executive who hired Dobbs, call his focus, or overfocus, on illegal immigration a “one-trick pony.” Likewise, Mike Wallace, who likes Dobbs and his program, told me, “He has a fixed and predictable and occasionally excessive preoccupation with broken borders and immigration.”

The New York Observer’s Rebecca Dana writes in a must read about the behind the scenes PR campaign for Nancy Grace after the Melinda Duckett suicide…

Ms. Cordasco sent an e-mail to print reporters in the Florida region, a copy of which was read to The Observer over the phone. In it, she wrote that Ms. Grace “will be going to Leesburg to search for Trenton Duckett with his father Josh …. Josh and the local police have asked Nancy to come down in order to bring the national spotlight back on the case. In addition, the police want to give Nancy special access to their helicopters, etc. Nancy has already made two trips to Florida to investigate the missing-child case and assist in the search efforts on her own.”

“A lot of the media feels like we coordinated our efforts around Nancy Grace and her show coming to Florida,” said Capt. James Pogue of the Marion County Sheriff’s Department. “And honestly, that is not the truth. What happened, it had nothing to do with Nancy Grace coming to town and doing all that. Our objective was to get Trenton Duckett’s face back on national TV so that the world would know who Trenton Duckett was, what he looked like, so they would start looking for him again.”

On Nov. 22, Lauren Ritchie, a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, pounced on Ms. Cordasco’s talking point. “Just so the truth is known, Leesburg police did not invite Grace to come here, and when questioned about it, the public-relations firm backed away from that claim,” she wrote.

Ms. Ritchie also noted that there were no police helicopters to borrow anyway.

The piece caused an uproar at CNN and Headline News. “There were certainly some people pretty upset over here,” said one high-level network source.

UPDATE: It would probably help if I included the link (sigh)…

CJR Daily’s Liz Cox Barrett fisks Neil Cavuto’s Common Sense segment on the media and Black Friday…

Yesterday, Cavuto used this first-person platform to perpetuate a complaint against “The Media” so common that it may have passed unnoticed (and, needless to say, unchallenged) by many in Cavuto’s audience: “The Media” focuses on “bad news.” Fixates on the negative. Ignores the positive. Phrase it how you like.

These days, one is, of course, most likely to encounter this assertion in discussions of how the press covers Iraq. Cavuto, however, cleverly applied it to something seasonal: how the press covered “Black Friday,” the annual day-after-turkey-binge-mall-binge that so many Americans embrace and that, retailers hope, sets the tone for a profitable holiday shopping season.

Apparently, Black Friday 2006 was a generally good day for the malls of America. According to the National Retail Federation, individual shoppers spent an average of 19 percent more over this Thanksgiving weekend than they did one year ago. “[19 percent] is a big number,” observed Cavuto. “And if something’s going up that much, there’s really not much other way to spin it.”

Alas, by Cavuto’s calculation, “The Media” did manage to find another way to “spin it” — by ignoring it. “Apparently to much of the media, it’s not a big deal,” Cavuto concluded, adding that “most who report on this stuff were busier reporting what stinks, not what soars,” and that there was “more talk about how Wal-Mart disappointed. Not much talk about how almost everyone else did not.”

Former President Jimmy Carter appeared this afternoon in The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. Transcript highlights follow…

On the Iraq Study Group

BLITZER: But is that outsourcing foreign policy, sort of kicking, punting the ball down the road to these outside 10 Democrats and Republicans giving him advice? Is that smart?

CARTER: Well, I don’t think he did it. I think this was an initiation by the Congress. He has his own recommendations, to be derived from people in his administration…If there are some things with which he disagrees, in order to save face, or to show his independence, that he’s still the commander-in-chief, then he will do it.

But I think in general, the recommendations of the committee will be seriously considered by the White House and maybe a lot of them will be adopted.

On whether Iraq is in a civil war
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Sunday’s ratings have been delayed until tomorrow. CNBC, boosted by an airing of Deal or No Deal, won the night outright in both total viewers and the Demo.

Cable News Ratings for November 25, 2006

P2+ Total Day
FNC –517,000 viewers
CNN – 374,000 viewers
MSNBC – 297,000 viewers
CNBC – 317,000 viewers
HLN – 247,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 417,000 viewers
CNN – 369,000 viewers
MSNBC – 326,000 viewers
CNBC – 452,000 viewers
HLN – 157,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC – 184,000 viewers
CNN – 115,000 viewers
MSNBC –141,000 viewers
CNBC – 126,000 viewers
HLN – 108,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 142,000 viewers
CNN – 103,000 viewers
MSNBC – 178,000 viewers
CNBC – 194,000 viewers
HLN – 87,000 viewers

I see that I wasn’t alone. Howard Kurtz got the same feeling I did yesterday about MSNBC and the Iraq Civil War. (via TVNewser)

So Lauer and NBC deserve some credit, I suppose, for dropping the qualifiers, even though the semantic debate is basically a sideshow to the main act of sectarian violence that has been spiraling out of control for many months now. The way that MSNBC pounded the linguistic issue all day, though, seemed to carry a whiff of self-congratulation.

Marketwatch’s Frank Baranko speculates on an increased presence for Jim Cramer on the new CNBC website…

Is CNBC planning to use Jim Cramer to build traffic and revenue for its new Web site?

Makes sense to me after learning this morning that the Booyah-meister is ending his “Mad Money” radio distribution deal with Westwood One (WON) by the end of the year.

CNBC says its new Web site, to be launched Dec. 4, will offer a “revolutionary financial news experience” including live events and video on demand. One report said the site may include a $10/month option giving access to CNBC’s three channels: US, Asia, and Europe.

Why not some Cramer, too? He’s the Howard Stern of business news. Stern’s signing with Sirius (SIRI) boosted subscriptions. Cramer’s the same kind of act. Outlandish and extreme, with an enthusiastic audience.

CNN announced this afternoon that Kyra Phillips will be reporting from Ft. Bragg on Wednesday. The Overhaulin’ Hummer will be there as well…

CNN anchor Kyra Phillips will report live from Fort Bragg in North Carolina on Wednesday, Nov. 29, as she speaks with soldiers participating in training missions and other military personnel and family members who are receiving medical treatment at Womack Army Medical Center. In conjunction with the network’s visit, CNN’s Warrior One, an Iraq War Hummer refurbished by the crew of TLC’s Overhaulin’ program, will be at multiple locations at the U.S. Army fort, including Womack.

Phillips’ reports will appear throughout the day during CNN Newsroom. She co-anchors the afternoon edition of the program with Don Lemon.

Fort Bragg marks the seventh major stop for the Hummer, which has been on a tour of military bases and other stops across the country prior to being auctioned off by Barrett Jackson in January 2007 with proceeds benefiting the Fisher House Foundation (www.fisherhouse.org), an organization that builds “comfort homes” for families of hospitalized military personnel.
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Cable News Ratings for November 24, 2006

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 638,000 viewers
CNN – 496,000 viewers
MSNBC – 267,000 viewers
CNBC – 136,000 viewers
HLN – 194,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 1,048,000 viewers
CNN – 588,000 viewers
MSNBC – 371,000 viewers
CNBC – 149,000 viewers
HLN – 296,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC – 223,000 viewers
CNN – 184,000 viewers
MSNBC –122,000 viewers
CNBC – 67,000 viewers
HLN – 68,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 320,000 viewers
CNN – 172,000 viewers
MSNBC – 178,000 viewers
CNBC – 79,000 viewers
HLN – 87,000 viewers

Morning programs P2+ (25-54)
FOX & Friends – 563,000 viewers (173,000)
American Morning – 529,000 viewers (222,000)
Robin & Co. – 148,000 viewers (73,000)
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